Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from
Boise Idahol. This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment,
we're going to be in our journey into the world
of Tarzan. But first I do want to encourage you,
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future chapters in this series. Tarzan is one of the
most iconic and recognizable literary heroes of the twentieth century,
also inspired plenty of imitators, such as Marvel comics, Kazar
character or parodies such as George of the Jungle. Tarzan's
basic origin is fairly well known as a child whose
parents died and was subsequently raised by apes, and in
a way, you can almost see Tarzan as a forerunner
of all the sort of orphan heroes that would populate
popular entertainment in the twentieth century. Tarzan started out in
the books of Edgar Rice Burrows with the first Tarzan
novel in nineteen eighteen, the character made the leap onto
the screen with a series of silent films, and in
talkies would become even more popular. There were many actors
who played the role of Tarzan, and in some cases,
as occurred with a few Hollywood characters, different studios got
the rights to different stories featuring Tarzan, so you would
have actors who's run as the character would overlap. But
Johnny Weissmuller emerged as the definitive Tarzan, his distinct Tarzan
yell becoming a really big part of the character going forward,
and of course Tarzan came to radio. The first series
starred James Pearce, who played Tarzan in the silent film
Tarzan and the Golden Lion, and featured Pearce's wife and
Burrow's daughter, Joan Burrows, in the role of Jane. Now
there are surviving episodes of that series. However, there's a
big storyline that is not complete in the extant episodes,
and it doesn't break down nicely into serialized stories like
one adventure right after another in the same way that
Superman Light. So we won't be playing that. We'll start
with the follow up series, which was heard in two
serials that were each thirty nine episodes in length, and
they starred Carlton Kadell. Long time listeners to The Great
Detectives podcast will be somewhat familiar with mister Cadell's work.
Although a slightly different role than Tarzan. Kadell played Jonathan Kig,
the ever vigilant and eager to offer his services for free.
A meekis Carrie I created by Earl Stanley Gardner. There
were two separate serials, The Diamond of Ashore and The
Fires of Tour, and will be playing the Diamonds of
Ashore now. One thing that's worth noting is that in
nineteen forty, because this was syndicated and was re aired
on different stations repeatedly, Burrows had an advertisement added encouraging
people to get the novel Tarzan and the Forbidden City. Now,
Tarzan in the Forbidden City was serialized in Argacy and
released as a novel in nineteen thirty eight. It's not
necessary to understand it to understand this story, because it
was released after this serial and so seems to be
a novelization of sort. I will try to check it
out and kind of see where it might diverge from
the serial or where Burrows, taking advantage of the novel format,
is able to add some more detail. With thirty nine episodes,
we will be bringing you three episodes per week, which
means that this serial will take thirteen weeks to get through,
as well the next one and after that there are
self contained half hour episodes of Tarzan. So I expect
that we will be listening to this character for the
next couple of years. But now let's get into today's episodes.
From May fourteenth, May sixteenth and May eighteenth, nineteen thirty four,
here are to this week's episodes Mistaken Identity, the Map
and a Wolf among the Sheep.
Speaker 2: Arsan and the di'mond The Bars Chair. The following inaugural
chapter of the new Tarzan Radio series brings to radio
and to Tarzan's many thousands of friends highly new story
of strange and thrilling adventure. Jane Porter, her father, Samuel T. Falander,
and Cecil Clayton have left Africa. Clayton subsequently has confessed
that he is not the true Lord Greystoke and has
died of board ship, and so Tarzan of the Apes,
Mighty Hunter, Lord of the Jungle has come into his
name and title John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, Tarzan and his
friend Paul Darnold, French naval lieutenant of the African Patrol Service.
I've traveled up the coast to low Ango, a French
African port, where Darno is awaiting a ship to take
him back to France. To night, we find the two
friends at the close of dinner in the grille of
the Metropoli, discussing future plans.
Speaker 3: Happy Antarza mun Ami. Now that you have become an
English lord, what are you going to do?
Speaker 4: My title, Lord Greystoke means nothing, gives me another name.
I have no use for the estates and fortune I
can do without.
Speaker 3: But you, except to return to the Gngle. Why not?
Speaker 4: It's my home, the only home I know and love. No, Donald,
I'll stay here. I'm going to miss you, my friend.
Speaker 3: Yes, and I shall miss you. Who why not return
to Paris with me? Eh, the lakes, the boulevards, the
Musique calm com you can well afford it now.
Speaker 4: I don't enjoy the comforts of civilization as you call it.
What I've seen of it and the people who live
by its laws, which I don't understand, are shallow, false
My boulevards are the elephant trails, my lights, the sun,
moon and the stars.
Speaker 3: I'll stay here, hm, and I cannot say that I
blame you. But this Greystoke fortune, your fortune? Now? What
are you going to do with it? I don't know.
