Speaker 1: Come in.
Speaker 2: Welcome. I'm e G.
Speaker 3: Marshall.
Speaker 2: It is said that fine feathers do not make fine birds.
It is also claimed that you cannot judge a book
a beautiful firm. Unfortunately, both these trenchant observations have been
consigned to the limbo of wise sayings that are constantly
being disregarded. Birds, books, and even people are always being
judged by their appearance. The sad truth is that the
overwhelming majority of us will choose a beautiful fool over
a homely philosopher. Well, that's life, and sometimes that's death.
Our mystery drama Ape of the Maya was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Arnold
Stang and Norman Rose. It is sponsored in part by
Dwick Motor Division.
Speaker 1: I'll be back shortly with that.
Speaker 2: One, beware, said Henry David Thoreau, of all enterprises that
require new clothes. That was all very well for Henry
t who liked to live singleow at Walden Pond, where
he could commune with frogs and flowers and field mice.
My Lord, if everybody had that attitude toward new clothes,
what would happen to a certain little world that lies
within the confines of Manhattan Island, a universe in microcosm
which is simply known as Seventh Avenue. That's enough philosophy.
You tune us in for action, We'll give you action.
A most beautiful sir dove looking down Seventh Avenue near
thirty seventh Street. She is clad in a stunning, shimmering,
flowing dress. It is addressed to inflame the imagination.
Speaker 1: And arouse the passions.
Speaker 2: And here is a young man who has been obviously
aroused and inflamed, because without warning he grabs.
Speaker 4: Her dove me, who are you?
Speaker 3: That's mine?
Speaker 2: Now? That is mine? Ends off that cown? Where did
you get that count? Take that dreath off?
Speaker 3: It's mine?
Speaker 2: Now, don't less just lessing, less than you pol you're
talking with me, Yes.
Speaker 3: I'm talking you.
Speaker 2: I haven't make you stop creaming. Now look for an
intelligent girl. Now you must promise to be good. No, no,
don't him out. Just listen. I'm gonna I'm gonna you
let all of you see now take off that dress.
Still from your thank you, officer, I shall call when
I require your services again. I'll kill him, I'll destroy him.
One it's too early in the morning to talk about killing.
He stole the Maya, he stole the mare, right, so
he stole them? Oh sure you can say, all right,
it's the Maya, your inspired vision, but the Maya to
still from your blood. You you, you, you fat Philliston.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to lose weight.
Speaker 2: I shall assassinate that you're praying thief. You will be
out of here by lunchtime.
Speaker 3: I'll let out his heart's blood.
Speaker 2: Enough one, what do you work? The show is in
thirteen days. I need another design? Marus Marus, Marus, Marris Marrus,
How can you speak of new designs?
Speaker 3: I lie here, violated, ravaged to straw.
Speaker 2: Give me something I can produce for forty nine ninety five?
Speaker 3: Leave me, Mars with my great.
Speaker 2: A simple little frock with a collar ban. What do
you think about a collar that er? That viper? I
allowed him to sit at my feet, basking in the
rays of my creativity.
Speaker 3: I got it.
Speaker 2: Let's bring back the Peter pan kotinged into my infamous wretch,
plunges a poisoned dagger into my back.
Speaker 1: And listen to me.
Speaker 2: The reason you're getting off easy. I saw that girl's
father last night. I thought if I would explain to
him about the Maya, rape of the Maya, How you
designed this gorgeous dress and for only thirty nine ninety
five See my witness, myers. The dagger he plunged into
my back, it's the dagger I shall thrust into his heart.
But I take a look at the father, a giant,
a hard hat.
Speaker 1: When I say who I am, he says, what do
you want?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: What could kill?
Speaker 2: I'd be a corpse just design the Maya, Maya daughter
of atlass and Diana. I was inspired by the ancient
gods themselves. But I explained to him how you created
such a masterpiece and had it stolen from you by by,
by your best friend. Now who turns around himself, that's
another manufacturer. Why this big giant you know what? He
just sat down and croped God through his fold persidious heart.
I shall stab him. No charges, everything's fixed. I shall
rid the world of an abomination that calls itself Perry Fullington.
You come right back to work this afternoon. I shall
never take pencil in hand again.
Speaker 3: Leave me with my grief.
