WEBVTT 1 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:34.640 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:39.799 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:45.600 to me Box thirteen at Great Attactives dot net, follow us on Twitter at 4 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:51.759 Radio Detectives, and become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com 5 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:55.759 slash Radio Detectives. Before we do get started, I want to encourage you, 6 00:00:55.759 --> 00:01:00.679 if you've not already, to pick up my first novel, Sliming Corporated, 7 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:07.159 in which private investigator Cole Eustick investigates a case of murder and political corruption 8 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:11.439 set against the backdrop of the Governor's rate. It is available as a paperback 9 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:17.840 in ebookstores or as an audiobook through audible dot com or in the iTunes store, 10 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:22.079 and you can also find it at store dot Great Detectives dot net. 11 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:26.760 Well, now it's time for today's episode of The Saint. The original airdate 12 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:55.480 marks the eleventh of nineteen fifty one and the title is Button Button The Adventures 13 00:01:55.599 --> 00:02:10.240 of the Saints, starring Vincent Price. The Saint based on characters created by 14 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:15.439 Leslie Choppers and nons of millions from books, magazines, and motion pictures. 15 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:20.080 The robin Hood of Modern Crime Now comes transcribed to radio, starring Hollywood's brilliant 16 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:30.039 and talented actor Vincent Price as the Saint. Just a moment, please yes, 17 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:35.800 mister Tempora, Mister Simon Tempora. And if I say yes, oh 18 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:39.080 I am a George congratulations? What are you or you dressed for? Oh? 19 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:45.560 Not army uniform? My way, chauffel. You will come? Huh 20 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:47.800 you come now? You want me to go somewhere with you? You are 21 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:52.879 sure you are, Miss Simon Temper the Saint. If I'm not my old 22 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:55.159 grandmother shouldn't have lied to me all these years? Then you come? Where 23 00:02:55.639 --> 00:03:00.479 did you not receive the quarter? Even the most casual eavesdropper would have to 24 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:04.400 admit it doesn't appear. So what call? Employer? Say, George, 25 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:07.680 go to this number and get miss the temporal? Employer say he called so 26 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:13.080 when I arrived? You know you come, no cause, no car? 27 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:19.319 Who is your employer? Mister Orando button him old man, he very afraid 28 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:25.639 Orlando button art collector Button Gary employer say what's your trouble coming? You come 29 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:29.240 help? Uh? What sort of trouble? Will you go? Now? 30 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:31.240 Yes? You go now? Yes, my neck and I recently came to 31 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:36.840 an understanding your necks, my neck, I promise not to stick it out 32 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:38.599 again until I at least knew why it was going to be chopped at, 33 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:43.080 and it in turn agreed to be a little more tolerant or starched collars. 34 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:46.199 I am going to bed. Oh no, you are coming. Hmm. 35 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:51.319 You know, with one swift gesture you have given me six good reasons why 36 00:03:51.360 --> 00:04:09.759 I should go with you? Or does that revolver hold eight bullets? H 37 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:14.520 sure this is a home? Oh? Yes, home on my employer, 38 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:18.759 mister Arundo. Button had a couple of ticket windows scattered around a few timetables 39 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:23.399 and could easily pass for the home of the super chief employer. Await you 40 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:26.199 in the study, mister temporar, you call us this is a white priests. 41 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:28.319 Yes, now, look, would it'd be too much to ask you 42 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:30.879 to stop waving that gun under my nose? You will come? I come? 43 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:46.319 Well you wait, I wait? Ho ha ha, mister Button, 44 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:56.000 I have brought mister temple sup Oh yes, thank you George. I I 45 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:59.720 must have dozed up, mister Templary. It was good of you too, 46 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:01.639 but I am half as good as it was of George to bring me. 47 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:04.920 He is very persuasive, eh, mister Temple saying, no, Colm, 48 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:10.800 I invite him at the point of a pistol, you call himself. No, 49 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:17.000 no, I fell asleep. That will be all. I'm sorry George 50 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:21.759 had to resort to melodrama, mister Templar. I I mean, look, 51 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:26.519 you will forgive me. I'm sure it's all a mistake. What's all a 52 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:30.199 mistake? This, this incident. I never should have sent for you, 53 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:34.120 my nerves. I'm a victim of my own imagination. Remarkable, Eh, 54 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:38.800 here you are trembling, yet scarcely two minutes ago, according to you, 55 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:43.000 you were in your study. Then nothing but what is fear in that trembling? 