I hadn't thought about it, but you must Tarzan. May
I offer a suggestion, what is it? Why not use
the fortune in establishing a plantation here in Africa? If
you insist on remaining in the genre a plantation?
Speaker 4: What for all Africa is mine, all that has not
been spoiled at the tarmangany Tarmangani.
Speaker 3: You do not admire the ways of the white man,
do you? But what about Mademoiselle Jane Jane? What about
her abieen? Now that Clayton is dead, she is free
to marry you. You will marry her? Eh?
Speaker 4: She wants time to convince her friends that she is
not bearing the Greystoke title in marrying me. I don't
understand her reasons, but I'll go to America in the
year and grastow.
Speaker 5: Here are lady and gentlemen who are asking for you.
Some friends of yours in London suggested they look you up.
May I present mister Gregory and his daughter, Miss Gregory,
Lord Greystoke and Lieutenant Donna.
Speaker 3: How do you doing? Shown well? Daughter? Have you lost
your voice?
Speaker 6: Mister Mitchell has presented Lord Greystoke and Lieutenant Donoh to you.
Speaker 7: Oh, I beg your pardon, gentlemen, But good grief dead.
Don't you see the resemblance Lord Greystoke looks enough like
Brian to be his twin brother.
Speaker 3: Why bless me so he does?
Speaker 6: Excepting for that scar on your forehead, Greystove, pardon my
mentioning it you might very easily pass with my son.
Speaker 5: By jove, Yes, remarkable, what I knew him rather well?
He offered it here at low Angle for his tip
into the interior, and that's the last we ever heard
of it.
Speaker 8: You wanted to see me, mister Gregory. Won't you sit down?
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you?
Speaker 6: Well, you see it's like this. We stopped at the
Ritz in London a chance to meet him. Maud and
Lady Tennington when they learned that daughter and I were
coming out to Africa, they insisted that we look you
up as being the.
Speaker 3: Only man who might help us.
Speaker 8: Lord and Lady Tennington now are very good friends.
Speaker 3: Le'd on when they are.
Speaker 8: Indeed, I'll be glad to help you in any way
I can.
Speaker 6: Well, Greystoke, we've come out to investigate the disappearance of
my son Brian.
Speaker 7: You see, my brother came to Africa two years ago
with an expedition sent out by the Field Museum of Chicago.
Chicago is my home, you know, And they went into
the Belgian Congo specimens of gorillas.
Speaker 9: Yes, it's been a year since his last letter.
Speaker 7: He wrote they were outfitting here in lu Ango for
a second trip, and that they were on the track.
Speaker 9: Of smoking eights.
Speaker 6: Talking apes was in sounds ridiculous, doesn't it, gentlemen. But
Brian was pretty level headed and he wouldn't go trapsing
off into the jungle unless he had some idea of
what he was going after.
Speaker 7: Well, anyway, when the expedition returned to Chicago, they reported
Brian as missing.
Speaker 6: They didn't report him as dead, No, Greystoke simply as missing.
Four of the original expedition died or killed on the
last trip into the jungle corillas, However, they were accounted for.
Speaker 3: My son simply vanished.
Speaker 6: The trace of him or a particle of his clothing
was ever found, though they searched for days.
Speaker 3: Said they trangh strange. Now it would be logical to
assume that if a wild beast had been because of
his death, traces of his torn clothing would most selftinly
have been found. Me.
Speaker 7: Yes, well, that's exactly what we think, Lord Grace too,
and that fact has convinced us that Brian is.
Speaker 3: A lie bottom more Madmoiselle, Yes, boy, what is it?
Speaker 9: A note for the sipe?
Speaker 3: There a note for me?
Speaker 9: Yes, sa the then Scipe. She pointed to Master and said,
give note.
Speaker 3: To big side. A woman? Who is she? All right here?
That'sh for you. It's funny, darnold. I don't know any
women in long Ago can't be openly paper and read it.
Speaker 5: Excuse me, miss Gregory, listen to this, arnold. I am
waiting in the little salon beside the main entrance. I
must see you immediately, extremely urgent.
Speaker 3: Margra magre mag a most peculiarly are a big Perhaps.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 5: This isn't meant for me. There are many big men
in the room. I'll return it to the womay back
in a minute.
Speaker 3: You will excuse me. A moment.
Speaker 4: A page brought me your message madam. He insisted it
was for me. Of course there has been a mistake.
I return it to you. Oh but there is a mistake,
then what do you want?
Speaker 10: Is it possible that you do not remember me?
Speaker 9: Magra?
Speaker 11: Strange that Brian Gregory is so soon forgets his friend.
Speaker 3: What did you say, Brian Gregory?
Speaker 11: But Brian Gregory, you cannot fool Magra. We have not
seen each other for a long time, yet mag has
not forgotten.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, but I've never seen you before that moment.
Speaker 8: And my name is not Brian Gregory, so you are.
