Speaker 1: Oh God.
Speaker 2: The Columbia Broadcasting System takes pleasure in bringing you the
Twelve in a series of weekly broadcasts featuring Awson Wells
and the Mercury Theater on the air. Tonight Broadways at Radio,
the celebrated theater producing company brings to life the best
loved character in detective fiction, the immortal Sherlock Holmes. The
play is Austin Weale's own adaptation for radio of William
Gilletten during melodrama, based on the famous stories VI Sarthur
Conan Doyle. Before the performance begins, here is a director
of the Mercury Theater, the star and producer of these
unique broadcasts, Awson Weales. Good evening, Well Tonight, It's back
to Baker Street, back to that unlikely London of the
nineteenth century, where high adventure waits all would seek it
in a handsome.
Speaker 1: Cab or under a gas lamp in an internet keep.
Speaker 3: But tonight we pay tribute to the most wonderful member
that most wonderful world, a gentleman.
Speaker 1: Who never lived and who will never die.
Speaker 3: There are only a few of them, these permanent profiles,
everlasting silhouettes on the.
Speaker 1: Edge of the world.
Speaker 3: There is first a little hunchback with a slapstick, whose
hooked nose is shaped like his cap. There is now
and always will be the penguin footed hobo in the
derby in the back, the small boy with the long,
rusty knight on horseback, and the fat knight who could
only procure a.
Speaker 1: Charge on foot.
Speaker 3: There is also the tall gentleman with a hawk's face
and the underslung pipe before and aft cap.
Speaker 1: We'd know them anywhere and call.
Speaker 4: Them easily by me, Puck and the charge Captain McCarthy, Keilty,
Sir john and.
Speaker 1: Sherlock Combe's now irrelevant as this may seek.
Speaker 3: Williams.
Speaker 4: The Mercury Theater very much occupied for a revival of
a final American art. A lot of people remember one,
which is too much Johnson.
Speaker 3: Its author was William Gillette, which reminded us as it
reminds you of Sherlock Holmes. As everybody knows, that celebrated
American inventor of under acting lent his considerable gifts as
a playwright to the indestructible legend of the Conan Doyle
detective and produced the play, which is as much a
part of the Holmes literature as any of Sir Arthur's
own romances, and as nobody will ever.
Speaker 5: Forget, he gave his face to him.
Speaker 3: For William Gillette was the aquiline and actual embodiment of
Holmes himself. Tis too little to say that William Gillette
resembled Sherlock Colmbs. Sherlock Holmes looked exactly like William Gillette,
sounds like him too. Were afraid and hope that the
Mercury theater and the radio will take none of the
grammar from the beloved fable of Baker Street, From the
pipe and the violin, and the hideous purple dressing gown,
from the needle and the cigar on the window, Ledge
and the.
Speaker 1: Dry final famous lines.
Speaker 3: Elementary, and my dear Watson, elementary, the mere child's play
of deduction.
Speaker 1: My name is Watson. I am a doctor. It was
in the year eighteen eighty that Holmes and I.
Speaker 3: Were introduced by our mutual acquaintance. At the time, we
were both looking for a lodging that would suit our
moderate means. This was found on the second store of
a house at two thirty on the Baker Street.
Speaker 1: And it was during the years that we occupy these
chambers together that Holmes.
Speaker 3: Established his U league international reputation as a consulting detective.
Speaker 1: During that time, I was privileged to.
Speaker 3: Be his daily companions, and I have done my modest
share in giving to the world an account of.
Speaker 1: Some of his most famous cases.
Speaker 3: Most famous of these are the ones which I have
written under the names of the Speckled Band, sin of
for Holland, of the Baskervilles, and the Study in Scarlet.
They represent, however, only a minute faction of the six
hundred and forty three cases Holmes successfully solved during the
years that we shared the lodgings in Baker Street. Other
cases I hope one day to give to the world
include the Talentan Murders, the sudden death of Cardinal Tusker,
the adventure of Ricolette of the club Foot and his
Abominable Wife, the case of Missus Ferrantoge, the Circus Bell,
and the case of the Royal Family of Scandinavia. Each
illustrate in their own way the remarkable genius of my
friend Sherlock Holmes. Since my marriage three years ago, Holmes
has continue to occupy the Baker Street lodgings like himself.
I've hit almost every afternoon when my work in the
office is finny. I am in the habit of calling
on him. The sitting room as you go in is
exactly as it has been for the past thirteen years.
Speaker 1: The worn bare skin rug, the huge sofa covered with faded.