Speaker 2: Thought I God, I you know when I heard that
you were arrested for attacking a girl, I how could
I believe it really, Sally Joe, I have to talk
to you. Well, Sally Joe, I'm in trouble.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm sorry to hear that, Sugar.
Speaker 2: What I mean is real trouble.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm genuinely sorry to hear that.
Speaker 2: Oh it's a bad scene. Like, oh, it's total trouble.
Speaker 4: Pair of honey?
Speaker 2: He did Adrian Adrian? Yes, if Adrian finds me a
Harry Sugar, and why should you be scared? I need
five hundred dollars?
Speaker 5: Like, but you got five hundred dollars. You took that
a door, but letting my address over to the.
Speaker 4: Man at Personality Fox, and he gave you five hundred
dollars a.
Speaker 2: Nice new bill, he did.
Speaker 4: Well, then you have the five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Well, well, what.
Speaker 2: He don't have the five hundreds?
Speaker 3: Adrian?
Speaker 2: Yeah's Adrian, Sally Joe? What what what is he doing here?
What am I doing here? I paid a right, That's
what I'm doing. Well, now that's not really true. Ain't
they owes me five hundred? So he's paying you with
my money?
Speaker 3: Adrian?
Speaker 2: Adrian, let me explain once, to explain, you just come
up with five big bills which you owe me dig
in it and green pantsy yours. They're awkward hand over
the dough. Well, well I have the money. I don't
like where this is headed. But but you know, do
you know the shoddy way they make things? You ain't
gonna like it either. Well, there's a hole in my pocket,
you see, and.
Speaker 6: The money just just slip dials tell you where? But
he pushes doubt you stopped off on the way down here.
You laid the whole five hundred on some nag.
Speaker 2: That's not true. The race is over, but your nag
is still running. Now, Adrian, don't don't press me. You
see this little slip of paper, read it? Nobody, Nobody
pushes me around. Everybody push you were around, funk. Read
what it says on the paper. Maya five hundred Pierre,
Well that's your muker. You showed you that on her nose,
and she come in dead last, Maya, Maya of my hot?
How can a horse name Maya loose? Vaughan and I
designed the gown called Maya Vaughan And you, oh, no, sugar,
you're always trying to put me down. Sally Vaughan warned
me about shut up. She's on your side. She showed
you how to raise five on it by stealing the
dress design. But the natural born sucker like you can't
pass by a Betton collar.
Speaker 1: Or a bookie.
Speaker 2: You must have dropped the whole five on.
Speaker 3: I kill him.
Speaker 2: Told you there was a hole in my pocket of
my name, bind a hole in it. You treat yourself
pretty good on my though, don't you funk? You must
have paid fifty sixty bucks for that red shirt. It's pink,
flamingo pink. You don't make a sucker out of me.
Speaker 4: Sugar, you're raising your voice this fun.
Speaker 2: That That won't get you your five hundred dollars. You'll
get me something else, satisfaction.
Speaker 5: Hey, you can't affold to kill a person just for satisfaction?
Speaker 2: Why not? Why can't I know? Just because he wants
to whine you I got needs, Adrian. Hey, now you've
got the fold up that nice? You don't want to
kill me? What I do, I'll pay you. You ain't
never gonna fake no, but I will. I swear, I
swear I will the money. I know, I know. And
on the way down here, well, I heard about a
good thing in the fifth at Starlight Park at eight
to one. His name was close, horse, close, horse, and
I'm a designer.
Speaker 4: You're an assistant designer, so I.
Speaker 2: Thought, well, I have enough to pay you back plus close.
Oh if you were me, wouldn't you bet your life
on clothes? Horse? You know what you are? You are
a hunch better? Oh yes, yes, yes, indeed I am
a hunch better. You know what happens to hunch better
as they die broke? You understand? Oh yeses indeed I do.
Speaker 3: They die broke, So.
Speaker 2: Why shouldn't you die now? I swear to you, Adrian,
I'll get that money. I'll pay you back only please
please don't kill me. Oh, I don't know how can
the soft dodded guy like me expect to get anywhere
this all? Believe me, Adrian, I forget what you hear.
Nice guys don't finish first. So I ain't gonna kill
you and you won't regret it. I'll pay you back
every step, but just to make sure you remember, I'm
gonna come. No, no, you keep on the right side
of that shitty equation. No, no, no, no, my wound.