56 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:46.839 Mister Button and on your face too? You're scared witless scared people don't 57 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:50.279 those jeez, I beg of. You'll go at once. Forget that you've 58 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:55.079 been here. That was a long ride across town with your chauffeur's gun in 59 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:59.519 my ribs, long and unpleasant. But I didn't tell George to use a 60 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:01.600 gun. We can talk in your study, and now you mustn't go in 61 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:10.399 there. You Oh uh, you shouldn't have done that. I tried to 62 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:13.360 keep him out of here. I knew you didn't want him to see that. 63 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.079 Why are you pointing that gun at me? What are you ping the 64 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:30.839 door? Mister tempor, mister tempora, Oh, mister temper, here I 65 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:39.639 am giving you, brandy. Oh that's good, Brandy. Wake me up 66 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:43.199 some more. You ought to be more writer as soon as the canary stop 67 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:46.639 holding choir practice in my head. Oh so sorry, I give too much, 68 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:51.600 Brandy. Where's mister button? He gone gone? Where? Oh no, 69 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:56.319 seagull? I go to room. Time passes, I think maybe now 70 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:59.839 employee want me to drive you home again? I come here to study, 71 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:05.000 finding you on floor. Employer going picture pictures? What pictures ones that rite 72 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:10.959 today? Sailor bring crate? What sort of pictures were they? Where did 73 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:15.279 the western pictures? Saying? Western man look all right to me? But 74 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:18.839 they make mister Barton very angry. And then he told you to fetch me. 75 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:23.879 Oh no, not right away. Short a time later after phone call, 76 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:28.839 phone call, employer call number, speak you get the information, write 77 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:32.319 something on a paper pad, then send me, get you the pad. 78 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:36.560 Where is it on the desk? Here? I did it to you? 79 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:42.920 Thank you? Nothing on it? Maybe he tear a writing page off. 80 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:46.480 George, take your finger and dip it in the fireplace. For me. 81 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:48.839 Will you keep it? Oh? Too much, Brandy, too much, 82 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:50.639 you go, I'm go on. Now, please do as I say. 83 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:54.800 Get some ashes on your hand. Hushes, yes, in the fireplace. 84 00:07:54.959 --> 00:08:01.480 Oh oh yes, sir, fingers are all properly builty. We's a hushes. 85 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:03.800 Now rub it on this page of the pad. Hm, lightly, 86 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:09.439 lightly gently, you got on us magic Western magic, known only to those 87 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:13.680 few hardy adventurers who have dared to visit the forbidden city of Brooklyn. What 88 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:18.800 will the coming forth? On a pod? A picture of anime wall hoodie 89 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:22.360 Marto. Look now, rub the ashes in a little hider. Huh d. 90 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:26.560 Then that's it. But he's the woods no Pikachu woods that were on 91 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:31.320 former page torn off. If mister Motter should ever need an assistant, and 92 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:37.960 that's that'll give it to me. S t I stieno you know, mister 93 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:45.480 Stiano George not knowing? So huh stieno? S S do you know Tuscany? 94 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:48.399 The s s Tuscany or sounding like the steamboat. Second thought, maybe 95 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:52.639 mister motto to be your assistant. Goodbye, George, or you go back? 96 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:56.960 I can't you stay? You go find him boyer. Yeah, why 97 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:00.759 a guy like you George. That's why I don't want you to lose your 98 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:05.080 jobs, all right. Oh that's a funny place to put a chair. 