Speaker 3: Chintz, the matter piece cottered with miscellaneous objects on answered letters, and.
Speaker 1: Piles of loose tobaccos on one side of.
Speaker 3: The fireplace, and a deep armchair, this pipe curling forth
slow wreaths of aquid tobacco placed in his hideous purple
dressing gowns. The sherlock Holmes with his violin under his chin.
Speaker 6: An, what's my?
Speaker 1: How are you? Homes?
Speaker 7: Turn to run and see you perfect delighted upon my word.
Speaker 3: I am the size observe as your wife has left
she God on a visit.
Speaker 1: But how do you know? Why did I when I
like that? How do I know anything? How do I know?
Speaker 3: You've been getting yourself very wet lately? That to an
extremely careless serven girl, And you moved your dressing table
the other side of the room.
Speaker 1: Holmes, if you had lived a few centuries ago, that
it burned you alive. Such a confregation would have saved
me a great deal of trouble and expended on me. Now,
how did you know all that? It's too simple to
talk about scratches and.
Speaker 3: Clumsy cuts, My dear felony, inside of your shoe there,
just where the firelight strikes it scratches cuts and they
scraped away. Custed man, this is badly, badly scraped the
shoe along with it as your wet foot. My dear
watsoning are careless, certain girl, all on one shoe? Say
stand to shave the right side.
Speaker 1: I was used to be on the left.
Speaker 3: Light must comes to the other side because they we'll
move your window, must.
Speaker 1: Move the dressing table, of course. But how the deuce?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: My wife was away? Where the juice is?
Speaker 3: Your second wistcit button was? What the deuce is yesterday's button?
Heir doing in today's the tell?
Speaker 1: And why the juice?
Speaker 3: You were the expression of the mass the elementary idea
for elementary the child's players production. I'm only doing it
for your amuse before we pass on to more serious matters.
Speaker 1: Oh, what is it? Novel?
Speaker 3: What's my dear fellow, the enthusiasm which is prompted you
to chronicle? And if you will excuse my saying so,
somewhat to embellish my little adventures. You occasionally seem fit
to introduce a certain element of romance which struck me
as being just a trifle out of place, something like
working in elopement into the fifth proposition of euclid. I
merely refer to this in case you should see fit
at some future time to chronicle a case on which
I'm about to embark, the strange case of Professor Robert Moriati.
Speaker 1: Moriati, I don't remember ever having heard of.
Speaker 3: The fellow no whatt and you haven't the precisely this
quality of invisibility that makes of Professor Moriarty the Poleon
of crime, sitting motionless like an ugly, venomous spider in
the center of his web, but that web having a
thousand radiations, and the spider knowing every quiver of every
well of them, and within forty eight hours I'll have
the lines drawn so tightly around him that.
Speaker 1: He can't move him in his entire gang home.
Speaker 3: This is a very thing at idea, how it's perfectly delightful.
My whole life is spent in a still as a
frantic endeavors to escape.
Speaker 1: From the very commonplaces of existence. For a brief period
I escaped congratulate me.
Speaker 3: The day before yesterday I received in this room the
visit of a certain foreign nobleman was.
Speaker 1: Recently inherited a very considerable.
Speaker 3: Title, and who was about to be married. Seems that
this title of gentleman was still indiscreet as to fall
in love with a young English lady that the name
of Faulkner socially in his inferior, and to make her
a promise of marriage. Later his family's insistence, the things
broken shortly after the broken heart, leaving behind his sister
also considerable evidence from the form of letters, photographs, and
jewelry with inscriptions. These the sister kept. These together with
the sister, are now being held in a house in
Saint John's Wood by a pair of blackmailers who go
with the name of Chetwood. So far as you see,
my dear, what's necessarily ordinate case of direct me, I'll
hand it work my attention. Last night, on my inspection
a certain element revealed itself, which renders the case far
more important than I was expected. And that element was
Professor Moriarty Hellen.
Speaker 8: Yes, gentleman, to see you by the name of Foreman. Yes,
Miss rum coming.
Speaker 3: Mister Foreman andreamingformance pleading with the home Watson Thiss inspector Foreman.
The day before yesterday he ouspied the position of butler
under the name of Judson in the home of mister
and missus Chetwood blackmailers, Sir John's Wood.
Speaker 1: No Foreman, any news.
Speaker 3: Yes, this morning, at the last of nine Chetwood and
his wife drove away in a four wheeler, turned about eleven.
Speaker 1: Basick was with them.
