Speaker 1: The Blue Beetle.
Speaker 2: Leaping down upon the underworld. A smash gangling comes.
Speaker 1: A mysterious all powerful character who is a problem to
the police or a good sayer fall off in reality.
Damn Garrett, a rookie mccold love by everyone. What's suspected
by none of being the Blue Beetle. As the Blue Beetle,
he hides behind the spring of masks and a suit
of impenetrable blue chain armor, flexible aster, what's stronger than steel.
Speaker 2: Today's transcribed episode of the Fox feature The Blue Beetles
is entitled The Dancing gat of Rocky Hills. Perch ee
on a rocky crag overlooking the ocean, not many miles
from York City. Its Gray Cragg's Manor, surrounded by high
stone walls. The large house dominates the estate of some
three hundred acres in Rocky Hills, Eastchester County. Residents of
Rocky Hills say the place is wounded. Some claim to
have seen from a distance on moonlight night, the shadowy
figures of dancers in the ballroom of the east winds
of the manor. As our story opens today, Patrolman Dan Garrett,
who is really the Blue Beetles Little realizes that his
next adventure will take him to Gray Cragg's manor. He
is talking with his friend doctor Franz in the little
Apothecary shop.
Speaker 1: Jenny, here's the native might kick out of the personal
column of Chronicle this morning, Mmm, addressed to the blue beetle. Oh,
be interested. Somebody's kidding the blue beetle. Do you think so?
You know? Listen, attention blue beetles. Little Nith's muppett sat
on a tuffet eating her curds, and whey one came
a spider and sat down the spider and scared the
poor girl away. Why should anyone address nursery rhyme to me?
And there's a secret message in cipher concealed in that
nursery rhyme? You serious, duck? Yes, I deciphered it just
before you came in. Oh what's the message? Doc? How
are you able to solve it? Well, the difference in
size of type US throughout the rhyme gave me a clue.
The young lady has evidently been reading Francis Bacon. Young lady, Yes,
young lady. All this begins to look like a romantic adventure.
And what makes you think she's been reading Francis Bacon
as he used to write many of his plays and
poems in cipher similar to this. That's very interesting. What
method did you evolved from this nursery dogirl doc? Well
here it is discipled young heiress in dire distress. Only
blue beetle can help come alone midnight, great cracks, manner, urgent,
great crags and manner. I thought at Rocky Hill, Yes,
the place is supposed to be haunted. Uh, it sounds
like a trap for the blue beetle. But it's certainly
intriguing you, isn't it. I think I'll take a run
out there now and look the place over by daylight. Well,
why don't you That would be careful, Danny. That section
used to be interested with boot lakers and rum runners
during Prohibition. It's along the seashore, lots of coals and inlets,
with rocky cliffs over hanging the seas. It sounds interesting.
Are you planning on taking office a Mannigan with you?
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 1: Poor Mike's laid up with a bad case of poison
iving and it's tough on night. Yes, the old war
horses champion at the bed. I'm gonna drop by and
see it man. Tell him, I hope he'll be back
on the job again soon. I will go by that
see you later. M check her, old buddy, A punny boy? Thanks? What?
Oh are you up? Buck? There? You are that? Thanks?
Speaker 3: By the way?
Speaker 1: Uh? Who lives in that old mansion up on the
hill overlooking the ocean? Are mostly ghosts? Buddy? Or tell
me you believe in ghosts? Well? I don't know some
folks in the village. She climbed to fight music and
seeing figures dancing in the ballroom as they walked along
the road. Haven't anyone visited the place? Nobody around here?
There's a guy with a club foot on guard at
the interest of the estate. Uh short of a caretaker?
Hate all right? Nobody in? Doesn't anybody live in the
manor house? Yeah? There's a young girl, Rosley green hole
in her aunt just moved in. She and heerited the
place a hard see, that's all?
Speaker 2: How uh?
Speaker 1: How recently did they move in? About a week ago?
Ever seen them?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 1: They drive by here every day. And an old fashioned
carriage drawn by a couple of swallowing horses. Who drives them?
An old man and an old fashioned coachman suniform? You
sure they're not all ghosts. I'm sure. I'm sure what
Joe did me on the corner there saw some groceries
and things, he says. The coachman is all the ordering.
The girl and I don't talk to nobody that kind
of snooty. Joe says, well, that's very interesting. I've got
to get along. Ghosts or no ghosts. The fellow's got
to make a living.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ain't not the truth?
Speaker 1: Us all our buddy, and stay away from Horner House.
M Well, I was wondering if I could drive through
the gates there and up to the manor house. I'm
a camera fiend and I'd like to take some shots
to the house in the ocean.