Don't try to find him Perry now, don't go my
arm funk.
Speaker 3: No, I won't let you kick me.
Speaker 2: No, don't don't carry you're getting my faith.
Speaker 3: You kills him.
Speaker 2: Full of them to stand still? Who was his own fault?
Speaker 3: The blood?
Speaker 4: Look at that blood?
Speaker 3: Hold?
Speaker 2: What do we do it?
Speaker 1: Who's that?
Speaker 2: Open up? Perry Bulletin, I know you're in there. Open
the door and faint me. You still go away the door?
What about the door? Hurried Bulletin?
Speaker 4: You have raped the lay you fall, reap the wall,
away the door.
Speaker 2: It isn't locked.
Speaker 3: Ho what do we do with it?
Speaker 2: If he turns, then party, I have a gift for
you who came and let me look at our faith
as I are rapping Harry Bulletin, you forgot to lock
the back, fag, you are a dead man. I'm oh,
I'm gonna why he just stated? You know this creep? Well,
sure of course his name is Varne nothing more. It
ain't it's just been changed. It has the patsy. Leave
me make a few arrangements, based officer, tell me business
where I came in Upo. You know what they say.
They say you killed him. The door was open, a
neighbor passed by. They say you were lying there unconscious
on the floor next to him. The knife, the knife
with the switchblade with blood on it was in your hand. Yes,
they say you had the motive. Yes, and so when
you add all this together, it proved you killed him.
Speaker 1: That's what they say.
Speaker 3: Yes, Marus, that's what they say.
Speaker 2: But Vaun, you know I say, I say, I don't
believe a word.
Speaker 1: They say, why.
Speaker 3: Marius, Why?
Speaker 2: Because I believe you're innocent. I refuse, point blank to
believe them. No, Marus, believe them. What are you saying?
Why should I believe? Because they happen to be right.
I'm guilty, guilty, Vaughn. How can you even say such
a thing?
Speaker 3: Mars? It's true, No, not you.
Speaker 2: I killed and I can't believe it. How could a
person like you kill another human being? Well, what a
pointed and pertinent question. How could Vaughan have done it?
Especially since we were present and know full well how
matters went. The usual procedure is for the guilty to
claim innocence. Here, on the other hand, is an innocent
who claims guilt. Well, that's why we have a second act,
so we can turn the screw even tighter.
Speaker 1: Gown.
Speaker 2: Maya was the name of the ancient Greek goddess of fertility.
Maya is also the name of a sleek three year
old racehorse who is still considered a maiden, meaning she
hasn't won yet. And finally, Maya is the name of
a beautiful gown designed by Vaughan Lamaire. Well, the goddess
named Maya inspired the gown, but the race horse named
Maya inspired a losing bet that diehyist a chain of circumstances,
the latest link of which finds our poor Vaughan Lamaire
in prison, charged with murder.
Speaker 1: And not You probably are but a murderer, definitely not.
Speaker 2: Oh how little we know the inner heart of another.
Speaker 1: Un don't start up with me, Vaughn.
Speaker 2: I know you.
Speaker 3: I'm Mars Marus.
Speaker 2: Like Diogenes, you seek so desperately for the minuscule speck
of what is good in man? Did you kill it?
Did I kill? Say yes or no? Yes I don't
believe it essential goodness I and say yes, yes, I
still don't believe it. Why why won't you believe It's
not being stubborn? You want to sit the elect the chair.
You didn't kill him, And that's all there is too.
Speaker 3: In Marus except reality.
Speaker 2: You talk to me about reality, Oh, poor Marus, the
eternal optimist, you so desperately want to believe in the
essential goodness of man. But man is evil, the flesh
is wicked.
Speaker 3: I have the brand of Cain. The murderer is Mark.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? How could you kill anybody?
You faint at the sight of blood, yes, Marus, but
you don't see the blood until afterwards. Okay, okay, mister
wise guy wind up in the chair with the wires
and the metal cat. I decided to kill him, just
the knife. I went to the apartment and I killed him.
Speaker 3: You must accept it, Marus.
Speaker 2: No, Oh, poor Marus, poor loyal, loving Mars. You mean
you mean you killed him? You really actually kill hire?
