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All Right, so it's time now to open up the
casebook of Gregory Hood and the title of this episode
is Murder and Celluloid.
Speaker 3: Every Wine brings.
Speaker 4: You the case Book of Gregory Hood. Tonight, the Petrie family,
the family that took time to bring you good wine,
invite you to listen to the story of Murder and Celluloid,
another exciting adventure from the case Book of Gregory Hood.
As for me, I'd like to know if you're planning
to have chicken for dinner any night this week, because
no matter how you like that chicken roasted, fried or
in the stew with dumplings, you like it a lot
better served with a glass of Petrie.
Speaker 5: California So Turned.
Speaker 4: Now there's something to talk about, chicken and Petri so Turn.
Speaker 3: Petri So Turn is a clear.
Speaker 4: White wine, delicately fragrant, and what a flavor that Petrie
wine has. It's well, all I can say is it's
the wine you've been looking for, a wine that brings
you the luscious flavor of big, plump, sunripe and grapes.
And say, Pettere So Turn is not only great with chicken,
but you like it served with fish or any.
Speaker 3: Kind of seafood too. So try a bottle of so Turn.
Get pet Tree So Turned. Those letters p E t R.
Speaker 4: I always spell good wine pet tree Wine. Well, it's
Monday night in San Francisco and we have a date
with Gregory Hood. Tonight's rendezvous is at his apartment high
on Knob Hill.
Speaker 3: And overlooking the Golden Gate. Let's join in there, shall we?
Hello Gregory, hurry poter, come on in. I was expecting you.
Where's Sandy Taylor? And night Greg? He grew up to
Vancouver today. There's some legal business he had to attend
to for me on a shipment coming in from the Orient.
I'll be back in a few days. Class of Sherry Harry.
Speaker 4: Thanks well, Siamese Cat a new addition to the manage.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, Sam's an old retainer. He's been up
at my place at Russian River. I ca him down
with me this morning. Mighty friendly. What did you say?
His name is, Well, officially it's Singing Low, but his
host of friends decided it was too dignified a name
for such a whimsical character, so he was christened Sam
Thurber Greg.
Speaker 5: And am I crazy?
Speaker 3: Or is Sam cross eyed? Oh? Yes, yes, he's cross
eyed and his tail's broken. But he has a delightful,
dusky little soul.
Speaker 5: Heaven' you Sammy.
Speaker 4: Well, Sam has another fan.
Speaker 3: Now, thanks Greg, And now I know, I know you
have that Monday night look in your eye. You want
a story out of my Casey book. Correct, And from
the hints you gave us last week, it sounded as
though you had quite a special one lined up. Oh
it was a strange business, Harry. The whole thing happened
in Hollywood. What were you doing down there? Greg? Metropolis
Studios were making a picture called Passport Danger, and my
old friend Ray Hanson was directing it. The story was
about a girl who inherits an importing business and gets
into a struggle between her private life and being a
career woman.
Speaker 5: And you would call in as a technical adviser.
Speaker 3: Well, not quite that, Harry. Ray called me one night
and said that he had some headaches on the importing
business angle of depiction till the next morning. I hopped
into my beachcraft and threw down to the City of Celluloids.
As you know, I'm something of a groom, how well
I know, So it was only natural that my lunch
that day was eating at the Brown Derby in Hollywood.
As I entered that star studded home of good food.
I was greeted by Bill Chilliers. Mister Gregory Hood. It's
good to see you back in town. Hello, Bill, it's
good to be back. I have you used a table
for you this way? Please? Thanks?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: By the way, Bill, I hope that on this trip
you will break down and give me the recipe for
that cob salad. I don't know if mister Copple alknit
till oh. Come on, Bill, Bob Cobb and I are
old friends, he'd approve. Well, mister Hood, here's your table.
I know you start off with three kinds of lettuce, romaine,
chickory and iced letters. Break it up very crack, mister Hood.
Then your slice hop, some bacon in tiny stripes, some
chap tire. So when it comes to tease, yeah, oh
excuse me, Bill. Who's that girl sitting two boots away?
Speaker 4: Miss Sheila Gray, one of our best movie comedies and
radio commendator.
Speaker 3: I thought it was I must go and talk to her.
I'll get the rest of that recipe from you before
I go. Bill. Very well with I heard Shela Graham.
How nice to see you.
Speaker 7: Again, Gregory heard I heard you're in town.
