Speaker 1: Presenting Orson Wells as the Third Man, The Lives of
Speaker 1: Harry Lyon, the fabulous stories of the immortal character originally
Speaker 1: created in the motion picture The Third Man with the
Speaker 1: music by Anton Carris.
Speaker 2: That was the shot that killed Harry Lyon. He died
Speaker 2: in a sewer beneath the as those of you know
Speaker 2: who saw the movie The Third Man. Yes, that is
Speaker 2: the end of harryline, but it was not the beginning. Now,
Speaker 2: he had many lines, and I can tell you about
Speaker 2: all of them. How because my name is Harry nine.
Speaker 2: Now kid is London, which is the capital of England.
Speaker 2: He's noted for a number of curious historical events. King
Speaker 2: Charles was beheaded in London. They had a fire there
Speaker 2: and a plague, and it was also the place where
Speaker 2: Harry Lyme broke three music boxes and founded an orphan asylum.
Speaker 2: Please don't ever say I'm not a music lover. I'm
Speaker 2: a philanthropist, because I'm not.
Speaker 1: And all Orson Welles as Harry Lyon the Third Man,
Speaker 1: is today's story. Operation music Box.
Speaker 3: Good absolute, mister down lights matter, I'm interested in a
Speaker 3: music box, no matter, we haven't none, but I'm doing
Speaker 3: get them just a moment.
Speaker 4: Though, mister down, I'm only interested.
Speaker 5: He didn't hear you. I think you must be a
Speaker 5: little death. Thank you, sir. You know you make me homesick.
Speaker 5: What do you mean? Don't you know what it is
Speaker 5: to be homesick? I should do.
Speaker 3: I've only been away a few weeks night Sert may
Speaker 3: like to be back.
Speaker 5: But why do I make you homesick?
Speaker 2: And you make me think of Central Park in the
Speaker 2: Fountain better Priza, it'sis Avenue in the morning in May,
Speaker 2: and the sound of roller skating on the sidewalk downtown
Speaker 2: who just shipping on the easter.
Speaker 6: Everything in see How do you know I come from
Speaker 6: New York?
Speaker 7: It just gets Jesus line.
Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, mister mister and whistle madam.
Speaker 7: These all music boxes we have. These two are seventeenth.
Speaker 6: Sentuary and this one eighteen century.
Speaker 3: That's the latitude I should have explained, mister Darnie. I
Speaker 3: don't care if the music boxers were made in the seventeenth,
Speaker 3: eighteen or nineteenth century.
Speaker 8: I don't care when they were made.
Speaker 4: What I want to know is when did you buy
Speaker 4: them them.
Speaker 6: Sure, there's the value of music box lives and when
Speaker 6: it was made, not when it was born not to me,
Speaker 6: mister Dudley.
Speaker 3: I'm only interested to know whether you purchased any music
Speaker 3: boxes between February and June of last year. We will
Speaker 3: have to sell antiques, Miss Jepick, missus Chepick not to
Speaker 3: disclose records that are purchases.
Speaker 2: So if you'll excuse me, Bunny and I guess what
Speaker 2: this lady's trying to say that she's ready to buy
Speaker 2: any music boxes you have to purchase during that period
Speaker 2: that she's done.
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to say anything. I'm quite favorable, but
Speaker 3: like you myself understood.
Speaker 4: Thank yous.
Speaker 6: Do I take it that it is, mister nive just yes?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 7: In that case, we'll see what you can do for you.
Speaker 6: What do our records, says Interwesting Ah, yes, sir, let
Speaker 6: me see.
Speaker 9: Yes, during the pleading questions, we are repurchased four music
Speaker 9: boxes as three of which have since been sold, and
Speaker 9: the fourse it's one mister Dudley's holy because moment now.
Speaker 3: I look at it, mister Dudliner, the hammer.
Speaker 5: Yes, you're not going to buy this music box just
Speaker 5: to smash it up, are you?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 10: Your mind all right with me? You've never heard of
Speaker 10: such a thing experien interesting in seach I've never heard of.