99 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:07.919 A chair will belong over here. Oh, mister Templar, you say I 100 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:11.639 am the losing job. Why we have a quaint saying in this country, 101 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:33.519 George, chauffeur lose job if employer lose life. Who was that on? 102 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:39.960 Tex boy? Let's speak up. It's me if that means anything. Hey, 103 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:43.919 you're late. I expect you yet. What is this you ain't mala. 104 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:46.360 Name's Templar, all right, So the name's Templar. What are you 105 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:50.159 doing aboard my ship? Looking? Your customs man? You're the captain, 106 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:54.759 third officer, captain, want to shore? I'm in George. Look, 107 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:58.240 fella, you boys from customs already went over this vessel three times since we 108 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:01.759 docked this morning. Three times. It's the usual procedure, isn't it? 109 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:05.039 Three times as usual? And each time, so though the ship is practically 110 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:09.879 dismantled. What goes pal here? You tell me? I don't know what 111 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:11.120 you boys are looking for, mister, but I'll tell you here now. 112 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:13.639 It ain't on board the Tuscany. This is an honest ship. Yeah, 113 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:18.360 And I'm the captain of the Pinna for You got a man named Stiano on 114 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:22.279 board. Look, mister Stieno's a good guy, one of the best men 115 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.279 on this ship. He works hard, no complaints, He's loyal, efficient, 116 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:28.480 a good all around man. That's Stieno. You know him pretty well, 117 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:31.960 know him. I'm him. Well, I'm glad to meet a good, 118 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:35.320 loyal, efficient, uncomplaining, all around man. You know a man 119 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:41.039 named Button, No, you say button, button liking what one is sometimes 120 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:46.159 told to do with one's lip, button liking button galleries? Button? Yeah, 121 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:48.799 I know about his art gallery, that's all. What about it? 122 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:52.039 We hold cargo, fhon this voyage a creek we picked up in Genoa that's 123 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:56.320 in Italy. Yeah, great, filled with paintings, valuable and rare. 124 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:01.159 I seen them paintings, They're valuable. Then we're both the captain of the 125 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:07.559 Pinafore. Oh bad. All I can say is fully what smug fails to 126 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:11.120 do to the human eye? Looking at these pictures? Does how many seven 127 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:16.320 hum? They were sent ashore? Yeah? Look, all I know is 128 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:20.000 we're loading cargo and general a guy comes on with this here, Craig. 129 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:24.399 He gives me a song and dance about taking extra special care this valuable light, 130 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:28.240 so don't get banged around like cargo sometimes does. That's all he asked 131 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:31.279 of you. And also to deliver it after it cleared through customs delivery. 132 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:35.600 Where so the guy's consigned to doctor Webbert, the Button art galleries to nobody 133 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:37.840 else. He says, just this here, doctor Webber, and I shall 134 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:41.480 be handsomely rewarded. What were you? I'll let you know when Miller gets 135 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:45.720 back. I hope you found the art gallery still open, and I'll tell 136 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:48.600 you right now. He didn't know then what did he do with it? 137 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:52.039 I'm inclined to think he brought it to the one man. He shouldn't have 138 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:56.039 brought it to Orlando. Button. Oh and this guy in Italy says, 139 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:00.440 make sure nobody gets it, but this doctor Webber, how about that for 140 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:03.360 luck? A lousing mistake is going to cost me my handsome rewar, and 141 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:15.559 you're getting it right. That same mistake may cost mister Button his life. 142 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:24.240 I lost say, yeah, I want to make sure it was. You'll 143 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:28.120 just come off the ship. I'm kind of glad it's your sucker, you 144 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:37.159 know. I'm kind of glad to see you too. Let's see how good 145 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:41.240 you are without the gutting your sucker. Don't worry about it. When I 146 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:46.559 finished tearing it up, I promise you I'll give it back to you. 147 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:50.200 Come on, what ill wind brought you out of retirement? Case? No 148 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:54.960 temper might kind of work with it. When the guy says he's retired is 149 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:58.960 either trying to kid the cops or kid himself. You mean there's always another 150 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:03.879 hudler mood would force you back into it. Eh, and let's have some 151 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:09.919 talk. Let's go down