Speaker 3: You did, I only flew in this morning. You get
your news past, Sheila.
Speaker 7: Nice spies are everywhere, Gregor is in this case. I
met Ray Hanson at the beach party at Malibu last night.
You told me you were coming.
Speaker 3: What brings you to town, Gregory, said, she whipping out
her golden ever shark.
Speaker 7: Certainly your news, Gregory, famous important man about town and
amateur detective flies into Hollywood. I mentioned it on my
radio shop.
Speaker 3: I heard you had a new show, Sheila, And what
time is it?
Speaker 7: I must catch it Sunday nights eight forty five on Mutual.
Speaker 3: Her nicely spoken, I shall listen.
Speaker 7: Thanky kindly. And now, greg which about starlets is responsible
for your being in town?
Speaker 3: Well it isn't a girl this time, Sheila. I came
down to give Ray Hanson the little health on the
importing business for passport to Danger.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, that's the Nedda Mason and Norwood open Sonny
thin Nedda's having luncheon with me today.
Speaker 8: Have you met her?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: No, but I hear she's what is known technically I
believe as a dish.
Speaker 7: A little too highly spiced dish for my liking.
Speaker 3: At she a good corpete. I did meet a Ane
Norman isn't she sweet? I fell hopelessly and head over
heels in love with her. It seems impossible that an
eight year old girl can be a movie star and
get to be so utterly unspoiled.
Speaker 6: Here comes Neda Mason.
Speaker 7: Now what'll you switch on the personality?
Speaker 6: Hello? Nedda Sheila Darling?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: I said terby sire may? They simply marved me for autographs?
Speaker 7: Do you know Gregory Hood?
Speaker 3: That's a Mason? How do you do so?
Speaker 6: You're the famous Gregory Hood?
Speaker 5: Ray told me you were flying down.
Speaker 3: You're going to help us on.
Speaker 6: The picture, aren't you?
Speaker 3: If I can?
Speaker 6: It's a marvelous script. And I've got a dream of
a part.
Speaker 4: And Sheila Darling the clothes all Adrians Diami is the
most heavenly outfit.
Speaker 3: I think I must be a niceis is my dear?
Speaker 6: I just can't keep away from mirrors these days.
Speaker 3: Excuse this?
Speaker 9: Heard?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, Bill, but it's a young way. They waited
for you at the table. There is excuse Michela, see
you again before I leave. I'm greg and I still
met you, miss Mason? Well the studio, Well, well, Miss
Anne Norwood.
Speaker 6: He didn't mind sitting down at your table give you.
Speaker 3: I'm very flattered, and I had to see you along.
Speaker 6: That's why I didn't come up to the other table.
Speaker 3: I saw miss me and you don't like her?
Speaker 6: Isn't exactly that? So I do think he talks off
as loudly.
Speaker 3: Don't you?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 6: And I do, mister Robin Hood, go a detective, aren't you?
Speaker 3: In an ameter way? And incidentally I am The name
is Gregory, not Roberts.
Speaker 6: I know, but I think you're just like Robin Hood,
and he was wonderful, and so I think of you
that way.
Speaker 3: I'll admit that my prices might be called stealing from
the rich, and I do give to the poor, but
that's where the resemblance ends. I'm afraid, Anne, but I'm
very flattered that you think of me that way.
Speaker 6: I do, mister Heard. That's why I've come to you
for help. You see, my daddy's dead now missing a
man to talk to.
Speaker 3: Of course you do, Anne, you go ahead and talk.
Speaker 6: I have a very a very serious problem.
Speaker 3: I need a detective, Dear me, Anne, Whatever is the matter?
Speaker 6: Somebody has stolen my map, my SuperMap. I've been working
on it for weeks and I'm good at math. Too.
I leased my teachers as I am.
Speaker 3: But what kind of a map was it?
Speaker 6: It's something I invented. It's full of thought and secret
weapons and dockyards, and that's been stolen.
Speaker 3: But when did you see it last? Anne?
Speaker 6: This morning? It was in my portable dressing room in
the studio. I was working on it between scenes. When
I came back just before lunch, it had gone, Oh dear,
at kinds of money? I'm dueling.
Speaker 3: You're frightened me.
Speaker 9: Why did you just live away like that?
Speaker 6: While I was balking the car, I had to see
mister Hood. Mommy, this is mister Robin, I mean Gregory Hood.
Speaker 5: How do you do, mister Hood?