Speaker 3: Did you care? You can name your.
Speaker 6: Own prime little mats and that doesn't stand, I think,
Speaker 6: miss Cheffick.
Speaker 10: I do like to see beautiful things ruefully destroyed.
Speaker 3: I said you could name your own price, mister Dudley.
Speaker 6: In that case, I must warn you the price will
Speaker 6: be stiff. One good, miss Chaffick, the hammer very well.
Speaker 5: Is this a hambit of yours? Breaking up music box?
Speaker 3: So you don't know how many have broken up in
Speaker 3: a last week?
Speaker 4: Here comes your hammer.
Speaker 3: You are, mister Chick, Thank you.
Speaker 5: No good and want to distructions?
Speaker 6: Jackick? Who will cost you exactly? That's if I thought.
Speaker 3: It's okay, mister Dudley. But I'd like you to do
Speaker 3: one thing more for me, if you will, I'd like
Speaker 3: you to let me have the names and addresses of
Speaker 3: the people about those other three. This prize for that too.
Speaker 2: Oh, get your taxes.
Speaker 7: I thought he was going to refuse to give you
Speaker 7: those addresses.
Speaker 8: Well he didn't did.
Speaker 2: Actually he's trying that on the fact.
Speaker 3: I know he's waiting for me. In that case, you
Speaker 3: can give me a list going in the same direction.
Speaker 5: That's just what you're wrong.
Speaker 2: And that's how I met mena cheik. My interest in
Speaker 2: this girl was two full. First of all, she definitely
Speaker 2: started with a petty girls left off. And second thing,
Speaker 2: it's this is a matter of the music boxes. My
Speaker 2: left little toe was twitching. Could have been the damp weather,
Speaker 2: of course it was me.
Speaker 5: It's usually a sign that money is in the air.
Speaker 2: Anyway, And all lady, we were on our fourth marteenie
Speaker 2: and murder was beginning to unbend. Now, come on, Maner,
Speaker 2: what is all this? What's the idea of busting up
Speaker 2: all those music boxes?
Speaker 3: Have you heard of yanchepik?
Speaker 5: You mean the Czechoslovaki got the politicians? Yeah, once you
Speaker 5: got to do with it.
Speaker 3: And the day before he died, he wrote me a
Speaker 3: letter from London, who knew my place? Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 3: can read.
Speaker 5: It, my dear Maner.
Speaker 2: He will not know me except as from seeing my
Speaker 2: picture and the paper many years ago. But then that
Speaker 2: is not surprising, cause I only know you from seniors.
Speaker 2: The other day I happened to see him an old
Speaker 2: issue of the American magazine Explorer, a colored four prograph
Speaker 2: of Millner traffic. I couldn't help her, marking the resemblance
Speaker 2: to your mother and my sister who left for Americas
Speaker 2: from twenty five years ago.
Speaker 7: And you have the ard of this kind.
Speaker 6: Did your mother ever mentioned Oh, not that I remember.
Speaker 5: Uh. I probably took your mother's name, not your father.
Speaker 6: My father's a lan Chapick.
Speaker 3: He was a coal miner in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: I was funny think your mother marrying a man of
Speaker 2: the same name, wasn't it Well, as.
Speaker 3: A matter of fact, it working as she was an Italian.
Speaker 5: And the man of that is that it wasn't your uncle.
Speaker 2: Noah, he couldn't have been it.
Speaker 3: You know what, I'm talking too much.
Speaker 5: I don't know whether it's you or the more teenagers.
Speaker 7: Both well?
Speaker 8: Good, he had redirected it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now, my dear niece, this is a painful task
Speaker 2: which I have performed it.
Speaker 5: But really there is no possible choice.
