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Marlow The Ridge as Philip Marlow returned, it was off
the air for more than nine months. During this time,
Gerald Moore continue to act, including spending a month playing
Archie Goodwin on a near a Wolf. But the reason
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With radio revenues declining, it makes sense to go with
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a reputation, and nineteen fifty one saw Philip Marlowe. In
the summer of nineteen fifty two, they brought back Yours
Truly Johnny Dollar in not the summer of nineteen fifty three,
even though they never aired Richard Diamond, one of the
first examples of reruns, and then in the summer of
nineteen fifty four, they brought back Broadway is My Beat.
So it's time to get into the summer This summer
nineteen fifty one run of the Adventures of Philip marlow
the original air date July the seventh of nineteen fifty one,
and the Tittle is a seaside sabbatical.
Speaker 2: We delay the start of our schedule program. We have
delayed the start of our schedule program to bring you
a bulletin from CBS News. Two helicopters carrying the United
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Speaker 3: At this time, we spend an exciting half hour of
adventure in action with America's public hero number one, hop
Along Cassidy.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: Even two fisted cowboys take summer vacations when they can,
and Hoppy is no exception.
Speaker 4: Hop Along and Topper.
Speaker 3: We'll be back with us riding the CBS Air trails
again eleven weeks from tonight, September twenty.
Speaker 4: Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road,
and those who travel had wind up in the gut
of the prison of the grave. There's no other end,
but they never learn.
Speaker 3: From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction,
comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe.
Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring
you tonight's exciting story a seaside sabbatical.
Speaker 4: Wire in my hands said, it all needs your help.
Burgeant meet me at eight thirty night Ship's Galley Cafe,
Long Beach, signed Dale Higgins. The time and the place
were known. Factor is the need for health. The urgency
in most of dale Higgins were unknown, and my hazy
recollection of algebra told me that three unknowns are mathematically
impossible to find. Call it a challenge, call it money,
call it a chance for a short dinner, call it
anything you like. But eight fifteen found me pulling into
a parking lot on Ocean Boulevard, not far from the
amusement here.
Speaker 1: Just leave it there, I be right with you.
Speaker 4: Oh hello, mis Tomorrolowe. I a read? How's it going? Oh? Great? Thanks?
Speaker 5: What brings you to the capital of Iowa?
Speaker 4: Corn? My AIM's getting bad, right, I thought? I came
down to the pike and try for my limited a
shooting gallery. Gee really yeah? Greatest practice in the world.
Is it still thirty five cents and no questions? Asked Hu?
Speaker 5: All apart the car?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it, okay, kid, keep it? Oh thanks?
Speaker 5: He I mind if I recommend the quick quack?
Speaker 4: How's that again?
Speaker 5: Used to be the dead duck best shooting gallery in
the pike from I dough.
Speaker 4: Oh that quick quack. Oh sure, anybody be a fool
to go anywhere else?
Speaker 5: Yeah, my sentiments exactly see her.
Speaker 4: That mister Marlowe read's a nice kid. His name was unnatural,
he was blonde. I bobbed along ocean boulevard in a
direction that instinct and a blaring blue neon sign indicated
would lead me on cause to the ship's galley. The
night was muggy and close. He wore it like an
extra coat, and the ocean breeze had anticipated it retired
in favor of alternate waves of fog that rolled in
and Gulfshire for a moment, and as suddenly rolled out again.
I was very nearly on time for my eight thirty
appointment with Dale Higgins as I turned blue beneath the
ship's galley neon and stepped inside to be greeted by
tight little groups of faces that opened and closed to
admit food, drink, and talk all indigo. The door behind
me closed on two thoughts. My dreams of a short
dinner were blasted, and the ship's galley emerged the last
place in the world for anyone who need a urgent
help to discuss his problems. But then I didn't know
Dale Higgins. Are you Philip Marlow by any chance? That's right?
It looked like you were looking for someone. I'm Higgins.