Speaker 3: How do you do? I do? Sit down with you
for mon Andrew.
Speaker 5: You haven't been bothering misster Hood, have you not.
Speaker 7: A bit of it?
Speaker 3: She knew that I I was an amateur detective, and
she came to me with a problem. I'm very flattied.
Speaker 6: You see your money, Murphy. Suppose God and mister Hood's
going to find it for me? Aren't here.
Speaker 3: I'll do my best, Anne, Who do you think might
have stolen it?
Speaker 6: I think it was miss mad and Mason. It must
have been either her or Major Courtney. They were the
only two people in my blessing room to day.
Speaker 3: It's that mother, Major Courtney. That name seems familiar, is well?
Speaker 6: I suppose you might say he's terribly stuck on money,
and that's not very nice.
Speaker 3: What branch of the army is he? And missus Norwood?
Speaker 6: Honestly I don't know, and if.
Speaker 3: I did, I shouldn't think it's all so terrific.
Speaker 6: Sec doesn't even wear a uniform.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you what. Let's do you both have
lunch with me. Then we'll drive over to the studio
and see if we can find that map for you.
Speaker 6: And oh, mister Hood, you're so wonderful. This is my
dressing room, mister Hood.
Speaker 3: Do you like it very much? Anne?
Speaker 6: You don't think it's a little young for me?
Speaker 3: Do you?
Speaker 6: Mother had it decorator?
Speaker 3: And I think it's perfect for your personality? Clean and
fresh and cool, mister Hood.
Speaker 6: You'll say, the loveliest thing. Are you married?
Speaker 3: No, Anne, I've always been waiting for the right girl.
Speaker 6: Keep waiting, mister Hood. She'll come along.
Speaker 3: I just know she will very well. Anne. But while
I'm waiting, let's see if we can track down that
map for you. Where did you last see it?
Speaker 6: Was I on a dressing room table.
Speaker 3: Here. When you leave this dressing room and go before
the cameras, do you lock the.
Speaker 6: Door always, mommy, never forget.
Speaker 3: And the arrangement of the door and window in here
sets that no one could have slipped in a hand
to here, or sneaked in and storm it.
Speaker 6: Left it in this Never Mason, or make you curt me.
Speaker 3: Yes, it looks like it. And yet, Anne, I can
understand someone wanting one of your mets. But if he did,
he'd ask you for it. He wouldn't steal it. But
if the first and whoever it was, thought it was
one of major cort News maps, it would be different.
Speaker 6: Would be different. Mister Hood.
Speaker 3: Your mother hinted that he might be in special service
for the army. You said your map had force some
secret weapon sites on it.
Speaker 6: Now do you see, Anne, Yes, mister Hood, and that
I mean miss Nan a Mason's a spy. Oh goodie,
this is fine.
Speaker 3: No, no, darling, you mustn't go around saying jes a spy.
I'm just dreaming up a very wild part. The chances
are that the gust of wind came through the window
and blew your map out into the studio.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I like it so much better the other way,
mister Hood, frank Man, So do I come in?
Speaker 3: Hello?
Speaker 6: Anne Darling, Hello mister This is a very great friend
of mine, mister Gregory Hood, mister carying the lead in
another picture on the.
Speaker 8: Lost So, yeah, isn't this yours? I founded on the
studio floor.
Speaker 6: It's my map, It's my super mare.
Speaker 3: Oh you see it wasn't stolen after all, stolen?
Speaker 8: Annie? Did you think someone had stolen your map?
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 6: It's an awful good map.
Speaker 3: Uh. I hear that you're a amateur detective, mister Hood
in an unapprocive way.
Speaker 9: Why hell, I was wondering where Annie dreamed up the
idea that her map had been stolen.
Speaker 8: I guess you put her up to it, do you.
Speaker 6: Well? It's a bad guest, mister. My name isn't Annie.
Speaker 8: It's okay, honey, don't get mad at me. I was
just trying to be funny.
Speaker 3: Yes, Charlie, I'm the set please versal of the next scene.
Speaker 9: Okay, Charlie, see you later, and nice to have met you,
mister Hoods And goodbye.
Speaker 3: Mister Yes, sir, you know.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry. My map was fine so easily. Why dear
you won't detective on me anymore? And I was having
such fun had been stolen, mister hood?
Speaker 3: I miss, well, since I'd dreamed up a hypothetic occasion
in the beginning, I might as well give you a
hypothetical solution.