Speaker 2: You must know that when the Communists seized control in
Speaker 2: my country, a price was put on my head and
Speaker 2: I only managed to escape at the very last moment
Speaker 2: by concealing myself in the tail of an American airline then,
Speaker 2: which was leaving Prague that night. Like many others in
Speaker 2: Europe in those terrible last years, I managed only to
Speaker 2: take away with me the meagrest to positions, a small
Speaker 2: traveling case, light enough for me to carry, for I
Speaker 2: was ailing and feeble even men. I have said that
Speaker 2: the purpose of this letter is a painful one, but
Speaker 2: perhaps you will not find it so, because after all
Speaker 2: you do not know me, and surely will not receive
Speaker 2: the news of my death with any sorrow. That the
Speaker 2: fact is that I will be gone by the time
Speaker 2: you read these words, for which are not intended so
Speaker 2: much for a farewell. People who don't know each other
Speaker 2: can very well say goodbye, can they? But as a
Speaker 2: last will and testament, I am leaving you the contents
Speaker 2: of my little suitcase manner, a few shirts and necktie,
Speaker 2: and the unfinished manuscript of my last book. These you
Speaker 2: will not find very exciting, I'm afraid, and I can't
Speaker 2: imagine you're traveling across the ocean to cram such an inheritance.
Speaker 2: That there is a music box manner, hm, it's the
Speaker 2: only thing of value I could take away with me
Speaker 2: on my flight. I want you to have it, and
Speaker 2: I give you my word that it will be worth
Speaker 2: your trouble to come after it. The landlady, who is
Speaker 2: not a sympathetic woman has not been entrusted with secret
Speaker 2: and unluckily she has not been paid for the rent
Speaker 2: of this ANTIQ room for several weeks. By the time
Speaker 2: you come to London, she would have sold it. And
Speaker 2: you must find off where I am took home, and
Speaker 2: you must be attack. And now my hand is very tired,
Speaker 2: and I can't go on pushing this pen across the paper.
Speaker 5: From many more.
Speaker 2: Words, I send my blessing to the child with my
Speaker 2: sister who has.
Speaker 5: Inherited her wonderful green eyes. And also something else, almost
Speaker 5: as wonderful, and almost as green your uncle.
Speaker 2: Hum almost as wonderful. I was as green that I
Speaker 2: could be emerald. And you think the amras are concealed
Speaker 2: in the music book in a false bottom.
Speaker 11: Now I don't think it.
Speaker 3: I know it, and I'm gonna get those ammals if
Speaker 3: I have to break up every music box in London.
Speaker 5: I left then a good deal.
Speaker 2: Later that night, he had a wonderful time. I had
Speaker 2: a promise that we meet the next evening. I have
Speaker 2: said something else. I had that list from Dowdley's.
Speaker 5: Antique shop, So I know what you're thinking. You're thinking.
Speaker 5: I pinched it out of her purse and you're right,
Speaker 5: but I did.
Speaker 2: Somewhere in London there were three music boxes, and one
Speaker 2: of those three was.
Speaker 5: A fortune in Emeralds.
Speaker 2: And I've always been a great believer in the old
Speaker 2: adage finders keepers, So if anybody was going to break up.
Speaker 5: Any music boxes, it was going to be me. Good morning.
Speaker 5: Is miss Moyer a court battle at home?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: The any idea where she's gone?
Speaker 3: Well, I wouldn't I to say for sure, But wait,
Speaker 3: the tribe, the Velvet pen.
Speaker 2: The velvet there's a night club, Velvet Penguin, but a
Speaker 2: night this is ten o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 6: That's where she'll see.
Speaker 1: Wars and Wells returns in just a moment as the
Speaker 1: Third Man.
Speaker 7: And now orson Wells.
Speaker 1: As the Third Man continues with today's story, Operation Music Box.
Speaker 2: And like all nightclubs, the Velvet Penguin looked more than
Speaker 2: ordinarily squalid.
Speaker 5: At ten thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2: Most of the chairs will pile up under the tables
Speaker 2: and by the glare will work right and an happy
Speaker 2: looking character Church Sleeves was founding a piano, a girl
Speaker 2: was singing, three or four other girls were waiting their turn,
Speaker 2: while a committee of fat, sleek gentlemen sat in judgment.
