Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio and
a very special episode from Boise, Idaho. This is your host,
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in today's special, we're going to look back on the
twenty twenty four to twenty five podcast season with some
of the most outstanding episodes that we played this past year. Now,
this was an idea that I had after going to
Podfest in Orlando in January. Initially, I was just planning
on doing the top five Great Detectives episodes. Yet over
the course of the past few months, listeners have become
impressed with other programs we've done, including Kloak and Dagger, which,
though we play on the Great Detectives, is a connection
to the Great Adventurers podcast, so I decided to expand
it to include episodes of Great Adventurers and the amazing
world of radio. And in addition to those top five,
we'll throw in another sample of something we played on
the old time radio snack Wagon, which again I think
is one of the best things we've played.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Of course, I did need to put some limitations on this,
and that is that I've limited this to self contain
half hour episodes. As much as I truly admire something
like the Landini murder Case, an eight hour epic really
couldn't be part of our conversation, nor could the Moonstone
or Kidnap novel serializations, or anyone one of the great
one hour programs we played, like the Mercury Theater adaptation
of Treasure Island. However, even with those limitations, I think
that you'll enjoy the programs that we have for and
we start our count down with number five. The Adventures
of the Falcon original air at eight April twentieth, nineteen
fifty two, and this one is the Case of the
Jumping Jack.
Speaker 3: Hello, Yes, this is the Falcon speaking. Oh Laura, I'm
glad you called. You got to include me out tonight.
Angel some bor I know just heard of a new
way to commit murdered naturally, being the inventive type, he's.
Speaker 4: Going to make a stab at it him.
Speaker 5: Once again, the National Broadcasting Company brings you the transcribed
Adventures of the.
Speaker 6: Falcon, starring Less Demon.
Speaker 5: The Adventures of the Falcon dedicated to private investigators everywhere,
those hard hitting detectives who, like Mike, wearing their lives
to aid lawd enforcement agent fear so join him now
when the falkn solves the case of the Jumping Jack.
It's early afternoon in New York and a lovely brunette
named Dorothy Gould glances nervously over her shoulder as she
walks down Madison Avenue. For Dorothy has a feeling she's
being followed, and ten feet behind.
Speaker 3: Her is a stocky citizen who proves she's right.
Speaker 7: All right, you, what's the idea?
Speaker 3: Are you talking to me? Sugar?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 7: Why are you following me?
Speaker 9: Half hired?
Speaker 8: I could think of a dozen reasons, but it so
happens You're wrong.
Speaker 10: Oh no, I'm not.
Speaker 7: I saw you get off the subway at fifty second Street.
Speaker 6: Not me.
Speaker 9: I'm strictly the cab tile You're lying.
Speaker 7: Who put you up to it? It was my husband, wasn't.
Speaker 9: It would you believe.
Speaker 8: I have no idea what you're talking about. The only
Jack I know is a fellow down in Norfolk, Virginia,
Jack Packs, that's the one you mean.
Speaker 7: Now, look, I'm warning you what you don't keep away
from me.
Speaker 9: I suppose you'll call the police off day.
Speaker 3: Well, I guess that's like you to beat it.
Speaker 8: Still, it's been fun, sugar. Let's do it again sometimes.
Speaker 7: For one one three? All right? Oh hello Jeane, Yeah, Dorothy.
Speaker 11: You know this isn't smart, Toddy.
Speaker 7: I couldn't help myself. I'm being followed this it's been
going on today. You've got to believe me. I'm not
making this up. He's kind of short and stocky, and
he was carrying your camera camera.
Speaker 11: You suppose he's got a picture of us?
Speaker 7: I don't know. Listen, Jeane, maybe we are to tell
Jack everything?
Speaker 11: Are you crazy?
Speaker 7: Well he's going to find out eventually.
Speaker 11: Maybe eventually, but not now.
Speaker 7: Well, I've got to see you.
Speaker 11: That's odd because it's not safe, especially if you're right
about this character Talor.
Speaker 7: Well, listen, Jane, suppose I hire a private detective what for?
Because I've got to find out what's going on? Did
you ever hear the mic Wearing?
Speaker 11: Is he the one they call the folk?
Speaker 7: That's right, I'm going to talk to him.
Speaker 11: I wouldn't do well.
Speaker 7: I got to do something. I'm going out of my mind.
Speaker 11: I look upset.
Speaker 7: Am I right to be?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Sure?
Speaker 12: Sure?
Speaker 11: This has been a real stream. That's why I think
you're imagining?
Speaker 3: Or no?
Speaker 11: I look, baby, with ten million people in town, a
couple of bounds of it's familiar.
Speaker 7: Oh maybe you're right?
Speaker 11: Sure I am. Why don't you go home and relax?
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 7: When will I hear from you?
Speaker 13: Well?
Speaker 11: I don't know exactly, but I'll keep in touch.
Speaker 7: Oh, I take care of yourself. Dardy, are you too?
Speaker 9: You threw that phone? Sugar? What's the matter, lady? You
act like you're seeing a ghost.
Speaker 7: You are following me.
Speaker 9: I never saw you before in my life.
Speaker 7: I am warning you.
Speaker 9: I'll take it easy. Missus Gould.
Speaker 7: How did you know my name was Gould? How did
I know why you called me? Missus Gould?
Speaker 8: Hey, you're not only seeing things, but you're hearing them too.
If I were you, Sugar, i'd see a doctor.
Speaker 7: Yes, I'm looking for Mike Wearing.
Speaker 3: Oh congratulations, what you've made it?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 9: Are you?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 3: I am come in.
Speaker 16: Thank you.
Speaker 7: My name is Dorothy Gould.
Speaker 3: I won't you sit downe oh?
Speaker 7: Thank you?
Speaker 13: Drink?
Speaker 4: No, you better change your mind.
Speaker 3: Angel.
Speaker 4: You look like you could stand it.
Speaker 14: Here we are.
Speaker 3: How long has it been going on?
Speaker 7: How long has what been going on?
Speaker 3: Whatever's bothering you?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 7: What makes you think anything's bothering me?
Speaker 4: Would you be here if there weren't?
Speaker 7: Oh? Well, I'm being followed as to weary by whom
it's just the trouble? I don't know?
Speaker 14: And what does he look like?
Speaker 7: He's kind of stucky and he's got red hair.
Speaker 3: Does he have a southern accent?
Speaker 14: How did you know he's a large brother of mine?
Speaker 3: What he's a private detective named Dixie Hamilton?
Speaker 17: Oh?
Speaker 7: I see?
Speaker 4: Have you any idea who hired him?
Speaker 18: No?
Speaker 4: You married him?
Speaker 17: Yes?
Speaker 10: Why?
Speaker 3: Well, I would open up with other possibilities.
Speaker 14: What about your husband?
Speaker 7: What about him?
Speaker 3: Do you think he's behind it?
Speaker 7: That's what I want you to find out.
Speaker 5: If Jack is responsible for this, I will leave him
so fast it'll make his head swim.
Speaker 3: Is he the jealous time?
Speaker 7: Unfortunately?
Speaker 14: Does he have reason?
Speaker 9: How dare you look?
Speaker 4: Dothy?
Speaker 7: It is missus gold?
Speaker 3: That's well, I always like to maintain a first name
relationship with my clients. I find it's a great time saver.
And does your husband have any justification to believe you
are seeing some man on the side.
Speaker 7: I tell you there's no one yet.
Speaker 3: We know for a fact that someone sick Dixie Hamilton
on you. You think he followed you him?
Speaker 7: I didn't see him.
Speaker 3: Well, maybe he's playing a cozy Oh no, here's what
I want you to do. When you leave, walk down
to the corner. Wait there for about five minutes. That'll
give Dixie, if it is Dixie, a chance to pick
up the scent and halo cabin.
Speaker 14: Go home, and what about Dixie.
Speaker 4: I'll take care of him anyway.
Speaker 3: Angel.
Speaker 4: We don't want to keep the man waiting.
Speaker 7: Taty Madison in eighty fourth.
Speaker 3: Take camp camp?
Speaker 4: He can I give you a left dick?
Speaker 2: See huh?
Speaker 4: Got a subway park in Lexington?
Speaker 9: Look wearing? I'm busy.
Speaker 3: If you're selling us have a reputation for taking things easier.
Speaker 4: Why don't we go somewhere and have a drink.
Speaker 9: Let go my arm?
Speaker 3: How does a mint julip strike you?
Speaker 9: You ain't kidding me.
Speaker 14: I don't understand you.
Speaker 3: Dixie I just thought we might have a little talk
better any bad books lately.
Speaker 8: It ain't gonna help her one bit help poo did
the goold?
Speaker 9: I'll pick her up again, and.
Speaker 3: I wish you wouldn't hear annoying a lady.
Speaker 9: And she's gonna be a lot more annoyed before I'm through.
Speaker 3: Well, that's too bad.
Speaker 14: Who are you working for?
Speaker 9: None of your business?
Speaker 3: Come on, Dixie, break down?
Speaker 13: You go, let go my arm?
Speaker 4: Okay, but you keep out of her hair.
Speaker 9: Sorry, Wearing.
Speaker 8: I only take orders from my client, and he may
want me to give her a new Tony.
Speaker 9: I'll be seeing your boy. Well, that's starr in this school.
Speaker 8: Last I saw your missus, she was in a cab
headed uptown.
Speaker 14: Why didn't you follow her?
Speaker 9: Dixie? I was rather forcibly distained, But you were right
about her. She is playing around your fight. Cut it
out a minute.
Speaker 14: You made this whole story. So if you don't talk
about true, I.
Speaker 7: Have not let me go.
Speaker 9: Why you knew all along she was cheating? You shut
up where you must, otherwise you wouldn't come to me.
Speaker 14: Who's the man?
Speaker 9: It's a fellow named Mike Wareing.
Speaker 14: Mike Wearing, how do you know.
Speaker 8: Take a look at this picture. Well, that's where he lives.
I followed her there? Who is he a private dick?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 14: What would Dorothy want with him?
Speaker 9: Why do just her?
Speaker 14: That's got a better idea. I'll ask him. Beat it.
Speaker 19: I've got work to do. Yeah, you, Mike Wearing.
Speaker 3: It all depends on what and who's looking for him?
If the party is loaded?
Speaker 14: And come again, there's not a.
Speaker 4: Gun in your pocket.
Speaker 14: You're so right?
Speaker 3: And I wish I weren't shut the door since you
put it so nicely.
Speaker 14: So you're the boy?
Speaker 9: Huh?
Speaker 4: And what boy?
Speaker 14: You know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 13: It?
Speaker 4: I believe me. I have the vagus notion.
Speaker 14: Suppose I told you I was Jack Good? Mean anything
to you?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It means a lot. You must be the one who
hired next to your Hammel in the shadow?
Speaker 14: Dorothy looks like I made a smart buy.
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 14: How long have you been romancing my wife?
Speaker 3: You're crazy?
Speaker 19: How long has it.
Speaker 14: Been going on? I asked you something Wearing.
Speaker 18: I wouldn't try that again.
Speaker 14: You're dork. You tried to make a foo out of me, didn't.
Speaker 3: You don't give us credit, goog You did it all
on your own Give you for this.
Speaker 4: Don't talk like a jerk.
Speaker 20: You got it all wrong.
Speaker 14: I suppose you can explain everything.
Speaker 3: Yes I can, or I don't know why I should
bother A.
Speaker 14: Lot of enjoy hearing it if it's going to make
any difference.
Speaker 4: Your wife just saw me on business.
Speaker 14: Don't make me laugh.
Speaker 3: You know Dickie was following and she wanted me to
find out who's responsible. Well now we know, yeah, now
you know. But I can't take any bows. You made
it real easy for us by coming here.
Speaker 14: You expect me to swallow that.
Speaker 3: I don't care what you do or don't. I'm working
for your wife. Well you've got to say you don't believe.
Speaker 9: Me, do you?
Speaker 14: Ouh?
Speaker 3: You hated to find out? You've been acting like a chump.
Speaker 14: That's up out of you.
Speaker 3: All right, I put down the gun. Google, It won't
do you any good. The safety's on, But look at us.
Speaker 13: What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna stop.
Speaker 11: Go come on dropping it.
Speaker 3: If you don't behave right, I take it in the corner.
Speaker 4: Stay where you are when I get us. Where'd you
get this gun?
Speaker 3: Anyway of your business?
Speaker 4: You know you could hurt somebody with.
Speaker 21: This okay, go ahead, run Well, aren't you going to
shoot me?
Speaker 14: You could always claim you thought I was a thief,
and then.
Speaker 3: You and Doddie stop talking like an idiot. I tell
you the relationship between your wife and myself was truly professional.
Speaker 21: You don't have to lie anymore. You got the gun.
Speaker 4: Look.
Speaker 3: I don't know why I should try to sell you,
but I saw your wife for the first time today.
She was scared stiff. Yes it is now, you can
take it to leave it. It's all the same to me.
But I thought, no, you didn't think that's your trouble.
Speaker 14: You're going to tell her about this?
Speaker 4: Of course I might have to. I'm working for it.
Speaker 3: Please please don't.
Speaker 14: She'll leave me she find out. Listen, worry, I'll give you.
Speaker 4: A thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: No, it's no to die school, but you don't understand. Yes, Hello,
I'd like to speak to dog the gool Fore you
just tell her it's Mike Wearing.
Speaker 8: Oh why don't you come over and tell yourself and
not do they'll do any good?
Speaker 11: Who is this, Sergeant Carbon?
Speaker 4: What are you doing there?
Speaker 3: Corbett?
Speaker 11: I ain't mine in the store. Are you working for
missus Gould?
Speaker 22: Yes?
Speaker 11: Well, you better apply for unemployment insurance. You're entitled to it.
Speaker 4: What are you babbling about.
Speaker 11: You're out of a job. The Dame was knocked golf
an hour ago.
Speaker 5: Unbelievable as it may sound, accidents on the nation's highways
in the last ten years have killed more than three
hundred thousand Americans like you and me. What's more, they
have injured no fewer than eleven million men, women, and children,
crippling several million of these victims for life.
Speaker 14: To get the.
Speaker 3: Significance of those figures, try to visualize a great feat
of automobiles, trucks, buses, and other vehicles moving into the
city of Jacksonville, Florida, and killing every person there in
a decade. Simultaneously, three other vast cavalcades of juggernauts move
into Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston and all of their suburbs,
working so systematically that in ten years, every last man, woman,
and child of the ten million, nine hundred and sixty
two thousand people in these three great metropolitan centers would
be injured during these fantastic and horrifying sieges of mobile mayhem.
That is the meaning of the highway accident casualty figures
of the last decade. Help to protect your own life
and the lives of your family by driving safely. Work
for greater highway safety for yourself and for your family
and your own community and state. And whenever you take
the wheel of your own car, drive as though your
life depends on it.
Speaker 9: It does.
Speaker 5: Now back to the Adventures of the falcon An hour
has passed since Mike Wearing learned of Dorothy Gould's death,
and now in the murdered woman's.
Speaker 8: Department, just about your boys carry on with.
Speaker 3: You know what's the scoop?
Speaker 8: And it ain't pretty. She was stabbed thirteen times. Anyone
of them could have done a trick.
Speaker 13: What was your deal with her?
Speaker 4: You know she was being tailed. She wanted to know
who was behind it?
Speaker 3: How did you find that?
Speaker 14: As him?
Speaker 4: Her husband?
Speaker 3: That's right, mister Gold, Ye.
Speaker 14: Like to see you can wait?
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, what do you want? Wearing here tells me
you were having your wife followed?
Speaker 21: I was why I suspected her of seeing some man?
That was right, This wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 14: If she wasn't.
Speaker 3: What's his name?
Speaker 4: He thought it was?
Speaker 3: Mike Wearing?
Speaker 14: Why didn't don't be a fool.
Speaker 9: Hey, Sargeant, we moved the body.
Speaker 6: Anytime you're ready, you must.
Speaker 3: You can't take her away.
Speaker 14: I love, she belongs to me. Leave her please with
just a few minutes.
Speaker 4: That won't do any.
Speaker 3: Good, all right, Haskell?
Speaker 6: Carry on?
Speaker 14: Ide, you've got to find the man she received.
Speaker 3: It wasn't any You're wrong.