Speaker 6: You use such lovely words. What does hyper What does
it mean, mister hood?
Speaker 3: I meant that we were still playing. Let's pretend the
map was stolen. Let's suppose the thief thought there were
plans of major cortners and he stole them. When he
examined them, he found they were harmless, so he threw
them away. Mister Fremont found them, knew that you were
quite a math maker, and brought them.
Speaker 9: Back to you.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, mister Hood, I bet that's what happened.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't take the bad and let me look at
the map with him.
Speaker 6: Of course, I'll do one for you to love.
Speaker 3: Naturally, I'd like it very much. That's odd. What is it,
mister hood? The red marks on the corner of your map,
and they are made by nail polish that hadn't quite dried.
Nao polish of a peculiarly horrendous shade of purply Crimson,
exact shade that Miss Neda Mason was wearing at the
Brown Derby today.
Speaker 6: Perhaps she is a spy after all.
Speaker 3: Perhaps look, Anne, even though you've got your map backed,
I might as well follow this business through. There's something
funny going on here.
Speaker 6: I think so too, mister Hood. I just know miss
Amazon to spy.
Speaker 3: Let you look at those eyes of herd Yes, Anne,
I got the slam. Let's go to her dressing room
and talk to us, shall we?
Speaker 6: This is a dressing than mister Hood. You better knock.
Speaker 3: I always knock in. It's lucky.
Speaker 8: Hello, mister Latimer's my dream boat, Annie.
Speaker 3: How are you, darling?
Speaker 6: Mister Latimer, I just call me Lou.
Speaker 5: Say you're Greg Hood. I know about you.
Speaker 3: You sell old Haunts of Ivory for big Do in
San Francisco, and you're an amateur slut who can show
up the pros. And you're a wolf in good stand. Listen, Lou,
I also pack a mean lift. Mean it up a
little character, oh little lord father, right character?
Speaker 8: How okay?
Speaker 3: Speak me to a pulp and call me juicy a
get it pulse juicy over lo it gives me ideas character,
but death Listen, I'm handling the publicity on this little
super dupic colossal Honker picture. I've got an idea it'll
sway you. Greg I'm mortal just like the next man.
But I listen to it later, right now, And and
I want to see Nedda Mason. Is she in her
dressing room? Oh?
Speaker 6: Death?
Speaker 3: She went in about a half an hour ago, and
I've been sitting here ever since, dreaming up. I did
anyone else been in to see her? Natch? Philip Fremont,
the alleged actor, went in. Also Major Courtney, the man
of mystery. They both left Novo so and I'm going
in the loan stay here with mister Lackerman with you?
Speaker 6: Why can I go with you?
Speaker 3: Mister hood? You know how it is. And you're a
sophisticated girl. When you go to see a beautiful spy,
you go alone.
Speaker 6: I know. It's just like in the funny. I think
she was a dragon lady. He wasn't want another woman,
got me alone.
Speaker 3: That's right, An, You're very understanding. I'll be back in
a moment. Ah Cha Okay. Greghead is a definite character,
but in Dube, I love mister hood, why not, Jenny. Oh,
by the way, greenboard, I've got a terrific angle for
you on this picture.
Speaker 6: Oh no, not as good.
Speaker 3: Oh, this one's a natural, honey child, We give you
a big balloon. See it has passports to danger printed
on it. Now passports, though backwards is crop sap, says
I don't look, baby, Crop sap is the name of
a cereal. See. And we get them to ask you
why you're so healthy, and you say you always breakfast
on cropsapp because backward it spells passport And that's in
the title of your super duper smasher. Will you get
it in?
Speaker 6: I don't eat topock. I've never even heard of it.
I wouldn't tell a lie.
Speaker 5: Why, she says.
Speaker 3: Yet listen, honey job, you're not getting a point. It's
a big ball Maybe we throw it up with the hydrogen.
Speaker 8: But you see it's got this billboard on each side
of it.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 6: And when they ask you.
Speaker 3: D I'm glad you are that your mother left the message.
She wants you to call her back at the brown Derby.
Speaker 6: It's quite important, all right, mister hood, wait here for me.
Speaker 3: Welcome, Yes, and I'll wait. What's the matter, pal, you
look at this good? Soon a ghosts I have throws
the studio gates and send for the police.
Speaker 1: The police.
Speaker 3: What's wrong, plent here? Miss Nedda Mason's lying in her
dressing room. She's been strangled.