Do you feel so badly?
Speaker 1: I'll get you a lawyer.
Speaker 2: No, please, Marus, not your son in law. Shelvin's a
wonderful lawyer. I don't want a wonderful lawyer.
Speaker 3: Why he might get me acquitted.
Speaker 1: That will be bad.
Speaker 2: I'm guilty.
Speaker 3: I must pay for my crime.
Speaker 1: Born. Is there anything you need?
Speaker 3: Solitude? I must compose the speech?
Speaker 1: What speech?
Speaker 2: And the judge will say, Vaughan Lemire, do you have
anything to say before sentences passed upon you?
Speaker 3: I intend to be ready.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I tell you Vaughan after they made you. You
in the middle of a pool away the model. Uh,
Lieutenant Valentine, What can I do for you? Mister Goodman
Morris Goodman, not Goodman Originals. We're almost neighbors. I hate
to bother you in the middle of a working day. Oh,
that's perfectly all right, mister Goodman. We at your police
department or public servants constantly at your dispos it's about
Oh yes, yes, von lemaire.
Speaker 1: Are you a blood reletant. I'm closer than that. He's
my designer.
Speaker 2: How may I help you? Well, I just can't believe
he would commit a murder.
Speaker 3: Why can't you believe?
Speaker 2: Because and because people we know do not commit murder? Correct,
murderers are sub human, evil, stranger.
Speaker 1: But he's such a gentle Person's crazy?
Speaker 2: Maybe, but yes, but there's an extensive literature.
Speaker 3: On the subject.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you familiar the Kabelevski's theory of supportive denial?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: In a situation where the accused is an algably gentle,
law abiding person who does not fulfill the normal stereotype
of the psychotic with homicidal tendencies, his immediate personal community
will weave a protective.
Speaker 1: Web, I think I understand.
Speaker 2: Yes, to protect the murderer, yes, yes, but also to
protect their own.
Speaker 3: Emotional investment in guest.
Speaker 2: But even so, our faith in the cause in another
human being dies hard. But fact, as Travelian wrote, is
usually the killer of faith. A motive under Perry Fullerton's body.
This slip of paper please read it.
Speaker 1: Maya five hundred.
Speaker 2: P F A note to himself. How he could get
five hundred dollars from PF this fox for the mayer,
which he did. Yes, Yes, the knife itself flew switchblade,
bloodstained and with his fingerprints.
Speaker 3: On the handle.
Speaker 1: Yes. Tell me what's in that box, the one with
the gift wrapping.
Speaker 2: It looks like something he bought at Julio's down the street.
Inside this gift wrap box was nothing. Why would he
bring a gift wrap box with nothing inside? For a reason,
perhaps because what he was truly bringing Perry Fullerton was death?
Speaker 1: Yes? Yes.
Speaker 2: And finally this document his confession, fully and freely given,
in which he admits the murder. Well, mister goodnow, well
I have to prove murder. We must show the accused
is guilty. Be young, shop, I don't are you still
in that shadow, mister Goodman. H No, now you're You're right.
I didn't want to believe it. But how long can
I insist the earth is flat? Thank you, Lieutenant, thank you,
Thank you, Officer Marris. I came over as fast as
I could. Now, what is the matter born, You're so excited, Mars.
I'm I'm being framed for murder.
Speaker 3: I didn't in the apartment.
Speaker 2: Yes you did. I saw who you. You convinced me
that you killed him the knife the finger Princes thought
I killed him, you fought How could you think? Because
because I was making a natural assumptions that so I
had every intention of killing him. Therefore I went to Julios,
I purchased a knife.
Speaker 3: I went to the apartment.
Speaker 2: The next thing I knew, I was lying there beside
is dead body on the floor, the knife.
Speaker 3: In my hand.
Speaker 2: And so would no, no, no, natural to assume that
I had accomplished my vision and killed him.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it would be natural.
Speaker 2: But this morning, as I awoke from troubled slumber, I
realized him did not kill him. How could you realize that?
When I walked inside the door, he was already lying
dead on the floor, and I fainted at the side
of the blind thoat.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, Vaughn, you convinced me.
Speaker 2: The other day two people were standing there in that room.
Oh yes, I know, and they had just gotten off
from a flying saucer. Or please, vare I didn't kill him.