Speaker 14: I know if she was, he's responsible for this. Okay, Okay,
I'll do what I can. Can I go with him?
Speaker 3: Sergeant, Well, let him call me?
Speaker 8: Okay, Haskell, take mister.
Speaker 14: Gold along, thanks, sergeant. You won't regret this.
Speaker 13: What do you think, Mike?
Speaker 3: He was really crazy about him?
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's got any idea who killed?
Speaker 14: Nope?
Speaker 8: Got any ideas?
Speaker 3: Period?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 4: I'll let you know if it pays off.
Speaker 8: Hey, waiter, waiter, how have our little service here? Huh?
Speaker 4: What are you complaining about?
Speaker 6: Six D?
Speaker 4: You're getting as.
Speaker 3: Little as possible?
Speaker 9: What are you doing here where?
Speaker 3: It's a long story?
Speaker 4: Say what don't I said done?
Speaker 9: Because you weren't invited?
Speaker 14: Now?
Speaker 3: Where's that border? Southern hospitality?
Speaker 9: I left it in north?
Speaker 4: It's pretty nice spot.
Speaker 3: But did you hear what happened in eighty sixth Street?
Speaker 4: A little ane in New York. No tell me Darsy
Gould was murdered.
Speaker 3: Think of that.
Speaker 4: Now, you're taking it pretty calmly.
Speaker 8: People die every days, but.
Speaker 4: Not quite so violently. She was sad at thirteen times
and just.
Speaker 8: Poose my daddy was right? He all said thirteen was
an unlucky number.
Speaker 3: Well, I never thought of it that way.
Speaker 9: Why didn't you go to work for jack o noney
of this?
Speaker 4: Oh that's where you're wrong. It is my business. I'm
working for him.
Speaker 3: Nouns.
Speaker 9: Why is the dirt it's gone?
Speaker 3: Well, they can't blame him for canning you, Dixie. After
I you flop pretty miserably, and you never did find the.
Speaker 4: Boy she was seeing.
Speaker 9: And I thought it was you.
Speaker 3: You know better than that.
Speaker 4: Why don't you hold out on?
Speaker 15: Go?
Speaker 9: You're the smart one? You tell me?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: Was it because you're figuring I'm playing both ends against
the middle?
Speaker 9: How's that?
Speaker 14: Boys?
Speaker 3: You're planning a little shakedown, you know, keep the other
man's name out of the picture and return for coin
of the realm. Hey, that's a fall, I forget it.
Speaker 4: A woman's been murdered, Dick. See me now, if you
know anything.
Speaker 9: You want me to cut you in?
Speaker 3: How do you think you'd look without those pearly white teeth?
Speaker 9: I wouldn't start anything wearing. I got a lot of
friends here.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't care to step outside?
Speaker 9: What's all this suits me?
Speaker 8: Fine?
Speaker 3: Okay, Dixie, I'll see you around.
Speaker 6: I doubt it now.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna make it my business. Carry yourself, fella, until
I get a chance to.
Speaker 14: Whiz its.
Speaker 8: Hello, Jeans, you don't know it yet, but I'm a
friend of yours. You know what well, I wouldn't hold
out on the cops for everyone.
Speaker 9: Is that Verben you're drinking?
Speaker 13: Put that?
Speaker 9: Surely you don't begrudge a pallo we dropped?
Speaker 3: Who are you?
Speaker 14: Well?
Speaker 8: That's right. I haven't introduced myself. My name is Dixie Hamilt.
I'm a detective detective and maybe I should.
Speaker 9: Have said a private detective. But he wanted in money.
You're crazy, I don't think so. Jeane. You know a
girl named Dorothy Gould. No, that's funny because I got
a picture of you two. That's ability. I thought maybe
you'd be interested.
Speaker 8: In buying it, and then I won't have to sell
it to her husband. Seems he's suspicion his wife was
meeting some boy on the slide, and I got a
shot that proves he was right.
Speaker 9: Where is it right here? Do you like to see it?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 8: He's abuse. Look at the tail. You notice how that
mustache goes? Now, why did you want to do that?
Speaker 13: For?
Speaker 14: Get out?
Speaker 9: You're putting me to a lot of trouble, Jeanie. Now
I've got to run off another print.
Speaker 13: Huh.
Speaker 8: You don't know much about photography, do you. You see,
once you've got a negative, you can run off a
million copies.
Speaker 13: Where's uh, where's the legative?
Speaker 8: Now that's gonna cost you do five grand to be exactly.
Speaker 9: Where's that negative? Yes? For that, it's gonna cost you tens.
Speaker 14: Let me alone.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get that negative if I have to get that, brother,
that's just the way I like.
Speaker 4: Look, don't you think you've had enough?
Speaker 13: I don't never have enough.
Speaker 14: I always see her lying there?
Speaker 4: All right, All right, stop it. You've got to put
that out of your mind.
Speaker 14: I can't. Why haven't you been able to find the man?
Speaker 4: Because there is none?
Speaker 14: No, you're wrong.
Speaker 4: Look did it ever occur to you that you might
have been doing darthing injustice?
Speaker 14: She's dead, isn't she? Well, yes, there must be someone
believe me, I'd give anything and go me to get that.
Speaker 4: Please, I don't want to talk to anybody, and sure, hello.
Speaker 23: Let me speak to Jack Goole please.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry he's out.
Speaker 23: Well, where do you expect him back?
Speaker 3: Well, there's no telling, Dixie what you call me? Now, Listeners,
Dixie Hamilton, No, I can't believe there could be two
such accents in the country.
Speaker 4: Who is this, Mike Wearing?
Speaker 12: Listen Wearing.
Speaker 23: Suppose I told you the name of the poor Darthy
ghul was seeing.
Speaker 12: What would you do?
Speaker 4: Well, first, I'd wonder why you were so good to me.
That's a matter of Dixie.
Speaker 3: When you're the customer, buy, get smart.
Speaker 23: I'll hang up.
Speaker 4: You'll never get even that way. Who is he? Come on, Dixie,
I'll take care of him for you.
Speaker 23: His name is Jeane Sands. He lives the Bright.
Speaker 3: Well, thanks, but I much obliged. Who is there, Dixie Hamilton? Well, gool,
looks like you were right. There was someone else. Who
is His name is Jeane Saunders. I'm going over to
see him now, I'm going with you.
Speaker 4: No, No, we've had one murder already.
Speaker 3: That's par for the course. Let's leave well enough alone. Yeah,
you Jeans Saunders.
Speaker 4: That's right. My name is Mike Wearing.
Speaker 14: That's supposed to mean sentence.
Speaker 4: I was hoping it wouldn't you see?
Speaker 3: I was working for Dorothy Good because now I'm employed
by her husband.
Speaker 13: What are you mumbling about?
Speaker 3: Well, he suspected she was seeing some man on the side.
Looks like he was right.
Speaker 14: This is where if you don't get out, he.
Speaker 4: Look, why don't we go together? You have a and
down the police headquarters.
Speaker 3: Where do you mind?
Speaker 4: What's the idea of the gun?
Speaker 13: So?
Speaker 17: What do you say?
Speaker 3: And I think you mislaid your knife and for your information,
you left it in Dorothy?
Speaker 14: What did you say?
Speaker 4: I think I've said enough.
Speaker 24: And I think you haven't.
Speaker 13: Evil started now begin at the top of the page,
and don't leave out of set, because every time you do,
you're going to get one of these.
Speaker 14: Every day.
Speaker 5: Last year, on the highways, an average of one hundred
and three Americans like yourself or those in your family
were killed in automobile accidents. But a lot of highway
deaths don't seem to bother as much unless someone in
our own family is killed. We are shocked, however, and
do become excited when an occasional disaster or catastrophe strikes
and claims a large tool of life. Why if a
tornado over which man has no control strikes several states
and kills one hundred or two hundred people, is that
disaster any worse than one hundred or two hundred Americans
being killed in a single day in automobile accidents. The
daily toll of one hundred three deaths in traffic accidents
is America's greatest shame, because that toll is repeated year
after year by an apathetic nation when it can be
greatly lessened. You can do your part in helping to
fight this disaster on the highways by being a safer
driver and by working in your community and state for
strict law enforcement. That means safer traveling for all of us.
At all times. You must remember to drive as though.
Speaker 4: Your life depends on it.
Speaker 14: It does.
Speaker 5: Now back to the Adventures of the Falcon. Two hours
have passed since Mike Warring tried to argue with a
gun in Geene Sonder's apartment, with the usual result.
Speaker 8: My mate, that ironical. First time you use it in
a week and look what he gets you. Oh, shut up, Sawgant,
that's a nice snap he had lived.
Speaker 4: Now, how did you know where to find me?
Speaker 8: I saw Jack Gould. He told me you got to
lead to the boy his wife was seeing.
Speaker 4: Now he told you right? How long want to take
you to pick him up? Oh? This Jeene's Saunders?
Speaker 8: Of course, that all depends on what we want him
for or for Peach's sake?
Speaker 13: Call?
Speaker 4: But what's the matter with you? Don't you get it yet?
Speaker 8: Maybe I'm thick?
Speaker 14: What do you mean?
Speaker 4: Maybe Dorothy was seeing Saunus and the QT.
Speaker 3: Maybe she had a reason. Of course she had a reason.
You didn't want her husband to find out about it.
Speaker 13: Suppose I told you.
Speaker 8: This Jeene Saunders was the next con?
Speaker 3: What makes it all the more binding?
Speaker 8: You might let me finish. He served five to tenant
sing Sing for armed robbery. He got out six months ago.
Speaker 4: You were without a dime to his name. I bet yeah.
Speaker 8: And from what we've been able to piece together, Dorothy
was supporting him.
Speaker 4: That wraps it up.
Speaker 13: I don't see.
Speaker 3: How he got nervous when he heard her husband was
having a tale, so he killed her.
Speaker 6: Oh why should he?
Speaker 3: He was afraid should give him away?
Speaker 8: Why don't you ask me Dorothy's maiden name.
Speaker 4: What difference does that make?
Speaker 8: It might make a lot. It was Saunders.
Speaker 14: Saunders?
Speaker 4: You mean she and Jean.
Speaker 3: Were brother and sister.
Speaker 8: Oh, you had a beautiful theory there, Mike, ain'ted a
shame their parents had to ruin it for you thirty
years ago.
Speaker 14: I don't standard Warring. I don't understand it at all.
Speaker 3: Well, I can't blame your ghul threw me for loss too.
But this man Dodd they were seeing was her brother, Jean.
Speaker 14: But why didn't she tell me? Well?
Speaker 3: I can think of one good reason. What would be
your reaction if you learned your wife's brother was a
graduate of sing thing? You would never see him, would June?
Speaker 13: Yes?
Speaker 14: Would No?
Speaker 3: You wouldn't, not with your makeup. You wouldn't want it
noise around that your brother in law was the.
Speaker 14: Next Come listen wearing there's some mistake.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be surprised if you were right.
Speaker 14: It must be another man in the picture. Oh what
about Dixie Hamilton?
Speaker 4: You're reaching town?
Speaker 14: But why else would he give me your name?
Speaker 4: Because he was being playful?
Speaker 14: Oh no, he did it to protect himself.
Speaker 16: He must have been the one.
Speaker 3: Still trying to justify yourself aren't you what? You've got
to believe there was somebody otherwise you committed murder for nothing.
Speaker 14: What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: You killed Dorothy?
Speaker 16: You were crazy.
Speaker 3: You never trusted her from the day you were married.
Speaker 4: What's the matter? Do you think you were man enough
to hold earn?
Speaker 13: That's not true.
Speaker 4: You wanted to be convinced. You with deceiving you.
Speaker 3: You were begging your law when Dixie reported to you
that I was the boy. That's all you needed. Oh. Yes,
you could have pulled the name out of a hat
and you would have been satisfied.
Speaker 4: I bet you couldn't wait for her to come home
so I could accuse her.
Speaker 14: Wait, you don't understand. I love Dorothy.
Speaker 3: Sure you did, but you killed her just the same.
You can see her backing off, terrified, and you following
her that night every time you try to get away.
Speaker 12: Am I right?
Speaker 11: Am I right?
Speaker 14: Sir?
Speaker 25: I tell her, I tell her.
Speaker 14: All alone.
Speaker 8: You know, Mike, it could have knocked me over with
the Empire State Building when you walked in with Jackals.
Speaker 4: I was kind of surprised myself.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I have to give him credit. Certainly put up
a wonderful act.
Speaker 4: Now that was no act Sogeant, why.
Speaker 9: The devil did he do?
Speaker 2: It?
Speaker 4: All seems infected?
Speaker 3: That the infected spy has all seems yellow to the
Jones's eye, Alexander Pope, very pretty.
Speaker 9: What's it means?
Speaker 4: Because what it says to a guy like Ghoul, everything
his wife did seems suspicious.
Speaker 8: He was born that way, but he claimed there was
another man.
Speaker 3: Naturally he had to justify himself.
Speaker 9: You think he really loved.
Speaker 3: It in his fashion, but when that fashion leads to murder,
it's never in style.
Speaker 4: Good Night, Sacken.
Speaker 5: The Case of the Weeping Willow. The Case of the
Weeping Willow. That's the title of next week's Adventure of
the Falcon, when Mike Welling learns but sometimes blood is
He's here to spill than tears. The Adventures on the
Falcon are based on the famous character created by Brexel
great Well Houston, transcribed by Bernard L. Schubert, written today
by Eugene Wang, and directed by Richard lewis. Les Damon
starred as the Falcon with Chuck Webster as Sergeant Ferbert.
This program came from New York Bred Collins speaking.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. There is so much I'll love about this episode.
Dixie is a great counterpart for the Falcon and such
a well played slazy character. Alas it wasn't to be,
although during the Falcon as an Intelligence officer run of
stories at the end of the series, the same actor
did come back and play another character named Dixie, who
wasn't quite so slazy, but actually worked with the Falcon
at intelligence and was a savvy operative. Though I guess
if you wanted, you could have a head canon that
Dixie also got drafted into active service and that he
and the Falcon decided to let bygones be bygones about
their past unpleasantness. I thought the plot was pretty refreshing
for the series. There are so many faithless wives on
the Falcon and this is such a different story. The
idea of the man she was meeting with being her
brother was such a great twist, like the opportunity it
gave Corbett to really smack wearing down. It's probably one
of the best Chuck Webster moments as Sergeant Corbett. And
then you have the psychology of the killer, which makes
it so much sense, but it's not something you see
a lot during the Golden ASA Radio. So again, just
a really great episode. Well Now we're going to turn
to an episode from our amazing world of radio summer
series The Summer of Robert Louis Stevenson and a syndicated
radio series called Your Playhouse of Favorites. Because it was
a syndicated series, I can't give you a precise original
air date, but it airs sometime between nineteen forty seven
and nineteen forty nine. Here now is the Suicide Club.
Speaker 6: Your Playhouse of favorite How do you do?
Speaker 26: This is Robert Anthony Dean inviting you to your Playhouse
of Favorites. Our favorite story for DAYE is The Suicide Club,
written by Robert Louis Stevenson. This is one of the
famous author's greatest short stories, and many who have read
it consider it one of the finest classics of all times.
Speaker 6: In a moment, then the.
Speaker 26: Suicide Club, starring Dwight Wist as Prince Florence el and
Walter Vaughn as his friend Colonel Gerald, from its place
on the shelf of immortal classics. We take down now
at the Suicide Club, written by Robert Lewis Stevenson.
Speaker 16: I Colonel Gerald, Master of the Horse, an aid to
Prince Florid SELLI Bohemia. Do attest to the truth of
this story. It happened during our residence at London, and
a strange experience which the Prince and I underwent live
in my dreams for the rest of my days. But
let me begin at the beginning. His Highness, Prince Florizel
was an adventurous man and easily bored, A lover of
the eccentric and a seeker. After the Bazaar he led
me a merry chase around London. But on this particular
March Floritzel had apparently reached the end of his room. Well, Gerald,
here we are, the evening's young and nothing to do. Yes,
your Highness, Well come, don't just stand there. Can't you
suggest something, something exciting. We could go to the ballet again.
Speaker 20: A ballet, eh, I'm weary of it.
Speaker 16: A musical comedy perhaps, no good, Gerald, We've seen every
worthwhile show in town. May I suggest another evening at
the Magicians Club?