Speaker 4: Oh you'll hear the rest of gregory hood story in
just a second. So I'm going to tell you about
a red wine. It's really marvelous with any kind of
meat or meat dish. The wine is Petrie California Burgundy.
Petri Burgundy is a rich, full flavored wine.
Speaker 3: A wine's so unusual that it can turn a simple
meal into a real feast. For proof, next time you
have hamburgers or your favorite kind of stew for dinner,
serve it with a glass of Petri Burgundy. Your whole
dinner becomes more colorful. And as for the wine itself, well,
Petri Burgundy will make you smack your lips for fair
and just sigh with pleasure. Be sure you get Petri
Burgundy because Petree is always good wine. Well, Gregory, so
you've found that a Mason strangled in their dressing room.
Run what happened when the police got there? Well, lou Letimer,
the publicity man, persuaded me not to send for them
right away.
Speaker 4: He probably figured that you could solve the case, hand
the killer over to the police, and so avoid as
much publicity as possible.
Speaker 3: Correct Harry somewhat grudgingly agreed, and so, having gotten little
Anne Norwood safely out of the studio, Lou Latimer and
I went back to the dead girls dressing room, where
I began to search for anything.
Speaker 4: Greg.
Speaker 3: Not so far, Lou, except that the thumb month show
she was strangled from behind. No chance of identifying them. Unfraid.
Speaker 5: See Greg, how do you figure this killing?
Speaker 3: It's a hard one to figure. Maybe the explanation I
had lived at the studio for Anne Norwood's benefit might
fit for killing advance. Well, it looks simple enough to me.
I saw Nedther walk into her dressing room. I was
sitting outside it until you came out. Apart from yourself,
only two people went in, Major Courtney, the man of mystery,
and that Ham actor Philip Freemont.
Speaker 8: It must be one of that.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, No, we've got a clue. What's clenched in
her right hand? Huh looks like some kind of ten
It's a sigma zi key. What SIGMA'SI, an honorary fraternity
for science, a sort of scientific equivalent of five bit
of Kappa. But there's no name on this key, so
you still don't know which one of the two it is,
which one of the three?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 5: How do you figure three?
Speaker 3: Right? Proving it's two only rests on one thing. Lou,
your word alone, that makes you my friend. The third suspect.
Speaker 7: Sheila Graham speaking, Hello, Gregory, what's on your mind?
Speaker 1: I need some help?
Speaker 3: Can you give me an effects on for a three
month's educational background?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 3: I can.
Speaker 7: I did a piece on him the other day. He's
a college man, got into acting through the hasty putting
lub at Harvard, majored in English.
Speaker 3: No science, Sheila, No, greg.
Speaker 7: See do you know lu let him?
Speaker 3: A publicity man at the Prolis know him.
Speaker 7: He tested me almost day, Why, Gregory.
Speaker 3: Well, how about his educational background?
Speaker 7: Well, Lou claims that he graduated from high school.
Speaker 3: Personally, I'd say that.
Speaker 7: If he ever got beyond the fifth grade, I'd want
to see the proof.
Speaker 10: Oh, thank you, you're a remarkably well informed You're a goodbye, missus.
Speaker 3: Norwan. Why did you bring Anne back here to the studio.
Speaker 6: I simply couldn't keep her away, mister Hood. Where is
she now in addressing room talking to Major?
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm anxious to meet him.
Speaker 6: We'll come along, then, let's go. Where have you been?
I've missed you?
Speaker 3: Well, I had a little business to attend to.
Speaker 9: Anne.
Speaker 6: I wanted to meet Major Cotney.
Speaker 3: Mister Greg, how do you do? Major? Hello? Mister even
Hann's just been telling me about you. She's a rabid
fan of yours as I am of hers. In fact,
I've quite.
Speaker 6: Lost my heart's Well, doesn't he say the most beautiful thing?
Speaker 3: Major Courtney? I wonder if you and I could take
a stroll. I'm most anxious to speak to you alone. Well, yes,
I suppose so, I.
Speaker 6: Want to come with you, mister Hood. Arno, you heard
mister Hood says that he wanted to speak to Major
Courtney alone.
Speaker 3: Don't worry, Anne, we'll be back in a few minutes.
You're being very mysterious to her. I didn't want to
talk in front of end. You knew about Nedda Mason,
of course, find if I ask you some questions now,
fire away? Would I be right in thinking you're a
government technician? That's a question I can to answer. Who? Then?