Speaker 3: You know him though years when I last turned the
occasion to meet mister Besick, who got two years for
safe creaking to go on for well, I took this
man Basick in the library. I gotta look at him
from the outside, and there they was opening up the
space where they've been keeping a letter.
Speaker 5: Go on in the end.
Speaker 1: When they got the safe open, it is empty. The
letters are gone. It seems like the folk no girl
gopping back somehow.
Speaker 3: I gotten pretty excited Asik went out to send a telegram.
Speaker 1: Have you got a coffee? Then?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, here it is the some code m.
Speaker 1: Mariati.
Speaker 3: I thought, so, Watson, the case is taking a most
promising turn.
Speaker 1: Foreman.
Speaker 3: He returned once to the house that sin John's Wood.
Then ten minutes I should be there myself, if I
remember correctly. The kitchen is immediately below the drawing room. Yes,
when I knock over a chair in the drawing room,
you will overturn a lamp in the kitchen, scatter.
Speaker 1: Smoke balls, and give an alarm of fire.
Speaker 3: All other instructions remain unchanged. Are you good to hurry foreman?
Speaker 1: Yes, it's a home.
Speaker 3: Well, my dear Watson seems to look like a most
interesting evening, verry good evening.
Speaker 7: My name is Sherlock Holmes, whom whom did you wish.
Speaker 1: The same at the home? Thank you so much, mister Chitwood.
Speaker 3: I myself announced by the butler on.
Speaker 1: My way at last.
Speaker 3: I didn't know very well or here he is? Yet
it's Forkner began as to home to excuse her. She
is not well enough to see anyone this evening.
Speaker 1: Will you please hand this kind of apopt and say
that I take your.
Speaker 3: Pardon at the home. But it's quite useless. Really, Oh,
I'm so sorry to hear it. Yeaes, miss Portner, is
I regret to say, quite an infalid He is unable
to see anyone. Her health is so poor, has it
ever occurred to you, mister Chutwood, that she might be
confined to the house too much. How does that concern you, Hitter?
It doesn't simply make the suggestion atract thing over toobout
his name, Judgson, Very well, Judson, go on, take my
card up. Very good, and this is really too good.
Of course you can take up your card or your
note of whatever it is, if you wish it so much.
Speaker 1: I was only trying to save you.
Speaker 3: The trouble, and thanks had any trouble at dogs and
i's can you know, mister Holmes, you interest.
Speaker 1: Me very much, really on my work. Yes, we've all
heard of your.
Speaker 3: Wonderful methods, your punishing manner in which you've gained information
from the.
Speaker 1: Most tyfling details.
Speaker 9: Now I dare say, in this brief moment or two,
you've discovered any number of things about.
Speaker 3: Me, nothing of consequences, Jadwin, or hardly more than ask
myself why you were still distressed to see me at
this particular moment, and what that can possibly be about
the station in the lower part of that desk, because
you've such painful anxiety.
Speaker 1: Very good, very good.
Speaker 3: Indeed, if those things are only true, now I'd be
wonderfully impressed.
Speaker 1: It would be absolutely crim just a message for you,
mister Jedwood. You'll excuse me at trust it's from his partner. Really,
she begged to be allowed to see you, mister Holmes.
He absolutely implores it. Well, I suppose I shall have
to give way to ask Miss Faulkner to come down
to the drawing room. Is that mister Holmes is waiting
to see her? Very good to quite remarkable upon my soul?
Speaker 3: May I ask, if it's not an impertinent question, what
message you sends up that could throw up aroused Miss
Faufner's desire.
Speaker 1: To come down, And really is that she wasn't down
here in five minutes? Time to go up?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 5: That was it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Quite so?
Speaker 3: And unless I'm greatly mistaken, I hear the young lady
on the stairs, which case she has a minute and
the heart to spare.
Speaker 9: Ellie, it is miss Faulkner. Let me introduce mister Sherlock Holmes.
Mister Holmes, no, miss Fsner, I'm really miss charmed to
meet you. Although it does look as if you've made
me come down in spite.
Speaker 3: Of myself, doesn't I thank you very much, indeed for
concerning to see me, Miss Suckner, but regret to observe
that you will put to the trouble of making such
a very rapid change of drink.
Speaker 6: Oh I did?
Speaker 1: How are you a trifle? I consist mister.
Speaker 11: Holmes, who's quite living up to his reputation, isn't.
Speaker 3: He said it?
Speaker 5: Come in?
Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am?
Speaker 1: What are you doing here?