Speaker 20: Sir, No, you may not.
Speaker 16: Those fellows bore me the tears see one and you
see all I know the tricks by heart. Perhaps Inspector
Wexford will entertain us at Scotland Yard again tonight, Your hannahs.
Speaker 27: No, Gerald, the thieves he's caught lately are uninspired clods,
and the killers stupid.
Speaker 16: Then, sir, I'm afraid we've covered about everything. Yes, Gerald,
I'm afraid we have. It seems incredible. Here is a
great city teeming with humanity.
Speaker 20: And you and I can find nothing to interest us.
Speaker 27: Yes, earl, my friend, if we're doom to be bored,
let's endure it on a full stomach.
Speaker 20: On with your hat and cape, man, and let's go
have dinner.
Speaker 16: Plus, you see, the evening started out innocently enough. We
made our way through the sleep to an oyster bar
in the immediate neighborhood of Leicester Square. We'd no sooner
taken our table. However, when a strange sight met our eyes.
Speaker 20: Gerald, you see what I see?
Speaker 16: Yes, your highness, That young man over there seems to
have gone mad. Look he has a train full of
cream tarts and he's giving one to each of the
patrons here. Yes, a fastidious young man too, the rest
of the height of fashion, and apparently well situated. You
must be tipsy or else insane.
Speaker 27: On the contrary, Gerald, from a study of his face,
I would judge him to be entirely sober and quite sane.
Speaker 16: But who in his right mind would go around handing
out cream tarts to complete strangers.
Speaker 20: We'll soon know. Here comes our interesting young man, now.
Speaker 28: Says, will you honor me by devouring a tartar piece?
I can answer for the quality of the pastry and
guarantee you'll find it delicious.
Speaker 16: My dear fellow, we should be delighted. First, tell me
what is the spirit behind this benevolence of yours?
Speaker 28: The spiritA is one of mockery, mockery of whom of myself?
Speaker 20: Still I do not see where the cream tarts come in.
It's quite simple, my friend.
Speaker 28: When a man knows he is going to die, he
fulfilled certain inhibited ambitions. Mine is to go around the
city London handing out cream tarts like so many pennies.
Speaker 16: Tell what did I tell you? Come Gerald?
Speaker 14: No comment?
Speaker 16: This desire is perfectly legitimate. What is your name, sir Hartley?
Robert Hartley?
Speaker 14: Permit me?
Speaker 16: I am Prince Florizel. This is my master of the horse,
Colonel Gerald. But now you said you knew you were
going to die.
Speaker 27: Yes, your highness, pardon my intrusion upon your innermost secrets.
But have you come to this conclusion because you have
a malignant disease.
Speaker 28: On the contrary, I am sound both in mind and body.
I am weary of the world and reduced to poverty
through gambling. I have therefore arranged my decease.
Speaker 16: You mean, mister Hartley, you intend to take your life
by your own hand.
Speaker 29: Oh no, no, Colonel Gerald.
Speaker 28: Nothing as crude and as dull as that. I've just
joined the suicide Club.
Speaker 20: The suicide Club.
Speaker 28: Yes, Prince Florid, the clans of the Suicide Club leave
this mortal coil on the wings of adventure and chance.
It is an excellent institution for those who are bored
and weary and without desire to live.
Speaker 16: Indeed, hardly you interest me. Perhaps you'll be our guest
here at dinner and tell us.
Speaker 20: More about it.
Speaker 16: Thank you, I'd be delighted.
Speaker 27: But come, come, Gerald, After all, who was more bored
with the process of living than you?
Speaker 11: And I?
Speaker 27: The name of heaven, you do not propose to us
become clients of this suicide club. Why not, Gerald?
Speaker 11: Why not?
Speaker 20: Indeed it sounds like a fascinating adventure.
Speaker 16: Actually, a young man knew little about this strange club
except that its membership was exclusive, its head a man
called the President, and its initiation fee forty pounds. As
to the procedure of the Suicide Club, Hartley was not
at liberty to say.
Speaker 20: For it'd swoon an oath of silence.
Speaker 16: However, if Prince forty Seal and I were truly interested,
you would be very happy to put up our names
for memory ship. To this, His Highness eagerly consented to me.
The whole thing was dangerous and fantastic, but his Highness
was like a race horse, chafing at the bit, for
this was adventure. And at last we took a handsome
cab to a grim building overlooking the river, not far
from Charing Cross. The young man went into the Suicide
Club to prepare for our entrance, and Prince Florid Sell
and I waited outside in the storming. Come, come, Colonel Jerald,
compose yourself. You look like a man in panic. I
beg of you, sir, to discard this mad adventure.
Speaker 20: What is my master of the horse afraid?
Speaker 16: I afraid, No, Your Highness, you know better than that.
I do not fear for myself but for you. Let's
leave now, before it's too late. Nonsense, Joe. I'm intrigued
by this, and I shall say it through to the end.
But of all our follies, this is the wildest and
the most dangerous. Considered the importance of your life, not
only to your friends, but to your nation. The consequences
of this step may be very great. True, But what
high excitement, man, what incredible adventure. I cannot wait to
enter this suicide club. Oh, here's young hardly now, well, hardly?
Has everything been arranged?
Speaker 28: Yes, the President will see you in the cabinet. I
have vouched for you and your discretion. You understand that
a word to freely spoken by a member would lead
to the dispersion of the club forever.
Speaker 16: Of course, of course. And now, Gerald, yes, sir, I
am all for this adventure. Do I say you're not?
You may withdraw if you wish, what Highness you know
me better than that. I'll go in with you and
face whatever comes with you. Thank you, Gerald, Well, hardy,
we're ready, excellent, follow me, gentlemen. We entered the door
and walked through a great room where several men in
evening dress were drinking champagne. They seemed nervous and trot
and we're obviously waiting for something, some event to happen.
Then we entered an inner chamber and finally came face
to face with the president of the club. He is
a man of fifty or upwards, with shaggy side whiskers,
a bald spot on his head, a pair of cold,
piercing gray eyes, and a thin mouth which held a
large cigar.
Speaker 20: Coolly.
Speaker 16: He asked us a number of sharp questions and finally
administered the oath, pledging us to silence. Last, he shook
our hands.
Speaker 27: And said, gentlemen, you are now members of the Suicide Club.
We all know that life is only a stage to
play the fool upon as long as the poth amuses us.
Speaker 30: Through this club, you have chosen a decent and exciting way.
Speaker 14: To quit that stage.
Speaker 27: And I assure you, gentlemen, you will get a run
for your money. Before you went to Death's private door.
You interest me no end, mister President. Now as to
the proceed ah, I assure your highness you will find
it fascinating. You saw those men in the main room, Yes, men,
drinking champagne precisely, Colonel Gerald. Those are the Tartar members,
and soon they'll play a little game of cards. As
President of the Suicide Club, I am the dealer, Yes,
and what is the game? What for the ace of space,
that's the.
Speaker 30: Card of death, and he who is fortunate enough to
draw it.
Speaker 27: Leaves this tired world, good lord, And how does he depart,
mister President.
Speaker 30: Ry the hand of the man who draws the.
Speaker 20: Ace of clubs, I see, and that is a game
of chance.
Speaker 16: The Ace of Clubs eliminates the Ace of Spain precisely,
mister President. A question, yes, Colonel Jerald, How how many
of these games do you play a night? Just one one?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 30: But during its course a man can live a lifetime.
Speaker 27: Of atener and if luck is with him, he can
survive one game after another and continue to live for
months through. Some of our members have been unfortunate enough
to have the Ace of Spades passed from by.
Speaker 30: But comes our little game of cards is about to begin.
Speaker 16: It was fantastic, incredible, the Green bayzed table, the President
dealing each man a card faced down, and each man,
like a graven image, turning his card up. I could
feel a sweat pouring off my brow. My heart pounded
like a hammer. I looked at Prince Florida. He stood rigid,
and there was a hypnotic look in his eyes, and
the voice of the President droned down.
Speaker 27: Prest Ashley, a card free of diamonds, mister Westley, the
Queen of Hearts, Prince Florida, the nine of Spades, Colonel Gerald,
King of diamonds, mister Malts, mister Malthus.
Speaker 31: What is your cards of clubs?
Speaker 32: Well, mister malcous, congratulate you shall be the official agent
for tonight. Now let us see whom you will guide
into the harass.
Speaker 33: The dale continues, gentlemen, mister Maareth, the two of halves,
mister Faversham, the eight of clubs, mister Hartley, mister Hartley,
we're waiting.
Speaker 30: What is your card?
Speaker 16: The a's of spades, And so our young friend with
the cream tarts, Robert Hartley, had drawn the card of death.
The Prince and I stumbled out from that horrible place
into the cold night air. His Highness was in a
state of great reproach for his folly, bemoaning the oath
that held him to secrecy. We slept a fitful night,
and the next morning, Prince Floridtelle came into my room.
The daily newspaper.
Speaker 20: Gerld of the name of Heaven.
Speaker 16: Read this. What is it, your highness?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 16: Oh melancholy accident? This morning, about two o'clock, mister Robert
Hartley of sixteen Chepstie Place, on his way home from
a party, fell over the parapet of the Thames Embankment,
fracturing his skull. Death was instantaneous. Mister Hartley, accompanied by
a friend, mister Bruce Malthus, was engaged in looking for
a cab when the unfortunate accident said, Great Heavens, jim
acarb game a murderous game, Your high nurse. Let us
put Scotland Yard on the track of these assassins at
once remember our Oh but sir, can any oath be
valid in this desperate business? I said, I'd see this
grim adventure out to its very end, my friend, and
so I will. You and I are going back to
the Suicide Club again tonight.
Speaker 26: So the curtain falls and Act one of the Suicide
Club by Robert Lewis Stevenson, a presentation of your Playhouse
of Favorites. O now back to the story of the
Suicide Club by Robert Lewis Stevenson, presented by your Playhouse
of Favorites and starring Dwight Wiste and Walter Vaughan. As
you remember, Prince Florizell and Colonel Gerald, on the search
for adventure meet a member of the Suicide Club, Robert Hartley.
They become clients of the clubs, and in a grim
game of cards, Hartley draws the Ace of Spades, the
death card. The next day, Cloritzell and Gerald agree that
Hartley has been killed by accident, but they know its murder.
And now on with The story is told by Colonel
Gerald himself.
Speaker 16: I pleaded with Prince Florizell to call Scotland Yard and
smash this murderous suicide club without further delay. But his
Highness wouldn't hear of it. He was tense and grim,
and there was a strange.
Speaker 27: Gerald that unhappy Lad Hartley has gone to his death,
and the guilt of blood is on the president of
the suicide Club.
Speaker 16: True.
Speaker 27: True, But we must admit that Hartley was anxious to
depart from this earth. No, my friend, no man is
really anxious. If the means of salvation are at hand, GERL. Gerald,
we have much to answer for.
Speaker 20: We might have.
Speaker 27: Saved the lad plenty of money, given him a new
interest in life.
Speaker 16: Now someone else will draw the ace of spades tonight, Yes,
and we'll be there to see it.
Speaker 20: Gerald. I do not know how it will be done,
and I.
Speaker 16: Shall help that monster, the President, at my mercy some day.
My friend, What a grim experience, but a lesson was
that game of cards last night? Your highness? I presume
upon my authority to beg you not to go tonight.
The duties of your high position forbid this terrible hazard.
Speaker 20: I must go, Gerald.
Speaker 27: The attraction of the suicide club is more than I
can withstand. Moreover, I want to follow the President, watch
him smash is nefarious career myself, I confess.
Speaker 16: I show weakness here, weakness, Your highness you yes, Gerald, I.
Speaker 20: Must follow this adventure through to its terrible end. I
cannot call a halt, just like a drug friving me on.
Speaker 16: Then, Sir, if we go to the suicide club again tonight,
I beg permission to spend the hours of the day
by myself. Of course, Jeral, Why I wish to make
a will and straighten out my affairs. If I am
chosen tonight to step into the hereafter, I should like
to do so with my house and order. That night
we again took a handsome to the club, and after
careful scrutiny, were admitting into the main room. There were
fewer men there than the night before. Their attitude was
the same, tense, anxious and waiting as usual. Champagne was
being served an excellent vintage, by the way, and as
the Prince and I emptied our glasses, the President came.
Speaker 14: Forward to greet.
Speaker 27: Ah, Prince Florence, Colonel Terror good evening. I'm delighted that
you honor us to night.
Speaker 16: We find your club irresistible, mister President, and to you personally,
I shall like to tender my congratulations. Yes, and what
your highness on the manner in which Robert Hartley departed
from this earth.
Speaker 20: I like to meet with efficiency, and I find much
of it in you.
Speaker 30: Thank you, sir. I try to handle these things with
some delicacy.
Speaker 27: There's no one in London who will question the validity
of the accident.
Speaker 16: Incidentally, mister President, I too must compliment you on quite
a different manner. Yes, colonel gentlemen, you are a man
of financial acumen too. Each night, when the ace of
spades is drawn, you become richer by the initiation. Fe
you forty pounds in a game played every night would
net you almost three hundred pounds.
Speaker 30: Be true, it is a tide figure.
Speaker 27: Some day I hope to retire into the country and
pursue the delights of horticals.
Speaker 30: Flowers are my hobbies. But come, gentlemen, a toast.
Speaker 27: In Champagne, A capital idea, Mister President, whom shall we toast?
Speaker 16: I leave that honor to you, Prince Barato. Very well, then, gentlemen,
to the memory of Robert Hardley, an excellent toast. Hartley
was one of my favorite fliers. I enjoyed his company.
I almost hated to see him go. But now shall.
Speaker 30: We get down to the business of the evening?
Speaker 16: By all means, mister President, gentlemen, gentlemen, the game is about.
Speaker 6: To begin.
Speaker 16: Again. We gathered around the green Bay's table again. The
President shuffled the cards and began to deal them one
by one again, that frantic tension, that awful excitement, that
almost unbearable waiting as the President.
Speaker 34: Drone down your card, Count Russell, the Seven of Hearts,
mister Malthis, you have well well, mister Malthus, better luck
next time.
Speaker 30: Your card, Mister Westcliff.
Speaker 16: The Jacob Diamond mister Maddick.
Speaker 4: Come, come, mister Maddick, your card.
Speaker 6: The aces where well, mister.
Speaker 30: Maddock, So you're the official for this evening's entertainment. This
is your first time as the liquidating agent, is si?
Speaker 14: Yes, I've never killed a man before.
Speaker 35: Oh come, come, sir, don't be down. Care you'll be
surprised how easily it can be done. Come, gentlemen, you
must still pick as the kareem winner. Let's go on
with the deal. Your card, mister Varison.
Speaker 6: Nine of spades, Doctor leafere.
Speaker 27: Hearts, Baron Vanernst, sixth of crops, mister de Witt, Queen
of Diamonds, Colonel.
Speaker 31: Gerald, the five of Heart, Prince Florason, is your card,
your Highness A.
Speaker 20: The haste of spades?
Speaker 16: Now the deadly game was over. Now Prince Bloritelle had
drawn the card of death. A loud roaring filled my brain,
and the room swam before my eyes. Finally I steadied
and looked at his Highness. He was cold and calm.
Not an eyelid flickered, not a muscle twitched. President went
to him.
Speaker 20: Congraturat.
Speaker 30: Only our second evening, and you draw the winning card.
What a stroke of luck.
Speaker 20: Thank you mister President, I appreciate my good fortune.
Speaker 30: Would you care for a little brandy?
Speaker 24: Most of our winners seem to require it.
Speaker 16: I am quite at ease, sir, and do not require
any artificial stiguments. And how let me ask you what
are my instructions?
Speaker 27: To be sure your instruction, you will note that mister Maddox,
a gentleman who drew the ace of clubs, has already
left the room.
Speaker 30: Yes, you will proceed along.
Speaker 27: The strand in the direction of the city and on
the left hand tablement until you meet that gentleman. He
will continue the suction and you will obey then implicitly,
since the authority of the club is bested in him.
Speaker 30: Is that clear?
Speaker 20: Quite clear, mister President.
Speaker 6: Very well, and.
Speaker 30: Now, Prince Florazar, I wish you a pleasent.