Sally Joe. You know Sally Joe. She used to be
on model. I fired her because she became a bobie,
or maybe she put on a little weight. But Tho,
he was standing there with eight in the entire could
believe such a story. A person who calls himself my
friend could believe it. I can't keep up with you.
One day you're guilty, the next day you're innocent. Right,
all right, let me prove it to you that I
am innocent. I went to Julio's to purchase the knife.
Speaker 3: It was a damascene blade.
Speaker 2: Oh please, This was to be the most artistic and
exquisite killing in the entire history of Purian assassination. Even
when you talk about a knife, it makes me. I
would confront him and I would say, I have a gift.
I shall unwrap it, I shall present it point first,
and I would, But I fainted, you yourself, you know,
I faint at the sight of blood. Sheldon says, it
won't be too bad. You complete temporary insanity. But you see,
I couldn't have killed him unless and until I could
make him change his shirt. Of what is this, Morris?
His shirt was flamingo, for his blood was bright red. Truthfully,
the sight of that atrocious clash in colors is what
made me pass out. But as you said yourself, the
blood you don't see too afterwards, oh, Marris, not. I
had he been alive and I entered the flat, had
I held the knife to his breast, I would have
seen the red blood before it gushed. Boys to stain
the pink shirt eye. A designer see things before they exist,
were then born? How Marris, Hi, have you ever known
me to mix peon? Believe me? I? I just can't
think of it. Bong, Will you please shut up? A
person can't hear himself thing? Morris? Have I ever lied
to your own constantly? I don't mind, it's it's part
of your genius.
Speaker 3: I wanted to kill him.
Speaker 2: I bought the knife, but I never even run wrapped
the package.
Speaker 3: It was dead when I got there.
Speaker 2: I menaced man. Believe me, Maris, you must believe me.
I understand, mister Goodman. And there is also an extensive.
Speaker 1: Is that so, Lieutenant?
Speaker 2: Have you read Payerbahar on immaculate cancelation?
Speaker 1: Well, I couldn't be sure.
Speaker 2: Unwilling to face defective murder the worst of crimes, the
subject will cancel the memory and thus cleanse himself of guilt.
Speaker 1: What you're saying is he's telling a lie.
Speaker 2: Of course, he cannot face the enormity of the deed.
Speaker 1: One thing he said made sense.
Speaker 2: He couldn't stab a man who was wearing a bright
pink shous colors would clash. You're saying he wouldn't violate
his artistic principle. Yes, yes, that's what I'm saying. Why
not he was willing to violate his moral one?
Speaker 1: But I believe him.
Speaker 2: Here is the knife with his fingerprime though, But yet
he says he brought it there in that box and
never even took it out. Fingerprints, brodstains. These are the facts.
Speaker 3: Which tell us otherwise.
Speaker 2: The knife No wait, it's a switchblade knife now, yes,
the trill is he would call highly artistic in all
what you would call it highly effective? This this is
the knife he bought. Why not?
Speaker 1: It's good enough to do the job. You lied to me.
Speaker 2: I swear you, Marris, I told you the truth. Is
this nonsense about an artistic knife with a demo whatever
you call it? Blade?
Speaker 3: It's true.
Speaker 2: I saw the knife that had your fingerprints on, and
he placed them there while I was uncontacchoolic, common ordinary,
every day switchblade knife. But any common, ordinary, everyday hoodlum
with you? Impossible. Here I'll show you. I have the
sales slip from Julio. Well, I don't have it with me.
Speaker 3: They took everything out of my pocket.
Speaker 1: Please, you should.
Speaker 2: Really tell me the truth. And it's true, Yk Coolio,
He'll tell you. Just ask Coolio. You know one he
walks up the island and you diland bound his face
on the counter. He's going to kill Perry Fullerton? Can
I sell him a knife? And so you sold him
a knife? Oh?
Speaker 1: Hold yo, how could you sell him a knife? He
was behaving like a maniac?
Speaker 2: What is how can you say such a thing about me?
Speaker 1: But you did tell him a knife.
Speaker 2: You knew he was ready to kill, and you sold
him a knife. I sold it to and I did
sell it Torain at the same time I had one
at the same time. You realize we're discussing a physical impossibility.