Oh Hawaii, Higgins. Do we talk here? And probably not
very well?
Speaker 1: Walk along the beach?
Speaker 4: Oh fine, right, yeah, say Higgins. Did you ever wonder
why people pack in the hopital rooms on a night
like this? Oh? You mean the ship's galley? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Well, philosophy is not my business, Marlow.
Speaker 4: What is? Well? I don't quite know how to tell you.
I guess were your wire sururgent? That's good enough for openness.
Speaker 6: Yes, well, the truth is I was pretty quick sending
that wire, pretty upset about a situation at the time,
but things have resolved themselves now.
Speaker 4: I won't require any help. Well, you what I know?
Speaker 6: I expect to pay you, of course, to trip down
and your customary fee.
Speaker 4: It'll be twenty five a day in expenses, seven cents
a mile for twenty three miles, and oh yeah, yeah,
thirty five sense of bogging like.
Speaker 6: Seven times twenty three dollars sixty sixty one, thirty five.
Speaker 4: Dollars ninety six, twenty six ninety six. Altogether he is cash,
all right, it always has been, Marlow. I am sorry
about this sign. It didn't set out to bring you
on a wild goose chage. Yes, it looks like I
have got the right amount. Thanks, don't worry about it, Higgins.
Anybody can change his mind.
Speaker 7: Yes, I guess that's right.
Speaker 4: Well, thanks for your trouble, not at all. Oh well, well,
I turned in the direction of a voice. The fog
is a cute way of diffusing sound as well as sight,
and I realized I wasn't closing in on anything, that
the fog was circling me, and I was circling it.
So I stopped and waited. I listened and heard nothing
but the sound of the sea and the faint wheezing
of the pike Calliope. Then suddenly it hit me. Somewhere
along the Fox Sweat Beach, A girl had called my name,
and nobody knew I was in Long Beach except Red
at the parking lot and Dale Higgins. Yeah, the choice
was obvious.
Speaker 5: Did you find joke miss to Marlow?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, right, she did? You tell her where I was?
Speaker 5: Well? I sure I told her. You and me always
did our shooting at the.
Speaker 4: Quick quack, good boy, Now tell me who she is?
Speaker 7: Who she is?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: You mean you don't know where, mister Marlow.
Speaker 4: That's the general idea.
Speaker 5: Red, Wow, well I guess she's my age.
Speaker 4: I know who is she?
Speaker 5: She's yeah, she's you want your karmas tomorrow?
Speaker 4: No, Red, not now. I think I left something back
at the quick Quack. Everything that was young and pretty
along the pike was hanging out of a sailor's arm
around gin Onos quick Quack. The nearest thing, the youth
and beauty with a neatly lined twenty two's poised across
the counter.
Speaker 8: Try elmister, Oh no, thanks, just looking. I'm not buying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, see I just lost my girl.
Speaker 8: Don't blow your brains out here. These guns is for
shooting ducks.
Speaker 4: I see what you mean. We said we'd meet here
if we got separated. If you've seen him by.
Speaker 8: Any change, seven eight feet tall, glandular case.
Speaker 4: There's three stalls down build with tooth pick. Thanks so much.
Speaker 8: Still just looking, not buying. Still just look try it
from a distance. It looks even better. Go on by fit.
Speaker 4: I spotted her, at least I spotted a frightened faun
of a thing who caught my eyes. If we were
the only two on the pike and there was something
about her that made me wish we were. I followed
her away from the crowded amusement section of the ramps
on Ocean Boulevard. Suddenly she broke into a run and
dotted into an alleyway. I wasn't far behind. He no,
I saw you.
Speaker 9: They follow me like who he might have, and then
maybe others.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know. It makes two of us. Now, wait
a minute, let's talk. Huh.
Speaker 9: I saw you him. I thought it was you with
the parking lot. I saw you meet him the ship's galley.
Speaker 4: Something like you lost in a mom I'll kill you.
