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Speaker 1: now it's Tom for today's episode of the Adventures of
Speaker 1: Philip Marlowe the original air date March the seventh of
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty and the Toddle the Monkey's Uncle.
Speaker 2: Get this and Get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road,
Speaker 2: and those who travel it wind up in the gut
Speaker 2: of the prison of the grave. This time I tangled
Speaker 2: with a mad scotchman, a phony English lord, and a
Speaker 2: beautiful blonde cops in a fright house all because of
Speaker 2: a butler who walked on his knuckles. It happened like this.
Speaker 3: From the men of Raymond Chandler outstanding all through of
Speaker 3: crime fiction. Comes his most famous character in the Adventures
Speaker 3: of Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe.
Speaker 3: We bring you tonight's exciting story the Monkeys.
Speaker 2: Uncle. Hello Marlowe. Please, it's very important missus marlow Oh
Speaker 2: thank Heaven's.
Speaker 4: Just still in your opposite this Later, mister Mallowe, I
Speaker 4: must have your.
Speaker 5: Help at once.
Speaker 4: Carnelia's light is in danger man, and time means everything.
Speaker 2: No, wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 5: Who are you?
Speaker 2: Who's cornadio? Is where you're calling from? And about what?
Speaker 2: Let's have it a slow step at a time.
Speaker 5: Huh Hey, my name's Wesley McDuff. Mister Marlowe.
Speaker 2: All right. Later on macduff, I'm calling from.
Speaker 4: A telephone booth opposite the BigMan Plaza hotel in Hollywood Boulevard.
Speaker 5: With Ashley Duke.
Speaker 2: Ashley who going.
Speaker 4: For the BigMan Plaza, Lord Ashley Duke himself to get
Speaker 4: to it, mister Mountain o'hourry.
Speaker 5: Meet me in the hotel lobby.
Speaker 4: Yes, but we've got to stop them there go to
Speaker 4: kill carmelions.
Speaker 2: My first reaction was to forget the whole thing with
Speaker 2: curiosity is strong stuff with me and he triumvirate labeled
Speaker 2: Wesley McDuff, Lord Ashley Duke and cornets had to add
Speaker 2: up to screwball. Matter way you started, the word kill
Speaker 2: was still big in my vocabulary, so I buttoned the
Speaker 2: office up, quickly, got down in my car, and drove
Speaker 2: over to the Beagman Plaza Hotel, where a ten minutes
Speaker 2: stand in the lobby produced nothing closer to worried Scotchman
Speaker 2: and the plaid covering in a sagging Morris chair, and
Speaker 2: at the reception desk there was no Wesley McDuff registered
Speaker 2: or ever heard of. I'm sorry, sir so at that
Speaker 2: I was ready to call it quits. I turned for
Speaker 2: the door, but before I got there, I was stopped.
Speaker 2: The uniform said bell hop and the sprinkle of freckles
Speaker 2: plus bonn Cowlick said all American boy, but the shifty
Speaker 2: eyes and a narrow mouth had slid over to the
Speaker 2: side of his face when he talked said something else
Speaker 2: like racetrack top.
Speaker 6: Yeah me, sir, but I haven't over here. You ask
Speaker 6: after a scotchman, Wesley McDuff.
Speaker 2: Was it, yeah, you know? Where are you?
Speaker 5: Well? Yes?
Speaker 2: And yes? And how much?
Speaker 5: Ten?
Speaker 2: Five?
Speaker 6: Okay, sport five? But let's get out of the traffic.
Speaker 6: Huh Over here at this map like I was pointing
Speaker 6: out something to Yet that's a fresh idea, thanks the viver.
Speaker 2: Oh here, Now where's McDuff on.
Speaker 6: His way to Burbank?
Speaker 5: Dead drunk?
Speaker 2: Ye're crazy? I talked to him less than half an
Speaker 2: hour ago. He was throwing sober and a long way
Speaker 2: from the party mood could be.
Speaker 6: But fifteen minutes ago I helped Lord Ashley do piling
Speaker 6: indoor car.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Ashley Duke, how does he fit?
Speaker 6: He found this McDuff in the alley outside. I was
Speaker 6: just coming back from dinner when I saw him pick
Speaker 6: the guy up. He couldn't say a word, but a
Speaker 6: blue Shield medical card we found on his wallet read
Speaker 6: Wesley McDuff, thirteen Vineland Avenue, Burbank.
Speaker 2: Boy, he was out cold in my old man and
Speaker 2: I listened, Junior, here's another five? Fill me in fast.