Listen to Cop that he picks out the dagger, genuine
made in Toledo, not Ohio, Spain.
Speaker 1: Continue and he wants it. Gift rap this much.
Speaker 2: I know without you. What you don't know is how
I gift rap it. I gave it to Roy Hanen.
Speaker 1: Huh, she still works.
Speaker 2: I thought she got married, and the receipt I write
the letters Cop, Coup, that's what cop. He also stands
for goul Off period. When I sell an angry person
a whapon and make sure he don't walk out of
this great idea. He can't come here murder on the spot,
So what do you do? I give this signal to
Rakina not to put it in the box, so she
give Raps an empty package. A day or two later,
the customer comes back, but he ain't angry enough to
kill anybody anymore. So what you're telling me is he
walked out of here without the nigh great idea. Marris, No,
so he never used it to kill Perry. How coury
used to to kill Perry still in this fall, But
he was telling you the truth. He didn't kill Perry.
Speaker 1: But I'll have to do it too, possible.
Speaker 2: Well, you knew it all along, but then, of course
you were there when it happened. Remember, Morris is trying
to put it all together out of thin air, and
he isn't even a police officer. What is Morris going
to do to convince people of Vaughan's innocence? With ethereal
characters like Vaughan, there's really nothing solid to hold on to.
Yesterday Vaughan was guilty to do Vaughn. Let will the
pendulum swing again tomorrow? We still have a third act.
Perry Fullerton cheated two people. He stole a design from
Vaughne Lamaire, and he welshed on a bet he owed
to bookmaker Adrian Smollett. Both Vaughan and Adrian were furious
enough to kill him, and while Adrian committed the miscover,
the poor Vaughan is getting the blame, thus proving the
old proverb the early bird gets the credit. But Lieutenant,
he didn't even have a knife. I'm afraid he did,
mister Goodman. It's here on the tape that isn't the
knife he bought from Julio. Julio didn't put the knife
in the package precisely, mister Goodman, and when Vaughn discovered
the package was empty, he picked up another knife this night,
the bloodstay knife with his fingerprints on it, and he
swears that he saw Sally Joe Crabtree and mister Adrian
Smillow others. You're the room and Perry was already dead
on the floor when he arlive. There is an extensive
literature on the subject.
Speaker 1: Mister Goodman, I should have known.
Speaker 2: Have you heard Tilling has on compulsive psychotic association?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I suppose you could say it means misery loves company.
The man in trouble tries to involve others.
Speaker 1: You say he's lying.
Speaker 2: He's fantasizing, but he says he saw them. We asked
missus Crabtree and mister Smollett to come in for question,
and what happened? They were out of turn these past
three days. They only returned this morning. Lieutenant, I am
a judge of character. I tell you, and you heard
it here first, that Vaughn la maire Is is not guilty. Marius,
uh uh, how who are you? Mari's quam mine needs launch.
He should have a smile on his face. With his
weight on my heart? How can I have a smile
on my face, go hul He was like a like
a son to me. He was a good picure. I
say that much for him.
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: Was you talk like he's dead? They want to put
kin away? Maris, he's so put on glass. While there
is life, there's hope. But is that enough? He listen?
Do you want to bet on a course? Did I
have a better on a horse in my life? You thinks, Marius,
that's the secret of keeping young. This is a horse
Joe in particular should bet on It would be good
enough to explain why I should violate the principles of
a lifetime.
Speaker 1: Because of their horse.
Speaker 2: His name. Yes, this horse is called Mayer amtelligent girl,
a hey, that was the name of bones. Why there
is a horse called my Also.
Speaker 1: I never heard of him.
Speaker 2: I think he's a horror you mean, lady, horses also
run along with the men. That's why I understand only
an American on a Puerto Rico to a horse called Maya.
I can't get over. Raquina, she read a pepper sala.
Speaker 1: I always said she was an intelligent girl.
Speaker 2: She read The One Acts to find the job for
her horseband. The actor the one ads are near the
racing pages, and there she sees a horse fire. He's
going to race at Southern Gardens.
Speaker 1: I never heard of it, me neither.
Speaker 2: He is somewhere in uh Luisi. I'm maya is also
a racehorse. Ah ah what right now?
Speaker 1: With only ah?
