Speaker 1: You are groping down a dark alleyway in the French
Speaker 1: Quarter of New Orleans, driven by terror, hounded by the
Speaker 1: curse of the Populoi, a curse from which there is
Speaker 1: no escape.
Speaker 2: Escape produced by William N. Robeson and carefully contrived to
Speaker 2: free you from the four walls of today for a
Speaker 2: half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: To today, we escape into two worlds, one of modern jazz,
Speaker 1: the other of primitive voodoo, and to a doomed man
Speaker 1: who brought them together, as William irashagend that in his
Speaker 1: eerie story, Papa Benjamin.
Speaker 3: All his Police Department Fourth Precinct, Sergeant Tolliver speaking, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: well pick him up on a drunk seventy two three?
Speaker 4: Right, Yes, what can I do for you?
Speaker 5: Are you in charge here?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Hey, aren't you Eddie Block the band leader? That's right, hey, Joe,
Speaker 3: lookers here Eddie Block.
Speaker 1: Well, never thought we'd get a visit from a big
Speaker 1: celebrity like you, mister Block, and at four o'clock and them,
Speaker 1: I suppose though, this is just a shock of evening
Speaker 1: for a big shot orchestra lead.
Speaker 4: It Hell, what can we do for you, mister Block?
Speaker 5: I've just killed him man, you're kidding. I tell you,
Speaker 5: I've just killed him.
Speaker 3: Man, I guess you've been working too hard. Mister Blockie,
Speaker 3: you imagining thing.
Speaker 5: Hey, it's the gunen look at him.
Speaker 4: Sit down, better, have a drink of water. You'll feel better.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, I'm all right.
Speaker 6: This gun has been used all right, smell.
Speaker 4: Mm wasn't an accent, mister block No who to use
Speaker 4: it on? Who was it?
Speaker 5: I don't know his name. They call him Papa Benjamin sounds.
Speaker 4: Like a white man. No, he was a Negro well
Speaker 4: now in Orleans.
Speaker 5: I no, no, there was nothing like that.
Speaker 4: What was he doing to you?
Speaker 5: He was killing me, killing Look at me. I used
Speaker 5: to wait two hundred pounds, I'm down to one hundred
Speaker 5: and two.
Speaker 4: But how how was he killing you?
Speaker 5: Would you believe in anything you can't see, can't here,
Speaker 5: can't touch. I've been to the biggest doctors in the world.
Speaker 5: They don't believe me. How can I expect you to.
Speaker 5: We'll simply say I'm cracked and let it go with that.
Speaker 5: I don't want to spend the rest of my life
Speaker 5: in her silent Look.
Speaker 4: Mister black you say he was a Negro named Papa bench.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, an old old man eighty maybe ninety, skin
Speaker 5: and bones. He could hardly walk, and I shot him.
Speaker 4: You sure you sure you killed him?
Speaker 7: Yes? Of course?
Speaker 5: Oh where I don't know exactly. And middle back alley
Speaker 5: in the view Carrie near Congo Square.
Speaker 4: Suppose you take us there? Can you do that?
Speaker 3: Then maybe we'll find out this is just a bad dream.
Speaker 5: This is the alley to the right between the buildings.
Speaker 6: Alright, let's go.
Speaker 4: You pack sard, catch cold without it.
Speaker 8: Don't go back there, honey by you cops.
Speaker 6: A nice neighborhood.
Speaker 7: This is it?
Speaker 5: In that door and up the stairs. I'm on, no, no,
Speaker 5: don't make me go.
Speaker 6: Up there again.
Speaker 1: Please, better comments to Block. You're showing a flash of light.
Speaker 4: Somebody on the stairs.
Speaker 6: He won't bother dead drunk and step over him. And
Speaker 6: let's go. This net the most pleasant neighborhood to come calling.
Speaker 7: This is it?
Speaker 5: Yes, in that door?
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, better call a commissioner. Mister Block wasn't
Speaker 1: a kid, and this man stayed.
Speaker 9: But why why?
Speaker 5: Because he was killing me?
Speaker 4: Commissioners, then it was self defense.
Speaker 5: He never came near me once. I was the one
Speaker 5: who went to him. I offered him three ten thousand
Speaker 5: any of him out, and he refused. I offered him
Speaker 5: my gun and asked him to shoot me with her
Speaker 5: to get it over with quickly and not to drag
Speaker 5: it out any longer.