Speaker 10: Okay, enough, we get the idea. Wats your name again?
Speaker 7: Battles when the ligion openem turns up. Don't call us,
Speaker 7: We'll call you next.
Speaker 5: Hard name good court Bottle.
Speaker 6: Yes, my name is Lime.
Speaker 5: I'd like to talk to you for a minute.
Speaker 2: You don't mind.
Speaker 3: What's it about a job? I'm not interested, just about it,
Speaker 3: not of this audition, like it as I can't take
Speaker 3: after the whole covery game. Lets so soon go back
Speaker 3: to singing in front of a band, even in the small.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I just wanted to ask you about that music box.
Speaker 2: You bought it Doubdley's last favorite take none exactly.
Speaker 5: You did buy one, though, didn't you.
Speaker 7: Yes, I did, But it didn't do any good.
Speaker 5: What do you mean it didn't do any good? It
Speaker 5: would soften him up? Soften whom miss cart My uncle?
Speaker 3: Of course, My uncle's then you called fat?
Speaker 7: You know General Coffer?
Speaker 4: No, I don't know.
Speaker 3: You mean you never heard of General Copper?
Speaker 5: No, I never didn't listen.
Speaker 3: I think it's no confident and he hates women even
Speaker 3: less will send him nice anti boxes filled with his
Speaker 3: favorite thirty cigarettes on the occasion of it hundred and first.
Speaker 5: This is all, of course, not for the act that
Speaker 5: way he has the max.
Speaker 11: Yes, huss Romney had the box.
Speaker 3: She has amazing.
Speaker 5: Would you like to be a good gid give me
Speaker 5: his address?
Speaker 3: Yes, all right, give me a bit of paper and
Speaker 3: penhow write it down?
Speaker 8: This?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 3: And look if you see him and him. I'm starving
Speaker 3: to this, which is true. That I speak of him constantly,
Speaker 3: which is also true. And I think you can see
Speaker 3: his way clear to sending me on a hundred.
Speaker 4: I'm going in the fiber.
Speaker 3: But he had him. Well, good luck with the general,
Speaker 3: mister Lyon, and don't forget the way of willet proof les.
Speaker 12: Go away.
Speaker 10: Well take my sticks here.
Speaker 4: A bit if you don't look like a bit, No, sir,
Speaker 4: I'm not that.
Speaker 10: I'm a collector, dust collector, garbage collector. What kind of
Speaker 10: collectible will sick up?
Speaker 5: Music boxes?
Speaker 10: Another one by dead. The thing's turning into a positive plague.
Speaker 5: You will come in, Come in, come in.
Speaker 10: Let's get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 5: Thank you, sir.
Speaker 7: This is a wile.
Speaker 10: Will come into my study. But what's the explanation of
Speaker 10: this wild wress of music box collectors?
Speaker 7: You want them? Music box blotted things?
Speaker 10: Make you jump, give me the gym. Jobs will come in,
Speaker 10: come in, young feller, must be something in music bomb,
Speaker 10: because I don't know about. I'm looking young woman like yourself.
Speaker 10: The dose you'll name again my sake.
Speaker 7: We know each other general, you do, Yes, we do.
Speaker 6: That's not surprising.
Speaker 5: I've told you you music box, but.
Speaker 10: Will probably have some kind of club or other whole
Speaker 10: meeting swap boxes.
Speaker 3: And already meet in general.
Speaker 4: He's gonna sure of that, don't miss.
Speaker 6: I understand perfect.
Speaker 4: Now, and I haven't got all the morning.
Speaker 10: Don't know we are not in Before this, young fellow
Speaker 10: introducted us who were making me an off?
Speaker 7: Yes you are music but general.
Speaker 5: So that is if you're willing to sell general what
Speaker 5: you're right?
Speaker 2: Two pounds for three pound, five pounds, ten pounds year.
Speaker 5: It is high our job.