Speaker 2: Maybe later there'll be something else, Marath, I swear to
you I did. I killed him, but he is dead.
Of course he somebody had to kill it. But it
wasn't me. Then who else could it be?
Speaker 3: Are you asking me, Maras?
Speaker 2: Is there somebody else sitting in this cell that I
could ask by a detective? Am I? For the last week,
I haven't been in the shop. I don't know who
could have killed him?
Speaker 1: Tell me the old money.
Speaker 2: He's dead and I must protect his name.
Speaker 1: Then I say goodbye right now.
Speaker 2: Marris, he he didn't know what he was doing.
Speaker 3: I did see. He was desperate. He needed five hundred dollars.
I refused him.
Speaker 2: That's why that's why he sold the bayer. Tell me
did he vet else? Can't we leave his memory green? Yes?
Speaker 1: Or no? Yes?
Speaker 2: Marius? Why this inquisition? If this man, this Adrian smileet,
what does he do?
Speaker 3: I think he's a gambler? Now it fits.
Speaker 2: Now it's a perfect size ten.
Speaker 3: What are you saying, Marius?
Speaker 1: But my problem is how do I sell it?
Speaker 2: Be right with your sugar, Perry.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's Morris.
Speaker 1: May I come in?
Speaker 2: Well certainly.
Speaker 1: Well it's a very nice looking place.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Maris.
Speaker 2: Oh, I haven't had a chance yet to say how
sorry I am about Perry after all you and Parry
thank you again.
Speaker 4: Mars, you're so sweet.
Speaker 1: I wonder could you do me a small favors?
Speaker 2: And I saw he delighted Mary.
Speaker 1: Well, you see this is something new to me when.
Speaker 5: You sound like a man who's going to attempt something naughty.
Speaker 1: Well, Sally Joe, for me, it would be naughty.
Speaker 2: I think I want to bet on a horse? May Oh,
I shouldn't a man have some fun from life?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I was reading in the papers and I saw
the name of a horse. It runs somewhere I don't know,
way down the massage.
Speaker 1: Oh be a horse named you know? I can't get
over it.
Speaker 2: Could you believe Perry let him rest this horse?
Speaker 5: Well, Sugar, i'd have to know it first, wouldn't I maya, maya,
But that that's what Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh, nothing is just a coincidence. Isn't it true it
was stolen? No, let us not say that he's he's dead,
poor Perry. Let him rest anyhow, it was Born's greatest design.
And now I see a horse named Maya. Isn't this
fay to Let me see the paper sugar five?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, here she is at Southern Garden. Oh
my goodness, she's running up thirty two to one.
Speaker 2: As that a fact.
Speaker 1: So let me see.
Speaker 2: Now for five hundred dollars, five hundred dollars I should
get back and sixteen thousand, Well, it'll make up a
little bit for what we lost on the Maya.
Speaker 4: You want to bet five hundred dollars?
Speaker 2: Is it too small a bit?
Speaker 4: No? No, no, I think it's just fine.
Speaker 1: I was wondering if you could do me a favor.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, of course, a favor.
Speaker 2: Where you see, I don't know any bookmakers, I mean
after all, Oh, I understand.
Speaker 1: So I was wondering if.
Speaker 4: You, well, certainly, certainly you want me to call one
on the telephone.
Speaker 2: It's like a taxializ he's just seen doing you. You
just pick up the phone.
Speaker 4: Now you're got through.
Speaker 2: Now you hold on.
Speaker 5: This minute, salad Joe A gentleman's here?
Speaker 2: Wats the place? A little bad?
Speaker 4: Eighteen calap.
Speaker 2: Very solid, Maurice, Oh, yes, thank you? Hello with whom
am I speaking? That don't matter? Just say your peace.
There's a horse called Maya running in the fifth and
sudden gardens study due to one and carrying one hundred
and six pounds. How much you want? Will five hundred
dollars be all right? Win? Of course? To win?
Speaker 1: What then? To lose?
Speaker 2: Most times in ten minutes five under one? Mayer? What's
your initials?
Speaker 1: Maurics Goodman?
Speaker 2: MG staying here that phone? I'll call you back. It's
for you, Sugar answered, Hello, Mars Goodman speaking. You run
out of the money.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: It means you loves Oh it also means you gotta
pay me five big bills. Yeah, I understand you've got
an onion?