Will you tell me if you studied science and college? Yes,
I made it in it, then doubtless you're a member
of Sigma's Eye. Yes I am. May I see your
pretended the key, but I don't wear it often. I
don't know where it is right now. Look, I don't
know what you're driving at, but I'm not used to
being cross questions like this. Sorry, but I'm going on
with it. Why did you call on Nedda Mason in
her dressing room this afternoon? That is none of your business.
Then let me do a little guess work. Major, I
think you suspected Nether Mason of being involved in espionage activities.
Perhaps she displayed too much interest in your briefcase and
you went in to talk to her about it. Listen, Hood,
if you must know, when I went into Nedda's dressing room,
I found her, murdered, found her or left her that way, Major,
you're barking up the wrong tree, my friend. And if
I were free to explain a few things to you,
which I'm not, you believe me.
Speaker 7: Hy Gregory, there you are.
Speaker 3: They're looking all over a lot for you.
Speaker 8: Are you coming?
Speaker 3: I think we're on the last laugh Lou, Let's tell
me one thing.
Speaker 8: Sure, what is it?
Speaker 3: Pal? Is Philip Fremont's picture shooting this afternoon?
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're on stage eight.
Speaker 3: They're shooting a big gun battle scene right now.
Speaker 8: I just left there.
Speaker 3: You want to come over, Yes, Lou, I do want
to very much. All right, all right, that's all for today.
We'll pick up the reverse off in the morning. Hey,
I like, Hey, Gregory, we can catch Fremont before he
gets back to his dressing room. Yes, let's go on
the set and talk to him. Come on, Major Courtney,
keep a weather eye open, Hood and maybe leading with
our chin. I know, Major, but we have the advantage
of surprise, I hope.
Speaker 8: Oh hello, miss Freemont.
Speaker 9: Well, Gregory, Hood didn't know you were on the SETO
bad you weren't here earlier.
Speaker 8: We were shooting some good stuff. Stay by the way,
can you get here in the morning. I've got several
terrific scenes.
Speaker 3: Then, too bad that you won't be playing them, Premont.
I what you Meanhood, call the police loop for the Premont,
your murderer, Premont. That was my hunt two Hood, stay.
Speaker 9: Right for y'alllou and that goes for the rest of them.
Don't you see, I'm still carrying my revolver.
Speaker 3: Yes, a revolver containing blanks. You've just used it in
the scene.
Speaker 9: Oh no, no, I have another one in my pocket,
a revolver containing live shelves.
Speaker 8: I've switched them and I shoot expertly through the pocket.
Despite the tailor's bills. You're not getting me arrested. I'm
clearing out.
Speaker 3: Why did you strangle? Never Masons?
Speaker 8: Because she was stupid that she quarreled with me.
Speaker 9: In any case, that girl who can mistake the map
of an eight year old child for a valuable map
such as the Major carrieres deserves to die.
Speaker 8: She was no more use to us, us being your
fascion superiors. Of course, correct, Major caught me a g two.
Speaker 9: You didn't think fascism was dead, did you, just because
you and your boys kill a few.
Speaker 8: Germans all the words?
Speaker 3: All right, we'll never call it pascism again, but you'll
be hearing from us. From you, we'll only hear a
faint squeal from the gas chamber preemonth.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you'll never get me.
Speaker 9: Oh, by the way, hood, I knew you were pretty smart,
but I didn't think you'd spot me.
Speaker 8: What mistake did I?
Speaker 3: Make in leaving that Sigma Z eye key in the
dead girl's hand. Yeah, but greg you said that he
didn't have any name on it exactly. That was the point.
For any genuine key such as Major Courtney own has
the name on it that's not Major, Yes, invariably, so
the absence of the name suggested that it was a
dummy key. You were playing a scientist in your picture, Fremont,
and so you were obviously wearing a propke to give
authenticity to the pot call us of you to let
the dying girl wrench it off your watch chain and
the struggle, Yes, wasn't it.
Speaker 8: I must watch blunders like that in the future, Gregoryhood,
I don't like you. Gunfire is pretty common on this set,
and I think I'll give you a little treatment. Fremont.
You haven't a chance of getting out of this studio.
Speaker 3: You should know that, and.
Speaker 5: Think of the policity will give us.
Speaker 3: Well, it'll be terrif it'll be sent off.