Speaker 3: Judson?
Speaker 1: I did pardon them. I was answering the bell. What
bell the drawing room? What do you mean you blockhead?
No one rang the bell. I'm quite sure it was
Robin Well I tell you it did nothing. You're a
butler's right, mister Checkwardy. They'll did ring.
Speaker 3: How do you know I rang it?
Speaker 1: What are you wrong?
Speaker 3: Want to send my card to the real Miss fauckneral
I said, the real Miss Spruckner.
Speaker 1: Judson, Yes, sir. What right have you to ring for
servants and give orders in my house?
Speaker 3: What right have you to prevent my cards from reaching
their destination?
Speaker 7: How does it happen that you and this woman are resorting.
Speaker 3: To trickery and deceit to prevent me from seeing Alice
Fauckner through some trifling oversight? Judson, neither of the cards
I handed to him has been delivered.
Speaker 1: Kindly, see this error does not occur again. My orders, Ah,
you have orders. I can't say you are told not
to deliver my card? What business is it of yours?
I'd like to know.
Speaker 3: I shall satisfy your curiosity on that point in a
very short time, mister Chetwood. Yeah, and you'll find out
in a very short time that it doesn't safe.
Speaker 1: To meddle with me.
Speaker 3: It wouldn't be any trouble at all for me to
throw you out into the street, and possibly enough that
trouble would swiftly follow such an experiment on your past.
Speaker 1: It's as a lucky thing for you.
Speaker 3: I'm not armed as well.
Speaker 1: Miss Faukner comes down, You go and arm yourself, harm myself.
I'll call the police.
Speaker 6: Do it now?
Speaker 1: Oh no, you will not do it now. You will
remain where you are.
Speaker 3: Until a lady I came here to see his enter
this room.
Speaker 7: What makes you so sure of that?
Speaker 3: Because you will prefer to avoid an investigation of your
suspicious conduct, Mister James.
Speaker 1: Leave If I is the name.
Speaker 3: Under which you are known to Scotland Yard, I believe,
mister Chetwood, steady, here is your wife, Steve Jodson, you
will either deliver that card, Miss Falkner at once or
sleep in the police station tonight. That is small consequence
to me which you do?
Speaker 1: I shall I go?
Speaker 3: So go on, pink up a card.
Speaker 1: It makes no difference to me.
Speaker 3: A short time since, learbly.
Speaker 1: You displayed an acute anxiety to leave the room.
Speaker 3: Pray, do not let me entertain you or your wife
any longer? Thing you to prefer to remain while I
stalk Miss Faukner.
Speaker 1: We still lift the home.
Speaker 3: Huh last, Miss Pocner, did.
Speaker 1: You mister home? Yes? Do you wish to see me?
There must?
Speaker 3: Indeed, Miss Falkner, But I'm sorry to see that you
are far from well. No, beg your pardon?
Speaker 1: What does this mark mean?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: There's nothing nothing No.
Speaker 3: And the marks here on your neck plainly showing the
clutch of a man's singers?
Speaker 1: Does that mean nothing?
Speaker 3: Also? Curse to me that I shoulry to have an
explanation of this.
Speaker 1: Possibly you can furnish one, mister Lador. Should I know?
Speaker 3: It seems to have occurred in your own house?
Speaker 11: What does it this?
Speaker 3: You's got to understand that it doesn't help people you
or anyone else to interfere with my dest Ah, that
did your business. Here's that much, at least, said the
seated miss Falkner.
Speaker 1: I don't know who you want to home?
Speaker 3: Why you I shall be very great indeed to explain
my business. Is this I didn't consult. It's the possibility
of obtaining from you certain letters addressed your sister, which
is supposed to be in your position.
Speaker 1: I cannot give up my sister's lenses at home. There
are other things beside. Then of his punishment, believe me
in this Spartner, there is nothing more to say.
Speaker 3: Good night, my dear miss fer Oh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: How comes with me to turn over this chair.
Speaker 6: The kitchen?
Speaker 3: It's turn off the table.
Speaker 6: Everything down there is laving us quick.
Speaker 1: Don't allow yourself as partner.
Speaker 3: There is no fire.
Speaker 7: The smoke was all arranged for arranged, Sir.
Speaker 1: Christmas.
Speaker 7: Wartner means that I wanted a package of letters, miss.
Speaker 3: Factor, and that by following your eyes just now when
you thought there was a fire, I discovered that you
would hit them and the apposter. This chair m yes
kind elementary as you see. And now that they're in
my position, there seems to be no reason you need
to remain any.