first. Let loose to talk first. I'll loosen 152 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:13.240 your tongue with a little history. When I first knew you, you worked 153 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:18.120 for Scorelli as his trigger till he was deported a couple of years back. 154 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:22.960 My, you're full of news. What do you want from me? Said? 155 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:26.639 Who hired you to squeeze the trigger on me? Nobody has to hire 156 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:31.279 me the gun? You don't say with me? That's slaver of love. 157 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:37.360 I want my arm. You breaking turning loose? Hey, okayse that guy 158 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:41.720 that there's someone behind you. You've developed a decided talent for ventriloquism. He's 159 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:46.559 no ventriloquist, and I'm no dummy. Uh uh? Who are you? 160 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:50.440 I'm just a man with a gun, and the gun is in your back. 161 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:58.000 Turn him loose, he's loose. Oh, sure, came along when 162 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.000 I'm most huh the Welsh. Won't you get right over there? Oh? 163 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:05.240 Who gonna handle a sucker? I'll handle him. You'll beat it, okay, 164 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:13.559 pal, okay, alright, turn around, templar carefully, very carefully. 165 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:18.600 Good. He did that very nicely. Yeah. I've been taking dancing 166 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:22.320 lesson. It's too bad someone doesn't sell lessons in how to mind one's own 167 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:26.399 business. From now on, you're keeping your nose out of this affair. 168 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:31.240 It doesn't concern you, clear like Tapioka. Yeah, I get shanghaied by 169 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:35.480 a fast drawing Oriental with a gun. I get my skull bashed so hard 170 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:39.000 my brains are threatening to move out of the neighborhood. I I get very 171 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:43.720 sincerely menaced by a beady eyed bandit with intent to kill. And now you 172 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:46.320 come along and tell me this affair doesn't concern me. Oh, this really 173 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:50.320 happened. If I were dreaming, it wouldn't be about those kind of things. 174 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:54.600 Okay, So what's the angle all this mishmash? I can only make 175 00:14:54.639 --> 00:15:00.080 wild guesses. None of my ideas have had their final fittings. Yet I 176 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:03.360 suppose you tell me, uh, what angle are you wearing today? Like 177 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:07.600 I told you, saint me. I'm just a man with a gun, 178 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:13.600 so he said. And the paintings, paintings, Yeah, the creative paintings 179 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:16.399 seven in number that arrived today from Italy for the Button galleries. Now I'm 180 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:22.399 dreaming. You mean you're chasing paintings. You mean you're not chasing paintings. 181 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:26.039 Friend, Either you're deliberately throwing me a curve or we're not even playing in 182 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:30.759 the same ball game. Now, I'm not chasing paintings. What I'm chasing 183 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:33.759 is just a little more dangerous. And he wouldn't say that if you were 184 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:37.080 wearing my aching head. I'll be seeing you art lover. Yeah, it's 185 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:41.799 inevitable. And if you should run across an old party named Orlando Button before 186 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:46.440 I do, will you please do something to help him stay alive? And 187 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:50.480 this is the last pipe dreamer I'll listen to. Why can't this old party 188 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:54.440 manage to stay alive on his own efforts? And this is one of the 189 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:56.799 wild guesses I was telling you about the last time I saw Button, he 190 00:15:56.840 --> 00:16:00.559 was a very frightened man. The kind of fright that only comes to a 191 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:04.480 man who expects he's going to be killed. If I see him, I'll 192 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:08.559 do what I can to stop him from being afraid. And that statement can 193 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:12.000 be taken two ways, and in the light of the fact that it was 194 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:17.720 pronounced by a fellow who hobknobs with killer Casack, goodbye, change, And 195 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:33.360 if I were you, I'd worry about trying to keep myself alive. H 196 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:38.480 M, good morning. I believe the door is plainly marked private, isn't 197 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:44.919 it. One finds it difficult to believe all one reads these days. You 198 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:48.200 know it's nice. What's nice that they don't hang all the works of art 199 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:52.799 in this gallery on the wall. Some of it sits in a low cut 200 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:56.320 dress behind a sign that says, assistant