Speaker 2: Ain't no one allowed on the grounds?
Speaker 1: Owners' owners? No? Well? Uh, ipose if I've phoned up
to the house from your lodge there, the owners would
give me permission to take some pictures. Ain't got no phone? Uh?
What are those uh wires running.
Speaker 5: Up the road there?
Speaker 1: Them? Why them's electric light wires? I see? Well, thanks
for the information. Oh excuse me, stranger, my alarm clock's
going on. What's to said it wrong this morning?
Speaker 5: At all?
Speaker 1: That your club foot is Blackie What's that some guy
wanted to take pictures of the place. Wasn't a harness war?
Was it all right? I'll listen. The girl got a
message out for the Blue Beetle. Somehow the old man's
lawyer sawt in the newspaper. He on the lookout for
the Blue Beetle. What the spider wires do? Okay, tomorrow
Spider's taking a suitcase of the quair over the maget
Hastings when he takes the girl and the run out
for a drive. Right, take care of things my.
Speaker 3: Midnight. I wonder if the Blue Beetle got no.
Speaker 1: That lewis? Oh, good evening? Or should I say good
morning the Blue Beatle? Yes, the Blue Beetle you send
for me here? I am. Oh, I'm so glad.
Speaker 3: I'm in such trouble and so frightened.
Speaker 1: Will you help me? The Blue Beetle is always ready
to help anyone in distress.
Speaker 3: I didn't know what to do. You were the only
one I felt could help me. I watched every minute
this place is. It's so spooky it terrifies me.
Speaker 1: Then why do you stay here?
Speaker 3: I must by the terms of my late uncle's will,
I have to remain here. Until I'm twenty one in
order to inherit the money that goes with this place.
Speaker 1: Mm hm, that's a strange condition to put in a will.
Who lives here with you?
Speaker 3: I made nuns uncle Nathaniel's.
Speaker 1: Sister, Abigail. If you're a watch the way you say
you are. How did you get the message in the chronicle?
Speaker 3: Well? I wrote a note to the chronicle and closed
the money with it in a stamped envelope and addressed
it and dropped it outside of Digby's grocery store yesterday,
hoping that someone would find it and mail it.
Speaker 1: Well, what goes on here? Why all the secrecy all?
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly, but but I've seen some of
the strangest men around here. I've heard the gatekeeper call
our coachman Spider, and I heard Spider call the gatekeeper
club Bush.
Speaker 1: Mister Jasper, that's Uncle's.
Speaker 3: Lawyer, says that they're old retainers of Uncle Nathaniel. The others,
he says, they're workmen hired to fix the place. That
they seem to work only at night.
Speaker 1: Mm God, what's that? What's that music? That's one of
the things that frightens me.
Speaker 3: It's so ghostly it comes from the.
Speaker 1: Other wing of the house. Have you ever been in
that part of the house, missus Greenhold No.
Speaker 3: Though the door of that wing is locked and I'm
not permitted to go there. Mister Jasper says that uncle
wanted that wing kept sacred to memories of his only love,
a girl he netted a dance in the ballroom there
one moonlit night. She died, the night they would be married.
Speaker 1: MM I'd like to get over there and make a
little investigation.
Speaker 3: Well, I can show you the iron doors that leads
to that wing of the house.
Speaker 1: You'll find it locked. Bluebet will carry his master keys
to all locks.
Speaker 3: Let's have a look here you are right through here.
Now down this passage way. Here we are. That's the
door to the east wing.
Speaker 1: MM I will just try these keys. Uh not that one.
Here's one that looks as if it might fit. Uh huh,
there we are.
Speaker 3: Look, look there there shadows a dances on the wall.
Speaker 1: But no time to vot. He done.
Speaker 5: Kenny, you beat ghosts.
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to meet a ghost. You stay here.
I'd better lock this door after me.
Speaker 3: Oh no, please take me with you, Blue Beetle.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid to be left alone. No, no, no, you'll
be safer at you're part of the house. I'll be
back as soon as I have had a look around.
Speaker 3: Ha ha ha.
Speaker 6: The Blue Beetle walks into the trap down you go
into the prison with the ghosts of the departed pirate captain.
So you wanted to meet a ghost.
Speaker 1: Well you'll meet Freddy down there.
Speaker 2: What has happened to the Blue Beetle? Who are the
strange people who have made great crags manner their headquarters?
Can the Blue Beetle extricate himself and solve the mystery
of the dancing ghosts of Rocky Hills. These questions will
be dramatically answered in the next transcribed episode.
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Speaker 2: The Blue Beetle is a copyrighted box feature appearing in
Mystery Men Comics Magazine and The Blue Beetle Magazine. The
Blue Beatle is on the air twice a week on
this same station.