Speaker 9: You know, if you're with them, I'll kill you. I've
got you before someone kills me.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Baby, I'm with you, all right, all right.
Speaker 9: I can't walk out of here with you. He's around somewhere.
I know he is. You will help me, You'll have to.
There isn't anyone else.
Speaker 4: Of course I will.
Speaker 7: Of course I will look.
Speaker 9: As soon as you can get your car. Don't let
Bell see you, now, you know, Bell, listen in your car.
Meet me at seventh Bananaheim. I'll get there.
Speaker 4: I'll have to.
Speaker 5: And then we can talk, mister Mallow.
Speaker 9: I'm Dale Higgins.
Speaker 4: It was a study in contrast all the way, but
then in kaleidoscope of rainbow here against the lonely sound
of a fog horn, the gray feel of fog, and
the dank, gray black of the way district. At seventh
than Anaheim, an urgent wire signed Dale Higgins, eh, Dale
Higgins and a guy who called himself Higgins husband lover.
What Well, here we go again, marlow I parked the
car and waited. The fog hugged the street light, but
the sign was intermittently visible. I had the right place.
I don't know how long it was before I heard
the footsteps, but it was long enough for me to
stretch my legs out along the car seat, lean my
head back against the door, and feel the damn touch
of fog sweep against my face from an open window.
I remember starting to turn my head toward the direction
of the steps and thinking that Dale had made it
in good time.
Speaker 3: Oh, in just a moment, we will return to the
second act of Philip Marlowe. But first, just as sistermatic
exercise builds a strong body, soa systematic saving build a
strong future. Save systematically for your future and for your
country's future with United States Defense bonds and now with
our star Gerald Moore. The second act of Philip Marlowe
Tonight's story, a seaside sabbatical.
Speaker 4: I could almost hear the chain police clanking the first
time I opened my eyes, and it took another game
try before the fuzz faded away and the room slowed
down to a Lambeth walk off somewhere the faint sound
of breakers, and I did the ceiling walls in one
corner of an expensively furnished room before I send it on.
The fuzzy and determinate face at my bedside, a kind face,
motherly and pleasant, it talked, I'm missus Higgins. Oh oh no.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes I am.
Speaker 4: Everybody in Long Beach named Higgins.
Speaker 9: You don't really feel a bit well.
Speaker 4: Do you? Nor?
Speaker 10: Really We're awfully sorry, mister Marlowe. I know when Dale
realizes what she's done, she'll.
Speaker 9: Be sorry too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I Dale being me what with a peer, She's
often violent.
Speaker 10: I'm afraid such a high strung girl gives way so easily,
you know, imagines all sorts of things and then well
just give way. But I won't worry you with that,
Dale's my problem. I won't worry you with anything, mister Marlow.
Just you get a nice rest. We will pay whatever
damages there are, of course, but I won't hear of
you leaving now until you're much better.
Speaker 4: Oh hey, oh, the mother of the Higgins clan and
locked the door and walked away. I had felt big
and woodsy and ram down into my neck. I was
not in the pink. Mother Higgins had alldered nice rest,
and it looked like I'd needed. But I don't like strains.
Rooms and locked doors and high strung girls will give way.
I'm still trying to get out of bed when another
dog clicked slowly open on the other side of the room.
My little frightened fawn was back, and my head hurt.
Speaker 7: I heard Marie with you.
Speaker 9: How I knew you were here?
Speaker 4: Oh poor mister Marlow.
Speaker 9: Did they hurt you?
Speaker 4: They sure did.
Speaker 7: It wouldn't do you know.
Speaker 8: If they found me talking to you.
Speaker 9: I feel better now that you're here.
Speaker 4: I wish I did what happened to you. Do you
know I have a rough idea? Say, honey, how much
do you weigh?
Speaker 9: One hundred and five?
Speaker 10: When I left the contactment, that's not important.