Speaker 2: Who's Lord Ashley Due?
Speaker 6: A nightclub character entertainer, lives here with his wife, Lady
Speaker 6: Ashley Duke when they're in.
Speaker 2: La Wells seven. Is he legitimate this lord business?
Speaker 7: Nah?
Speaker 2: No, but he plays it to the hilt.
Speaker 6: Why after we piled that McDuff ender the cab, he
Speaker 6: dusted his white gloves off gently you like slip the
Speaker 6: monically wears into his iron grab another cabin shoved.
Speaker 2: He's a phony.
Speaker 6: His real name is Burt Duke's and the lady.
Speaker 2: Is girt and on her it shows what do you mean?
Speaker 2: Shows that The.
Speaker 6: Second she gets behind her door they got sweet three
Speaker 6: twelve she climbs out of her accent like it was
Speaker 6: a tight girl, especially when she and that Nissa hers
Speaker 6: go at it. Yes, the famous Marrinac cabins are on
Speaker 6: Route sixty six near Saint Louis. Oh good evening, mister Fisher.
Speaker 2: Okay, where will we the niece? The niece, Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: quite a doll.
Speaker 6: Her name's Merle Bremmer acts as a business manager, so.
Speaker 2: She must also have brains. Tell me who's Cornelius?
Speaker 8: Cornelius?
Speaker 2: What's breaking you up? Who is he?
Speaker 8: Nobody got the.
Speaker 2: Star of the act.
Speaker 6: The Lord and the lady do a fast thing, a
Speaker 6: takeoff on English drawing room stuff, and Cornelius.
Speaker 8: Plays the place it in a derby and a boiled shirt, no.
Speaker 2: Less, Why the giggles. You've seen a derby and boiled
Speaker 2: shirt before?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, sure, I have put on Cornelius. It looks different,
Speaker 6: you see, mister, he's a chimpanzee.
Speaker 2: If there Cornelius definitely added screwball. But I also knew
Speaker 2: the prospective client macduff had been sapped and piled into
Speaker 2: a cab for good riddance, which could add less than funny.
Speaker 2: So I decided to look around a little longer, especially
Speaker 2: in the vicinity of Milady's chamber number three twelve. When
Speaker 2: I stepped out of the elevator on the third floor,
Speaker 2: an owl faced waiter was just piloting a dinner cot
Speaker 2: loaded down with dirty dishes out of the room, and
Speaker 2: when the cod juggled out of the carridor rug, it
Speaker 2: nearly upset a coffee pot, which left the waiter's mind
Speaker 2: on the juxtaposition of cot and pot and not the
Speaker 2: door did he left open inches. I waited till he
Speaker 2: passed me. Then I moved up to where I could
Speaker 2: both see and hear Lady Ashley Duke and her niece
Speaker 2: Merle exploding at each other. Through and after dinner conversation.
Speaker 2: The farm always built like an up ended blimp with
Speaker 2: as much charm as a mooring mast. The ladder was
Speaker 2: blonde and female spy beautiful, and also she was nonchalant,
Speaker 2: lay slipping air shiny thirty two automatic purse.
Speaker 7: Your response, Oh, now, wait a minute, Kurt, before you
Speaker 7: snap a stey, you listen to me.
Speaker 9: Why so you can explain once more how poor Uncle
Speaker 9: Bird's idiotic mistake so just bad luck, ten thousand bucks
Speaker 9: worth of bad luck. He nuts, we don't know anything
Speaker 9: about investments. He shouldn't be allowed to touch a red
Speaker 9: scent and my pretty from here on out. That's exactly
Speaker 9: the way it's gonna be, believe.
Speaker 7: Oh, cut it, Curt, and quit blaming Uncle Burton me.
Speaker 8: Are you kidding?
Speaker 9: Why shouldn't I blame the two of you? He's a
Speaker 9: jerk and you I never wanted you with us in
Speaker 9: the first place, my niece, Oh shut.
Speaker 7: Up, and remember, dear Ed, your husband likes me around.
Speaker 7: I'm good for his morale, he says, he'll never let
Speaker 7: you fire me, So don't blacee your breath, Anti, get
Speaker 7: out of here. Go on, get down to the freight house.
Speaker 7: And keep your eyes open.
Speaker 8: We don't want to lose Carnelius.
Speaker 9: Don't worry, Darling. God dude, he's an old specialty of mine.
Speaker 8: Yes, who is it?
Speaker 2: Name's marlow I'd like to see Lord Ashley Duke.