Speaker 4: Then when he said no, you shot it.
Speaker 5: So you can lock me up.
Speaker 10: Now, mister Block, do you think we want to hang
Speaker 10: a murder rap on you one of the most popular
Speaker 10: celebrities in the United States?
Speaker 4: Use your head trying to find him out for you?
Speaker 5: He was killing me.
Speaker 10: Look an eighty old colored man who's so feeble they
Speaker 10: can't even go upstairs by himself, who has to have
Speaker 10: his food pull it up to him in a basket,
Speaker 10: is killing who? A stumblebum his own age? No, mister
Speaker 10: Eddie Block, the top band lead of America, who can
Speaker 10: name his own price anyway, who has about everything a
Speaker 10: man can want. Tell me just one thing, mister Block.
Speaker 9: How was he killing you?
Speaker 5: I thinking thought waves of death that reached me through
Speaker 5: the air.
Speaker 4: Now, mister Block, you surely don't.
Speaker 5: You want to hush the whole thing up, don't you?
Speaker 10: No, mister Block, No, but I'm going to get the
Speaker 10: whole story, so you might as well start telling me
Speaker 10: from the beginning, all right.
Speaker 5: It began one night, about two years ago, we were
Speaker 5: playing at Maxim's on Charles Street. We were just another band,
Speaker 5: small Dixie Land outfit. Then Heady blocking his chips, Judy Jarvis,
Speaker 5: my wife did the vocals, but we weren't setting the
Speaker 5: world on fire. Business was so bad, I know what
Speaker 5: to expect. When I got a call from the manager
Speaker 5: one night after closing time.
Speaker 7: I'm in.
Speaker 11: Ahi, Eddie, I thought we better have a little talk.
Speaker 5: It's that bad. Huh.
Speaker 11: Hey took in forty five hundred this week.
Speaker 5: I see. And you can cancel my contract anytime it
Speaker 5: falls under five thousand. I get it.
Speaker 11: Eddithing can get the same liquor and sandwiches anywhere, but
Speaker 11: they'll go where the band has something. Tonight there were
Speaker 11: more waiters in the place than they were customers. Judy
Speaker 11: didn't even get a hand.
Speaker 5: It's not her fault.
Speaker 11: It's not her fault. She's okay, But I'm asking you
Speaker 11: what's wrong.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I'm getting the latest arrangement sent to
Speaker 5: me from New York. We sweat our heads bold or rehearsing. Well,
Speaker 5: this is New Orleans, practically the cradle of jazz. You
Speaker 5: got to give them.
Speaker 7: Something new.
Speaker 5: When away leave.
Speaker 11: Well, finish the week up, see if you can do
Speaker 11: something about it by Monday. Not I'll have to work,
Speaker 11: say Louis to get Kruger's band. I'm sorry, Eddie.
Speaker 5: But it's all right. It's okay you're not running a
Speaker 5: charity bazaarre. But I didn't feel so cocky about it.
Speaker 5: It looked like we were on the skids. The band
Speaker 5: just didn't seem to have it, and I wasn't good
Speaker 5: enough to figure out why and pull them out of it.
Speaker 5: I was feeling pretty low when I went back to
Speaker 5: the deserted bandstand to pick up some music. The place
Speaker 5: was dark and empty except for a couple of scrub
Speaker 5: women cleaning up. A dark nightclub can be an eerie
Speaker 5: place sometimes. I got that feeling just before I saw it.
Speaker 5: I saw it lying there on the floor between the stands.
Speaker 5: It was a severed chicken claw with a red ribbon
Speaker 5: tight around it. I almost laughed out did that thing
Speaker 5: get there? Then I picked it up and tossed it
Speaker 5: out on the floor where a scrub woman were cleaning up.