Speaker 11: Not Brian Gregory. I am so sorry, but do not
turn out. It would be dangerous for you. Lu'll task
you cannot have forgotten him. Also, he's directly behind you,
and I know his knife. He's touching your back.
Speaker 3: Say cat quiet, Margra, what do you want? H That
is better.
Speaker 12: We want only that you go with Margra where she
will take you very well.
Speaker 11: No, you're around, Please we will cross the lounge as
the old friends we are.
Speaker 3: And be careful.
Speaker 12: Gregory, make no sign or do not stop to talk
with anyone.
Speaker 4: Put your knife away. I'll ask if that's your name.
I'll go with a woman without the knife in my back.
Speaker 3: We go where to a room on.
Speaker 11: The floor above, where you will meet Anna the old friend,
and where we may talk quietly without interruption.
Speaker 10: Come Brian Grigory. It has been a long time since
we have seen you, my friend.
Speaker 11: Now, Brian Gregory, you have changed somehow, and Margaret like
you better as you are.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you are talking about.
Speaker 10: On these stairs. This way, A few steps and we
are there.
Speaker 4: I have friends waiting for me downstairs. Let's get this
over as soon as possible.
Speaker 11: That will depend entirely upon you, Brian Gregory.
Speaker 9: Here is the room.
Speaker 10: One moment and there, please, Brian Gregory. We have brought
Brian Gregory to you.
Speaker 12: Attan Tom, you have done well, Margrat and you all
task be seated.
Speaker 3: Brian Gregory.
Speaker 4: You two think I'm Brian Gregory. Eh, Now you've all
made the same mistake. I tried to explain to these two,
but they insisted. However, loll Task's knife was unnecessary.
Speaker 12: Perhaps, but I did not wish to accept the chance
of a refusal.
Speaker 3: But it is beside the point. You are here, and
you are Brian Gregory.
Speaker 8: All right, have it your own way. Now, what do
you want need?
Speaker 3: There? Be any doubt as to that.
Speaker 12: Come the point, as you wish, I am prepared to
offer you ten thousand pounds sterling for the map.
Speaker 3: The map? What map? Come come? Brian Gregory?
Speaker 12: Do you take me at antone for a fool? You
know very well that I speak of the map showing
the location of the city of.
Speaker 4: Our Share, and you are willing to give ten thousand
pounds for it.
Speaker 3: Ten thousand pounds sterling not enough?
Speaker 5: Twenty my friend, you would be safe in offering me
twenty millions.
Speaker 12: I've never heard of so nor map. So you are
not Brian Gregory. You have never heard of our Share
and know nothing of any map.
Speaker 3: Remarkable.
Speaker 4: It's plain you've all mistaken me for someone else. I'm
sorry I can't help you, but I am not Brian Gregory.
I've never heard the name before tonight.
Speaker 12: It is useless to deny your identity. Brian Gregory. To
one knows you so well. Have you forgotten that I
witnessed a fight between you and Gomez in which you
received that scar on your forehead.
Speaker 3: Eh.
Speaker 4: I received this scar and a fight with bulgun with
a gorilla minutes ago.
Speaker 12: Gomez was strong, Gregory almost as strong as a and
yet you killed him, and very soon after vanished from
the expedition. They thought a lion at Maul gomezin that
you've also been killed. But I knew differently. You went
alone to search for the city of our share.
Speaker 4: Very interesting, though. I'll go on about my business now
and leave you to yours.
Speaker 12: One moment, my friend, your identity and refuse my offer,
possibly because you wish to keep the Father of diamonds
for yourself when you find it, eh, But I am
determined to have the diamond myself now.
Speaker 3: You will not refuse this.
Speaker 8: No, don't worry, mar I'm not afraid of his gun.
Speaker 3: There is an easier waymaster, and one less noisy. Loll
tasks knife lolld tasks knife. Yes, yeah, that is better.
Speaker 12: A shot might possibly be heard outside this room, even
though the gun has a silence.
Speaker 3: Unless you produce the map at once, you will not
leave this room alive. I shall count three and then.
Speaker 12: Loll task knife one two.
Speaker 2: Donald, meanwhile, worried at the prolonged absence of his friend,
learns from Mitchell, the hotel manager, that Tarzan was seen
mounted the stairs in the company of a man and
a woman.
Speaker 3: A man and a woman, Monsieur Mitchell. Yes, by Joe,
and looks she was to lieutenant. Please come with me,
Monsieur Mitchell. Lord Greystoke would not remain away from his
friends unless for a very good reason. You don't think
there's anything wrong. I don't think I know, Mitchell.
Speaker 5: Listen by jove By say there seems to be a
Bali rawan there in two hundred and four.
Speaker 3: On No open the door, Tarzan, it is locked.