Speaker 8: Will you, little rush? What are you saying, mister Gregory?
Ought to mind your own business? Hood, I'd say, look
out above you. You expect me to pull it? Got it?
Speaker 3: A pulling paint bucket knocked them out cold.
Speaker 8: But you're lupty greg.
Speaker 3: Fine, detective. I am saved from being shot only by
a freak accident.
Speaker 6: Cheaper he look up there on the catwalk.
Speaker 3: It's a little and no and darling, how can I
thank you? Yes, darling, it's a day and you dance beautifully.
Speaker 6: I'm afraid I'm a little shocked for you, though not
a bit of it am I like my women fatigue.
Speaker 3: By the way, young lady, perhaps you will tell me
how you happen to be up on the catwalk this afternoon.
Speaker 6: Well, miss, when you went out of my dressing end
made courtney, I could see your face that something was wrong.
I got scared for you, so I stepped out of
a dressing woman.
Speaker 3: And shadowed me.
Speaker 6: Yes, I got to stay k ahead of you and
find the ladder to the catwalk so that I could
see what was going on. There's heten to see.
Speaker 3: That when I talk about not seriously, but you stunned
him and probably saved my life. How can I ever
repay you?
Speaker 6: Well, there is one way, mister hood.
Speaker 3: What is it you told me.
Speaker 6: That you've never married because I hadn't met the right
Woman's right Keep on waiting, mister hood, please keep on waiting.
Speaker 5: Greg, that was really a swell story.
Speaker 3: But what a detective you turned out to be. Why, Harry,
what do you mean I solved the case? What more
do you want? Oh?
Speaker 4: I know, Greg, but over let's the fact that that
gun might have real bullets.
Speaker 3: But if it hadn't been for a I know, I
know it was a slight oversight on my part. But Harry,
I can make a little mistake now, my Now, Harry,
don't stand there and tell me you never make a mistake.
Speaker 4: Not when it comes to choosing a wine. I don't
because I always choose Petrie wine.
Speaker 3: I don't know why I bother talking. Oh, yes, you'd do.
Speaker 4: You like to hear about good wine just as much
as the next Fellar and I like to talk about
Petrie wine because Petrie wine.
Speaker 3: Is good wine. Well, it's just got to be. After all,
the Petrick family has been making wine for generations.
Speaker 5: Why making is their heritage? A heritage passed on down from.
Speaker 3: Father to son, from father to son, from generation to generation.
It's easy to understand why the Petrick family knows so
well the art of turning ruscious, sun ripened grapes into fragrant,
delicious wine, and it's easy to understand why the Petrie
business has grown and grown so but today the Petrie
family area's largest independent wine maker. Yes, the making of
Petrie wine is a family affair, and the Petrick family
intends to keep it that way because by so doing
they can be sure that every bottle of wine that
bears the name Petrie is and always will be good wine. Well, Gregory,
which particular story from the case book you have lined
up for us next week? Next week, Harry, I'm going
to tell you about a strange woman who claimed to
be able to see into the future. She predicted two
violent deaths with fightening accuracy. The third death she happened
to prophesy I was my own. See you next Monday, Harry.
Speaker 4: The Case Book of Gregory Hood is written by Dennis
Green and Anthony Boucher. Original music composed and played by
Dean Fossler. Gail Gordon plays the part of Gregory Hood.
The Petri Wine Company of San Francisco, California invite you to.
Speaker 3: Tune in again next week, same time.
Speaker 2: Same station.
Speaker 4: The Case Book of Gregoryhood comes to you from our
Hollywood studio.
Speaker 5: This is Harry Bartell saying good.
Speaker 4: Night for the Pettere families. Well, it's solid, all of
exciting mystery dramas. Listen every Monday on most of these
same stations at eight o'clock to Michael Shane, followed immediately
by the Casebook.
Speaker 3: Of Gregory Hood. This is the mutual broadcasting system.
Speaker 2: Welcome back. Well, I have to say that is a
fantastic way to tease the next week's show and give
us away less than the Nick Harter teases that we get.
Speaker 3: And I enjoyed the.
Speaker 2: Story as well. We don't get enough precocious child actors
in these mystery dramas. And I'm just continuing to enjoy
this series. And you have Harry Bartel very charming and
decent cases every week. This is definitely an underrated series
and I hope you're enjoying it as well. Well, we'll
be back tomorrow. We are continuing on with the Alder
Matter and next week join us for another episode of
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