Speaker 6: Oh well, yes he's not in.
Speaker 2: But what did you want to see him about?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 2: Business? Can you help me?
Speaker 4: Perhaps?
Speaker 9: You see, I'm his business to be his business manager.
Speaker 8: She was just leaving.
Speaker 9: Why don't you, Marle Darling.
Speaker 7: Yes, Merle Darling was mister Marlowe.
Speaker 9: Lady Ashley Duke.
Speaker 8: Goodbye, Antie, I'm happy.
Speaker 9: Huh oh, Rather an answer to save each other's time,
Speaker 9: let me be blunt. Lord Ashley Duke is no longer
Speaker 9: interested in making any investments whatsoever, nor will he be
Speaker 9: interested at a future date. Is that clear, sir?
Speaker 2: Yes, it's like well water, Lady Ashley Duke. And if
Speaker 2: I were looking for an investor, I keep it in mind.
Speaker 2: But you see, I'm a private detective working for Wesley mcdup.
Speaker 9: A paper, a lousy paper pushing his way.
Speaker 2: Are easy, easy, Gertie, go get your feel the hands off, sure,
Speaker 2: just as soon as you get back in a neutral
Speaker 2: I also want to save us time and I want
Speaker 2: to save Cornelius too. How do we talk our wrestle.
Speaker 9: Which all right, seven weeks ago, Lord Ashley Duke and
Speaker 9: I bought Cornelius from that crazy monkey razor out in Burbank.
Speaker 9: It paid McDuff thirty thousand dollars for a run down
Speaker 9: seventeen year old chimpanzee.
Speaker 2: Well then, wait, you want to kill him. McDuff thinks
Speaker 2: you're going.
Speaker 9: To mcduff's crazy just because we change our minds and
Speaker 9: instead of staying here in La decide to go on
Speaker 9: the road. McDuff thinks Cornelius will catch cold and die,
Speaker 9: so he wants him back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you get your money back.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but what about the seven weeks of work just
Speaker 9: to teach him to drop a glass? Not only that
Speaker 9: he's a wonderful imitator.
Speaker 2: I can see your point.
Speaker 9: Besides, the deal's a deal, and we're taking the risk
Speaker 9: of Cornelius his death. Not the loon who runs that
Speaker 9: Burbank animal farm. Well that's Scotchman thinks every animal and
Speaker 9: the joints related to him.
Speaker 2: It's an old idea, honey, But look, lady, is.
Speaker 8: What we bet I talked.
Speaker 9: People, Now, get on, go on, want to get out
Speaker 9: before I forget.
Speaker 5: I'm a lady.
Speaker 2: Over hair Tampkins.
Speaker 6: What is it the telephone call, Sir Boofoor this way?
Speaker 2: Please make God all right up, Jim Dandy.
Speaker 6: Good Now.
Speaker 2: If you feel I was on the page, I feel
Speaker 2: we came out even buster. Besides, I'm running low on
Speaker 2: Farthings unless yes, you know where the freight house going
Speaker 2: It just calls home is located. Uh huh okay Salon
Speaker 2: on Champions Hello Morrow, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you all right?
Speaker 10: McDuff.
Speaker 4: It takes more than a foul blue in the dark
Speaker 4: to stop me. Man, It's just what Lord Ashley Dookie
Speaker 4: is going to Discovery in many minutes, and I've run
Speaker 4: out of patience.
Speaker 5: I ain't going to act, not talk.
Speaker 4: I'm about to take corn Eliots back with my own
Speaker 4: hands and I won't get a help.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
Speaker 5: I'm in a drug.
Speaker 4: Store at Pershing Square, close by the freight house where
Speaker 4: Cornelia said cage for shipment.
Speaker 2: I want you to you can't steal him, McDuff.
Speaker 4: Ah, I can steal him in this guise the animal,
Speaker 4: so they'll never be able to claim him again, so
Speaker 4: they won't be able to kill him.
Speaker 2: McDuff. I can't go along with that, then I choorge.
Speaker 5: The wrong man.
Speaker 4: I just little time lift mister Marlowe. Tomorrow they leave
Speaker 4: Los Angeles, now.
Speaker 5: Will you help me?
Speaker 2: No, beside McDuff, you'll never get away with it. There's
Speaker 2: a girl, Ashley Duke's niece who's got a gun, and
Speaker 2: I McDuff McDuff all away from the phone booth, through
Speaker 2: the lobby and of my car outside. I kept telling
Speaker 2: myself three things. One, I wasn't working for McDuff too.