Speaker 1: Consult the broadcast.
Speaker 2: Schedule in your local newspapers and don't forget to listen
in to y.
Speaker 1: Have a Way a Blue Free Dole. H h h h.
Speaker 3: H h h.
Speaker 4: H anyway you know any man? Any way, any way,
any way, anyway, any way you have way, any man.
Speaker 1: The Blue beetles.
Speaker 2: Leaping down upon the underworld the smash gangling comes a mysterious,
all powerful character who is a problem to the police.
Speaker 1: What a good tailerful off in reality? Man Garrett a rookiemcold,
loved by everyone. What's suspected by none of the beings?
The Blue Beagle. As the Blue Beagle, he hides behind
the spring of masks and a suit of impenetrable blue
chain armor flexible ascil, a stronger and steel.
Speaker 2: Today's transcribed episode as the Pox Feature. The Blue Beagle
is the second part of the story entitled The Dancing
Ghats of Rocky Hills. In the previous episode, the Blue Beatle,
through the personal column of the Chronicle, receives the call
for aid from the new Heiress at Pointed gray Craggs
manor at Rocky Hills. Rumor has it that on moonlit night,
ghostly figures danced in the ballroom of gray Cragg's manner.
The heiress, a young girl, Rosalie Greenhold, and her maiden
aunts are closely guarded by two persons, a man called
Spider who serves as coachman, and a man with a
club foot who claims to have been gatekeeper for the
late owner, Nathaniel Greenholes. Entering the manor at midnight, the
Blue Beatles talked secretly with Rosalie Greenholes. As the episode ended,
the Blue Beatle was investigating the dancing ghosts phenomenon when
a trap door suddenly opened in front of him and
he was catapulted into a deep dungeon. As our story
opens today, a mister Jasper, attorney for the estate, is
talking with black whom the police despect of being a
desperate criminal.
Speaker 1: All Blackie, suppose you let me handle this situation. After all,
I'm the attorney for all Man Greenhole's estate and sole
executive of the will. The girl desper the girl, she'll
have the cops on her next I can handle hot.
Something's got to be done to keep her quiet. After all,
she's got a message due to the Blue Beetle. And
he's lying at the bottom of the pit where pirates
used to throw their victim. What is he did? All
the chances are his next broken thanks to the spider.
I suppose he ain't dead. Orange It Well, he's securely
locked in double locks and an iron doll.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll feel better.
Speaker 1: If I went out, had to look for myself. Well,
that's all right, but do it under cover of darkness.
What about the girl. I'll take a message from the
blue beetle and see that she gets it. She'll think
he escaped and is coming back. That'll keep her quiet
for a few days until you can move your plates
and presses to some other location. They've been there long enough.
The place is getting hot. Someone's going to get wives
to those phony ghosts and start investigating.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: But by the terms of Nathaniel Greenhole's will, his knees rose,
we must live at the manor until she's twenty one.
And if you don't, then the whole estate, including a
fortune in stocks and bonds, goes to charity, with you
as executor of the estate. It will be slim pickings
for charity. I see, we understand each other. You've shared
your counterfeiting province with me.
Speaker 2: I'll share the estate with you.
Speaker 1: You'll get your counterfeiting equipment away from there, and we'll
put on a haunted house campaign that will scare Rosalie
Greenhole and her old made aunt clear out of the state,
and just one key left to try. One of the
others will fit Uh, there, I got it. Lucky, I
lend on my feet in this pit. Ah the blue
beetles free of his prison. No one hurt me. I'd
like to catch whoever is running this shore of God
as a door. I'll try that. Hm. Storing the stairway
the light at the top of it. Well, here goes
teach you do you don't care who you say? Black,
he's taking it all the chance keeping this place's headquarter. Yes,
he's okay for turning out this kind of door until
that dame came to live here. Them dances upstairs, throwing
shatters down the windows shut scared folks away from this place.
Speaker 2: Here, fire these bills in the suitcase with the others.
Speaker 1: Okay, well i'll take it. It's probably crough for down
the gate. Hello, yeah, spider's here, gentimnute, it's for your spider.
Hm uh huh hunt black, he says, dismantled the press. Yes, yes,
what good? Yes, yes, okay, yes, I got you. Huh
deliver the faith. Do ring me to the laundry in
Hastings when I take the girl in the rent for
drive in the morning. So that's how it's done.
Speaker 2: Well, the Blue Beetle will spoil that little game.
Speaker 1: First, I'll have a look upstairs.
Speaker 2: See what makes the ghosts dance?
Speaker 1: Well? I took your aunt's place on the drive this
morning because I wanted to have a talk with you, Rosalie.
Speaker 3: What about that?