Speaker 5: He certainly wasn't expecting the reaction I got. He took
Speaker 5: one look, they turned and ran out. I just recovered
Speaker 5: from that surprise and was bending down to pick up
Speaker 5: some music that had slipped to the floor when I
Speaker 5: heard someone come in. I guess I was pretty well
Speaker 5: hidden from view anyway, he didn't see me. It was
Speaker 5: Johnny Stats, my drummer, and he was acting funny. He
Speaker 5: looking intently at the floor, searching for something. Suddenly he
Speaker 5: spotted this chicken claw on the floor and grabbed it
Speaker 5: up with a terrific sigh of relief, stuffed it into
Speaker 5: his pocket and walked out. What I did then, I
Speaker 5: did on a strange impulse, and it changed the whole
Speaker 5: course of my life. I followed Johnny Stads. I suppose
Speaker 5: I just meant to catch up with him and have
Speaker 5: a cup of coffee with him somewhere and ask him
Speaker 5: about the chicken cloth. But as I followed him farther
Speaker 5: and farther down into the view carrie down the Congo Square,
Speaker 5: it was a growing curiosity that kept me on his trail.
Speaker 5: When he turned into that dark alleyway, I stopped and debated.
Speaker 5: I felt like an eavesdropper, and yet something drew me
Speaker 5: on and I walked up that dark alley. I passed
Speaker 5: that one lighted window.
Speaker 8: I told you before, don't go back there, honey.
Speaker 5: But I went on throw a sort of tunnel into
Speaker 5: another alleyway, and then I stopped. Ahead of me, Johnny
Speaker 5: Stad stood before a dark, dismal looking old wreck of
Speaker 5: a building. Suddenly he whistled. A gigantic man appeared from
Speaker 5: out of the shadows. Johnny had it in the chicken claw,
Speaker 5: and he was motioned into the building. And then I
Speaker 5: heard sounds coming from the upstairs of that building. A
Speaker 5: throbbing drum, a wailing, an unearthly sound, and yet wonderful,
Speaker 5: an exotic, fascinating rhythm. This was music, something new, something sensational,
Speaker 5: something that would set New Orleans on its ear and
Speaker 5: put Eddie Block in the big time. I had to
Speaker 5: get in there and hear it. I was mighty busy
Speaker 5: for the next five minutes. I ran back down the alley,
Speaker 5: overturning five or six garbage cans before I found what
Speaker 5: I needed. Then back to that lighted window in the
Speaker 5: alley and a five spot in exchange for a red ribbon.
Speaker 5: Then I was back at the dark building, walking up
Speaker 5: to that menacing shadow.
Speaker 7: Right up, let me see your face.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, easy with that knife, My.
Speaker 7: Ribs are tender. Your face not been here before.
Speaker 5: My friend Johnny stats up there.
Speaker 7: He'll tell you, missus, Johnny, old friend. Yes, you'll come.
Speaker 1: Here this chicken claw tell me to come, Papa Benjamin
Speaker 1: send you there.
Speaker 5: Certainly you'll make me late. Papa Benjamin wouldn't like that.
Speaker 7: Alright, go along here. First thing you know, all know
Speaker 7: or is got me come round.
Speaker 5: I groped up the stairs, half expecting to feel his
Speaker 5: knife in my back, but I got to the top safely. Cautiously,
Speaker 5: I opened the door.
Speaker 9: And slip.
Speaker 5: Conto conto. The room was full of people. They were
Speaker 5: in such a state of frenzy I wasn't even noticed.
Speaker 5: I slipped into a corner and slid down by the wall,
Speaker 5: sitting on the floor. It was a sight I'll never forget. Wild, fantastic, hideous, revolting.
Speaker 5: Fascinating in the center of the room was an incredibly
Speaker 5: old man, naked to the waist, wearing a hideous mask
Speaker 5: and holding a live chicken. There was wild gestures, weird incantations,
Speaker 5: frantic dancing and shouting and rolling of eyes, and there
Speaker 5: was blood, and always there was the chat. Nobody noticed me.
Speaker 5: After a moment, I took a piece of copy paper
Speaker 5: out of my pocket and began putting down the notes.
Speaker 5: It was wonderful, fantastic and wonderful. In ten minutes, I
Speaker 5: had it, and I'd seen enough enough for a lifetime
Speaker 5: of light backs. I began to feel sick and I
Speaker 5: wanted to get out. I started to stand up. Suddenly
Speaker 5: the room and dead strange joys here his boning arm
Speaker 5: stretched out straight from the shoulder, pointing at me like
Speaker 5: an arrow, and I was blood on it.
Speaker 9: What you do here, I, Papa Loy, I know this man?
Speaker 4: Let me find out.