Speaker 2: McDuff was about to commit a crime. In three, I
Speaker 2: couldn't worry about the gun in merle Brimer's purse. It
Speaker 2: was all none of my business. So when I was
Speaker 2: in behind the wheel of my car, I pointed toward
Speaker 2: my apartment on Franklin, lit a cigarette and forgot about
Speaker 2: the whole thing. But a block later I threw the
Speaker 2: cigarette out, turned and headed for Pershing Square. Scott's with
Speaker 2: animal fumbs in Burbank. Obviously weren't the only crazy people
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. After arriving at Prussian Square, I was
Speaker 2: thirty minutes piling up wise cracks, frozen stairs, and a
Speaker 2: sort of giggles before I hit pay dirt. A bottle
Speaker 2: boy with a great memory.
Speaker 11: Yeah, sure, I know a place only spot around little ship,
Speaker 11: live animals or the rest of the stuff that they handled,
Speaker 11: anything from an eel to an olive.
Speaker 2: About penguins, You got those two, I thought, Yeah.
Speaker 11: I worked there Wenesday during the Christmas rush, made the
Speaker 11: price of a fifth one day.
Speaker 2: Look. Look, you'll do it again right now if you
Speaker 2: can tell me one thing, the address? What is it?
Speaker 8: It's yeah, hay, come on, warty two.
Speaker 2: Four string, here's five crawled back in a bottle. I'll
Speaker 2: see it. The neighborhood was half residential, half industrial, and
Speaker 2: all run down, including the freight house, which was two
Speaker 2: windowless stories of dirty red brick offering over a loading
Speaker 2: ramp on a deserted, shadowy street. I started slowly towarded
Speaker 2: when suddenly a side door flew open. An excited old
Speaker 2: man with flashlight and giant key ring that spelled night
Speaker 2: Watchman leaped out of the building, arms and legs, going
Speaker 2: like twin beats on a mixmaster. Hey, hey, fine, hold
Speaker 2: it is at the.
Speaker 12: Chimpsh and he's raising the rupern there eh, you are
Speaker 12: a shooting?
Speaker 5: Are we fired?
Speaker 2: He's worth of fortune, I know all about it. Come out,
Speaker 2: give me a hand. Now, let's go.
Speaker 8: Where is he upstairs? Hanging in one window at the back?
Speaker 8: I just turned the lights.
Speaker 5: Ordinary watch uh when do you see me?
Speaker 10: Grabbed the stick from the board, started beating things wind.
Speaker 2: Oh fine, And then he broke the window and began swing.
Speaker 10: On the block and tackle.
Speaker 5: You're running outside from the roof to the ground.
Speaker 10: Car.
Speaker 2: Yes, hey, Bobby.
Speaker 10: And away.
Speaker 2: Well all right, pap we better call the corots.
Speaker 5: Over there here he's empty cage. What's your girl doing
Speaker 5: over her head?
Speaker 2: Holy smoke? Merle Bremmer. She did, Yeah, beat the death
Speaker 2: with his stick? That chimp just throw this?
Speaker 10: Then then you think the monkey?
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe yes, maybe no. It's a great
Speaker 2: imitat that Poppa could have been somebody else, the monkey
Speaker 2: who the monkey's uncle a scotchman named mac duff.
Speaker 3: In just a moment, the second act of Philip Marlowe.
Speaker 3: But first, grouch ome Mark. We'll make another of his
Speaker 3: famed personal appearances on most of these same CBS stations
Speaker 3: this Wednesday Night. Groucho Marx, whose many activities include MCing
Speaker 3: You Bet Your Life, one of the craziest quiz shows
Speaker 3: on the air. You're cordially invited to hear Groucho Marx every.
Speaker 2: Wednesday on CBS.
Speaker 3: Now with our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the
Speaker 3: second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story, The Monkey's Uncle.
Speaker 2: I walked around the body of the girl on the
Speaker 2: freight house floor. I took a close look at the
Speaker 2: cage lock. There was no doubt that it has been
Speaker 2: forced from the outside. The watchman staring down at the
Speaker 2: body was shaking like a motorcycle with square wheels. So
Speaker 2: I took him by the arm and walked him down
Speaker 2: the stairs and outside with some air.
Speaker 10: It's terrible.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do.
Speaker 8: Nothing like this ever happened here before. Never told me
Speaker 8: what I'm supposed.
Speaker 3: To do in a case like that.
Speaker 2: It's easy. Just call the police.