to the director, you wish to 201 00:16:56.320 --> 00:16:59.320 see someone. Actually, my wish is to remain here with you, but 202 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:02.360 I'd never get to see doctor Weber that way. You have an appointment with 203 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:03.920 doctor Weber. No, well, I'm afraid he can't see you. Then 204 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:07.319 he's very busy. And then I see mister button. Mister button, this 205 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:11.359 is the Button not Galleries, isn't it. You will have to make an 206 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:15.039 appointment with mister Button at his home. He rarely comes down to the galleries 207 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:18.240 anymore. And then I see doctor Weber. After all, you not only 208 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:21.559 find it difficult to believe all you read, but all you hear as well. 209 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:25.799 Doctor Webber never sees anyone without an Oh, it is you, mister 210 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:30.079 Temporar. Hello, George, you find employer? No, George, gentlemen 211 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:33.000 is a friend of yours? George, Oh, very good friend. Mister 212 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:37.319 Simon Templar is the saying greater detective makes words appear on paper with ashes. 213 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:41.680 Very crabb Oh, it's nothing really to it. A detective something wrong? 214 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:48.480 Employer missing? What? Oh, he's mysterious. Craig come last night by 215 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:52.960 sailor employer and I we open. Employer get angry. I could praise this, 216 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:56.039 Send me quick to drug store. Then I come back. It is 217 00:17:56.039 --> 00:18:00.599 a drug store. Huh. Look here, what's this all about? About 218 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:06.119 a creative paintings from Genoa for doctor Webber paintings? We weren't expecting anything from 219 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:10.000 Italy. Perhaps doctor Webber was. I most certainly would have known if the 220 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:12.640 director was expecting a shipment. And what's all this about, mister Button? 221 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:17.759 I wish you'd explained. Go see doctor Webber. M maybe he likes mystery 222 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:22.440 stories too, mister Templars. Way, oh, miss Harper, I go 223 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:25.480 party car? Or is this my car? Oh no, George, you 224 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:29.079 don't have to what he's a wellnessy party show car. You two Wednesley. 225 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:30.880 This why I'll come here, but you can pass it by this week, 226 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:33.759 George, I haven't used my car much since the last time you gave it 227 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:37.799 a bath in a Polish. I'll carry her bitter hard skip this week through 228 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:41.079 this door. Mister Templer. Oh no, I'd like you to catalog, 229 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:45.839 isn't it. Oh we have a visitor. This is Simon Templar, Doctor 230 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:48.920 Webber, how do you do? Seems we have a mystery on our hands, 231 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:52.880 doctor, A mystery splendid. It was beginning to get a trifle dollar 232 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:56.279 out of here, thank you. There's nothing like a little mystery to brighten 233 00:18:56.319 --> 00:19:00.680 things up a bit, is that? Especially if you're one of those people 234 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:06.160 who enjoys going to funerals? Doctor m And let's just say that someone when 235 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:10.720 last scene was terrified. And let's also say that that someone hasn't been seen 236 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:14.799 since. But who, mister Button, According to George, he's been missing 237 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:18.039 since last night. I see, mister Templer, Am I to understand that 238 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:22.000 just because mister Button wasn't home last night, you are assuming that he's been 239 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:25.480 murdered. Well, that is more or less a condensed version. Yes, 240 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:30.000 I believe the little verse goes like this. Don't make tragedies out of trifles. 241 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:33.640 Don't do butterflies with rifles. It's just as foolish to make a trifle 242 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:37.920 out of what might well be a tragedy. Perhaps I should give you the 243 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:41.799 full length version, now, huh, Perhaps you should, mister Templer. 