Speaker 5: Come on, Mitchell, right, old Chat, now together, turn on
the Lightesta quick breast What in the name of ten
thousand devils the window?
Speaker 8: This must be on the brand, but there is. They
can't be very far all the manager for bally ra
I didn't see you, Mitchell. I've had a little argument
with some of your guests.
Speaker 5: Argument Great Scott Greystoke. It sounded more like a war
of extermination. And by Joe it looks worse. Who's that
you got there? One of your guests. He tried to
knife me and you better get him to a hospital,
of course, old Chat. But what happened This fellow and
some others got me up here thinking I was Brian Gregory.
Speaker 8: They threatened me, and well I had to fight my
way out.
Speaker 5: That man on the floor, I've never seen him. This
room is assigned to a gentleman by the name of Tom.
Speaker 3: Well, it's all over.
Speaker 8: Get this fellow to a hospital and I'll question him later.
Speaker 3: May Tarzan. There is more to it than that.
Speaker 8: No, all there was to it, Darno. I'll handle this
my own way.
Speaker 3: I understand what I mean.
Speaker 4: Then we'll rejoin our friends in the grill and Mitchell
say nothing about my being mistaken for Gregory's son.
Speaker 5: Of course, dot old chat and you say you know
best how to handle the situation.
Speaker 4: And you look after this fellow. Yes, I'm on, Darno.
Let's go downstairs.
Speaker 3: Hello Moo. What is this all about?
Speaker 4: I don't understand it myself, but there's some connection between
these people and Brian Gregory. I stopped you from talking
about the note and the woman before Mitchell, Well, she
tried to help me, help.
Speaker 3: You after deceiving you. How did you get into that room.
Speaker 4: When they kept on insisting I was Brian Gregory? I
went out of curiosity.
Speaker 3: But who is that man upstairs with Mitchell? He was
most certainly or the combat.
Speaker 5: They call him Lal toss lal tas Yes, love cask
a Mongolia or Tippeton.
Speaker 3: But how do you suppose the others got away so quickly?
Speaker 8: There's a stairway leading down to the garden from the
side baranda.
Speaker 3: Of course, your compond and the men who got away
with the woman who was he Atan Tom.
Speaker 8: He appeared to be their chief Artan.
Speaker 3: Why if I am not mistaken, Aartan means chief in
the ancient Egyptian or Kaldian language. And so you see
this woman try to help you after getting you into
the difficulty strange moon.
Speaker 4: I mean, yes, she called a home not to shoot
when he threatened me with the gun and switched off
the lights.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you all about it later, I know.
Speaker 8: Remember not a word to the Gregory's.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry to kept your waiting, mister Gregory, but you
see some of Greystoke's friends who were so delighted to
see him, they did not wish to let him go.
Speaker 3: But suppose we step into the alcohol where we may
be alone. Eh Now, you were saying, Mademoiselle Gregory, when
we left, I was.
Speaker 7: Saying that, because no visible trace was found of Brian,
we think he must be still alive.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't bank too heavily on that. It's possible, but
not probable. What do you intend doing.
Speaker 6: It's my intention to organize an expedition immediately go in
search of myself.
Speaker 8: You, miss Gregory, I'm going with dead.
Speaker 3: Of course, I.
Speaker 4: Strongly advise against such a plan. I think you should
return to London or await the outcome of the expedition
in Nairobi.
Speaker 6: I've done my is to keep Helen out of this,
but she's a chip off the old block. I suppose
once her mind's made up, there's no stopping at.
Speaker 5: Have you any idea, Gregory, as to what part of
the country your son was in or making for when
he disappeared.
Speaker 6: All I can tell you is that he was somewhere
the junction of the Ubangi and Congo rivers, at least
that's where his last letter to Helen said he was going.
Speaker 8: Where was that letter.
Speaker 7: Posted right here in Lulango. It was the last letter
we had the souvenir. He sent me a map of
the country he was going into a map sort of map. No,
I don't imagine it's at all accurate, because it's one
he sketched himself, but we thought it might help.
Speaker 8: Are there any towns or cities marked on.
Speaker 7: Yes, there was a place called a Jacker at the
bottom of the map. Then there was a Ubangi River
with several places named, and a range of hills and mountains.
And oh yes, on the other side of a circle
marked two en Baker extinct volcano, there was a cross
with the words under it, A share must be about here.
Speaker 9: I'll go up to our rooms and get the mat.
Speaker 4: Never mind, I look at it in the morning. You're
sure that cross was marked our share?
Speaker 9: Oh yes, positive, Lord Greystoke, do you know the place?
Speaker 4: I I've heard of it, and not long ago. Did
your brother in that last letter mention any friends such
as Magra or lal Task or Home Tom Tom?
Speaker 6: Why Randolph one of the men who was with the
expedition mentioned that name and his report when they returned
to Chicago.
Speaker 3: A man by the name of Tom and a.