Speaker 10: Police.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll sell the SPCA and Frank Buck Chances I
Speaker 2: will need him all before the night.
Speaker 10: So okay, mister hey, who said getting out.
Speaker 2: Of that cab from the top hat cape and spats?
Speaker 2: I said it was one Lord Ashley Duke, the legal
Speaker 2: owner of the champ.
Speaker 5: What are you two players staring at him?
Speaker 2: Just a moment, just a moment before you go inside.
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you, Lord Ashley Duke. You
Speaker 2: know my name?
Speaker 5: Do you know Joe? That's interesting? I don't know you, sir.
Speaker 2: I'll survive. Why'd you come down here tonight?
Speaker 13: Because I heard that my niece was here protecting my
Speaker 13: property that's now shootablelek toss for the girl not capable
Speaker 13: to do that sort of thing.
Speaker 5: You know, man's job, you know, and the beastly time
Speaker 5: finding the.
Speaker 2: Place to You haven't been here before?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, a couple of days ago, but that was
Speaker 5: in broad daylight us.
Speaker 2: One thing more, why did you slug Wesley mcdeath to
Speaker 2: night and dump him in a cab?
Speaker 10: Just?
Speaker 1: Who are you?
Speaker 2: Anyway? Private Detective Philip Mala's name sounds Brittish enough, about
Speaker 2: as British as you are.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and you I presume. Oh they watched one?
Speaker 10: Yes, that's me, your highness.
Speaker 2: What about macduff, Your highness, there's no choice.
Speaker 5: The blighter wanted to welch on the transaction we've made.
Speaker 5: I refuse.
Speaker 13: He threatened me, so I bopped him and then made
Speaker 13: out he was intoxicated, you know, packed him off in
Speaker 13: a cabineless When a man sells me a monkey by George,
Speaker 13: that monkey is mine. I thought that treatment might bring
Speaker 13: McDuff to his bloody sense.
Speaker 2: Well it did. It made him tougher. And what's more,
Speaker 2: the chimpanzee is gone and.
Speaker 5: The cornidius has gone.
Speaker 10: Wait a minute, ante, come on, okay, wow, Yeah, what's.
Speaker 5: Happened to it? Oh? No, Merle, merle baby. That's the
Speaker 5: way she was when we found her.
Speaker 8: And that crazy monkey was in here, just to jumping
Speaker 8: up and down like he was.
Speaker 5: It was mcdup, mcdup, that's what was that, madman.
Speaker 10: Hoy mercrel. What was there? I don't know, but I'm
Speaker 10: gonna find out.
Speaker 2: You stay here, Screaming Company Architectural blunder next door. It
Speaker 2: was one of those big gingerbread houses left over from
Speaker 2: the eighteen hundreds. And I got there just in time
Speaker 2: to meet the witch. The scaly front portal was jerked
Speaker 2: open in front of me, and there she stood like
Speaker 2: a pool cue and high panic, top by a head
Speaker 2: of brittle orange hair, half done up tightened curlors, the
Speaker 2: other half streaming over her face. She clutched frantically at
Speaker 2: the stained Kimona with one hand and me with the other.
Speaker 2: Take it easy, hold it, what's going on?
Speaker 5: What face?
Speaker 9: Oh protect me, it's take.
Speaker 5: It easy with your.
Speaker 2: Calm down and tell me what happened.
Speaker 9: I was upstairs in my room taking my head down
Speaker 9: when I happened to look over at the window and
Speaker 9: there was that face, jumped right up against the glass. Oh,
Speaker 9: I swear I never seen nothing like that before I
Speaker 9: took the cure.
Speaker 2: Missed it all right? Now listen, yeah, all over it?
Speaker 9: Red eyes and big green in mouth? What was like
Speaker 9: one of them giant go willas.
Speaker 5: That cut in the moon.
Speaker 2: That's cornad. It's all right. Where's the room?
Speaker 9: I walked there at the ahead of them standing.
Speaker 10: Alone.
Speaker 2: Well then come along, Corne's a train champion. Won't hurt you?
Speaker 8: Oh no, not me, brother, I didn't.
Speaker 2: Where where? Tell me? Is that a passage out there
Speaker 2: between the houses?
Speaker 9: Oh no, that was the kind of an airshift me.
Speaker 5: Up at the bay.
Speaker 2: You mean you can't get through to the alley.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 9: There's no way out of there except the street.
Speaker 2: Right, come on, let's get outside. We got them cornered.
Speaker 8: Oh you got your corner.
Speaker 9: Baby, missed it?