Speaker 5: No one moved. There was no sound in the room
Speaker 5: as Johnny's stats came over and squatted beside me. You're
Speaker 5: in terrible trouble, Addie. I don't know if I can
Speaker 5: get you out of it. What is this status? And
Speaker 5: what are you doing here?
Speaker 12: There's no time to talk now. You've got to do
Speaker 12: something quicker. You'll be a dead man.
Speaker 5: Why I'm in the very heart of New Orleans. They wouldn't.
Speaker 12: Dear listen, you've seen enough tonight. You know better, Eddie,
Speaker 12: is only one way what join become one of us.
Speaker 5: It's the only way, Eddie. I can't save you.
Speaker 12: And you'd better hurry up. Unless you do, you'll never
Speaker 12: get out of here alive. You know what this is,
Speaker 12: don't you. This is voodoo.
Speaker 5: Okay, sure, I'll join up.
Speaker 6: Why not? Await a minute, Eddie.
Speaker 5: There's a lot more to it than you think.
Speaker 12: Unless you're serious that it'd be better to get cut
Speaker 12: to pieces right now.
Speaker 5: I don't worry.
Speaker 4: I'm serious, all right, Papa Loi. His spirit wishes to
Speaker 4: join our spirits.
Speaker 5: The old man burned some feathers while the others watch silently.
Speaker 1: Then he nodded, came out all right.
Speaker 7: He reads them the spirits of Willy.
Speaker 5: There were other things, ritual ceremonies, another sacrifice. Then half
Speaker 5: of the channing started again. They brought me the sacrificial bull.
Speaker 5: I didn't have to be told what was in it.
Speaker 5: I started to draw back. Drink any drink it, I'll
Speaker 5: tell you on the spot. Late next morning, the band
Speaker 5: assembled at Maximus for a rehearsal. When Johnny Stats got there,
Speaker 5: he found another drummer sitting in his place. Naturally, he
Speaker 5: came to me.
Speaker 4: And what's all this about, Eddie.
Speaker 5: I don't want any voodoo lover in my band, That's
Speaker 5: all Stats. Here's a check for two weeks, Sally, So
Speaker 5: you're crossing Amaya brother. I wouldn't want to be in
Speaker 5: your shoes for all the gold and fort knocks. Hell?
Speaker 5: Have you mean that bad dream last night? And I
Speaker 5: haven't told anybody, and I won't I be laughed at.
Speaker 5: I'm only remembering what I can use of it. The
Speaker 5: jungle is just trees to me, the Congoa River and
Speaker 5: nighttime just time for electric lights.
Speaker 9: With this new number you're going to rehearse this morning.
Speaker 5: I said I'd remember what I can. You listen, Eddy, that.
Speaker 4: Chat is sacred secret. It was secret edy, don't do it.
Speaker 5: Look, here's a couple of c notes hand to these
Speaker 5: that ought to pay my dues up from now to doomsday.
Speaker 5: And I don't want to receipt. And if they try
Speaker 5: putting poison to my orange juice, they'll end up on
Speaker 5: a chain.
Speaker 9: It's not that easier.
Speaker 5: You're one of us now, Oh, get out, okay, goodbye
Speaker 5: dead Man. Graham, the manager of the club changed his
Speaker 5: mind about canceling our contract when he heard us rehearse
Speaker 5: the chant. Instead, he spent five g's in publicity, and
Speaker 5: Saturday night was set for the big unveiling. Seemed like
Speaker 5: all New Orleans, tried to jam at the Maxims came
Speaker 5: to hear the Voodoo Champ the real thing. Just before
Speaker 5: we were ready to hit it, Judy came.
Speaker 8: Up to me, Eddie, listen, let's not do it.
Speaker 5: What do you mean, maybe not do it? Well, this
Speaker 5: is it. This is our ticket to the big time.
Speaker 5: It'll be a sensation, I know, but I.
Speaker 13: Got a funny feeling, Eddie. And look I found this
Speaker 13: in the addressing room door just a little while ago.
Speaker 13: It sounds like a warning. Somebody doesn't want you to
Speaker 13: play that number.
Speaker 6: He said.
Speaker 5: You can summon the spirits, but can you dismiss them again?
Speaker 5: Think well, hm, oh, forget it.
Speaker 7: Baby.
Speaker 5: Stats is trying to scare me because I fired him.
Speaker 5: Come on, let's go.