Speaker 10: Well, that's the highest bit doing doing. God, No, no, no,
Speaker 10: don't write to take young fellow. I'll take it in cash.
Speaker 4: You've got nerve holding in on is?
Speaker 6: I guess you're up.
Speaker 3: There's something when I miss that list from my purse.
Speaker 6: You took it, didn't you?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: I took it?
Speaker 5: What are you worrying about? You see you to be
Speaker 5: doing all right without the list.
Speaker 3: Only because I haven't remember seeing the name co Battle
Speaker 3: on top of the list. And luckily they're only fair for.
Speaker 6: Them in the phone books.
Speaker 7: I kid you deserved better lot.
Speaker 6: No, I'm not so right.
Speaker 10: I've got up with you, haven't I?
Speaker 3: From now on, you got yourself or comes in to ten?
Speaker 8: Is better?
Speaker 3: Start getting used to it?
Speaker 5: That shouldn't be hot? Give me that?
Speaker 8: Am I give.
Speaker 3: It another suck?
Speaker 5: No use?
Speaker 4: Man, isn't this one?
Speaker 6: I am calm.
Speaker 4: Chef.
Speaker 5: I wondered if we could come into just a moment.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I am pressed for time.
Speaker 5: We don't suppose I can spare you a few minutes,
Speaker 5: minutes most kind if you can, I can.
Speaker 2: I can see that you're a man of taste, can't
Speaker 2: You've got some lovely This is a friendly ship.
Speaker 5: It's just possible, possible. I don't know what I was
Speaker 5: used to in the old days.
Speaker 7: The desires time?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 7: What is it?
Speaker 4: You want to police?
Speaker 12: What we new?
Speaker 5: Music boxes?
Speaker 7: Please? Just a minute?
Speaker 2: Wanted to tire.
Speaker 6: N't what is all this about music boxes?
Speaker 7: Well? I am not a collector of music boxes.
Speaker 5: I am a collector of.
Speaker 10: Men youtubes of the Empress Katerine or Russia?
Speaker 5: Or what about this music Doctor on the Table?
Speaker 2: I bought that one, certainly, but only because of the
Speaker 2: enable portrait.
Speaker 1: Madame, you look cut delay.
Speaker 7: She's an answertainlee.
Speaker 6: Yes you look consciously is a resemblance to me.
Speaker 2: Yes, and now you've got yet remarkable But you man,
Speaker 2: if I set this thing going.
Speaker 12: I no, no, please don't do that.
Speaker 6: Please don't cut all right there yet? I am not
Speaker 6: interested in this is a music?
Speaker 5: But oh you aren't well in that case, don't Maybe
Speaker 5: you'll be ready to sell.
Speaker 10: It it certainly not one, but I told you I
Speaker 10: wanted for dominion.
Speaker 6: You're on delay.
Speaker 9: I can't be mad to change your mind to a
Speaker 9: good time.
Speaker 1: Price doesn't ender into it, My dear lady, I don't
Speaker 1: buy things to sell.
Speaker 2: Again, Well, let's particular music that happens to be all
Speaker 2: the importance.
Speaker 4: No, I can't help that.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I couldn't possibly sell it. No, you're talking, No, you're arguing.
Speaker 6: You know it's a very lucky.
Speaker 2: Thing for you, madame, my girl, if you've got me
Speaker 2: as a part name.
Speaker 3: I had, it wasn't like luck about the chance hip Episodely,
Speaker 3: I haven't got.
Speaker 2: The book we soon will have the box. How come
Speaker 2: because my dear old girl, it so happened it just
Speaker 2: for kicks, And I once took lessons from one of
Speaker 2: the best cat burgers in the business. The Count lived
Speaker 2: in what was once a big private house that had
Speaker 2: been turned into three or four flats. There's a garden in.
Speaker 5: A big wall. That night I got over the wall.
Speaker 2: Crept through the garden, climbed out to the second floor,
Speaker 2: and got through the window into the Count's drawing room.