Speaker 14: Not me.
Speaker 9: I didn't want nothing want to do with that.
Speaker 2: I'd be pulled the air shaft was a scant eighteen
Speaker 2: inches wide and as dark and cluttered as the inside
Speaker 2: of a goat pen with odors to mash. I worked
Speaker 2: my way back as far as the bashful light in
Speaker 2: the street.
Speaker 8: Road, so it would be careful in there.
Speaker 2: Missed it, then I stopped and listened. But Cornads was
Speaker 2: a genius. There wasn't a sound, and I couldn't see
Speaker 2: my hand in front of my face, to say nothing
Speaker 2: of a black hair chimpanzee was no doubt getting a
Speaker 2: big kick out of the entire procedure. I decided to
Speaker 2: try psychology on him. So I called, and what I
Speaker 2: hoped was a firm but friendly voice, and it got
Speaker 2: me no place. I groped my way along the wall
Speaker 2: of the drain pipe and called again, this time shorter
Speaker 2: on the friendly and longer on the firm, which was
Speaker 2: a mistake. The drain pipe should have given me a hint,
Speaker 2: but it didn't.
Speaker 15: Oh he's going, Who's god?
Speaker 9: It was up on the drain pipe. It hits you
Speaker 9: on the head with something that ran right, asked me,
Speaker 9: and got away in a taxi. Oh come on, let's
Speaker 9: get out.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, baby, I could have sworn you said
Speaker 2: that the monkey took a taxi. He did.
Speaker 9: I watched the whole as soon as it got out
Speaker 9: in the street. A man in a checked the can
Speaker 9: with a crooked stick in his hand, came out for
Speaker 9: between them buildings over there and called it. They ran
Speaker 9: up to a taxi. The driver jumped out and drove away.
Speaker 1: I seen him.
Speaker 2: The driver jumped out and they drove away. I don't
Speaker 2: think you took the cure soon enough.
Speaker 9: Well, I've seen something else too. A fat brad in
Speaker 9: a high hat and spat came charging out of the
Speaker 9: freight house there. Saw the cab leaving gotten a green
Speaker 9: coopd O.
Speaker 2: He smoked, that's my car. Oh it's gone. How do
Speaker 2: you like that?
Speaker 9: Yeah, now maybe you believe me.
Speaker 2: Huh, every scrowy word, sweetheart. And now look you didn't
Speaker 2: happen to see.
Speaker 9: Well, look that's the cab driver.
Speaker 14: Then don't want to see what happened. I gotta have
Speaker 14: a witness. My tax was hijacked off of me by
Speaker 14: two crazy guys. One of them looked like an ape,
Speaker 14: exactly like an ape.
Speaker 2: Move over, Bud, we're on the same raft. My car's
Speaker 2: gone too. Tell mean what happened? Well, you started at
Speaker 2: the top.
Speaker 14: Okay, tonight, I bring this big shot and a high
Speaker 14: hat down here to the freight house.
Speaker 8: He hops out, tells me to wait.
Speaker 5: See.
Speaker 8: So I drive down the block and thrown around.
Speaker 14: I'm parked right over there trying to grab a quick
Speaker 14: forty winks when.
Speaker 2: Up comes this looon a scotchman.
Speaker 10: Yeah him.
Speaker 14: He throws me a fast a dress and starts getting
Speaker 14: in say. I politely tell him the flag is down,
Speaker 14: but he keeps coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know. It's just like now, look, did
Speaker 2: you ever see this scotchman before?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 10: Never.
Speaker 14: I figure maybe he's got a snoot full of happy
Speaker 14: days nothing more. So I'm reaching over to block him
Speaker 14: when a pair of hands that feels like a door
Speaker 14: mat with muscles grabs me around the neck.
Speaker 8: I twist around and look and what do I see him?
Speaker 8: I don't know, but an ape man is crawling in
Speaker 8: my wing.
Speaker 5: So help me.
Speaker 8: I'm rubbing noses with a missing leak.
Speaker 2: Yeah I know. Then what happened mac.
Speaker 14: I jumped out of the taxi, and before I know it,
Speaker 14: the old geezer gives me a cloud with his stick
Speaker 14: piles in the next thing, My tax is gone, just
Speaker 14: like that.
Speaker 8: You gotta believe me. Somebody's gotta buy me.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: If I try this on the cops, that will have
Speaker 8: me in a patter of selling no time.
Speaker 2: I don't worry about it, fellow, Just reach hard for
Speaker 2: that address the scotchman gave you. Can you remember it?