Speaker 6: Woman supposedly his daughter joined the expedition on this second trip.
Speaker 3: You don't mean to tell us, you know, Lord Greystoke.
Speaker 8: I've had the.
Speaker 3: Pleasure of meeting them once.
Speaker 2: In a heavily curtained back room of a musty and
insignificant curio shop close by the hotel. Margra and Artan
Tom discussed the latter's unsuccessful attempt to gain possession of
the Map of Our Share from the supposed Brian Gregory.
Speaker 3: No, Margaret, there is no doubt about it.
Speaker 12: The man's voice build even the scar on his forehead,
proved him beyond all doubt to be Brad Gregory.
Speaker 10: Then why should he wish to conceal his identity?
Speaker 13: Diamond of our Share answers that question that you do
not think he has a but he has something of
equal value, the map showing the location of the mountain
of Tuanbaka, in which the city of our Share, according
to the legend, is located.
Speaker 3: The father of diamonds, Macra.
Speaker 10: Is in our share, But how can you be sure
that anti map is.
Speaker 12: Gregory was with mccombo, the greatest of the House of
Witch Doctors, when.
Speaker 3: The old man died.
Speaker 12: He tended mcumbo to the last and received through the
old one's gratitude the legend of the hess Syrians and the.
Speaker 3: Great Diamond and the Map.
Speaker 14: Macomber drew a sand map for Gregory, which Gregory copied
on the height of a leopard with his own blood,
and later recopied with the story of the legend in
his diary.
Speaker 10: And which without his knowledge you found and read. Why
did you not make a copy of the map?
Speaker 3: I had no time. Gregory was suspicious of everyone.
Speaker 9: You spoke two nights ago.
Speaker 10: You knew he had been to the city of last
year and had a skipped.
Speaker 3: That was a shot in the dark. After the body
of Gomez was found prison.
Speaker 12: Probably killed by wild beasts, Gregory vanished. Gregory killed Gomez
because he tried to steal them up and the diary
containing the legend of the Hessipharians.
Speaker 10: And you think Brian Gregory went alone in to the
city of Ashi.
Speaker 12: Yes, that is why I abandoned the expedition and left
you a new movie in I returned to search for
Gregory with his map, I would have found this city
and the diamond.
Speaker 11: What if Grian Gregory has from the city, why should
he be here now?
Speaker 12: He probably discovered that he could not enter a share
single handed, so he returned to organize an expedition. You, Margraham,
must manage to join that expedition and get the map.
Speaker 3: Understand Magra understands.
Speaker 2: In the Metropold Grill, Helen Gregory and her father are
discussing their proposed expedition with Tarzan and Donald, with the
hope of finding, if not their brother and son, at
least some place of him.
Speaker 4: This man Tom. Did he and his daughter return to
America with the expedition, Gregory?
Speaker 6: No, Randav said they left the expedition shortly aft to
Brian disappeared.
Speaker 8: They left the safari in the jungle alone.
Speaker 3: I believe.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 3: Of course, they took a few bearers rather an unusual
procedure in this part.
Speaker 4: So I was thinking, and when do you want to
start with the interior, Gregory, Just as soon.
Speaker 6: As possible, your advice, Grace still could be unbearable.
Speaker 3: According to Lord and Lady Tennington, there's no one who
knows the jungle.
Speaker 6: Better excepting a man whom they referred to as Tarzan.
Speaker 3: Tarzan.
Speaker 9: Yes a peculiar name, isn't it?
Speaker 7: But Lord Tennington said, if we could get this from
Tarzan to take charge of our expedition, we'd have no
trouble and we would find Brian, if he is still alive.
Speaker 8: Whether he'll go with you or not, I can't say.
Speaker 3: What do you think, Donald Muship, it is perceived. I
may even say it is very probable.
Speaker 9: Do you know him to Lieutenant.
Speaker 3: Mademoiselle Gregory, I can say that Tarzan is the best
friend I have or ever shall have. Yes, I know
him very well. When can we see him Graystow? Is
he town now?
Speaker 4: Yes, he happens to be in long Ago. I'll have
him here in the morning. They'll take breakfast with you. Now,
Lieutenant Donna and I have some business. You'll pardon this,
will say good night.
Speaker 9: Good night, Lord Grastowe. Don't forget your friend ard a breakfast.
Speaker 3: He'll be here good night. But gus on what business
can we have at this time of night?
Speaker 8: We're going to the hospital.
Speaker 4: I want to question, Ah, I see.
Speaker 5: Both.
Speaker 8: The hospital's right over there, and we'll be back in
a little while.
Speaker 3: Okay, why did you tell Madmoiselle Mishell Gregory that you
are Tarzan? I don't know why didn't you tell them
the same reason? I imagine it would have ruined a few
very amusing moments at breakfast tomorrow. But here is the hospital.