Speaker 5: Listen, I can't stay long.
Speaker 4: You know, a romance with you would be rough.
Speaker 9: Please, mister Marlow, they're going to kill me Bell and Marie.
Speaker 4: All right, all right? And I settled down.
Speaker 9: They are and I don't know why. Maybe I knew why.
I don't understand.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but listen, I didn't even know Bell.
Speaker 10: Then, Bell Nicholas a friend of Marie's.
Speaker 7: She sent him to the boat to meet me.
Speaker 6: And ever since then, I.
Speaker 9: Just know they are going to kill me.
Speaker 4: They're listen to me. I don't know Vel, as a
matter of fact, until you told me, I thought his
name was Higgins. And I don't know Marie. What makes
you think they're going to kill you?
Speaker 9: You met Bell last night, the ship's yelling, You talked
to him, and Marie was just here. Don't try to
confuse me.
Speaker 4: You're all I had, all right, honey, But tell me,
isn't Maria mother my stepmother.
Speaker 5: That is dead?
Speaker 9: And when I got off the Orange Coast the other night, whenever.
Speaker 4: It was there was Vel the Orange Coast.
Speaker 9: That's how I came back. Mister Moll, you're not trying
to understand. If you won't help me, don't let me I.
Speaker 6: Hope that you're not bothering mister Marlow.
Speaker 9: No not. He asked me to come in.
Speaker 6: He likes me, of course he does. Dear, we all
do no feeling better, mister Morlow the worst way.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry. Come deal. Let's let mister Marlow rest.
Speaker 6: You could use a little rest yourself, My dear, No.
Speaker 9: He wants me to stay. I'm not bothering.
Speaker 4: You're not bothering at all, honey. But maybe it would
be better to come back a little later. Yes, yes,
of course it would, Dear.
Speaker 9: Not come along now, I can come back to mister Morrow.
Speaker 8: You promise.
Speaker 4: Sure, If you promise, I know you'll keep it.
Speaker 9: Never mind, I came in alone.
Speaker 5: You know I can find my way off.
Speaker 6: She's sweet, She's sick, very sick, young Lady Marlow, troubled, confused.
Speaker 4: She's got nothing on me. Now, look what is this
all about? I don't know what day it is, what
I'm doing here? Who you are? Anything? Well?
Speaker 6: It should all have ended with our meeting at the
ship's galley last evening. Morrow.
Speaker 4: You're not clearing anything for me.
Speaker 6: You know you've seen her talk to her. You must
realize is that she imagines things right now, She imagines
that she's been away from here a long time, that
she came back a few days ago upon a ship
and her mother, and I want to kill her.
Speaker 4: She did send me the wire.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, yes, we had no idea one of her spells.
Speaker 4: Was coming on.
Speaker 6: We left her for a short time yesterday. The switchboard
has its instructions, of course, and they reported to Missus
Higgins on your return. So we thought it best if
I met you and called me up. It's not in
your line, Marlow.
Speaker 4: You're right, I'm going to keep it that way.
Speaker 6: So Missus Higgins realizes that she is going to have
to do something about Dale institution, perhaps some long range treatment.
At any rate, Dale was in no condition to be
running around last night playing mysteries taking up your time.
Speaker 4: Whoever hit me in the head last night was in
pretty good condition.
Speaker 6: If I had gotten there two minutes sooner, I could
have spared you all that you are following her. No,
I was coming back from my boat. I had gone
down to the harbor after I left you. It's on
the way back. I just happened to see Dale, and
knowing the states she was in, I followed her.
Speaker 4: Of course, I see she doesn't know she hit me,
does she?
Speaker 6: I don't believe that she has the slightest idea what happened.
Speaker 4: Things started swimming again. Well, Nichols became part of the draperies.
I was trying to think what it hurt. Everything hurt.
Next time I tried, I was more successful. The sunlight
was streaming in the room. The clock on the night table,
visible for the first time, said it was almost noon.