Speaker 16: Oh?
Speaker 8: Sure, let me see.
Speaker 2: It was the the Rushmore Rushmore.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's down at the heels More.
Speaker 14: They all out on burning somewhere surround the Beverly boulevard.
Speaker 8: Ed Mason's stepped on something here on the sidewalk.
Speaker 9: Oh, you sure did, cutey, you smashed it too.
Speaker 2: It looks like somebody's watched Crystal.
Speaker 9: Sure, ladies, watch Crystal. Oh nice one. See it had
Speaker 9: this hung of black.
Speaker 5: Ribbon with it.
Speaker 2: Ladies, Hey, wait a minute, let me see that.
Speaker 8: Sure here it's velvets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, sure is. It doesn't fit not here. No
Speaker 2: one's been here for the three of us in the
Speaker 2: chimp so long. Kids. Hey, hey wait, I'm going to
Speaker 2: talk to a liar about a murder. I'll see you
Speaker 2: later at headquarters. I hope talk to the night watchman
Speaker 2: in the freight house. Shall be good for each other.
Speaker 2: I was two blocks on foot finding another taxi in
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes getting from there out to the motel, worrying
Speaker 2: all the way because I'd left my gun under the
Speaker 2: front seat of my car. Business was slow with the Rushmore.
Speaker 2: The only cabin that children light was the last in
Speaker 2: the rear, next to the alley. I was sure of
Speaker 2: what I'd find inside, in spite of the fact that
Speaker 2: neither of us stole and cab, nor my coop was
Speaker 2: any place in sight. When I heard the voices, I
Speaker 2: decided to bluffet. I went up to the front door
Speaker 2: and pressed my ear against a flimsy panel.
Speaker 5: Anyway, a bargain's a bargain, uf, you'd have done better
Speaker 5: to stick by it.
Speaker 12: He stick wade if he had your scare of me, crew.
Speaker 5: Gond reach for your chain. It's a little late for that.
Speaker 5: You're in a real jam now. I'm gonna see you
Speaker 5: playing for my niece's murder.
Speaker 10: But I didn't kill her.
Speaker 12: I pushed her down if she got me unlocking Carnelia's
Speaker 12: cage and tried to stop me. But I didn't kill her.
Speaker 16: You did that, yes, yes, but who knows that except
Speaker 16: you and the monk there, and he can't talk, and
Speaker 16: you won't late me.
Speaker 5: Ay your daft man.
Speaker 8: Why did you do it?
Speaker 16: Because I had to, because Merle was pleading me to
Speaker 16: death every cente I lay my hands on.
Speaker 5: I had to buy her silence.
Speaker 16: I had to pretend to lose thousands and poor investments. Well,
Speaker 16: Merle got what was coming to her, and you gave
Speaker 16: me that chance. I found her on the floor where
Speaker 16: you left her and simply finished the job.
Speaker 12: Then you ran off and came back in that taxi
Speaker 12: fifteen minutes later, the very sp of innocence. I saw
Speaker 12: you very well, Lord Ashley Duke. You've got me as
Speaker 12: a thief tool.
Speaker 5: So get on with it. Get on with it, filthy
Speaker 5: evil plant.
Speaker 10: I'm ready.
Speaker 2: I'll be in a hurry. Mcdoubts say where you are, Ashley,
Speaker 2: don't bother it turning around. Just drop the gun, you know,
Speaker 2: let me down, Laddy, I knew it.
Speaker 5: It's this o boy.
Speaker 2: Let's get the accent, birch. You won't need it where
Speaker 2: you're going. Drop that gun, I said, you will move.
Speaker 5: Shoot me with that pipe in your pocket. Wallow. I've
Speaker 5: got your gun here in my hand and you know it.
Speaker 2: Want to bed well it with the light out?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 12: Oh oh, it's a very strange thing lead hit you
Speaker 12: butt once there are two lumps on your skull.
Speaker 10: You can missconditions.
Speaker 2: You have a mind skipping. I don't want to talk
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 12: Where's Ashley dressed up there in the corner. He should
Speaker 12: be coming around soon. You see, Cornelius, as you've no
Speaker 12: doubt learned, is a great imitator. When he saw Ashley
Speaker 12: bat you on the head with a gun, he grabbed McCaine,
Speaker 12: leaped up on the dresser there and batted Ashley.
Speaker 2: On the head with this headache. Okay, don't tell me
Speaker 2: I'm indebted to that, just when I was learning to
Speaker 2: hate him.
Speaker 10: We both are for our lives.