Shall I go in with you? Yes? Good even, gentlemen.
What can I do for you?
Speaker 4: A man was brought here from the metropol a little
while ago, where you came to see him?
Speaker 15: Oh, yes, yes, mister Trosk gets something like that, but
it's pretty late to see patients.
Speaker 4: Now, this man is a police patient to be held
for questioning. That's why we're here.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, in that case, it comes this white place.
Speaker 15: He was brought over by a couple of hotel porters,
but there was nothing said about his being a police patient.
Speaker 8: We put him in his end room.
Speaker 15: Here, mister Trosk, someone to see you, say, mister Trosk,
he's probably a sleep set mister Trosky.
Speaker 4: Wake up, one woman, doctor low Task, wake up, oh, doctor,
this man is dead dead.
Speaker 8: Is this the man who was brought from the hotel.
Speaker 3: He's the only patient to come in tonight.
Speaker 4: Well, either someone else was brought in his place, or
our man escaped, probably through that window.
Speaker 8: This man is not low Task.
Speaker 2: The greg no the ape Man only as Lord Greystoke,
and question him regarding Tarzan, who has been recommended to
them by Lord Tennington, as being the only man in
Africa to help them withholding the fact that he himself
is the man for whom they have inquired, The ape
Man promises to present Tarzan to them at breakfast next morning.
As the scene opens, we find Tarzan and Darno preparing
to descend to the breakfast room.
Speaker 3: Hello, I me, I would not miss this morning for
all the golden Opah. Why not have you forgotten our
breakfast engagement with monsieur Mademoiselle Gregory. Oh, that to mi,
Lord Greystoke will be very amusing when they meet Tarzan.
But you have been out this morning already where I slept?
Speaker 4: Yes, I have been to the hospital Lal Task has
definitely disappeared.
Speaker 3: So and what about the dead man we found in
Task sped and oriental?
Speaker 8: No identification on him and body knows him?
Speaker 3: Pray dear hm? And what are the woman?
Speaker 8: Magra and Tom both vanished?
Speaker 3: What do you think? I don't know?
Speaker 4: I would certainly like to understand the connection between Dan Gregory,
Margaret and Tom.
Speaker 3: Do you suppose they could have been on friendly terms
at one time?
Speaker 4: No doubt about that, at least as far as Margaret's concerned.
Tom spoke last night as though I, or rather Brian
Gregory had been in this city of our share, had
seen a diamond which he called the father of diamonds
and escape.
Speaker 3: And did you mention the talking apes? Yes? He called
us share the place of the talking apes. Have you
ever heard of such a tribe of apes in Africa.
Speaker 8: To me, they are all talking apes.
Speaker 4: The language of the apes of Kerchak is understood by
Menu the Manky, as well as by Borgani the gorilla.
Speaker 3: And that note Ami sent you by Margra simply a
means of getting you up to that room.
Speaker 4: Man, I've been thinking about that. Why should she do that?
Then try to help me.
Speaker 3: Later whipa woman the eternal Enigma. She is strangely contradictory
at times. But if you already we shall join Mammoiselle
Gery and her father, a very shunning young lady, Mademoiselle Gregory. Yes,
I suppose she is. Yeah, then they are probably awaiting us.
Do you think this man Tarzan will take charge of
the Gregory Safari.
Speaker 4: I've been thinking about that too, Donald. Those people know
nothing about the jungle will be murdered to let them
go alone, especially since Tennington and Hazel sent them to me.
Speaker 3: Yet, I suppose they could get competent guides.
Speaker 4: With your help, who would desert them, probably at the
first opportunity or sign of trouble.
Speaker 3: We there is always that possibility. Ah, our friends are
already at table.
Speaker 7: What's happened to our friend, Lieutenant Lord Based promised.
Speaker 3: To have you for breakfice, and Lord Greystock, Mademoiselle has
kept his work. He is here, Mademoiselle Monsieur Gregory, to
present my very good friend Tarzan.
Speaker 5: Well, Lord grist what you Lord Gristo Tarzan? So you
are Tarzan himself? Are you no? Whener Tennanton and his
wife appear to be amused, Well, so you are Tarzan?
Speaker 3: Sit down?
Speaker 7: Oh how can you ever forgive me, Lord Greystoke? I
thought Tarzan was a native.
Speaker 8: You don't need to apologize.
Speaker 4: It's no insult to be taken for a native of
Africa because I am just that. And last night, well,
I couldn't spoil Tinton's fun. I enjoyed it myself.
Speaker 3: It was very Amusingum I almost made away last night
when you mentioned Tarzan.
Speaker 7: Tarzan, it sounds nice as though it might have a meaning.
Speaker 9: What does it mean, Lord Greystoke?
Speaker 5: It means white skin, Miss Gregory, in the language of
the great A certain tribe of jungle inhabitants.