So I got up. It was still pretty fuzzy on
the edges, but I found my clothes hung neatly in
the closet, managed to get them on in the right order,
and made it to the door that had been locked before.
But it wasn't this time.
Speaker 9: Mister marlow you shouldn't be.
Speaker 4: Up, and I'm always flying in the face of great
odds missus Higgins Bill's character.
Speaker 9: So you should stay in bed her. Really, I am fine,
but you're not leaving. I won't think of it. You'll
lunch with us at least.
Speaker 4: No, no, really, I've got to go, but I'd like
to see Dale first. I sort of promised her I would.
Speaker 9: Oh my, she's sleeping, mister Marlowe.
Speaker 10: We gave her sedative doctor's orders, of course, she said,
such a trying time.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to disturban. Maybe I can call later.
Speaker 10: That would be so thoughtful of you. I know she'll
be disappointed at not seeing you, but I, oh, well.
Speaker 6: I happened about so soon, Marlow.
Speaker 4: Yes, was she sleeping?
Speaker 9: Isn't she belle viacentative? And all I mean? I was
just telling mister marlow she's.
Speaker 4: Resting very well.
Speaker 6: Marine, I don't don't fret about her.
Speaker 4: Well, I'll take you to your car, Marlow. Oh oh yes, Oh,
missus Higgins.
Speaker 9: It's been been downright dreadful and I know it. Mister Marlowe.
If I can do anything to write this terrible wrong,
please let me know.
Speaker 4: We love. I can think of anything. I'll let you know. Goodbye,
Missus Higgins. Tell Dale goodbye for me, will you?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yes, of course I will. Looks like another lovely day,
doesn't it.
Speaker 4: I followed Val Nichols lead to an elevator, and for
the first time discovered that I was in an apartment
hotel on a different stretch of Ocean Boulevard and the
one i'd groaned alone the night before. Bell filled in
a few last details as he walked me into my car,
in the underground garage. Seems he driven Dale and made
of the apartment from seventhan Anaheim in my car and
set a lackey back for his it fit. We shook
hands and that hurt my head too. I drove off
somewhere in the Harbor district. The need for coffee and
a few lungfull of ocean air passed my hand. I
parked the car and found both in a ship shaped
spot with a clear view of the docks. The first
cup cleared my head. The second one down there cleared
the cover. Hey watch it, I am. Oh, I'm sorry.
That's okay, ye up? How about you getting me on you? No, no,
I don't think so. You you know anything about ship schedules,
like what like that first one out there at anchor
the Orange Coast? Yeah?
Speaker 11: Wow, seems to me she landed three or four nights ago.
I don't know how long should be tied up. She's
a fruit though their office is just a block from here.
More unlikely their books solid, but if you want to.
Speaker 8: Check, yes, mister Marlow, that was a passenger Higgins on
the Orange Coast on the dog Tuesday, Miss Higgins.
Speaker 4: It was miss Dale Higgins. According to our records, any
record of where she boarded the boat.
Speaker 7: Let's see now.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, my coppa, my copper Brazil, my coppa Brazil.
Is she traving alone by any time? I really don't know.
There's nothing here to any other Higgins as a board, No?
How about a passenger? Nam Nickels a aster that No,
no Nichols either, Okay, thanks, thanks very much. It was
my turn to send a wire, only it was a
cable this time, and it was going to be a
while between answers. So I checked into a nice, cleaning,
conspicuous hotel, had some food in a half bottle of Asborn,
and placed two phone calls. Dale Higgins was still resting comfortably,
according to my stepmother, But Muff Benjamin was still willing
to do anything for a buck. He was there in
no time. I heard you were hear, mom, something big?
It could be. You tell me you're the guy who
hears things about your being here.
Speaker 7: You know, people see people, people tell people it's nothing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know it happens all the time. Now, look, Muff,
I gotta know things quick well for money?
Speaker 7: Who and what?