Speaker 16: Quickly. I left the Suicide Club as the Prince was
getting his hat and cape. I leaped into a carriage
waiting on the corner, and a man was waiting for
me behind the curtain. Wind well, Colonel Jerrold, you will
be out shortly. Excellently.
Speaker 27: He drew the card of death, then we must stop
him at all costs. Your men are posted around the building.
Speaker 6: As everything has been arranged. Look, colonel, here comes his
highness now.
Speaker 16: Yes, look your men have pounds down. Now now they're
bringing into the carriage.
Speaker 20: Quick man in with him? All right, driver, you have
your orders? What is the meaning of this? But why
it's you Gerald?
Speaker 16: Yes, your Highness, and with a mutual friend.
Speaker 20: What aescue a minister of state? What are you doing
in London?
Speaker 36: I have come to take you back to Bohemia, your highness?
Speaker 20: What Gerald, was this ambush sor doing?
Speaker 16: Yes, it was, sir. I beg your Highness to pardon
my zeal. I arranged all this today at them before
we came there.
Speaker 27: Colonel, this is a very presumptuous deed without my authority.
Speaker 36: You do not blame the Colonel. Your Highness reacted upon
my orders. Your presence is urgently needed in your own country.
Speaker 20: But you do not understand I've made a sacred that
I must.
Speaker 36: Forfe I know this mad notion of throwing away your
life through the suicide club, but the.
Speaker 6: Oath is now broken.
Speaker 36: Sigh, your life no longer belongs to you to flitter away,
your majesty.
Speaker 13: What.
Speaker 6: Do you mean the king? Your father has just passed away.
Speaker 36: Now you are King, and your life belongs not to
you alone, but to the people of Bohemia.
Speaker 16: That night, the Prince slipped away from our flat while
I was out arranging our transportation to our native land.
And when I returned to find him missing, I knew
where he had gone. A handsome cab took We had
breakdown speed to the Suicide Club. And then as I
raced through the entrance, Your highness, what President the consequences
of an honorable duwel colonel? He selected pistols himself, but
you were wounded your shoulder.
Speaker 14: It is nothing.
Speaker 20: The President is much better at cards than he is
a pistol.
Speaker 16: Gerald, Sire. When I think of the risk you took,
of the consequences to our country, I.
Speaker 20: Come, come, my friend, compose yourself. I could never have
left London knowing.
Speaker 27: That this master of murder was still alive. I swore
that I would rid the world of this monster and
his grim institution once and for all time.
Speaker 16: Now, Gerald, my task is done, and I shall be
a better man and a better monarch for it. Us
ended the adventure of the Suicide Club. The club members fled,
as far as I know, never gathered for a game
of cards again.
Speaker 11: This I do know.
Speaker 16: It will live in my dreams for the rest of
my days.
Speaker 26: And so the curtain falls on The Suicide Club by
Robert Lewis Stevenson, starring Dwight Weast and Walter Bonn, and
presented by your Playhouse of Favorites. This is Robert Anthony
Deane reminding you that front row seats are reserved for
you the next time our curtain rises on another romantic classic,
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Like pretty much every other Golden Age of
radio adaptation of the series, The Suicide Club is greatly
abbreviated from Stephenson's original work, which is actually told across
three short stories. This one focuses mostly on the story
of the young Man with the Cream Tarts, but adds
the end from the final story, the Adventure of the
Handsome Cab. It's certainly a very thought provoking tale with
some really life affirming undertones in ways that might not
seem obvious at first.
Speaker 8: Well, from one thought.
Speaker 1: Provoking Stephenson piece to another, we have probably my favorite
snack Wagon episode of the last year, which featured a
reading of one of Stephenson's letters. Now that might not
seem particularly in arresting, but this one is read by
Orson Wells. W always bring something to whatever piece he's performing,
and there's actually quite a bit here as written. So
let's go ahead and hear Orson Wells reading from Stephenson's
defense of Father Damien of Molokai on the Radio Almanac
on May twenty fourth, nineteen forty four.
Speaker 14: Half a century ago.
Speaker 25: There was a doctor Hyde who was a missionary in
the South Seas, and who's remembered today because he wrote
a public letter to a reverend brother of his, a
certain Doctor Gage. In this letter, doctor Hyde attacked the
character and memory of a Catholic priest who had died
two years before in the leper colony of Molokai. This priest,
doctor Hyde declared with dirty horse headstrong and bigoted, and
not pure in his personal life. Now, this priest whom
Doctor Hyde called dirty and impure, was none other than
the martyr Father Damien, whose selfless devotion to his island
parish was climaxed on that Sunday morning in eighteen eighty
five when he commenced his sermon not with the accustomed
words my brethren, but with a terrible and heartrending address.
Speaker 14: We lepers.
Speaker 25: Doctor Hyde's letter was printed in a Sydney newspaper, and
that miserable cleric may well have regretted to his dying
day that he was ever noticed by the literary gentleman
whose answer I'm going to read to you now, Sydney,
February twenty fifth, eighteen ninety To the Reverend doctor Sam Hyde,
Berretania Street, Honolulu, Sir, you may remember that you have
done me several courtesies for which I am prepared to
be grateful. But there are duties which come before gratitude,
and offenses which justly divide friends.
Speaker 14: Your letter to the Reverend H. B.
Speaker 25: Gage is a document which, in my sight, if you
had filled me with bread when I was starving, if
you had sat up to nurse my father when he
lay a dying, would yet absolve me from the bonds
of gratitude. You belong to to a sect, I believe,
my sect, which has enjoyed and partly failed to utilize
an exceptional advantage in the Islands of Hawaii. This is
not the place to enter into the degree or causes
their failure, But this much must be plainly dealt with
in the course of their calling. The missionaries are too
many of them grew rich. It may be news to
you that the houses of missionaries are a cause of
mocking on the streets of Honolulu.
Speaker 14: It will at least be news to.
Speaker 25: You that, when I returned your civil visit, the driver
of my cab commented on the size, the taste, and
the comfort of your home on Beretania Street. No your sect,
and remember, as far as any sect avowed me, it
is mine, has not done ill in a worldly sense.
No Hawaiian kingdom, when calamity befell her innocent parishioners, when
leprosy descended and took rot in the islands. To that
prosperous mission, and to you as one of its adornments,
God sent at last an opportunity. I know that others
of your colleagues look back on the inertia of your
church and the intrusion and decisive heroism of Damien with
something almost to be called remorse. I am sure it
is so with yourself. I am persuaded your letter was
inspired by a certain envy. But Sir, when we have
failed and another has succeeded, when we have stood by,
and another has stepped in. When we sit and grow
bulky in our charming mansions, and a plane uncouth peasant
steps into the battle under the eyes of God, and
succors the afflicted, and consoles the dying, and is himself
afflicted in his turn, and dies upon the field of honor.
The battle cannot be retrieved. It is a lost battle,
and lost forever. Your church and.
Speaker 14: Damiens were in Hawaii upon a rivalry to do well. You,
having in one huge instance, failed, Damien succeeded. I marvel.
Speaker 25: It should not have occurred to you that you were
doomed a silence, but when you had been out stripped
in that high rivalry and sat in glorious in the
midst of your well being in your pleasant rooms, and Damien,
crowned with glories and horrors, toiled and rotted in that
pigsty of his under the cliffs of Kalawao. You, the
elect who would not, were the last man on earth
to collect and propagate gossip on the volunteer who would?
And did I think I see you? For I try
to see you in the fleshes I write these sentences.
I think I see you leap at the word pig sty.
He was a coarse, dirty man.
Speaker 14: These were your own words. You may think I am
come to support you with fresh evidence.
Speaker 25: In a sense, it is even so Damien has been
too much depicted with a conventional halo. Such information as
I have I gathered on the spot from those who
knew Aim well and long, who beheld him with no halo.
These gave me what knowledge I possess, and I learned
it in the place itself, color Wall, which you've never visited. You,
I imagine to be one of those persons who talk with
cheerfulness of that place which Oxen and Wayne Ropes could
not drag you to behold. You do not even know
its situation on the map, probably denounced sensational descriptions stretching
your limbs the while in your pleasant parlor on Bartania Street.
When I was pulled ashore there one early morning, they
sat with me in the boat, two sisters bidding farewell
in humble imitation of Damien to the lights and joys
of human life. One of these webt silences, I could
not withhold myself from joining her. Had you been there,
nature would have triumph even in you, And as the
boat drew nearer, and you beheld the stairs crowded with
abominable deformations of our co manhood. You saw yourself landing
in the midst of such a population as only now
and then surrounds us in the horror of a nightmare.
What a haggard eye you would have rolled over your
reluctant shoulder for the house on Bertania Street. Had you
gone on, had you found every fourth face or blot
upon the landscape, had you visited the hospital and seen
the butt ends of human beings lying there, almost unrecognizable,
but still breathing, still thinking, still remembering, you would have
understood that life in the lazaretto is an ordeal from
which the nerves of a man's spirit shrink, even as
his eye.
Speaker 14: Quails under the brightness of the sun.
Speaker 25: You would have felt it was even today a pitiful
place to visit, in a hill, to dwell in, an
observe that which I saw and suffered. What's from a settlement, perched, battered,
beautified with a different place. When Danien came there, who
made his great renunciation, and slept that first night under
a tree amidst his.
Speaker 14: Rotting brethren, alone with pestilence and looking forward with what courage,
with what pitiful shrinkings of dread.
Speaker 25: God only knows, to a lifetime of dressing saws and stumps.
Speaker 14: You would say that Damien was coarse. It's very possible.
Speaker 25: You make it sorry for the lepers who had only
a course old peasant for.
Speaker 14: Their friend and father.
Speaker 25: Damien was dirty, you say, Think of the poor lepers
annoyed with this dirty comrade.
Speaker 14: Damien was headstrong.
Speaker 3: I believe you're right again, and.
Speaker 14: I thank God for his strong head and heart.
Speaker 25: Damien was not sent to MOLOCHI, but went there without orders.
Speaker 14: I have heard Christ in.
Speaker 25: The pulpits of our church held up for imitations on
the ground that his sacrifice was voluntary.
Speaker 14: Damien had no hand in the reforms, you say. If
ever man.
Speaker 25: Brought reforms and died to bring them, it was he.
There's not a clean cup or towel in the bishop home,
but dirty Damien washed it.
Speaker 14: Damien, you say, was impure in his personal life.
Speaker 37: How do you know that?
Speaker 14: Is this the nature of the conversation in the house
on Bertania Street which.
Speaker 25: The Camban envied driving past racy details of the misconduct
of the poor peasant priest toiling under the cliffs of Molokai.
When I was there, I had complaints of Damien. Why
was this never mentioned?
Speaker 14: True? I'd heard it once before.
Speaker 25: I'm going to tell you how there came to some
more from Honolulu. One who in a public house on
the beach volunteered that Damien had been guilty of misconduct
and had sickened from having contact with lepers.
Speaker 14: A man sprang to his feet. I'm not at liberty
to give his name, but from what I heard, I doubt.
Speaker 25: If you would care to have him to dinner in
Bertania Street, You miserable little Here is a word I
dare not print it with so sharp your ears. If
the story was a thousand times true, he cried, can't
you see her a million times lower? But daring to
repeat it, Reverend sir, I'll suppose your story to be true.
I was supposing. God forgive me for supposing the Damien
faltered and stumbled in his narrow path of duty.
Speaker 14: I'll suppose that.
Speaker 25: In the horror of his isolation, perhaps in the.
Speaker 14: Fever of disease, he who was.
Speaker 25: Doing so much more than he had sworn, failed in the.
Speaker 14: Letter of his priestly.
Speaker 25: Oh he who was so much a better man than
either you or me, who did what we would never
dreamed of daring.
Speaker 14: He too tasted our common frailty, or the pity of it.
The least tender should be moved to tears, the most
incredulous to prayer. And all that you could do was
to pen your letter to the Reverend h peak age.
Is it growing at all clear to you what a
picture you have drawn of your heart?
Speaker 25: You had a father. Suppose this tale were about him,
and some informant brought it to you proven hand, I'm
not making too high an estimate of your emotional nature
when I suppose you would regret the circumstance that you
would feel the tale afraid of about keenly since to
shame the author of your days, that the last thing
you would do would be.
Speaker 14: To publish it in the religious press.
Speaker 25: Well, the man who tried to do what Damien did
is my father, and the father of the man in
the public bar, and the father of all who loved goodness,
And he was your father too, if God had given
you the grace to see it, Signed.
Speaker 14: Robert Louis Stevenson, that's.
Speaker 1: A sign A stirring performance. Usually When I play an episode,
then it's done. It goes into the archives. It has
been many months since we first played this on the
Old Time Radio snack Wagon, and I still have it
on my phone and I find myself listening to it
multiple times each month. It says a lot about the
type of lives we live, the way we judge others,
and the way we try to bring other people down
to raise our cells up. And it's very challenging and
I think very relevant today. As I mentioned when I
played it on the Old Time Radio snack Wagon, Father
Damian's reputation and legacy are very well regarded. He was
canonized by the Catholic Church, as Stevenson predicted, and there
are actually two noted statues to Father Damien, one which
stands in the Hawaii State Capitol and the other standing
in Statuary Hall in the US Capitol. Now, one other
thing I mentioned when I played this on the Old
Time Radio snack Wagon is that some people, when they
encounter this letter, they often think that Stevenson named mister
Hyde from the story Doctor Jackal and Mister Hyde after
Reverend Hyde. But the book was written years before this letter. However,
Donna Fletcher Crowe, who's a very prolific author written a
lot of mysteries as well as well as quite a
bit of historical fiction, actually covered our Robert Lewis Stevenson's
story for her blog and she was really interested in
this piece as well, and she speculated that maybe Stevenson,
since the duplicity in him is acquaintance and that influenced
his decision to name the character Hyde. Don't know if
it is true, but it's an interesting idea I hadn't
thought of or heard anybody mention before. Well, now we
turned back to detective stories and we have an episode
of Mister and Missus North. This one originally aired December ninth,
nineteen forty seven, and the title is call Me Chu Chu.
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starring Joseph Curtin and Alice Blot In all respects. Pam
and Jerry North's car is an excellent car with only
one defect. It always picks the long way home. That's
especially the trouble tonight, when Pam and Jerry are coming
from a weekend in the country and the car seems
to have chosen the longest, darkest and most deserted road.
Speaker 6: I'll have to take ten minutes shut eye dolling before
we can go on.
Speaker 2: I'm getting dangerously sleepy.
Speaker 39: Well let's do it then, Jerry.
Speaker 40: This is no place to have a smash up. Josepha, Oh,
I just feel myself drifting right off to sleep you Jerry,
that's right, go to sleep right while I'm talking. For
all you know, I might have had something very interesting
to say. I didn't.
Speaker 7: I might have.
Speaker 40: Oh, Jerry, what listen?
Speaker 6: Somebody's playing a musical instrument away out in the country.
He's good too.
Speaker 40: Where is it coming from? I don't see any houses,
I wondered. Log There by the side of.
Speaker 6: The road, a man playing a clarinet and coming toward us.
Speaker 40: He's seen this.
Speaker 24: Come with me, Come with me this way.
Speaker 6: Why what's the matter?
Speaker 24: Just behind those trees? Come and see what's there? A
tree gotten away in.
Speaker 6: My car, an accident, anybody hurt?
Speaker 18: A girl and a.
Speaker 24: Tree killed hers. She's dead.
Speaker 20: Please come and help.
Speaker 6: Me right away.
Speaker 30: Where's your car here?
Speaker 24: Behind these trees.
Speaker 6: See, holy you really smashed up.
Speaker 24: The girls in the seat. Help me, will you?
Speaker 7: Jerry?
Speaker 2: You look at scene.
Speaker 6: Say there's no girl in your car, alive or dead? What?
Speaker 24: But she was here a minute ago.
Speaker 40: Are you sure?
Speaker 24: Could you a girl and not know it?
Speaker 6: We better look around for it.
Speaker 40: Don't cherry car starting off?
Speaker 41: Hey stop, that's the girl took your car.
Speaker 40: But you said she was dead.
Speaker 24: That's right, she was dead.
Speaker 6: She hasn't now stop come back to talk car.
Speaker 18: Which way did she go?
Speaker 14: Well?
Speaker 40: That way, didn't you see? Jerry? Here's a brand new man.
Speaker 6: What oh ore you? Where'd you pop from?