244 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:48.039 Afraid to arrive from Italy yesterday, the Tuscany from Genoa. It carried a 245 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:52.400 small crate consigned to you, doctor Webert the gowery here. But I received 246 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:56.400 no crate. What was hating paintings, doctor, and from what Siana tells 247 00:19:56.440 --> 00:20:02.720 me, extremely bad paintings. But where are they? Doctor? Let's let 248 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:06.319 these pictures speak for themselves. Where are they? I never heard of them 249 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:11.519 until this moment. I wasn't even in town yesterday you were. I was 250 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:15.759 in Tropogo attending a fraternity convention. There was no create of paintings delivered here 251 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:18.839 to the gallery yesterday, mister Temple, I should they weren't delivered to the 252 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:22.680 gallery. Miss Arthur. The seamen who carried the crate in Stiana's place, 253 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:26.559 found the gallery closed when he arrived, so he did the next best thing 254 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:30.480 he thought. He had no way of knowing, of course, that old 255 00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:34.440 mister Button had more or less retired from business, leaving doctor Weber in charge 256 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:37.680 of his gallery. And so rather than lud the crate all the way back 257 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:41.720 to the ship, he brought it over to the Button residence well, and 258 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:44.880 mister Button opened the thing up, curious to see what sort of stuff his 259 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:49.039 gallery was buying these days. I suppose probably wished he was dead. I'm 260 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:53.160 afraid his wish was granted all too soon. Why would anyone take the trouble 261 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:56.680 to ship us bad paintings? That's what I wondered for a while too, 262 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:02.640 That's what Button must have wan wandered, But not for long. He tumbled 263 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:06.480 on to it practically at once. Unto what mister Templar. You're aware, 264 00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:08.960 of course, of the National Treasure's Act or whatever they call it in Italy, 265 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:12.279 which prevents the export of great Italian works of arts. Of course we're 266 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:15.480 aware of it. The Italian government has had it in force for years. 267 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:18.920 They're perfectly right in not wanting our great works of arts scattered about the world 268 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:26.920 when it rightly belongs in Italy. Seven paintings were over paintings over painting. 269 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:30.000 Surely you've heard of the technique of painting over and oil painting with guash with 270 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:36.079 a water soluble paint on the surface. These pictures look like something not even 271 00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:40.920 a lumber company calendar would be caught dead with underneath, as mister Button found 272 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:44.240 when George came back from the drug store with materials to remove the paint, 273 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:49.960 they found masterpieces by master artists of the Renaissance. What should Yes, I'm 274 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:56.240 sure several dozen of Italy's treasures have been missing ever since the war. The 275 00:21:56.319 --> 00:22:00.000 customs men tell me the Italian government had a tip that some had recently been 276 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:03.359 ship to New York Power On what ship? No one knew. But mister 277 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:07.319 Button, what did he do when he well, being an honest man with 278 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:10.680 a reputation of many years, is a reputable art dealer. He was shocked. 279 00:22:11.319 --> 00:22:14.079 He said his chauffeur to fetch me. When I got there, he 280 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:18.759 told me he changed his mind. I can assume that Button had his mind 281 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:23.119 changed for him at the point of a gun, speaking of points of guns. 282 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:26.960 What do you think of the point of this one? Hell? Okay, 283 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:33.200 sick as your arm, it's sore, saft, very sore, but 284 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:34.680 not a source your head is going to be when I throws some lady, 285 00:22:34.880 --> 00:22:38.319 what is it? That's exactly what the boss wants to know? What is 286 00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:45.799 okay? Boss, you're coming on? Hellocent, You've got a good memory 287 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:48.640 for faces, scent. It's been a lot of years. Who could ever 288 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:53.000 forget a face like yours? SCRELLI if could win an ugly contest anywhere where 289 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:56.559 this guy talks kizzick, a guy would think you're old. An invisible gun 290 00:22:57.039 --> 00:23:00.720 doesn't make any difference that he can't see it. Boss, you'll feel it 291 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:03.440 as good as anybody. I remember the meaning of this intrusion. You and 292 00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:06.480 judge of this gent. I am doctor Webber, the director, and the 293 00:23:06.599 --> 00:23:11.279 them. Miss Arthur is my assistant. You'll do all right by yourself. 294 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:14.680 Fat So maybe have to we knock off the saint and fats so here we'll 295 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:18.880 keep it around a little. It brings you back to this country, carelly. 