Speaker 9: Tarzan white skin? Is that what the natives call you?
Speaker 8: Yes, in certain parts of Africa?
Speaker 9: Oh tell me how did you get the name?
Speaker 4: It was given me by my my foster mother.
Speaker 8: My name is John Clayton.
Speaker 9: Oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 4: Your foster mother was a native of Africa, Miss Gregory.
She was the only mother I ever knew. She gave
her life from me.
Speaker 9: Oh, I'm sorry forgive me out of course.
Speaker 3: But mademoiselle, you have reconsidered about going into the jungle
with your father.
Speaker 9: No, not at all, Lieutenant. I'm going with dead.
Speaker 7: He couldn't get along without me. That question's definitely settled.
Speaker 3: That is that memoide.
Speaker 4: I am going into the interior, Gregory. If you like,
I'll take charge of your expedition as Tarzan. As Tarzan.
Speaker 6: That's fine. If you really mean that, you'd throw out
appreciate it. I'm new at all is having the faint idea.
How where to begin?
Speaker 7: How are we going to know you though, as Lord
gray Stoke or Tarzan in the jungle.
Speaker 5: Miss Gregor, I am known only as Tarzan. Then Tarzan
shall be.
Speaker 7: And somehow it seems more in keeping with the spirit
of the jungle.
Speaker 3: Gentlemen, Wolf and Larson are in the lobby.
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, a couple of guides Mitchell hired to get
our supplies and equipment.
Speaker 3: Whether we take them or not's up to you, Grace Stowe.
Both experts and they know the jungles.
Speaker 5: Send them in right, holl just a moment, Mitchell, what
have you done about Barritt? Oh that's all arranged, and
they'll be waiting for you at Bonger, prepared for an
immediate start.
Speaker 7: And now, if you gentlemen will excuse me, I have
several things to buy. I know you want to talk
business alone.
Speaker 6: Better get one of the hotel boys to go with
your daughter. I don't like the idea of your tricking
around by yourself.
Speaker 3: If Mademoiselle will permit.
Speaker 9: Me over, I mustn't impose it.
Speaker 3: And no imposition, Mademoiselle part de two, I shall.
Speaker 9: Be shot, all right, come on, then we'll see you later.
Speaker 3: Fine, fellow, that frenchman here's more than that. I'm active
duty here is he?
Speaker 4: Yes, the African Coastal Service usually, but right now he's
waiting for the ship to take him back to France.
Speaker 16: Ah, good Morgan here correctly, if he came to tell
you that the equipment and supplies are ready for.
Speaker 6: Shipment, good morning, Wolf Larsen. Then yeah, that's fine. This
is mister Tarzan.
Speaker 3: He's taking charge of our expedition, he spurted me. He's
been pleased to meet you.
Speaker 5: You men know the Belgian Congo above the junction of
the Ubankian Congo rivers.
Speaker 12: Yeah sure, hevans up there three times, Shan Shafari.
Speaker 3: I know that.
Speaker 8: Are you partners?
Speaker 3: It's never traveled.
Speaker 4: If that's what you mean, well, as long as you've
already been hired, it's settled.
Speaker 8: Believe for Bong as soon as possible.
Speaker 16: Yeah sure, I am ready to go on an hour's notice.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, in an obscure corner of a dingy coffee shop,
thom and lautask Are didjusting certain hues which the former
had just heard that morning.
Speaker 3: Every Wolf will verify my guess.
Speaker 12: They are going up the Congo into Belgian territory.
Speaker 3: It was not difficult to buy Wolf, Henry, you will die.
Speaker 12: Yes, Magra and Wolf will be with a gregory expedition
between them.
Speaker 3: They should get the map.
Speaker 10: You believe Margra will be able to join them?
Speaker 3: What excuse will she? That is her fair? If she fails,
there will still be Wolf.
Speaker 12: I've offered him enough money to ensure his loyalty, and
he knows the country he comes.
Speaker 3: Say nothing about last night.
Speaker 16: Well, mister Tom agreed definitely that I go with the
Gregory EXPERTI issue, Yeah, sit down where they're going. Note
of the yupengis junction with the congo. Yeah, at least
doesn't ask me if I knew that man. He he
is the man in charge of the Gregory outfit.
Speaker 3: It's a stranger to me.
Speaker 8: He got the chop.
Speaker 3: I was figuring on greg who knows that country so well?
Is someone else in charge of his safari?
Speaker 16: If that old cook knows the Belgian congo? I am
a chinaman.
Speaker 3: Or you say Gregory is an old man, he's sixty
if he's a day on fresh from the state.
Speaker 12: This is his first trick into the blue and there
was no one else with Gregory son.
Speaker 3: Perhaps when you spoke to him.
Speaker 16: His son, Why that's what he's going into the jungle
for to look for trace of his lost son. The
young fellow disappeared a year ago up into that.