Speaker 1: Would I bet if I didn't?
Speaker 2: You are a man in a million? Stay there or.
Speaker 1: Be right over?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 2: You got my five hundred for a business? How quick
money changes hands?
Speaker 1: You're no? What you got my five? Let me ask
you a question?
Speaker 2: Yeah, how could you prove I made such a bet?
I got it written down?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: You write down every time somebody makes a bet with you.
Don't you keep a record in your business?
Speaker 1: Who ows what?
Speaker 2: When I got an accountant, I keep books?
Speaker 1: What have you got?
Speaker 2: I five slip slips of paper?
Speaker 1: Uh? Do you deny you made the bet? Oh?
Speaker 2: No, no, I made it, and hand over my five?
Could I see my slip first? What do you want
it for? A souvenir? Okay? Yeah? Mm hm maya five hundred?
Speaker 1: Mg h it's an expensive slip of paper.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come, Morris, hand over my You are under and
why sugar? Kind of joke? No joke, I'm serious, you chump.
Did you ring in a cup on me? Sugar? It's
more as good. Now I am making what is known
as the citizens arrest any citizens. I don't like this,
give me my though. You're gonna like it a lot less.
I am arresting you for the murder of Perry Fullerton.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, you want to be careful, mister Goodman?
Speaker 2: Listen, Marris, I can take it. Joe, you were here
and you killed him. On says he saw both of
you here. Why shouldn't he say that it's his work
against Now in Atlantic City, you make sure you can
prove it. Where did you stay? Huh with whom have
you got received tickets? I think I'm going to have
stray road to him for this jump. Don't be crazy, Haydrin.
What can he prove? I can prove that this slip
of paper of yours is exactly the same as the
one that was found on the floor under Perry Fullerton's body.
It's the exact same paper, the exact same handwriting yours. Oh,
I gotta kill this clown. Tennon Valentine thinks it's a
note Perry wrote to himself. He thinks maya five hundred
PF means personality. Fox would pay him five hundred dollars
for the maya. But this, this is a bet slip.
He's not slip p F is Perry Fullerton. He's too
smart too. Smile.
Speaker 4: You can't kill and here.
Speaker 2: We'll take him some place quiet, all right, You get moving, chump,
and don't make a noise.
Speaker 1: You certainly have enough nice.
Speaker 2: Just stay close to me and shut up. Why sorrybody
go look out for him. Holyoke, he's not trouble. You
saw Morris, we walk hand. What are we doing? Oh well,
we're making a citizens arrest. Hey, that's why we should
do this. Morrow in the face of Well, once is
enough for me, Petendant?
Speaker 1: How fair can I get born out?
Speaker 2: He has to get back to work. Oh, the papers
won't take more than half an hour, Our fall showing
if less than a week away. Tell me, mister Goodman,
how were you able to perceive the salient facts? How
could you, in the face of all this apparent evidence,
believed that Bourne was innocent? Well, lieutenant, how could he
mix red with pink? There must have been something, Oh, tenant.
There's an extensive literature written on the subject. Have you
ever heard the poem that says, let me clasp his
hand and call him friend, and I'll stand by his
side till the bitter end? Who wrote that?
Speaker 1: Who do you think, Marius Goodman?
Speaker 2: This has been a story of friends, Friends who were
loyal and friends who were full friends. They make living possible,
but also can make living impossible. The book tells us
that a faithful friend is the medicine of life, and
while medicines cure, they can also kill friends for better
for worse?
Speaker 1: Who can do without them?
Speaker 2: Since we can do without you? I shall be back
in just a few moments.
Speaker 1: Better to look upon.
Speaker 2: Vanity of vanity, said the preacher.
Speaker 1: All is vanity.
Speaker 2: And our story was based on one of mankind's greatest vanities, the.
Speaker 1: Adornment of the body.
Speaker 2: And yet is it so sinful for a woman to
wish to fear lovely? After all, isn't a well dressed
woman sweeter to look upon? Besides, it gives gainful employment
to so many people, and it has given us a
subject for a tale of murder. Next cast included Arnold Stang,
Norman Rose Jackson, beck Earl Hammond, and Joan Shay. The
entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
Speaker 3: This is E. G.
Speaker 2: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant.
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