Speaker 18: I've been right here with you all the time.
Speaker 40: I didn't see you. I guess it's so dark.
Speaker 24: Sure that's why you didn't see him. It's so dark, lady.
Speaker 18: You said the girl drove her car toward New York.
Speaker 40: You were right here too. You said you must have
seen a car.
Speaker 24: Go, only he didn't. Lady, it's so dark.
Speaker 18: Let's not argue about it. If she drove toward New York,
I know exactly where she's going.
Speaker 6: Get in, Get in?
Speaker 18: What my car? It's right here, Come on.
Speaker 40: I didn't see any other car here.
Speaker 24: Of course, you didn't. It's so dark.
Speaker 18: My car has been here right along. What's the matter
with you? Anyway? Now all of you get in and
we'll go to town. He made it fast, didn't we
ask me?
Speaker 40: We made it no time.
Speaker 24: Oh it's too dark here. I'm going inside where it's dark.
Speaker 14: What place is this?
Speaker 6: It's a pretty gloomy looking house.
Speaker 18: This is where the girl came. It's where we all live.
Speaker 6: So long, so long? What about our car? And the
girl was dead?
Speaker 24: But isn't what dead?
Speaker 16: Girl?
Speaker 24: What are you talking about?
Speaker 40: The girl in your car and the wreck? Oh, she
wasn't there, and then she stole our car.
Speaker 18: Lady, you're all mixed up.
Speaker 24: Sure, it's so dark, well, so long, way too so long.
Speaker 42: Wait, if you're going inside and you think the girl's
in there, we're going in too.
Speaker 24: Oh no, you're not. Murder goes on in that house
and you're not allowed.
Speaker 40: But the girl's got our car in there.
Speaker 24: Nothing doing. It's duck in that house. And if you go,
when you'll get killed.
Speaker 6: He's gone.
Speaker 40: I never saw people move so fast, Jerry. We've got
to find out what happened to our car.
Speaker 6: The only way we can do that is to get
into that.
Speaker 2: House, Jerry, so dark.
Speaker 6: You sound like that clarinet player.
Speaker 40: This is the darkest cellar I've ever been in.
Speaker 42: I don't think it's a celidor it's a car of
the I can touch both walls at once.
Speaker 40: Do you hear anything?
Speaker 9: No, we'll have to get upstairs.
Speaker 6: Here's a door.
Speaker 7: Can you open it?
Speaker 6: You can't find the handle?
Speaker 13: Why here it is?
Speaker 6: Take right behind me.
Speaker 40: I'm so close behind you, practically in front of you.
Speaker 6: It's heavy there, Jerry, what is it? It's a jam session.
These many musicians getting together and playing.
Speaker 29: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 40: Here's the man who proves him.
Speaker 39: He's playing the.
Speaker 6: Trumpet, and next to him that clarinet player.
Speaker 40: There's no air in here.
Speaker 43: That's hot, Jerry.
Speaker 40: Here's the girl and she's singing, Yeah, her.
Speaker 6: Mouse over by the officers a lot I can't hear,
can you no?
Speaker 40: Oh, Jerry, Look at the walls they're closing in. Honestly,
the room is getting.
Speaker 29: Small, small behind the musicians, there's no wall at all,
only black space.
Speaker 43: We better get out of here, Hona, chick.
Speaker 11: It on now?
Speaker 40: Oh the clarinet pair, But how can you be talking
to us? Hear your clarinet still playing.
Speaker 24: Like clarinet plays by itself. I told him that to
come in here, didn't I. Now you're gonna die, Jerry.
You're gonna die by the knife.
Speaker 30: In my hand.
Speaker 40: Jerry, where are you held me?
Speaker 24: He's gone? And listen to that trumpet. Listen to him
climb okay boys one two?
Speaker 41: When he hits high, say.
Speaker 24: The snipe cuts right at Jerry. Jerry, where are you
listen to that trumpet?
Speaker 9: Gee?
Speaker 20: Shop, hey.
Speaker 44: Be flat and look at their snipe, and here comes high, say.
Speaker 6: Pandling, what's about?
Speaker 16: Help me?
Speaker 40: Good night?
Speaker 27: I see.
Speaker 6: I'm right here, sweetheart.
Speaker 9: Wa wake up?
Speaker 2: Oh I was a smooth shoe.
Speaker 40: Oh DM, what a horrible dream it must have been.
Speaker 42: You are waving your arms and kicking your legs like
you're saving the card, and we're just not riving home again.
Speaker 40: Oh you know, Darling, it all started when I dreamed
I heard a clarinet.
Speaker 45: Playing, and generous.
Speaker 40: Sun Jenny, Am I awake?
Speaker 6: We both long and I hear it too, somebody playing
a clarinet somewhere near us on the road.
Speaker 38: Yes, Pam and Jerry are awake now, but it's still
pretty dream like to hear a clarinet in the country
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Speaker 6: Now back to mister and missus.
Speaker 39: North Jerry, We've got to see what it is.
Speaker 6: I know what it is, Dolly, a clarinet being played
on the dark road, on the dark night. The point is.
Speaker 40: Why it's coming from behind those trees.
Speaker 6: You'll see in a minute.
Speaker 40: Now it's going away, Jerry here, maybe drawing us after
it like the pied Piper of Hamlin. I'm right. Look
at that car against the tree.
Speaker 6: Pretty badly smashed. Someone may be hurt.
Speaker 40: Maybe it's a girl. She isn't there now?
Speaker 6: What makes you say that?
Speaker 40: That's the way it was in my dream?
Speaker 1: Is there?
Speaker 6: Yes, there's a girl.
Speaker 46: She's there.
Speaker 6: She's not deadish, she's alive.
Speaker 46: Then somehow I knew she would be.
Speaker 30: You gotta take me back.
Speaker 45: You've gotta look her own.
Speaker 30: Oh who will you?
Speaker 6: We found you here in the right car? Miss Are
you badly?
Speaker 13: Her?
Speaker 39: Just hip my head?
Speaker 6: I guess let me help you out. Thanks.
Speaker 7: Where's Loopy the man who's playing the clarendet?
Speaker 40: We heard him, but we haven't seen him.
Speaker 45: Good, you got a car? Could you take me back
in the city?
Speaker 7: Will here?
Speaker 6: We'll be glad to And you want to see a doctor.
I'll crush up him.
Speaker 45: We tried to get me to run away with him,
and when I caught on. He wouldn't turn back.
Speaker 47: I crashed the car on purpose. Will He's the greatest
hot clarinet in this world or out of it. I'm
on the carmar I yes, we ought to know who
you are, but I'm a hot signer.
Speaker 45: They call me the scat kid. I guess you don't
get around No, but you shouldn't.
Speaker 40: We try to find Loopy.
Speaker 45: I don't want to find him. I want to get back.
Speaker 30: To the city.
Speaker 6: Wait a second, here's another car, Eddy.
Speaker 38: Eddy, Darling.
Speaker 14: You're okay, Hendy.
Speaker 7: I'm so glad you got here. Now you can take
me back into.
Speaker 18: Town, honey, and I want to get my hands done.
Speaker 40: Loopy Loopy doesn't seem to be around here anymore.
Speaker 45: Excuse me, folks, This is Eddie Raber in a hot trumpet.
Speaker 42: If there ever was a from missus North Hi. And
as you're in good hands, mister Mont, we'll be getting
back to our car.
Speaker 45: Wait a minute, five, Eddie, something can stole it from
my handbag.
Speaker 6: You know what it is, and so are you? Oh?
Maybe that was Whoopy is doing that?
Speaker 18: Guy wants to be around here someplace, Jerry.
Speaker 37: Our car started very Wait, don't.
Speaker 6: How do you like that?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 6: Eddie.
Speaker 40: You know where he's going, don't you.
Speaker 18: But how do you know?
Speaker 4: I know?
Speaker 7: I wish I didn't.
Speaker 39: Won't you take us with you in your car?
Speaker 3: Okay hop in.
Speaker 18: Okay, ket there's your great park just ahead.
Speaker 40: I never expected it.
Speaker 39: Jerry, we've got the car, beg.
Speaker 6: I hope it's all a one piece anyway, Thanks very
much for the lip Eddie and Monai. Hope you're okay.
Speaker 16: I will.
Speaker 45: It's a long folks.
Speaker 18: Some time.
Speaker 39: Oh just a minute.
Speaker 40: I want to see that Loopy McGee and give him
a piece of my mind for stealing our car.
Speaker 48: Missus North, you're not going to see Loopy. I'm giving
a private party and you're not coming into that building
with us, or you'll get hood permanently. I take your
car and get gone.
Speaker 6: So on, nice people, we better go back. It's late
and there's our car.
Speaker 13: Cherry up.
Speaker 40: I'm remembering that awful dream. It's all coming true, that
this strange building, this is where Eddie brought us before.
Speaker 6: Darling forget her. Dreams never come true.
Speaker 40: I know, but something tells me we're not going to
leave here.
Speaker 6: No, just watch us get in here. I'll get on
the other side.
Speaker 40: Jerry. Look at this here on the seat.
Speaker 6: Never mind, dear, never mind, get in, Jerrie.
Speaker 40: It's a wanted circular for an escape convict.
Speaker 6: Wandered.
Speaker 42: Eddie Mouldon escaped six weeks ago from state penitentiary while
serving three year from robbery.
Speaker 6: Dangerous former occupation trumpet player.
Speaker 40: Look at the picture. That's Eddie, the man who drove
us into town, the man who just took the girl
into that building.
Speaker 6: This must be the thing more missed from a handbag
Lopy stole from and they were.
Speaker 40: Both scared because Lupy found out he's a fugity.
Speaker 18: It's right, mister. Now I'll take it from you, Eddie.
Speaker 40: We thought you were inside that thing.
Speaker 6: Here you are, well, so long, Eddie, hold it now.
Let you know who I am.
Speaker 18: You think I'm gonna let you run off and call
the police.
Speaker 6: Not a chance.
Speaker 18: Come on inside, dear, What are you going to do
with us? Keep you locked up in the cellar while
I finished some unfinished business.
Speaker 6: The second ten doors opening.
Speaker 40: Don't make any noise, Jerry.
Speaker 16: If I can help it, one more push, Okay, we're on.
Speaker 14: Gosh, it's dark, Jerry.
Speaker 40: It's exactly like it, like the way it was in
my dream. I don't know where that door is.
Speaker 7: Oh I remember now.
Speaker 49: Just turned the corner and wait a minute, don't move.
Speaker 2: Who's that?
Speaker 6: I don't know? Just a man and I bumped into
the dog.
Speaker 49: Won't be dark long. There's a light right here. Oh
there's two of you characters.
Speaker 3: Just what are you got in?
Speaker 18: Mind?
Speaker 49: Sneaking around here?
Speaker 16: Dark?
Speaker 49: Faster and you'll get in trouble.
Speaker 6: Let's begin by finding out who you are.
Speaker 49: Flash Pharaoh. I'mona Tremont's manager and future husband. And there's
a private jam session going on, and you haven't been invited.
Speaker 40: Now you take a course jam session, then there is
a jam session.
Speaker 16: Yeah, what do you want with it?
Speaker 40: We've got to get in there to prevent her? Oh
and this peril. I want you to hear me sing?
Speaker 6: You sing?
Speaker 4: Do you? Oh?
Speaker 40: Haven't you heard of me? I'm paying him? Chew choo North,
choo choo, that's my style.
Speaker 49: Okay, choo choo?
Speaker 16: And who's this guy?
Speaker 6: Look that's my.
Speaker 40: Husband, man hot lips North. Do you ever hear him
play on the zither?
Speaker 49: Who can play hot on a zither?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 39: You never heard hot lips Hessy hot lips?
Speaker 42: No?
Speaker 49: He never has it all sounds fishy to me.
Speaker 40: Okay, Dan, just show us where the jam session is.
Speaker 49: Okay, choo choo, and the first thing we'll do is
to hear you sing. And you'd better be good.
Speaker 40: Bung Bung Bungle. Want to leave the pong where I
am choo Choo, I'll stay right.
Speaker 43: Shoot choo.
Speaker 41: Oh heyoot, you're not so bad?
Speaker 40: Okay, Oh, I'm so glad you like it, mister Errol Jerry.
The way it works before Lucy had a knight. See
if he has one now.
Speaker 14: I know.
Speaker 18: Yeah, we'll let you out, Pharrell.
Speaker 6: No, no, we let ourselves out and met him in
the car.
Speaker 14: I look noise.
Speaker 48: Anybody that crosses me up gets it, including Flash Farrow.
I'll kill anybody that gets between.
Speaker 18: Me and Mona.
Speaker 6: Parrel's in love of the two, isn't he look at it?
Speaker 14: Boy?
Speaker 18: Wouldn't you be?
Speaker 6: I've got a very charming wife.
Speaker 49: Thank you, Hey, hot lips, hot lipt Oh oh yes, Farrell, Sorry,
we haven't got a zipper for you.
Speaker 6: Oh that's all right, Barrel.
Speaker 40: How did you think I was hotless?
Speaker 6: Just great?
Speaker 24: Choo choo?
Speaker 11: Any how about giving us a number?
Speaker 18: Sure, luby, but I'll have to make it the last
foot night.
Speaker 49: Okay, come on, yeah, sure, I'll see you later. Chew
cho Jerry, it's more and more like my dream.
Speaker 40: You've got to stop Eddy from playing.
Speaker 30: Okay, I'll try both.
Speaker 45: Say I didn't know you two were had Yeah, what
to the river? I didn't know you had the power.
Speaker 6: I've got to get over to the bandstand.
Speaker 45: Oh you don't.
Speaker 47: There's a gun in his handbag of mine. Make likely
just chatting, so nobody gets leary. What's the matter, it's
already talking to you.
Speaker 45: What did he tell you?
Speaker 42: He said he had killed Any about it that came
between you and him? That means Loopy because he knows
about it.
Speaker 40: Does Pharaoh know about Eddie too?
Speaker 6: No, he doesn't.
Speaker 45: What are you two going to do?
Speaker 40: We don't know.
Speaker 45: I'll tell you what to do.
Speaker 16: Nothing.
Speaker 45: Just you to keep your trap shut or you'll have
bad trouble with me.
Speaker 6: You can't let them commit murder. Hey, folks, shut up head.
He's gonna rip out with a little lip, I'll say.
Speaker 13: Eddie take it.
Speaker 50: I going right out the roof.
Speaker 6: Okay, one two, Jerry, just going the dream?
Speaker 23: The dream?
Speaker 40: What company was paying? And Loopy's starting to come at
me with a knife. Comthing went higher and higher like
he's doing now.
Speaker 6: Damn your imagining makes nothing can happen up. But he's way.
Speaker 40: A plaid is getting close to Jerry does something I
told you?
Speaker 6: Let me see.
Speaker 39: Jerry is he?
Speaker 6: Yes, Eddie is dead.
Speaker 38: It's a bad spot for Paym and Jerry, but they
know the murderer is writing that cellar room with them.
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Speaker 6: It looks like he's been poisoning my Eddie.
Speaker 45: Okay, which one of your DIDs. I've got a gun
and this bag is ready for him.
Speaker 40: No, no, wait, you'll only get yourself in trouble.
Speaker 6: Listen to what the guy says, Mona, unless you don't
care if you shoot, Mona.
Speaker 45: I Carol, I don't want to get the guy that
did it.
Speaker 49: Mana, you're awful sure it was one of us.
Speaker 40: That's what I was thinking, mister Ferroll. Mona, you were
certainly anxious before to keep us away from Eddie.
Speaker 6: You're onto it, Pam.
Speaker 47: How about him, Mola, If anybody tries to hang Atdi's
murder on me, they'll go right along with him.
Speaker 11: I loved him, Lona, don't point that kimmick at me.
Speaker 49: Listen to Raisin Mona.
Speaker 7: I'm listening.
Speaker 6: Somebody talk, Pam. I've got an idea ticks names North.
Speaker 17: What is it?
Speaker 27: Jerry?
Speaker 42: Eddie told me he was going to kill Loopy because
Lukey knew he was a convict, and we all know
Loopy was in love with Mona.
Speaker 6: I mean I kill him. You're off feet, mister, not much.
You killed him to get a free hand with Mona.
Speaker 45: Okay, Louis, this looks like the last chorus for you,
Jerry Wade.