Speaker 3: His last son. Very interesting.
Speaker 16: When they're leaving, I believe by tonight's rivers, steam of
Fonga SAPARi will stop from there.
Speaker 12: They seemed to be in somewhatever to leave low Ango whatever,
or there will be a woman on that steamer tonight,
from whom you will take your orders. She will make
herself known to you through the world our cage. She
will lend you what helps she can in locating and
gaining possession of the map.
Speaker 3: But how to temple? Am I going to get a
map from a man who is not on the boat?
Will be the out.
Speaker 12: Gregory's son, the man for whom they are supposedly searching,
will be on that boat Wolf. He will very probably
remain out of sight until they leave the steamer for
the Junger. He will have the map I see, and
the young fellow is not lost.
Speaker 3: What's the game?
Speaker 12: It is enough for you to know that by bringing
me that map you will receive for your work one
thousand pounds.
Speaker 16: That map must be prett available if you're willing to
pay a thousand dollars ounds for it?
Speaker 3: What is it? Very sure? Maybe you are laboring and
thinking delusion work? No, it is not treasure.
Speaker 12: Are all archaeologists seeking the forbidden city of our share?
That map shows its location. I merely want the honor
of being its discovery.
Speaker 3: That is all.
Speaker 16: Well, it's never heard of any name of a sure.
But one never knows what to expect in Africa.
Speaker 3: You know young Gregory. I I know him very well.
You might describe him, and I could know him when
I see him.
Speaker 12: And Gregory as tall, strong as a water buffalo, and dark.
He can when occasion demands, with a speeding grace of
a leopard.
Speaker 3: He has a broad white scar on his forehead.
Speaker 16: What that is shown, Gregory to choke is on you
to exactly you have described Tarsan Tarsan.
Speaker 8: Listen, both of you.
Speaker 3: I see through last game a moment ago. Would you
ask me what the game was? I shall tell you.
Speaker 12: Ryan Gregory tries to conceal his true identity under the
assumed name of Tarzan because he realizes that I know
he has the map of a Share and that he
is outfitting.
Speaker 3: To go there. And does he know that you want
to me? Yes?
Speaker 12: He also knows that once it is in my hands,
his life is not worth that.
Speaker 3: You are sure he is Bran Craigory to old Man's son.
You heard me say so, did you not?
Speaker 16: Oh?
Speaker 3: I help you say?
Speaker 12: Sul Magrey is a clever woman. She will get the
map by a strategy if possible.
Speaker 3: If she fails, and you.
Speaker 12: Will, But until the map is in your hands, no bloodshed.
Speaker 16: Mark that I understand, but you told Mark this. I
do not mind putting someone out of today for the price,
but I must be sure it is the right man.
Speaker 17: You are taking orders from me, Orf or orders will
be a bit to the letter, or this is your
last fatty welcome back.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, with all due respect, Wolf, I don't think
of you as a rival to Tarzan. Most likely you're
just gonna be an annoyance to him. But overall I
felt these were a solid three episodes. Did a great
job introducing the characters, establishing the settings, and really getting
us interested by raising so many questions what happened to
Brian Gregory? And what is the father of diamonds? And
add in Tom's statement that it wasn't treasure really does
make me wonder about it. Is it really treasure which
the father of diamonds would be?
Speaker 8: That would be my.
Speaker 1: First thought, and he just doesn't want someone as greedy
as Wolf to be aware of it?
Speaker 3: Or if not, what is it?
Speaker 10: Again?
Speaker 1: Really good questions and does a great job drawing the
listener in. Now, if there were anything I would really nitpick,
I think that Tarzan looking like Brian Gregory. It was
a bit of a coincidence. Certainly, these sort of things
were not unheard of in radio programs of this era
and other types of fiction as well. But given the
way that it's resolved, it seems that the only reason
for having them look alike is to quickly get Tarzan
drawn into the adventure. But given all the adventures of Tarzan,
it seems like there'd be a less implausible way to
do it. But I will give this to the writers
that it does get him involved quickly, and that might
be the priority of the writers because this is a
jungle adventure and they want to get this story out
into the jungle and hang about in what's really the
setup for the story more than anything else. Tarzan was
adopted by a she ape named Kula, and her killing
became one of those keystones in his life. The way
he talks about it in this episode probably gives some
key insight as to where he's at and how he
viewsed the Gregories. It shows that Tarzan understands that this
is not something that most humans are going to relate to,
and it also reflects where he views his relationship with
the Gregory's at this point. Yes, he wants to help them,
they seem like decent people, but at this point he's
going to keep the information about himself that he shares
with them very limited. We'll see how that changes throughout
the serial. I also think it's safe to say that
Helen Gregory is not set up as a potential love
interest for Tarzan because of the backstory we did and
how his relationship with Jane at this point is a
bit unresolved. All right, Well, now it is time to
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