Speaker 6: There.
Speaker 14: Takes a great pleasure in bringing you a historic moment
Speaker 14: in musical history. You're about to hear for the first
Speaker 14: time anywhere, the Voodoo chat the aj Oe ceremonial rhythm.
Speaker 7: No one but the initiated has ever hurt before.
Speaker 15: This is the real thing, Lady gentleman, an accurate transcription,
Speaker 15: got a notice been changed. H So now any Block
Speaker 15: and his chips present for the first time anywhere, the
Speaker 15: Goodoo chaps.
Speaker 5: It was a sensation and they went crazy at the
Speaker 5: screamed for more. But we were playing a kag once
Speaker 5: a night. That'd pack him in. After it was over,
Speaker 5: I went back to our dressing room. Judy got there
Speaker 5: before me. She was reading a newspaper somebody had brought in. Ed, baby,
Speaker 5: you were wonderful. We wound him. We're in the money now, yeah, Eddie,
Speaker 5: But boy, boy, am I tired. I feel more tired
Speaker 5: than I've ever felt in my life. Nervous train, I guess, huh,
Speaker 5: let them you're in the paper. Who cares about the paper?
Speaker 8: Now, Eddie? It's Johnny's steps. He's dead. He drowned himself,
Speaker 8: and let push a train this.
Speaker 5: Afternoon, this afternoon. But then that note. It wasn't Johnny.
Speaker 8: Oh Eddie, look, you can't blame yourself.
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, no, no, of course not. But I
Speaker 5: think I know WHO'DU blame.
Speaker 8: What do you mean nothing, nothing, Eddie? Wouldn't you lie
Speaker 8: down and rest for a few minutes? You look worn out?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: I am right, I feel dead.
Speaker 8: Here. Let me take off your coat.
Speaker 1: Oh be careful, what's me?
Speaker 5: I don't know a funny thing? But I was waving
Speaker 5: the batana, and in the chat I felt something, a
Speaker 5: sharp pain in my back, like a pin of something stucky.
Speaker 8: I don't feel anything there now. Maybe it's slipped down.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 13: Couldn't have been much there. Now, you just lie down,
Speaker 13: you'll feel better in a few minutes.
Speaker 8: You've been working too hard, Eddie. You should relax now
Speaker 8: and maybe take a few days off. Hey, Eddie, look here,
Speaker 8: where'd this come from.
Speaker 13: It's a little doll that was lying on the dressing table. Why, Eddie,
Speaker 13: it looks just like you.
Speaker 5: Let me sing.
Speaker 13: Now, that's funny. Look there in the back, there's a
Speaker 13: little pin sticking in the bag.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's right where I felt the pain that started.
Speaker 5: Next day, I had a backache. Later there was a
Speaker 5: numbness that spread to my shoulders, arms, and legs. I
Speaker 5: felt tired all the time, listless dead. I began to
Speaker 5: lose weight. I couldn't get Johnny's statz out of my mind.
Speaker 5: He'd introduced me to them, vouched for me, and he'd
Speaker 5: committed suicide. He knew he hadn't waited. I decided to
Speaker 5: get out of New Orleans. I went to New York
Speaker 5: playing the chat. Of course, I had to it was
Speaker 5: my biggest asset now, but nothing changed. I was losing
Speaker 5: weight from a husky two hundred down to one hundred
Speaker 5: and sixty, and I couldn't sleep. Maybe if I put
Speaker 5: a notion between I took an offer in London, toured
Speaker 5: the Connolly Away a year. I was an international hit, now,
Speaker 5: the biggest attraction in music, but I was down to
Speaker 5: one hundred and ten, dying on my feet. The doctors
Speaker 5: couldn't figure it out. Reynolds in London told.
Speaker 1: Me, you're as normal, mister Block, as anyone I ever examined.
Speaker 1: You're so well balanced if you haven't even got that
Speaker 1: extra little touch of imagination most actors and musicians have.
Speaker 5: I guess that's true, doctor, I'm just mediocre, And yet
Speaker 5: you might say my success is killing me. And so
Speaker 5: after two years I finally realized it was no use.
Speaker 5: I came back back to New Orleans, back to the
Speaker 5: dark alleyway down near Congo's Square. I could just barely
Speaker 5: drag myself along, but I had to see Papa Benjamin.