Speaker 24: That doesn't make sense now you're in the groove, missus North.
Speaker 49: Oh, but it does make sense, good sense, sure, LUPI
killed and he hated Eddie. Don't you move?
Speaker 45: Don't know even forget this gun.
Speaker 40: I'm not forgetting it, but you listen, Mona. You yourself
told us that Farrell didn't know that Eddie was an
escaped convict.
Speaker 49: That's right.
Speaker 6: What are you getting at them?
Speaker 40: Well, Booby didn't have to murder Eddie to get him
out of the way. He knew Eddie was an escaped convict,
and so all he had to do was report him
to the police.
Speaker 14: The lash.
Speaker 40: You didn't know that, and so to get Mona away
from him, you thought you had to kill him.
Speaker 49: That's a lie barrel going after Eddie.
Speaker 6: Don't shoot I got me.
Speaker 7: Too nice going, Missus North.
Speaker 30: I'm sure I got the power.
Speaker 40: Oh just call me choo choo. Oh Jerry, what a nighte.
Now it's almost dawn.
Speaker 6: We'll be home in a moment, Dolly. Then some sleep.
Speaker 30: I could go to sleep right Aw Jerry, listen, it's
that clarinet again.
Speaker 43: Who is it coming from?
Speaker 41: Am I dreaming?
Speaker 29: And away?
Speaker 8: The Early Writers Club greets you, amusing to put you
in June for the day.
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Speaker 6: This is Charles Start speaking. There's the CBS to come on,
be a broadcasting system.
Speaker 1: This is such a unique episode. Detective programs don't usually
do dream states, except for Rogues Gallery, which is an
entirely different sort of thing. But this is one of
the best portrayals of dreaming that you'll generally hear in fiction.
When dreams are used in fiction, they're often too realistic
and grounded, as if you're trying to make the audience
think something happened and fake them out, or do some
other narrative purpose. Here, there are so many nods to
the way that dreams actually work, and it becomes really
noteworthy when you go back and listen to it again.
We also love the way the music was used to
add tension during the deaths, both in the dream and
outside the dream. That's great radio there, and we also
got a very nice twist inning as well as a
little bit of Alice Frost singing and showing off her versatility.
She actually got started as a singer on local radio
up in Minneapolis. Well, now we're going to turn to
the great adventurers of old time radio and Cloak and Dagger.
This was a tough call. I was between this and
the Black Radio, but decided on this episode because we
just played the Black Radio. So here from August fifteenth,
nineteen fifty is The Roof of the World.
Speaker 44: Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the
enemy lines knowing you may never return alive.
Speaker 53: What you have just heard is the question asked during
the war to agents of the OSS. Ordinary citizens to
this question answered yes. This is Cloak and Dagger, black warfare, espionage,
international intrigue.
Speaker 29: These are the weapons of the OSS.
Speaker 53: Today's story, The Roof of the World, concerning two American
agents who travel into the far off and mysterious land
of Tibet on a secret pilgrimage is suggested by actual
incidents recorded in the Washington files of the Office of
Strategic Services. A story that can now be told A.
Speaker 43: It came out of sudden, out of the darkness, a
shaggy monster over fifteen feet high. None of us said
a word for a minute. We just stared at into
the tusks.
Speaker 10: Look at the length of them.
Speaker 43: The tusks of this monster must have been at least
twelve feet long. And I knew myself that if I
hadn't seen it stood right in front of it, I
wouldn't have believed it actually existed either.
Speaker 24: But I saw it.
Speaker 43: There was definite proof it did live once.
Speaker 29: Okay, okay, lights, put on the lights please all right now, quiet,
please quiet. What you have just seen is the last
of our afternoon slides here in the Museum of Natural
History on Prehistoric Animals. This last mammoth was a species
of a true elephant, which was found in Tibet during
and before the Ice Age. Now are there any questions?
Speaker 41: Yeah, how did you get out of here?
Speaker 29: Now, if you'll all follow the guide, he'll take you
into the next room where you can actually see the
skeletons of these monsters. Which paleontologists have reconstructed from fossils
and actual bones discovered in the earth. Philip, Oh, hello, Western,
Are you here for the whole lecture?
Speaker 43: No, just the last part of it, But you were sensational.
Speaker 29: Flattery will get you nowhere.
Speaker 46: What oh, telegram here just came to the office.
Speaker 37: It's not for me, it's for us.
Speaker 29: Who's it from Washington? The Office of Strategic Services wants to.
Speaker 6: See us off.
Speaker 46: Why the world do they want us?
Speaker 13: There's one way to.
Speaker 44: Find out, mister and missus Maldon. We know your reputation
as geologists and explorers. We know you've traveled the Far
East together several times.
Speaker 29: That's true, Colonel.
Speaker 44: Now, at this stage of the war, Germany is pushing
eastward across Africa to Suez, and Japan is thrusting westward
across China into India. If the axis partners meet, their
junction will be Central Asia and dominating that meeting point
will be Tibet.
Speaker 43: What do you want us to do?
Speaker 44: We want volunteers to make a pilgrimage to the Dalai
Lama High Priest of Tibet. It'll be a good will
mission to get them on our side. It involves a
great deal of danger. Yes, yes, we know esther.
Speaker 43: Well, as long as you're sure that mammoth elephant disappeared
from their centuries ago, I'm willing. A few weeks later
we were flown to India, where we were given a car.
Then the tour was started out across the border to
a village called Gyuksan at the foot of the Himalaya Mountains.
Once there, we were to pick up pack animals and
a guide and start our journey to.
Speaker 49: The Holy City.
Speaker 29: These roads couldn't have been any narrower or any rock here.
Speaker 43: Well, they weren't designed for modern travel.
Speaker 46: You can say that again, Phil, Are you worried about something?
Speaker 29: I'm worried about a lot of things.
Speaker 37: For instance.
Speaker 29: For instance, this is the worst possible time of the
year to be traveling up that mountains. Most spring up there,
and the thought sitting in it's going to loosen the
snow and ice all along the way.
Speaker 46: Well, we just have to be more careful, that's all.
Speaker 43: Oh, Phil, Look round the bend of the road. That's
the village, isn't it.
Speaker 11: That's it.
Speaker 29: That's it.
Speaker 43: Wait a minute, Phil, slow down, Look, good.
Speaker 37: Lord, I should have said was a village burned to
the ground.
Speaker 43: The old man who said wailing and moaning cross legged
on the ground, was the only one left alive.
Speaker 10: Leverage branded dribe come from mountains, steal, cure, set fire
to rich.
Speaker 46: How is it they spared you?
Speaker 10: I am pressed sent from Diryama tourist Virich many years past.
If they cure Horman, great Prigg and pastor, and swear
be upon them?
Speaker 29: Tell me where'd you learn to speak English?
Speaker 10: In Horry City?
Speaker 49: Was will?
Speaker 10: What do we do now?
Speaker 37: Phil?
Speaker 14: We can't leave him here alone.
Speaker 29: We'll take him with us and drive until we find
another village.
Speaker 54: I know, I take you, I sing to We'll be
guide to Horry City. He alays lost, go back to
Dalai Lama.
Speaker 29: What about pack animals?
Speaker 10: A village of Chonda nats far away.
Speaker 16: We'll go there first.
Speaker 43: Chanda was about ten miles away down the road. It
was small, with only a few huts made of sun
dried bricks. Phil was afraid of the spring thaw that
was setting in more every day, so we made arrangements
with the native chief to start almost immediately.
Speaker 55: Santa Luk, what do you say, Saint Tong hees Kiang's
wild donkeys as good pack animals as other white man has.
Speaker 43: What's he talking about? What are the white men?
Speaker 10: Ask him? Acquired Rano Bango.
Speaker 41: Lasa a.
Speaker 10: Strangers leave here two days ago on a way also
to holly city of Rassa batch with crooked cross hill.
Speaker 29: Natzis. We're in a race, esther. We've got to reach
Larsa before they do.
Speaker 43: That was the first we knew that the Germans were
ahead of us, going in the same direction on the
same mission.
Speaker 46: Philip was white. It was going to be a race
for time.
Speaker 29: Yes, sir, come on, this is no time to pick flowers.
Speaker 43: Look at this, dwarf wrote a dandron phil and a head.
It's like a carpet of blue iris there.
Speaker 29: There'll be plenty of foliage until we cross the timberline.
Then it'll just be cold, and traveling on snow is
going to be a lot tougher.
Speaker 46: Well, I'm not looking forward to the temperature drop in
one hundred degrees in twenty miles.
Speaker 29: Oh watch it, you heard yourself.
Speaker 30: No, I just tripped.
Speaker 46: I guess I must be getting tired, is the thing too?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 54: First, yes, how soon will we be able to camp
cold springs less than half mild ahead, we'll camp there.
Speaker 10: Oh night.
Speaker 43: When we reached the springs, I started dinner out of
k rations, which kept our packs light. And by the
time I was through, the tent had mushroomed up and
fill and sing tour inside, straightening the pole and fixing
the blankets for the night.
Speaker 18: Oh my food soups on measable mala.
Speaker 46: I looked up from the fire to find an unpleasant surprise.
Speaker 43: Six unpleasant surprises, carrying rifles and forming a ring of
muddy boots or run. Who are you men?
Speaker 6: What do you want?
Speaker 30: La lap you?
Speaker 29: Where did they come from?
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 39: They just here, That's all you are.
Speaker 16: We are saying to the saw some of normal banda.
Speaker 10: Touret my verture, nigashima?
Speaker 43: What do they want?
Speaker 6: Good dancy man than you?
Speaker 10: They say, they take surprise everything a guns too?
Speaker 18: Why at there?
Speaker 10: Solarly leader shoot off gun to show you?
Speaker 16: Hear mean what he said?
Speaker 14: Phil.
Speaker 46: Without our supplies and guns would have to turn.
Speaker 37: Back, providing they let us turn back.
Speaker 44: Knitting my am, I.
Speaker 10: They hold you hostage. Send me holy man back to
get ransom.
Speaker 37: Oh Phil, hold on, hold on, don't let them know
you're afraid of them.
Speaker 43: We stood there while they gathered our surprise out of
the tent and threw them in a heat by the fire,
singing too. Knew he wouldn't be hard because it was
a holy man, but Phil and I had no idea
what was ahead for us.
Speaker 44: God, do you love.
Speaker 23: Phil?
Speaker 29: Leave her alone, you understand, thank you.
Speaker 15: Tell them we'll come quietly holding I said.
Speaker 46: Get your filthy heads off.
Speaker 43: The machine gun that riddled the bandit leader came from
the direction of the brush, went one after another. Then
there was silence, and we looked up to see our
two saviors walking out of the brush in German uniform.
Speaker 37: I'm the life that we were able to be of
assistants Americans. I am commandant quote father of the German Army.
This is life that castler rot me.
Speaker 46: Thank you for saving our lives. I'm I'm mister Malden,
and this is my husband, Philip.
Speaker 14: Oh.
Speaker 46: Now our gods seem to you do not seem too
surprised to see us here.
Speaker 29: We're not just surprised. You're not two days ahead of
us the way we thought you were. Then you knew
about us. Wow, they told us in the village. They
also told us you were headed for the holy city.
They talked too much, those native idiots.
Speaker 37: So can next small crashed their hands.
Speaker 29: And you are you also going there?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 43: Well, I mean we're geologist. We're just on an exploring expedition.
Speaker 50: Come come, is it quite nice to lie to your benefactors.
We have just saved your lives.
Speaker 29: I don't get that.
Speaker 50: Why did you when we saw the American flags sewn
on your clothing, that told us immediately who you were,
where you were going. We, as you already know, we
are also headed for Lasa, to the Dalai Lama. But
our guide was killed with snow loosened under him as
we turned. The legend here fell. So you were going
back for a guide exactly. But that is some distance away.
Time is slipping by.
Speaker 14: You have the guide, you will lead us.
Speaker 46: Oh no, we won't, and neither we'll sing too.
Speaker 27: We're losing to will do on.
Speaker 10: A US friend? Americans tell me the ants.
Speaker 37: You get too excited about messing.
Speaker 50: I remember ham Morten, Oh Morten, you have the guide,
We have your supplies in your weapons.
Speaker 37: Let us pool our resources go together.
Speaker 29: If you think that at the point of our own guns,
you're going to make us lead you to Lassa you're crazy.
Speaker 50: Look, you are scientists. I appeal to your logical minds.
Is it not safer that, since we are traveling the
same direction, we travel together. Once we reach the Dalai Lama,
let each of us present the case of his country
to him.
Speaker 29: If you'll forgive me for repeating her commandant, We're not
going to be pushed along with guns in our backs mine.
Speaker 37: Who said you would be here?
Speaker 6: Why?
Speaker 43: Philpil he's giving us back our pistols.
Speaker 10: You see we trust changers, gentlemen.
Speaker 50: No, not yet, It's all right. Go ahead, open them? Yeah,
opened the gun if you like. Your head's been the drum.
See the cartridge is in the chamber, Yes, as I
see them. Oh, we'll return your guns loaded as they were. Now,
shall we forget the war for while and travel on together? Okay,
let's try it.
Speaker 43: We're lagging behind them, Phil, shouldn't we catch up too?
Speaker 14: We will.
Speaker 29: I want to talk to you. I'm cold.
Speaker 46: A tempature went down so fast once we crossed the
timber line.
Speaker 43: I can almost hear it drop.
Speaker 37: What do you think of this situation with our friends?
Speaker 46: I don't know what to think.
Speaker 37: You trust them, of course?
Speaker 29: I don't whether they gave us back our guns or not,
They're still going to look for a chance to double
cross us before we reach the holy city.
Speaker 37: What are we going to do, Phil, Just keep an
eye out, look grow a way to double cross them.
First wedge clear brook.
Speaker 41: You hear good water?
Speaker 11: Do you drink?
Speaker 16: Come?
Speaker 37: Come up, friends, hear what he says water?
Speaker 41: It will taste better than the whiskey in your plastic Elves.
Speaker 29: We're coming.
Speaker 43: We caught up with them, and as we leaned over
to fill our canteens from a small clear brook, there
was a sudden rumbling.
Speaker 37: The water's turned muddy suddenly, Yeah, it's covered with a
dirty form. Last thing too, n what are you're talking
about it?
Speaker 14: It is not raining.
Speaker 29: It is in the high regions. That's what turned the water.
But so suddenly it happens like that, races along under
the ground, pushing the mud with it.
Speaker 46: It's really beginning to fall, isn't it.
Speaker 29: Yes, that's what I was afraid of.
Speaker 14: What is there to be afraid of? Answer me.
Speaker 29: As the snow starts to melt, it'll start to fall.
So just watch your step, Elms.
Speaker 37: Is it not good to have three such good guides?
We are indeed fortunate.
Speaker 10: Was come my brook along the way, we'll walk walk.
Speaker 14: Why do you think we have these animals?
Speaker 10: Kan can be turned roose Here we'll get more and
more snow. It's best to climb by foot.
Speaker 43: Yes, seem too, is right. Besides, the animals won't find
any place to graze. It's been getting pretty spice for miles.
Speaker 10: And they are wild. We'll find no one away.
Speaker 41: Heaa heera.
Speaker 43: The packs were heavy and we were too tired the
next two days to do much talking.
Speaker 46: We just watched each other.
Speaker 43: The jagged pears under us were getting more and more slippery,
and althow the cliff we could see a sheep drop
of hundreds of feet to the glacier above us with
the snow peaks, and somewhere beyond the holy city of Larsa,
towards which small birds of dull brown, gray and black
seemed to point. And then the third night, out of
the strange pact had been made between our two enemy camps.
Speaker 37: It happened, hir, where are.
Speaker 46: You going to the brook around vent Phil? I want
to get some water. You take care of the rest.
Speaker 41: If you pitch that ten per mogan, I'll fix the pile.
Speaker 46: Here it is I knew i'd seen Brooke h just
bigger hole in the ice.
Speaker 29: We carry that back for you.
Speaker 46: What are you doing here?
Speaker 37: You can see you don't want to be friendly. What
a pity.
Speaker 43: I'll be friendly enough to give you some good advice.
Save that la gruntil you really need it, and stop
guzzling it if you and tend to keep up on
this hike.
Speaker 46: This is no boy scout picnic.