Speaker 12: But tell me what does a black velvet ribbon and
Speaker 12: a watch crystal mean?
Speaker 10: Mumble that over and over while you were out.
Speaker 2: Oh, well, that's how I knew Ashley was a liar
Speaker 2: and a killer. See the cab driver stepped on a
Speaker 2: round piece of glass. It looked like a watch crystal
Speaker 2: with a ribbon attached. Happened on the sidewalk in front
Speaker 2: of an ass shaft. Actually the oh, actually the glass.
Speaker 8: Was a monocle drop my lord Ashley duque.
Speaker 2: Oh, Ashley never been at that spot. No, what if
Speaker 2: Cornadi has had, and if Cornadias dropped a monocle, it
Speaker 2: indicated that or Ashley Duke had been someplace with Cornadius
Speaker 2: earlier night. You see, I could only be the freight
Speaker 2: house it. Ashley claimed he hadn't been there for two days.
Speaker 2: Oh oh you do? Oh how about you Cornelius. Oh well,
Speaker 2: that's one of the best dances I've had tonight. It
Speaker 2: didn't take long at police headquarters, maybe an hour altogether.
Speaker 2: A killer was locked up for trial, and the key
Speaker 2: witness ate three eRASS built a quarter of ink and
Speaker 2: broke a window for the homicide boys finally gave up.
Speaker 2: I watched the phony lord Ashley Duke walk down the
Speaker 2: car to to his cell. Any connection he had with
Speaker 2: man was just the category. And I watched mcduffin company
Speaker 2: leave too. A couple of regular guys, a monkey, a
Speaker 2: monkey's uncle, a genuine old Scotto loved life, and his
Speaker 2: shuffling friend whose only limitation was his inability to speak.
Speaker 2: But he communicated all right, and the only language that
Speaker 2: means anything, love of one creature for another.
Speaker 3: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond, Chandler's most
Speaker 3: famous character star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by
Speaker 3: Norman McDonald and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell
Speaker 3: and gene Leavitt. As a special note of terest Philip
Speaker 3: marlow fans, you'll be glad to know that radio and
Speaker 3: Television Life magazine has this week named Gerald Moore as
Speaker 3: the best male actor in radio. Featured in our cast
Speaker 3: were Mary Lansing, John Dayner, Tudor Owen, Sam Edwards, Michael
Speaker 3: Ann Barrett, Harry Bartel, and Junius Matthews. The special music
Speaker 3: is composed and conducted by Richard Urunt. He sure and
Speaker 3: be with us again next week, Fen Philip Marlowe, say this.
Speaker 2: Time a case hard and ka hop knocked me down
Speaker 2: a flight of stairs, an honest woman was strangled by
Speaker 2: a green silk sash, and a simpering dandy was shot
Speaker 2: to death, all because of a run of the mill
Speaker 2: traffic accident five hundred miles away.
Speaker 3: You hear them all on CBS, and one of the
Speaker 3: funniest parts of that all comes from the bird brain
Speaker 3: of a woman, Miss Gracie Allen of Burns and Allen,
Speaker 3: top troopers on the American stage for years top radio stars.
Speaker 3: After that, George and Gracie are now playing a big
Speaker 3: part in CBS's great Wednesday Night lineup bing Crosby Groucho Marx,
Speaker 3: George and Gracie, Doctor Christian join George Burns and Gracie
Speaker 3: Allen this Wednesday Night on most of the same CBS stations.
Speaker 2: This is Roy Rowan speaking.
Speaker 3: Now stay tuned for Pursuit, which follows immediately over most
Speaker 3: of the same CBS stations. This is CBS where Burns
Speaker 3: and Allen are heard every Wednesday night. At the Columbia Broadcasting.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, I have to say one of the
Speaker 1: weakest Scottish accents over radio that didn't be one nay,
Speaker 1: to be fair that they didn't do as well, but
Speaker 1: the award by Gerald Moore definitely well earned, brings a
Speaker 1: lot to the role, and certainly this role as Philip
Speaker 1: Marlow is just a very powerful and memorable performance. Speaking
Speaker 1: of that, we do have some listener comments and feedback
Speaker 1: regarding Ladies Night. Natalie says, this is a terrific episode.
Speaker 1: Just loved it, listen to it twice in fact, and
Speaker 1: Francis says, love this episode. Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it,
Speaker 1: and I hope they'll be with us next week for
Speaker 1: another episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow, and of
Speaker 1: course tomorrow we have Nick Carter though. In the meantime,
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