Speaker 4: All right? I get this? The name is Higgins man
old enough to have an eighteen year old daughter. I
don't know. His first name is dead, I think. But
the daughter's name is dead. You got that. And the
wife that's surviving is called Marie, having an apartment an
ocean boulevard the shore, I think it is. I got it. Okay.
A guy named Val Nichols. Check on him too. If
Higgins is dead, find out about a will ahead. Are
you good? Get back as soon as you can. Huh
you double a dough, I'll double the speed. You're a double. Hello,
Philip Marlowe.
Speaker 5: Please I have a reply you're cable to?
Speaker 4: Oh? Good? Giving me slow? Huh? Dale Higgins accompanied to vote.
Speaker 6: Find none.
Speaker 2: No Order of the Holy Cross has convents near here?
Speaker 5: Suggest you checked there?
Speaker 10: Signed Emerson Ward Macappa Fruit Exporting Company.
Speaker 4: Did you say Order of the Holy Cross?
Speaker 12: Right?
Speaker 5: You wish to send a reply?
Speaker 4: No, we're not yet anyway. Thanks? So you see, father,
If you could help me contact the convent in Brazil,
I could find out how long Dale was a student there.
That might shed sunlight on the situation. Huh.
Speaker 7: I see, I'm not schooled in your ways, mister.
Speaker 13: Marlow Still, we're both seekers after truth, aren't we.
Speaker 7: In this case, a very specific truth.
Speaker 4: That's right, Father, I want to help.
Speaker 7: Of course your cable said this was the sisters of
the Holy Cross Convent.
Speaker 4: Yes, if there were any way we could call down there.
You see, Father, time's pretty important.
Speaker 13: If it's possible, we shall call my son. Meanwhile, our
prayers are with miss Higgins. Come, mister Mully.
Speaker 4: My prayers were with the phone company too, and with
Muff and of course they because if her version of
things were true, she was in real trouble. Until I
knew what it was for there was very little I
could for.
Speaker 7: What's the information from the sisters?
Speaker 4: Helpful, mister Marlow. They were very cooperative. Father. Dale has
been a student there for almost seven years winter in summer.
Her stepmother visited her every day, ain't but Dale never
left the convent until two weeks ago. Maybe it had
all fits, sir, how bless her my son, Thank you Father,
Thank the Sisters of the Holy Cross. Benjamin was waiting
at my hotel when I got back. It was another
study in contrasts. So far I dealt with a priest
and infarmer and a sister superior, and together we were
all coming close to announswer. His name was Dale Higgins
too the doll's father nights seven years ago. Loaded left
the second wife, Marie a good income, but the big
load Wentn't that a kid? All right? What'd you get
on Val?
Speaker 7: Nicholas one? Especially?
Speaker 8: He is knocking down which widows currently frontalizing with this
Marie Higgins thing?
Speaker 4: Bless him?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: Huh? I mean, here's your dough.
Speaker 9: You do look so much better than when you left,
mister Marlow.
Speaker 4: Really is Dale still sleeping? Why I think I'll look
in on her? Huh?
Speaker 9: No, I mean I'd rather you did.
Speaker 4: Where is she, missus Higgins? I wonder if she liked
it at the convent. What seven years a long time
to go away from home. A lot of things can
happen in seven years, you know, missus Higgins. It can
even end up legally dead.
Speaker 9: Why, I'm sure I don't have any idea.
Speaker 4: Bales dead must have thought a lot of her. I
bet she was pretty close.
Speaker 9: To him too, she was, mister Marlow.
Speaker 4: What do you do you tell me, missus Higgins?
Speaker 9: There's nothing to tell.
Speaker 4: Aale seems to think there is which room is hers?
Speaker 9: She isn't here, mister Marlow, don't ask anymore.
Speaker 4: Oh, she's with Val? Huh on his boat.
Speaker 9: How did this ever happen? I didn't want it this way.