Speaker 37: I'm touched by your concern for me.
Speaker 46: Don't flatter yourself. What are you doing back here?
Speaker 16: Anyway?
Speaker 20: You really wish to know?
Speaker 6: I followed you.
Speaker 37: I knew you were coming to the brook, so I
went round all the way.
Speaker 14: You what you don't like me?
Speaker 37: You like me very much if you've got to know me.
No thanks.
Speaker 46: Now, please get out of my way.
Speaker 43: Let me go back.
Speaker 37: We may not have another chance to be together alone.
You're very attractive, even in those heavy clothes.
Speaker 46: I know, very attractive. Besides, I'm the only woman for miles.
Speaker 43: Now get out of my way.
Speaker 37: I would like to see you a white girl. Diamond
clips at your shoulders? Have you got nice shoulders?
Speaker 41: Try to pull away from me.
Speaker 16: Stop it.
Speaker 46: You're talking, You're big Down'm talking nothing.
Speaker 3: You want your talk out? If you do not stop me,
get away, leave her alone.
Speaker 29: And if I don't give me back my gun, I'll
use it.
Speaker 20: You have your gun, you will not there shoot me?
Go and try and use your gun. Answer that a laugh?
Speaker 37: You know, trow me nook be talking with your Do
you want him to use his gun on you?
Speaker 13: Think?
Speaker 37: As do you want him to use this gun?
Speaker 11: You will?
Speaker 37: I can tell you will. No, don't give this lady
your apologies.
Speaker 50: Audio, my apologies from Morden. You both have my word.
An incident like this will not occur again. Sure we
eating they came for the nightmare ah.
Speaker 43: All the next day, Villa and sing Too kept me
between them as we climbed. I wondered how soon we'd
see the holy City and when all this would come
to a head. Look, when sing Too yelled, we turned
around and looked in the direction from which we just come.
A huge ice sperm swayed for a moment, and then.
Speaker 10: It landed on the.
Speaker 46: Path we had come for less than two hours before.
Speaker 29: Oh, this is what we can expect from now on,
now that the thor said in.
Speaker 46: Oh, I'll expect it and I won't look forward to it.
Speaker 24: Oh, phil.
Speaker 46: Am, I mistaken or are the days getting longer?
Speaker 14: Sleepy?
Speaker 8: Huh?
Speaker 46: You know it was nice to them to let you
and sing too, and me had this cave to ourselves.
Speaker 29: Well, considering that it's too small to hoole more than
three of us, it wasn't so magnanimous.
Speaker 46: Still, they could have tried to grab it for themselves.
Speaker 29: Farber seems to be trying to make amends for the
way his pal liked it the other day.
Speaker 46: I wonder what their game is.
Speaker 29: Yes, I like to know too, sing too.
Speaker 10: Yes, you wish to know how soon we rich Horri city.
Speaker 46: He may not talk much, but he's a pretty good
mind reader.
Speaker 13: That's it, sing too.
Speaker 54: Expect to see gets in distance behalve tomorrow toomu.
Speaker 43: Oh, that's wonderful, is it? Whoa isn't it?
Speaker 29: It means time has run out, esther.
Speaker 8: If they're going to pull anything, they're going to pull
it Nowmans.
Speaker 43: Were camped under a ledge which protected them from the wind,
about fifty feet from us, across a narrow crevasse. In
spite of all the things that had happened before or
might be going to happen ahead, it was strangely peaceful
up there in the western fan of pink rays from
the sun shot up from behind the snow range, and
overhead a few bright stars twinkled. Presently, the fan flickered
and disappeared. And then, in the glow of the full moon,
I saw what looked like a long procession of ghosts
in the distance, but were actually cascades of snow melting
and falling hundreds of feet, leaping from ledge to ledge.
In the morning, the air was.
Speaker 37: Crystal clear, and we saw it, the Holy City.
Speaker 9: Esther.
Speaker 20: Do you see it?
Speaker 10: I expected on to return again. Will I die?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 43: It's beautiful?
Speaker 46: How long will it take us to reach it?
Speaker 41: You will not beat it all my friends.
Speaker 29: Don't start something you can't finish that coming on, Phil,
get back, get behind me, back in the game.
Speaker 41: You should have been more friendly to me from Mary.
That's I would have taken you with us. Go on,
Oh you gone, should.
Speaker 29: Watch the big joke.
Speaker 41: We would have been fooled enough to give you lorded guns.
Speaker 29: But I saw them. I broke open the gun and
saw the cartridges.
Speaker 41: Then you take one out and examine it. Why don't
you do it now?
Speaker 46: Looka I opened mine. It's a it's a blank cartridge.
Speaker 56: Sure you understand why. I don't care not to let
your husband become too excited. And the elms here tried
to be friendly. I did not want to take a
chance of your finding out too soon. We shall give
you the god to the Dilama.
Speaker 13: God.
Speaker 41: Careless with your blank guns if you can.
Speaker 29: That's not a bad idea. Yeah, esther elms look out
back in the cave.
Speaker 43: Quick Phil took them at their word and actually killed
them with this blank gun. The shots vibrated enough to
loosen the heavily piled snow, break the crust at the
rim of the ledge, and start the slide the avalanche down.
It threw them over the side and buried them somewhere
on the cliffs below us, under rock, ice and snow.
Speaker 16: Gone. Yeah, oh God, the thaw worked.
Speaker 46: For us, didn't it.
Speaker 29: Yes, come on, saying to you lead, we'll follow.
Speaker 43: We could see the holy city, but it was still
twenty five miles away. It was two days travel of
an almost vertical descent into the valley, and we arrived
at dusk at the magnificent red and white palace that
overlooked the city. It was a week before we saw
the Dalai Lama. Our entrance into his presence was conducted
with the utmost ceremony. Tall grim faced monks lined the hall.
There's six foot four inch frames made even more massive
by layers of stiff gold brocade. The walls were carved
with strange images and Tibetan inscriptions. Then the guard struck again.
We were ushered into the throne room.
Speaker 10: Esther, look quiet, must not talk, Come dah light damma.
Speaker 16: We'll see you.
Speaker 29: Now, am.
Speaker 43: We walked on thick rugs that were brilliant in color
and depicted the waves of the sea, clouds and emblems
of happiness. Then we saw a throne of yellow satin
at the end of the great room, and on it
robed in burgundy and gold satin, with a crown on
his head and a table of jewels. Beside him sat
the Dalai Lama, a boy of six.
Speaker 57: Come closer, Come, I will pull this silk young Javati
scarf over your heads to welcome you.
Speaker 29: We thank you for your welcome, your serenity. We bring
you gifts from all.
Speaker 57: I accept your gifts with great bangs. How is your president?
Speaker 14: He is well. Thank you.
Speaker 57: Bring the gifts to me. Let me see.
Speaker 43: They gave him the gifts and he looked at each
one carefully. After a while, servants began to pass bowls
of rice and glasses of black tea. I noticed that
a special taster took a sip of a lama's tea
before it touched his sacred lips.
Speaker 57: Mister and mister smileaon.
Speaker 43: Yes, your Serenity threw a.
Speaker 57: Pinch of rice over your shoulder. It will bring good.
Speaker 29: Luck your serenity. We've come to talk about peace and
friendliness between our two countries.
Speaker 57: There is no need to talk. Come here, I tie
three knots.
Speaker 14: In your.
Speaker 10: Means only interview at tenant.
Speaker 43: But we've accomplished nothing.
Speaker 10: His serenity has died three knots in American's longevity scarff.
He has blessed him. Our countries will befriends.
Speaker 53: The success of the mission of these two OSS geologists
helped to lay the foundations of friendship between Tibet and
the United States and to forestall any possibility of Tibet's
cooperation with our axis enemies. Thus, once again, the report
of another agent ends with the words mission accomplished. Listen
again next week or another true adventure from the files
of the OSS on Cloak and Dagger.
Speaker 15: Heard in Today's Cloak and Dagger Adventuress esther was Louise Barclay,
Philip Grant, Richards the Monk, Raymond, Edward Johnson Barber, Stephen Schnabel, Kessler,
Barry Kroger. Others were Janice Gilbert, Carl Weber, Ralph Bell,
and Jerry Jarrett. Script was written by Wonterfred Wolf and
Jack Gordon. Music was under the direction of John Guard,
sound effects by Chat Hill and Dick Gillespie. Today's True
Oss Adventure was based on the book Cloak and Dagger
by Corey Ford and Alistair McBain. This program was produced
by Lois G. Cohn and Alfred Hollander under the direction
and supervision of Sherman Marx Programs. Get your Programs Here,
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Speaker 1: NBC Welcome Back. Well, a really striking adventure. I love
the setup, and I particularly love our adventuring couple. The
idea of having to team up with the Nazis to
make it to the Sacred City makes for a fascinating
and engaging adventure. Now, the episode is not perfect. One
listener pointed out Louise Barkley's pronunciation of Himalaya's or she
said Himya's, which I don't think was ever a pronunciation.
The other thing I found myself asking after re listening
is why did the Nazis bring blank Ammo on a
journey to Tibet that just happened to fit our hero's weapons.
Maybe there's a good answer, but I think that's one
where you're just not meant to ask, and you won't
ask unless you're over analyzing, because this is still a
great and exciting story. Well, now we're going to go
to our top episode, which comes from yours truly, Johnny
Dollar from February second, nineteen fifty eight. Here is the
Price of fame matter.
Speaker 3: Hollywood. It's time now, Wren.
Speaker 12: Johnny, this isnton price. I'm calling from Hollywood.
Speaker 3: Oh sure, my name is Hilly Temple.
Speaker 14: Now who is it?
Speaker 3: What really Vincent price like Mickey Rooney. Well no, but
now tell me the surprise.
Speaker 12: The name is Vincent.
Speaker 3: Okay, Vincent? What can I do for you?
Speaker 12: Johnny? I have a little in connection with one of
my paintings insured for.
Speaker 3: One hundred thousand dollars one hundreds pas. You call that
a little problem.
Speaker 12: Painting has suddenly disappeared.
Speaker 3: Oh, I see what's the insurance company?
Speaker 12: Fourth State Mutual.
Speaker 3: Well they have a small branch office right there in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I know, But Burt Parker is a man who
told me the policy and should take care of this matter. Well,
every time I've come him, he's been out, and I
learned just this morning that nobody knows where he is.
Speaker 3: Okay, events, and I'll grab the first plane. Bob Dailey
and the Exciting Adventures of a Man with the Action
Tact Expensive Car America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Truly Johnny Dollars,
and now act one of your truly Johnny Dollars. Expense
account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollars the Four Stage
Mutual Insurance Company Home Office hard for Connecticut. Following is
an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the
Price of Fame matter expense account and on one one
hundred and seventy eight to fifty planes fair Inessidentals type
for the Los Angeles. By the time the big Silver
Constellation made its planning at the International Airport had finally
dawned on me that I hadn't arranged with Vincent Price
about where and how and what time i'd meet him.
But as I picked up my luggage and discovered a
hundred looking an autograph homes telling about the tall, gracious plan,
I was looking for the store at her on Gradu.
Speaker 13: But test one at a time, when you please, I
can't very well. All right there there you are now
I have to.
Speaker 3: Just won more. Please harmas surprise sor.
Speaker 13: I had a few in fish Yeah, best slitches from
t Willie Rocking hord, huh hi, johnnyst oh great Johnny?
Who you mean to say? You folks don't recognize Johnny
Dollar on own lad of my Johnny, give them all.
I'll wait for you in my car. So right over
here at the curve and looky here.
Speaker 3: By the time I got away from that mob, I
felt as though I had been running through a wringer.
But we finally took off in Vincent's car and go
to his beautiful home hop in one of the canyons
west of Beverly Hills. That's was among the trees with
facious lawns and well kept gardens. Its furnished in the
most excellent past I know experts, but the fay that
I was impressed by the extraordinary works of art in
that home would be the understatement of the week. Engraving, prints,
fine sculptures, but most of all painting and even Amian
practiced by all of them were well magnificent.
Speaker 13: Here's a little thing I picked up in London, Johnny.
It's called the Old Man.
Speaker 3: In Red by Goya, brought original oils by him, were
found only in the beginnings, em and.
Speaker 13: I've been pretty lucky in getting older some of these.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's know what you were doing too.
Speaker 13: Like this one. It's called Fright and was painted by
Kenneth macmaanor.
Speaker 3: Ah, beautiful, beautiful y all the rest.
Speaker 13: Of them say how about this one here at the end.
Speaker 3: Night wind by Uh. I'm sorry, Vincent, I can't make
out that name. You don't have this one lighted like
the rest.
Speaker 13: No that's to maintain its somber mood. Oh, and that's
what made it possible for the substitution of this copy
to go undetected. That's a copy, yeah, and that's my problem.
One hundred thousand dollars Night Wind by Zona Baptiste has
been stolen. This was left in its place. Oh, I see,
it's not a bad copy. He probably worth a couple
of hundred dollars, but it's hardly a genuine Batiste.
Speaker 3: Well when did you discover this substitution?
Speaker 13: Vent When I returned from a lecture tour early last week.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's right. You've been traveling all over the country
lecturing on art let's just call it talking about Tell me,
have you notified the police about this?
Speaker 13: I suppose I should ask. I felt that was Bert Parker's.
Speaker 3: John, and you haven't been able to reach him over
at for State Music.
Speaker 13: That tos on the phone. He hasn't been in his
office for some time.
Speaker 3: Vincent, Have you any theories about who might have done this?
Speaker 13: Yes, I'm afraid I have. Why do you say it
that way? Very few people knew I'd gotten hold of
his baptist on need. Some close friends and a couple
of art extraits all, and the police was not broken
into during the time I was away. Of that, I'm
sure we'll come on with the family and servants got
very close track of anyone who went to the house
while I was gone. You have a list, Yes, I
do have a listen.
Speaker 3: Yes, Alfred R.
Speaker 13: Hockinson met an electrician who came to do some wiring.
He would know a Rembrandt from a Mickey mur And
am sure my music teacher loves music, hate painting.
Speaker 3: What about delivery voice?
Speaker 14: People like that?
Speaker 13: They never get beyond the back door. Go on, read
on that. Next one's Ben the guard may even forget
about it.
Speaker 3: And Bertiel huh yeah.
Speaker 13: Bert Parker even here twice, what's for? Well extensively to
check on some of the paintings he'd ensued the first time.
On the eleventh, Missus Christ was with him while he
poked her up. On the fifteenth, he had to leave
to keep an appointment in just when he left the house.
Nobody seems to know.
Speaker 3: Are you thinking the same thing?
Speaker 11: I am?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 13: Look, Johnnie, I haven't known Bert very long, and well
he seemed like such a harmless, little old fuddy duddy.
It's for he's knowledge of her. Yeah, I wondered about that,
and he was perfectly satisfied to take my evaluation on
the two or three things he'd ensured so well. Johnny,
I may be all wrong.
Speaker 3: That's sim a thing like this may only happen once
in a thousand years. In any event, that company will
certainly make good your walk.
Speaker 13: Well with the work of art. It isn't really the
money that counts. And Johnny listens I may have jumped
to a completely unjustified conclusion about Bert Parker.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, sure, let's go down to his office and see.
We'll return to Johnny Dollar and the price of fame matter.
That's bensent price.
Speaker 58: In just a moment, every American fighting man has heard
the expression above and beyond the call of duty. How
many of us have sat down and considered just what
that word duty means. According to one Dictionary definition, beauty
is man's conduct as required by his station and occupation,
and that to which he is bound by moral obligation to.
Speaker 14: Do or not to do.
Speaker 58: When a man does more than his duty requires, he becomes.
Speaker 3: More of a man in the eyes of his fellow man.
Speaker 58: One such was Captain John Philip Cromwell, commander of the
submarine USS scopeon flagship of a submarine coordinated Attack Group
of the United States Navy, possessing secret intelligence information of
our fleet movement, strategy, tactics, and attack plans. Captain Cromwell
led his attack group and the control of enemy waters
around Truck Island in November nineteen forty three, just prior
to the launching of our first large scale offensive in
the Pacific. Despite savage enemy opposition, he established a line
of submarines.
Speaker 14: Around the enemy held stronghold of Truck.
Speaker 58: Until his shift the Sculpon became so rocked and battered
by depth bombs that he ordered it to the surface.