Speaker 4: I worked quickly and quietly.
Speaker 2: I counted a small section out of the crystal cabinet
Speaker 2: and my diamond cutters that contained the Count's object. That
Speaker 2: I got through to the latch, unlocked it and seized
Speaker 2: the music box.
Speaker 5: And then at that moment.
Speaker 12: Cut the minute there?
Speaker 6: What's there? What's going on?
Speaker 5: The officer?
Speaker 4: We've we're just in a burgles.
Speaker 7: A burglar got in my flat over there.
Speaker 5: He's stolen my father's antique music rock.
Speaker 2: Did you see anyone come around the corner over there?
Speaker 5: Not?
Speaker 3: Sorry, the Count of companies, Why we're better try the
Speaker 3: other way quick.
Speaker 4: Yet a minute?
Speaker 3: Well, there were no emeralds on that one.
Speaker 5: There was a pleasure of breaking it up.
Speaker 8: I've afternoon.
Speaker 5: We'd like very much to see the princeships.
Speaker 10: And I did you two get past the or porter
Speaker 10: downstairs like this?
Speaker 3: Oh well, I'm afraid the Prince Peter wouldn't see you
Speaker 3: without an appointed only before she was married. Wasn't she
Speaker 3: maybe showed up from the build daughter of the change talking?
Speaker 5: Is the voice from her husband last year? Wasn't she's me?
Speaker 5: She's looking for any voys money. There's always plenty of this,
Speaker 5: and I look at me like that. I only want
Speaker 5: to speak to her.
Speaker 11: I really don't think it's pipe.
Speaker 2: We've been trying to locate a music box music, Yes,
Speaker 2: it's quite it's a music box we've been trying to locate.
Speaker 5: I don't know whether you anybody sent you a music box?
Speaker 10: Yes, so we certainly didn't have a music box.
Speaker 6: And mister Line, yes, I haven't been tending mind. Gave
Speaker 6: us my little dog Shirley.
Speaker 3: We haven't got it now we leave it away to
Speaker 3: some share other believe I've lived in Saint Andrew's family
Speaker 3: home office down ten year Charlie.
Speaker 6: Sure he that music bark?
Speaker 4: Why was that picipa?
Speaker 5: She couldn't stand that tune?
Speaker 10: What?
Speaker 5: Oh that awful tunes.
Speaker 3: Look this is the place, Harry, and understanding hormonal kind
Speaker 3: of ceremony.
Speaker 5: Going on.
Speaker 3: And silence anko.
Speaker 6: The eighties, and gentlemen and children like the two.
Speaker 12: While ago, some kindly soul sent to us anonymously, amongst other.
Speaker 5: Gifts, a music box.
Speaker 12: A few days later, little Billy Gubbins, whom you all know,
Speaker 12: whilst playing with the box, stumbled and dropped it. For
Speaker 12: this thing she didn't sevil in itself had the most
Speaker 12: surprising result. A secret compartment in the box was revealed,
Speaker 12: and in it were jewels. Naturally, we made inquiries in
Speaker 12: an ever to datify the donor, but fortunately for us,
Speaker 12: they all proved fruitless. And you please from the sale
Speaker 12: of these jewels that the building of this wonderful new
Speaker 12: wing is being financed.
Speaker 10: Here in my hands is the diddy fox that thought
Speaker 10: about our good.
Speaker 12: Fortune, and by my dad it can still be used,
Speaker 12: ay pleasing by little diddy guns.
Speaker 10: Listen, No, no, Harry, does there happen to be a
Speaker 10: most visitor day doctor I gentlemen back there seems to
Speaker 10: have fainted.
Speaker 7: Harry I returns in just a moment, and I'll Harry line.
Speaker 2: Good bye for now, and remember what Ben thanks and
Speaker 2: said about honesty being the best policy I wish I.
Speaker 5: Could in.
Speaker 11: Its int.
Speaker 1: In it, in
Speaker 11: Itself, itself, Sai