296 00:23:19.160 --> 00:23:22.359 The crime wave became just a ripper when you were reported. I'm moving 297 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:26.680 back in said bigger than ever. First I got to clear something up. 298 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:29.759 Uh what thought of something? Except for you people and a few are my 299 00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:33.160 boys, nobody knows carely smuggled himself back in on the Tuscany. You people 300 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:37.160 ain't going to be around long enough to tell a fly about it. So 301 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:38.880 I want to know something. Why don't you try asking? I am asking. 302 00:23:40.759 --> 00:23:42.440 I have Kazach. You're watching that ship day and night to see if 303 00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:47.039 anyone is wise to anything, See if the federal guys are maybe here that 304 00:23:47.079 --> 00:23:51.160 I come in on her and I'll retres him and they are, that's what 305 00:23:51.319 --> 00:23:55.319 you're gonna tell me, sing Kazak tells me, sees you snooping about the 306 00:23:55.400 --> 00:23:57.559 Tuscany. He says, lots of other guys too, guys with with that 307 00:23:57.720 --> 00:24:02.119 cup look about them. They are a kind of cop at that's Grelly. 308 00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:06.039 They know SCURRELLI was smuggled in on that boat. They're looking for me, 309 00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:11.119 saying, these particular cops are customs Inspector Scarrelly. They're looking for pictures. 310 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:17.519 Uh, pictures, yeah, painting. Oh that's good news. You're not 311 00:24:17.680 --> 00:24:19.920 Kissack. They're not looking for Scarrelli. They don't know him back yet. 312 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:22.920 Let's get rid of these suckers. Then boys, they got mouth, Yeah, 313 00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:27.839 stuck up at it. You're the doctor save the Saints for last, 314 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:33.480 all right, Propert Kazak, Yes, I got it right, said profit. 315 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:38.519 All right, all right, everybody, all right? Who who are 316 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:42.079 you, Dick Tracy? I've already told you, Templar, I'm just a 317 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:45.680 man with a gun. That gun wouldn't happen to be federal property, would 318 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:48.880 it? It would? And now you're gonna ask, how come a federal 319 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:52.880 agent lets a mug like Kazak loose after he's been shooting his gun off of 320 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:55.960 the private citizen. I know, how come if I'd gone through with my 321 00:24:56.039 --> 00:24:59.960 intention of breaking off mister Kazaks time, he'd have led you to a hostel 322 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:03.119 instead of where you wanted him to lead you. Huhl right, mister Templar, 323 00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:07.480 Come on, boys, let's get away from this smart guy and be 324 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:15.559 careful with those hands. Now what was it you were saying before about things 325 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:18.960 getting a trifle doll around here? Dr Webber? Uh, this is about 326 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:22.599 the unusual morning, mister Templar, and the crime wave in your office isn't 327 00:25:22.599 --> 00:25:26.240 over yet. We're back to playing button button, mister Templar. I'd prefer 328 00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:30.160 it, and so would doctor Webber if you put your cards on the table 329 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:33.599 all at once instead of one at a time. Is that enough suspense for 330 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:37.880 one morning? Are you choosing Doctor Webber? Tall? Are you? Doctor? 331 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:41.920 Eh? Well, I'm almost six feet and you, Miss Arthur, 332 00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:48.440 really, mister Templer a tall about five feet? Doctor? You wouldn't ever 333 00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:52.240 wear high heels, would you? High heels that left an impression on the 334 00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:56.039 leather upholstery of a chair that had been moved alongside of a doorway. I 335 00:25:56.359 --> 00:26:02.200 don't follow you, Miss Arthur. Does she anticipated my wish to go into 336 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:07.799 Button's library last night? Naturally that wouldn't do at all. The paintings were 337 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:11.400 there, and a couple of them already had the overpaint removed. Correct, 338 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:15.680 Miss Hohather, you're insane. That rap across the skull you gave me is 339 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:19.640 probably what made me insane, being a rather little girl. For a head 340 00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:23.559 banger, you needed height. Huh. So just before I entered the library 341 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:27.400 where you'd had Button under a gun before my arrival, you've moved a chair 342 00:26:29.319 --> 00:26:32.720 so you had height, and so when I walked in, I went out. 343 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:36.880 Well, I suppose one should really humor him, Doctor Webber. And 344 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:38.839 then what did I do, mister Templer? You removed both the paintings and 345 00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:42.720 mister Button. You've probably killed mister Button somewhere along the line. Of course, 346 00:26:42.759 --> 00:26:45.759 you can prove all this. You can tell me or the police. 