He engaged the enemy with deck guns, giving his crow
an opportunity to abandon the mortally stricken ship. Determined to
sacrifice himself rather than risk capture and the subsequent danger
of revealing the secret plans to the enemy, Captain Cromwell
remained aboard the Sculpon as she plunged to her death.
He thereby preserved the security of the mission at the
cost of his own life. Captain Cromwell earned the Medal
of Honor for deep integrity and uncompromising devotion to the
call of duty in the service of his country. But
what he did define the word duty better than any dictionaries.
Speaker 3: And now act too of your truly Johnny Dollar and
the Price of Fame mutters. A priceless original royal painting
stole him from a home of Vincent Price, famous radio
and picture star. One of the few people who'd had
the opportunity was a man who sold him the insurance
on it, but Parkner. Together we went to Parker's office.
It's for State Mutual in downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 59: It was on the sixteenth that mister Parker phoned him
to say he wasn't feeling very good, wouldn't be in
fair day or two.
Speaker 3: It was on the fifteenth that he was at your house, Vincent.
Speaker 13: Yes, that's over two weeks ago.
Speaker 3: And you haven't heard from him since.
Speaker 59: This Prince, No, mister, we've tried calling his apartment since
it hasn't done anything really pressing here at.
Speaker 3: The office address of his apartment please, Well it's out.
Speaker 59: In Westwood fifteen, No.
Speaker 3: Eight Tandora Avenue. Well, Vincent, I'm going out there. I'll
call it you if I find a.
Speaker 13: New transportationar aty Jarney by.
Speaker 3: The highest price you're four in the country. Sure, why not?
Speaker 59: Oh before you go, mister Price, I wonder.
Speaker 3: If I.
Speaker 13: Why didn't you get Johnny dollars? Miss Fredde he loved
to give us. Oh no, no.
Speaker 3: It took a little persuading, but the landlord at Britz
surprive and finally led us into his foreum sweep. It
was empty except for a few old clothes, and it
was obvious that he packed and was in a hurry.
I rummaged around on the closets, the tables, sure what
cool as to where he might have gone, and came
up with nothing.
Speaker 13: Give up Johnny vans and of a fridge salt. I
poked around that desk for more after you'd finished year
and found this wedskin behind a drawer.
Speaker 3: Travel folder, Harrods.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it looks real fresh too, Minor.
Speaker 3: Travel agency, Beverly Hills.
Speaker 13: Well, what do you think?
Speaker 3: Pretty much in a long shot.
Speaker 13: But they do pay off sometimes, don't they?
Speaker 3: When the troops from myself, Yes, sir, first class all
the way. What was the departure d mister it's see
first class. Great to pray, Oh, brother, Paris is a
pretty big place.
Speaker 13: Did you make any arrangements for him? For after he
got there, only for when he alive reservation that the
lou boys what the hotel?
Speaker 3: Little boys to press, That's what I said, first class tools.
How do you wanted something not too far from the month, Maury?
Speaker 13: If you don't, that's what I said.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Now, can I fix you gentlemen up with some
plane reservations tool? Or suppose you get me the same
flight heat Chuck, and I'll stop at the same hotel.
Speaker 13: And I guess, hey, wait a minute, journey, You're not
going to leave me out of the well.
Speaker 3: Look, I'm still playing a long shot vents in a
very long well.
Speaker 13: What's the difference.
Speaker 3: Also, I don't know if my expense accout will get
by the Home Office sent accounts.
Speaker 13: Forget it. I'm having a ball. Mister Miner's start making
those reservations.
Speaker 3: Expense account had a two nine hundred and eighty four
dollars for the plane to parents. Well turned out to
be the most interesting fight I've ever made because of
the company of Vincent Price an amazing conversation list. He
could talk about anything, including arts, and he has tremendous
sense of humor. So, as he put it, we had
a ball the time we took off an ally is
all the time We sat down a little boget Adam
three five twenty American taxi into the Hotel of War,
where the manager was well somewhat helpful.
Speaker 17: Maybe maybe the Missy Parker leave off, but only two
days ago after some slightly sumbers standing about the ladision
the deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah you mean he was running out of money.
Speaker 13: I did not say that. That's what you meant, isn't it.
Speaker 14: You don't want he.
Speaker 3: Spent his time around here.
Speaker 17: Both of course, his business, he says, took him constantly
to move mo where in momark Ah?
Speaker 14: Who is to know?
Speaker 3: That's why? Saying somewhere in Brooklyn, Boklean.
Speaker 13: Perhaps you know my cousin Danny Johnny. I just got
an idea. Sure, works of art, even very good ones,
they're sometimes sold in rather well, rather unorthodox way. They
go through some rather stage hands. Another was sold over
they so to speak, by reputable dealers. You know what
I mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah, But how to contact the kind of people might
have you got any ideas?
Speaker 13: Why don't you just go on enough to last suite
and get tight for a while. I'll you what I
can dig up.
Speaker 3: You are keeping something from the Vincent.
Speaker 13: But Johnny, there are some things even funk peep from wagons.
Speaker 14: How do you name?
Speaker 3: Act free of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 22: In a moment, our flag now numbers fifty stars, and
behind each star there stands yet another flag, representing one
of the fifty states. West Virginia's state flag depicts that
principal pursuits farming and mining. Cross rifles and the Frygian
cap of Liberty indicate that freedom and independence have been
won and will be defended and maintained by arms, typifying
the independent spirit that was responsible for forging the state
from the chaos of the Civil War. The West Virginia
flag carries the mottel Montani cent Ferre Leberi Mountamier is
always free men. West Virginia state flag, the flag of
the thirty fifth state who enter the Union, was adopted
on May seventh, nineteen twenty nine.
Speaker 3: Now Act three of yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and the
price of fame matters all of kay romantic paris just
outside the door, and time on my hands.
Speaker 13: Now what did I do?
Speaker 3: Vincent Price's advice. Went back to my room at the
Hotel of Uan, waited two three, four hours twenty, shortly
after APM Vincent came in during a couple of packages.
Speaker 13: Arty have made you wait, Johnny Vets, I think I'm
on the trail.
Speaker 3: Of something for me, like you've been on a shopping
spree cross journey for you. Have you found out where
Brig Parker is?
Speaker 13: No, but I think you will? Yeah to time.
Speaker 3: What's this all about? A ten gallon hat?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I had to guess it.
Speaker 13: You at side?
Speaker 3: Well, where in Paris did you find this?
Speaker 13: Try to?
Speaker 3: Oh what are you? Holy? What am I supposed to
be a refugee from Texas?
Speaker 13: Exactly? You made it in Oil? Well, your name is Matthew.
Speaker 9: Hah.
Speaker 13: You're over here to see the sights, all the wild
night life you've heard about the forty there's there rue
blondello plastic bigan. You try on this shirt?
Speaker 28: Oh?
Speaker 3: Brother, Look, I don't know what this is all about.
But then't we better get something to eat? Trya and
you know I'm taking into one of the world famous
restaurants in US.
Speaker 13: Maybe tomorrow. Yeah, good, that shirt's going to be all right.
Speaker 3: What do you mean tomorrow?
Speaker 13: Yeah? Now stick this genuine simulated imitation diamond tad sticked
him in the front. One minute, I'll do it for you. Yep,
what the fan day you are?
Speaker 3: And with this big hunk of glass on your finger
there now, oh you look, I'm hungry.
Speaker 13: Well maybe you even get food where you're going?
Speaker 3: Why do you think I've gone.
Speaker 13: On this ring, you little joint and the rue Blondell
called the Bowmac.
Speaker 3: What am I supposed to do there?
Speaker 13: If I go there? The prosperous see would have Oh Vincent,
remember you made it in oil?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but Vincent.
Speaker 13: Also you're interested in art, and your name is Mack.
Look what it is anyway, journey, the taxi that's waiting
for you out front knows exactly where.
Speaker 14: To take you.
Speaker 3: Obamacavra was really a joint. It was dirty, and the
people packed like sardines, and it were dirty too. Characters
who made a business of being characters, and everybody streams
of everybody else except that is, but the warming little
man who taddled up to the postage stamp sized table
on which my glass and a bottle of wine were balanced.
Speaker 13: You have down you you I'm to match.
Speaker 3: I not I try. I'm pasty. No, oh yes, sir, father,
great inglorious State of Texas. Then I'm for yourself a glass?
Speaker 13: Is there?
Speaker 14: Renee? Who was?
Speaker 3: They called me like I grievous?
Speaker 14: What's that? Man? Well?
Speaker 13: Well, what do you call it?
Speaker 3: Degree cats? Hey, that's cutter than the name of my
old friend kyote Bell.
Speaker 8: Will do you enjoined the parish night length?
Speaker 25: Uh?
Speaker 13: You know something?
Speaker 3: I'm getting fed up with it? Yeah, I think I'll
just buy me a couple of nice pitches and going
back home.
Speaker 8: What's kind of picture?
Speaker 14: Well?
Speaker 3: Good ones? Oil pitches like that, Mona Lizzie. I've seen
a delivery you know, all good.
Speaker 14: Ones on me?
Speaker 13: Well, like a jombati.
Speaker 3: Have you mean you know where a man could get
a hold of a genuine one of them with for
a price?
Speaker 9: Have coring?
Speaker 13: Well, listen, I got.
Speaker 3: Money and I'll spend it. Why offer them five hundred
thousand dollars to that, Mona Lizzie? But they turned me down.
But if I could get a hold of a genuine bathtist, well,
pardon you just named the part?
Speaker 8: Oh wait, I make no promises one to me. I
do have a friend and christ like consideration.
Speaker 3: Lay your price and take me to it.
Speaker 8: I would be waiting for you at the corner with
the taxi.
Speaker 13: And that's just what you call it. Okay, okay, I
shall be waking.
Speaker 3: I'll be there, Pardner, you bet I will. And I'd
certainly like to know how Vincent said.
Speaker 9: This up.
Speaker 3: The tanks. He dropped us off at one of the
most disreputable looking apartments in the whole accurrent, my friend,
who called himself a great cat, looked carefully around before
entering the front door. Then we climbed four flights of
a dark, musty stairway.
Speaker 13: Not to remember, my friend, you are not to pay
the price he has that trick.
Speaker 6: If you like, I would make the arrangements for you.
Speaker 3: Now, that would be right friendly, are you, partner? But
how would you come out on this?
Speaker 13: Well, only I ask mature is ten percent of what
q PA and.
Speaker 3: Maybe a little extra from him for bringing me up here.
Speaker 13: Oh monsieur, now don't give me that parton.
Speaker 3: I've been around. I'm wise to how you fellas operate.
If I can get a hold of a real genuine Baptist,
usually she.
Speaker 13: Yes, who is it?
Speaker 8: I have brought a friend, met Matthews from Texas. He
would like to bribe the knights wind by battis, that is,
if it's genuine, genuine profet genuine.
Speaker 3: There on the table.
Speaker 13: Can't you see.
Speaker 3: Yourself as the steel it? Oh no, well, well bird Parker,
that's right, insurance investigator.
Speaker 49: And to get to Oh I believe I just remember
somebody's waiting for me.
Speaker 13: That's right. I am mister price.
Speaker 8: Oh no, don't beat your price, but I'm as gold.
Speaker 13: With under fee for taking care of mister dollars.
Speaker 3: Listen, both of you, please, I'll give you back the painting.
I'll do anything you'll ask. I'll drop that.
Speaker 13: Oh, dear.
Speaker 3: Robinson, there is and I looked like the company has
saved a two hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 13: I have a concession to make about that journey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like how you happen to know the way to
the painting through that squirmy little fellow who brought me here.
Speaker 13: Oh that's how I got hold of the back piece
in the first phase. The lovely thing, isn't it? Yeah,
certainly in journey it is worth one hundred thousands.
Speaker 14: Oh, I'm sure.
Speaker 13: But the truth of the matter is I paid on
the three hundred dollars for it. Oh no, I'm so sad.
Speaker 3: Well you've got it back thanks to your own efforts
to sera thanks.
Speaker 13: To your being the front bend. If I tried to
get it back myself, these people would have run like
scared rat.
Speaker 3: All sure, sure, just tell me one thing. Why aren't
you an insurance investigator?
Speaker 13: Well, you know it's every man to his own. Well,
after all, weren't you an actor. Let's get out of here.
Speaker 3: This position of Britt Parker or less entirely after the company. Vincent,
now that he has the painting back, doesn't care one
way or the other. However, from the company's standpoint, well
it's not the kind of black eyed that's good for you.
Expense account total including incidentals and transportation back to the
States two three and forty one dollars, remarks Well, the
Vincent price my eternal thanks not only for the help
on this case, but most of all, because it's given
me a chance to really know him. Yours truly, Johnny Dallars.
Speaker 58: Our star will return in just a moment. Famous words
of wisdom spoken by great men of thought, never die,
but are carried on through history by the people who
feel them and love them. When Benjamin Franklin said, they
that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Speaker 14: He was speaking for all men in all countries.
Speaker 58: In May nineteen forty five, when the first Marine Division
was making an assault in Okinawa, pharmacists mate William D.
Halliburton Junior, serving with a Marine rifle company, left displace
of safety during a terrific counter attack by the enemy.
In spite of the deadly accuracy of the concentrated fire
around him, Haliburton unhesitatingly dashed across a draw and upper
hills into an open bombarded field to render first aid
to a fallen marine. When his patient was struck a
second time, Haliburton placed himself in a direct line of
fire in order that he might shield his patient and
continue to treat him. Though he could have sought safety
until his company advanced and covered him, his first thought
was for the wounded man. It was only when the
splashing fury of the shrepnel and bullets mortally wounded him
that Halliburton was.
Speaker 14: Unable to continue his duty.
Speaker 3: His unwavering code of conduct.
Speaker 58: In the fight for liberty earned him his grateful country's
highest award, the Medal of Honors.
Speaker 3: Now here's our star. They tell you about next week's story.
Next week the heightest sunny Southern Jersey and a case
that took a very sudden, very strange twist. Join us,
won't you, yours truly, Johnny Downes, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar starrying.
Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood and is produced and directed
by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote today's story. Heard in
our cast were Virginia Gregg, Junius Matthews, Tony Barrett, Wace Lewis,
Howard mcneer, and of course our special guest, meant Some Price.
Be sure to join us next week, week, same time
and station for another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
This is Dan Coberly speaking.
Speaker 13: This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
Speaker 1: Welcome back a really great episode. Bob Bailey and Vincent
Price work great together with some really fun banter. We
also get the introduction of the Great Cat, who'd make
a few more appearances during the Bailey run. The one
missed opportunity for me when I was commenting on this
was that the ten gallon hat should have called to
mind the killer's brand matter where he got tossed in
a trough, if he wasn't wearing a cowboy hat. If
they happen to have any water troughs in Paris, Johnny
would have been safe anyway. All right, Well, now it's
time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and
I want to go ahead and think Daniel. Daniel's been
one of our Patreon supporters since August of twenty twenty four,
currently supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of
seven dollars and fourteen cents or more per month. Thanks
so much for your support, Daniel, And that's actually all
for today. Please let me know if you enjoyed this episode,
and I'll think about whether we'll do one of these
next year. And if you had a favorite episode from
this past season that I didn't play, I'd also love
to hear about it.
Speaker 14: And we will be back.
Speaker 1: Actually next Sunday we will be featuring an episode cross
posting from The Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio, something
from the current series we're doing that seemed pretty relevant
to the great actives and also an opportunity to share
what's being played over there right now. But we will
be back tomorrow with Danger with Granger.
Speaker 60: Where As the car read towards me, I turned myself
back to the shutter of the sidewalk. My body hit
the ground. I thought, my stch I scraped the side
of the car as it went past and disappeared. I
barely escaped from a deliberate rundown, I said for a while,
getting my breath back. Then ahead of the cabin, went
to see the nervy comics strabodies. He showed me it
was studying, and I told him two things. One, the
guy he claimed that called into Jersey denied having done it.
Speaker 13: Two the attenth on my life.
Speaker 14: That's terrible.
Speaker 13: Are you sure it was you really tried to run
down I was the only one crossing the street.
Speaker 4: This is making me more worry than ever.
Speaker 60: How about a big I could sure use one.
Speaker 3: I read for the maid.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,
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