Speaker 5: I slowly climbed the stairs up to that lowesome door
Speaker 5: and went in. There he was Papa Benjamin, staring at
Speaker 5: me from the bed as if he'd been expecting me,
Speaker 5: take that curse off me, give me my life back.
Speaker 5: I'll do anything anything you say.
Speaker 16: What has been done cannot be undone. Do you think
Speaker 16: the spirits of earth, air, fire, water? No, what forgiveness
Speaker 16: means in.
Speaker 5: A set for me? Then you brought it about. Here's money.
Speaker 5: I'll give you twice as much all I hearn, all
Speaker 5: I ever hope to earn.
Speaker 16: You have fouled the obia death has been on you
Speaker 16: from that night, all over the world and in the
Speaker 16: air above. You have marked the spirits with a chant
Speaker 16: that summons them.
Speaker 5: And please, here's a gun. Kill me now and be
Speaker 5: done with it. I can't stand anymore. All you have
Speaker 5: to do is shoot. I'll write a note sign and
Speaker 5: say I did it myself.
Speaker 16: Will come but different, slow, oh slow.
Speaker 5: No no no, I can't stand that. I won't.
Speaker 7: I won't.
Speaker 5: Maybe if I kill you, maybe then the spell will
Speaker 5: be broken. No, no, that's it, kill you.
Speaker 17: No, no, and that's all, Commissioner.
Speaker 5: Then I came here the police station.
Speaker 11: You know the rest. Well, all right, mister Black. You
Speaker 11: don't believe me, yes, I believe you. Not about the curse.
Speaker 11: Of course, that was your own mind. They planted the
Speaker 11: suggestion in your mind. You did the rest, but it's
Speaker 11: plain that you killed in self defense. Crazy kind of
Speaker 11: self defense. But I think we can manage it.
Speaker 4: We'll try.
Speaker 5: The commissioner managed it all right. How is almost a
Speaker 5: story in itself. Our detective with a molage, false face
Speaker 5: posed is Papa Benjamin and called a voodoo planned together
Speaker 5: and into a trap. How they collected the evidence that
Speaker 5: proved my story, and how they sent most of that
Speaker 5: voodoo bunch to jail. My name wasn't even connected with
Speaker 5: the case. So now I'm free. I'm living again. I've
Speaker 5: gained weight, the tiredness, the numbness is gone. I took
Speaker 5: a nice vacation, went to Bermuda, relaxed and had fun.
Speaker 5: Now I'm back in New Orleans at Maxim's and the
Speaker 5: whole thing is forgotten. We're opening tonight and the place
Speaker 5: is packed. Everybody's come to hear the chat Eddie Block
Speaker 5: and the chant. We're on our way now and nothing
Speaker 5: can stop.
Speaker 14: Us, No lady way.
Speaker 15: Welcome back on his triumph return Eddie Flock and his
Speaker 15: kids playing for you go want it on me?
Speaker 7: Who don't?
Speaker 9: Can't look at him, juddy. They're eating it up.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a matter. I was hoping i'd never hear
Speaker 8: this thing again.
Speaker 9: What do you mean it's your trademark, yours.
Speaker 8: I tried to persuade him not to do it. He
Speaker 8: wouldn't listen.
Speaker 9: Why you want imagining all that voodoos?
Speaker 8: I don't know. It was all in his mind that
Speaker 8: nearly killed him.
Speaker 13: I don't think you can put it out of your
Speaker 13: mind if it gets so easy when Eddie plays.
Speaker 8: Hey, wait a minute, look at Eddie. There's something wrong.
Speaker 7: Eddie, Eddie, wait, now, let me pick him up. He's
Speaker 7: probably just faded.
Speaker 8: From no leave Malone. He's dead. I guess Papa Benjamin
Speaker 8: won after all.
Speaker 2: Escape produced by William N. Robesen and directed by Norman McDonnell.
Speaker 2: Today Brought You Papa Benjamin by William Irish, adapted for
Speaker 2: radio by John Duncle, with Frank Lovejoy as Eddie Block,
Speaker 2: Louis van Ruton as Papa Benjamin, Harry Bartel as the
Speaker 2: police commissioner, and Joan Banks as Duty. Music was conducted
Speaker 2: by Eddie Dunstatter.
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Speaker 1: must escape.
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