Speaker 10: I thought if she could have been declared legally dead
or I'd have taken care of her, I mean, kept
her there in the con and then no one knew
she was there.
Speaker 4: But vald Val had to have her really dead? Is
that expensive?
Speaker 10: Missus Higgins help her, mister Morrow, he'll do it this time,
he'll kill her.
Speaker 9: I know, believe me.
Speaker 4: I don't want How long have they been gone?
Speaker 1: Not long?
Speaker 9: Half an hour maybe, but no longer. I'll go with you.
Speaker 4: Are really cracked. On the way to the harbor. It
was going to be a fishing accident in the channel,
and Bell would get away with it too unless we
found something that could outpower as thirty footer. It was
called the Queen Marie. One guess who had given it
to him. I found the boat I needed, all right,
but the skipper seemed reluctant to go for it. Wildest
thing I ever heard. I tell you, it's a matter
of life and death. These god can't go on every o'lock.
A month ago we needed you off bal bow when
I'm ota cocked out and you can't. We've received no
distress call from the Queen. What do you think this is?
I'm giving you?
Speaker 9: Please, don't waste time talking?
Speaker 4: All right, come on, how about it? Okay, but if
this isn't on the level, you're in some trouble. Mollow.
By the time we'd clear the harbor, I knew Val
did have a chance. The boat in the area had
been alerted. I didn't know about Dale, though. I just
hope the sedative Valet given her was merciful. The coast
guard took care of Val. Once we came alongside the Queen,
Marie and I took care of Dale. She was in
the galley, tied securely, still dopey, but she came around
after a while. Oh, mister, ma, take it easy, baby,
you're okay. I was afraid you've forgotten promise, But you didn't,
did you. It was night now, and the lights that
stretched out along the shore looked friendly in a wall o,
friendly and warm. I wonder when people are going to
realize that the only happiness there is no world is
what they can give each other. Happiness that is not
a stab in the back. But you know there's one
thing about me, Yeah, I have to admit it. I'm
an optimistic Fellow.
Speaker 3: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most
famous character, Star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by
Norman MacDonald and written for radio by Kathleen Hite. Featureds
in the cast were Gene Bates, John Dayner, Irene Tedrow
and Lee Malar, with Harry Bartel, Barney Phillips, Lou Krugman,
Donna Hayner, and Stan Waxman. Gerald Moore may soon be
seen in the Santana production Si Rocco. The special music
is composed by Pierre Garra Gank and conducted by Wilbur Hatch.
Be sure to listen again next week at the same
time when Philip Marlowe say, this.
Speaker 4: Time an old lady got taken for a new kind
of ride by a new kind of chilfeur, and I
got involved up to a gun in my ribs, all
because I decided to spend a quiet day at home.
Speaker 3: Don't miss Broadways my beat featuring Detective Danny Clovers, the
cop who knows every character, every star, every crook. Frequenting
the Great White Way. It's tomorrow night at the Star's address. Now,
stay tuned for Gangbusters, which follows immediately over most of
these same CBS stations.
Speaker 4: This is Roy Rowan.
Speaker 3: This is cd AS here Horace Hid every Sunday Night
the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 6: This is Andrew J.
Speaker 2: Graham, author of the web surface series Oh and a
Man of His Wife.
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Speaker 12: Welcome back. Well, kind of unusual, just the sheer number
of people that Marlow ended up working with in this episode,
But I thought it was a great scene with the
East and with everything is. He just tried to unravel
the truth behind what was happening to this young woman.
And the character's just as well drawn as always, so
even though nearly a year had passed, you know, it
just it just slaughts right into the previous Marlow Kennon
just very nicely. And the good news is that all
but one episode of the summer run is in circulation,
so we still have several weeks of Philip Marlow to go. Well,
now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we
have this comment from Catherine who says, we love listening
to your broadcast here in Seattle, especially on knots win
or Kei XI radio station plays basketball instead of when
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