347 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:51.319 Shall we say exactly where mister Button's body lies, where the paintings are? 348 00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:55.559 Unfortunately? No, then, just as unfortunately, mister Templer, you have 349 00:26:55.680 --> 00:27:00.160 no case without the paintings found in my possession, without mister Button. By 350 00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:03.000 an interruption, pree, we're visits of George. Please, we'll not take 351 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:07.440 a moment, miss author. You are to make a mistake. Oh please, 352 00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:10.599 George, you're having a conference. Would you mind come all the way 353 00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:14.160 downtown to wash and polish car? You say, Carl, no dirty, 354 00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:17.599 not to need bath, not need polish George, will you please go now? 355 00:27:17.720 --> 00:27:21.519 And this is mistaken. Just see car in parking rod some other time, 356 00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:23.960 George, car, very dirty car, need to wash, polish spine? 357 00:27:25.319 --> 00:27:26.680 I go do so, yes, No, of course you go do 358 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:29.720 so, George. And while you're at it, take a look in the 359 00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:33.640 trunk compartment. No trunk compartment, what finding trunk compartment with a temper employer? 360 00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:37.960 George employing trunk. Oh no, I didn't plan to kill him. 361 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:42.680 I didn't I look in the trunk compartment. Never mind, George, go 362 00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:45.640 call the police. Oh yes, mister Temper, are you called? And 363 00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:51.039 George, Sir. If mister Murdo should ever need an assistant, I'll be 364 00:27:51.319 --> 00:28:07.279 very happy to give you a reference. You have been listening to another transcribed 365 00:28:07.319 --> 00:28:11.599 adventure of the Saint, the robin Hood of Modern Crime. I'll hear as 366 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:15.480 our starve and some price ladies and gentlemen. In tonight's cast, you heard 367 00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:19.279 Mary Ship as Lola and Charlie Lung as George. Ted Decurcia was Scarelli. 368 00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:26.640 Larry Dobkin Kazak Red Shields played Nash and Ted Asben Doctor Webber, Bonney Phillips 369 00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:30.519 Wastiano. This is Bencent Price, inviting you to join us again next week 370 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:34.039 at the same time for another exciting adventure of the Saint. Good Night. 371 00:28:56.039 --> 00:29:00.279 This Adventure of the Saint was written by Michael Cromwell. The Saint, based 372 00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:04.279 on characters created by Leslie Chotters, is produced by James L. Saith Here 373 00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:08.480 and directed by Helen Mank. Vincent Price is soon to be seen co starring 374 00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:14.519 with Errol Flynn and mischimin prell in William Marshall's production of Bloodline. All you 375 00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:18.039 Saint fans will be glad to know that the Saint comic books are on sale 376 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:26.680 at all you stand. Three Chimes Mean Good Times on NBC. For something 377 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:30.839 new about the Army, Here the Phil Reagan Show. Next. Over most 378 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:33.880 of these NBC stations coming from a different service base, every week, Phil 379 00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:40.319 Reagan brings you songs and fun and brings prizes to talented gis. It's an 380 00:29:40.359 --> 00:29:45.559 exciting newcomer to your Sunday chime line up on NBC. So hear it next 381 00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:48.960 the Phil Reagan Show, and later today following the Phil Reagan Show. Here 382 00:29:49.000 --> 00:30:03.839 mister and Missus Blandings on NBC. This is Andrew J. Graham, author 383 00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:07.920 of the web surface series Oh and a Mana's Wife. You're listening to the 384 00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:19.680 great detectives of old time radio. Welcome back. Interesting to hear Larry Dopkin 385 00:30:19.920 --> 00:30:23.880 on The Saint in a role other than Louis. Hopefully we'll hear them back 386 00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:29.400 in that role before we finish up with the Saint. And we do turn 387 00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:34.799 to listener comments and feedback, and I did receive this regarding the war on 388 00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:41.440 iTunes. My ConA writes, I really appreciate the variety of programs in viewpoints 389 00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:45.880 you included. My father was a World War Two veteran and my mother worked 390 00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:49.759 in a factory during the war. I feel like I know a little more 391 00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:55.759 about my parents and others that live through the war. They really are the 392 00:30:55.839 --> 00:31:00.400 greatest generation. I've recommended this podcast to my children. You've created a great 393 00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:04.880 resource for people to enjoy for years to come. Well, thanks so much, 394 00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:10.680 And I don't mention the war a whole lot. We finished recording that 395 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:17.119 a little more than a year ago, but it was a quite an effort, 396 00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:22.599 a two hundred and seventy six episode look at old time radio through World 397 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:29.960 War Two. 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