Speaker 1: I don't think you trust me, my dear?
Speaker 2: Why should i?
Speaker 3: I'm not permitted to have friends at the manor in
or to visit outside places alone.
Speaker 1: Those were your uncle's own as, Rosalie. After all, he
wanted to protect you from fortune hunting men and social
parasites who might take advantage of your trusting nature when
you came into your fortune.
Speaker 3: But what about all those strange goings on at the manor?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 3: Last night? Something terrible happening?
Speaker 1: Oh? What?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 1: What about last night? I don't know what happened?
Speaker 3: Oh I I shouldn't have said anything.
Speaker 1: Oh is there something you've been keeping from me? Rosalie.
After all, your uncle trusted me, why shouldn't you? Well?
Speaker 3: Last night the blue beetle, blue beetle?
Speaker 1: Why? Now that's very interesting Because I clipped this out
of the paper this morning. You may be the Rosalie.
This was addressed tune here read it.
Speaker 3: Rosalie had strange experience last night with ghosts, but in safe.
Now advise you leave manner as soon as possible. Signed
the blue Beetle. Oh I knew I was right. That's
terrible place. I won't stay there another night.
Speaker 6: Oh good, Here we are from wandering mister Jasper.
Speaker 2: Shall I take the bag of washing?
Speaker 3: Sir?
Speaker 1: Yes, I take it in uh, but be sure to
get a receipt. Spot just a moment there. I like
to have a look at that bar. Now, what's the
idea of this? Who are you and the sheriff of
east Chester County. I've had a telephone call to be
on the lookout for you, fool. This is an outrage.
We're respectable citizens. This young lady is the owner of
Great Gregg's Manor, and I'm I'm her attorney. Well, then
you won't mind my looking into this suitcase to make
sure it's full of dirty clothes and trim on. We'll
not stand for this out right now, surge horses, Now
touch this trigger. I have a look at that suitcase.
Money counterfeit? A blue beetle is right, my blue beetle.
Here's the blue beetle.
Speaker 2: He phoned me an hour ago to Jack.
Speaker 3: But what does it mean? Why?
Speaker 1: Somebody. They must have switched suitcases on us. This is
a frame of horse that so well. I'd say, you too,
are in a tough spot. I demand to see your warrant, Sherff.
I stand on my constitutional rights as a practicing attorney.
My advice to you will as a practicing sheriff. My
advice to you, mister attorney, is.
Speaker 3: Get a good lawyer. What puts on the phone, Blackie?
Speaker 1: Okay? Hello? What the doults are dancing up at Great Crags?
But it's only midday? Word spider? All right? Phone up
the slim and tell him to stop the dancers. What
what's that? Swim doesn't answer? Something's gone haywire. You lock
the gate and stand guard. I'll be out there. Problem,
good bye. I wonder the worst slim is?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody around? Somebody shut off the mechanism of the
dancing ghosts. Yeah, we better have our gets ready. Who
follow me in and keep your eyes nobody here. I
don't see no one. Something about this business don't smell
right to me. Look at that class a pair someoney
be hiding easy now look sillim bounding guy. I wonder
who's done this Blacky. Yes, a Blue Beetle, I'll take
that gun, Blackie. Oh no, you won't. Blue Beetle. Oh yes,
I will take care of mister Blackie. Oh, mister Clubfoot.
I hate to sock a cripple, but drop that gun
or I O you win. I'll just tie you up
for safe keeping. The police will need you what for?
The cops ain't got nothing on me. Perhaps not, but
I'm sure that I'll want you to demonstrate those mechanical
dancing dog upstairs and through ghostly shadows on the windows
of the old ballroom. Sorry, I can't stay for the
final curtain, so I'll read about it in tomorrow's papers.
Blue Beatle's job is done. The dancing ghosts of Rocky
Hills will dance no more at Gray Cragg's manor.
Speaker 2: And so another gang of criminals was rounded up and
brought to justice by the Blue Beetle, but Officer Mannigan
couldn't make the arrest because of being laid up with
poison ivy. The moral of this story is deception can
never win for long. Truth will always triumph in the end. Also,
as Officer Mannaghan would say, stay away from poison ivy.
What new adventures await the Blue Beatle in his unceasing
cruise against crime. This question will be answered in the
next transcribed episode of The Blue Beetle. The Blue Beetle
is a copyrighted box feature appearing in Mystery Men Comics
Magazine and The Blue Beetle Magazine. The Blue Beatle is
on the air twice a week on this same station.
Consult the broadcast schedule in your local newspapers, and don't
forget to listen in to.
Speaker 3: The Blue Beetles.
Speaker 4: When I stood a kind of living understood whist ways
away away,