Speaker 1: Longer in this house.
Speaker 3: Good night, sparkener, Miss Faulkner.
Speaker 5: Yes, I.
Speaker 1: I can't take them, mis forargner is let as belong
to you.
Speaker 3: I find that I cannot take them unless you can
possibly change your mind and let me have them.
Speaker 1: Of your own free will. I disuppose you could unless
her return them to you.
Speaker 3: And uh, oh, I've got.
Speaker 1: A friend of the letter they're returning from the fire.
Oh that look now, I suppose I'm gonna see you
walk out of a house with that.
Speaker 7: On the contrary, you don't seem to return them to
their right.
Speaker 3: Coroner and stop. Now I hear your letters? Did you
ever change your mind and be so?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Rus who's forgiving is to wish to return these
letters for the one who wrote them? You have my address.
Speaker 3: Any events, let's assure there will be no more curlty,
no more persecution in this house. You are perfectly safe
with your property in its partner. So I shall still
arrange it that your faintest cry of distress will be heard.
If that cry is heard, it will be very unfortunate
for those who are responsible, as for you, mister Labie,
and you for them. I think you understand that you
continue your persecution of that young lady at your peril.
Speaker 1: Good night, miss Partner. Come here, miss Parkner. Now are
you going to give me those letter? Are you going
to give me those? Lever? Love and again love? And
this partner will give me whose letters?
Speaker 10: Or?
Speaker 1: Do I break your arm? What's that summer?
Speaker 11: Not on the door?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 6: It was on that fight.
Speaker 12: If you call madam I for more more lots me,
I'll see madam. I beg pardon, madam, but there's no
one at the door.
Speaker 8: Get you ready to go?
Speaker 1: He got it. What what we want to do is
to leave it alone. Let the emperor have it. You mean,
Professor Moriarty, That's what I mean. Once let him get
at it, you'll sever yourself home pretty quick. Don't you
worry a minute.
Speaker 3: I tell you, Professor Morialsy, you'll get at him.
Speaker 10: Before noon tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: He won't wait long either. And when he likes if
means death.
Speaker 5: Uh about May to two three seventy one. See obviously.
Speaker 13: Everything that fact get invited by an expert. Many many
has disappeared, just a sad pair a log cus again
all this bladdery job. He's in on that too, and
that's where he made it to speak who he is
saying while there are danger were getting basic respect of
goose and tied it seven years ago. Wilson he did
two years later send us to the death. He hasn't
said anything senders and it's not I sint that school.
Speaker 1: You will see about that. It's who he's at. A
talented man. He doesn't realize.
Speaker 13: Or he can just squeeze in London, it'll be safe.
But if I just let his name is played, can
make it cool and will fool just the same steps
of it. Yes, let the step take us see is
it based? Make us see they like us, they including
naked safe in benked Em. Look they see three streets
in every direction. Yes, and I think he's going it
over and over again elsewhere well east the boy then
in every doorway through this tonight in Beata Street nine o'clock,
got his attendance out on one, he gets for another
and keeps him out. Understand, I will see this share
off the rooms myself. There's a chance for your life.
Speaker 3: Let's it, Yes, noticify a less star that I may
require the guest team which step there to morrow night.
Speaker 1: And have crave been there for a quarter before it
came with his crew.
Speaker 13: Uh the latter me I who wants him to write
a letter in his share off the rooms which I
used to be teased? He see here at seven that's it?
Please show men at nine to night. But still off
in the house in Data Street.
Speaker 1: Kay, yes, we'll still myself. It's meeting tomorrow night there.
Put him in a guest from there.
Speaker 13: If I feel in Beata Street you don't have any
mean swung a million either way, I have too strange
to our tools cut Yeah.
Speaker 3: That evening, homes and I dined together at scott And City.
Yet after dinner we went to a concert at Queen's Hall.
I can still see him on this particular night of
the Moriarty case, well, knowing that his life was in peril,
sitting beside me in the stalls, wrapped in the most
perfect happiness.
Speaker 1: Mister Salacot has.
Speaker 3: Played the violin gentlely, waving his long, thin fingers in
times music.
Speaker 1: But here it was over.
Speaker 3: He rose, put on his long coat and started with
long steps in the direction of the street.
Speaker 1: Tell me what music? Go to break a tree?
Speaker 3: Oh, my dear, there's so much to the receiving No
center of things.
Speaker 6: It call.
Speaker 3: We heard the handsom and as we came down to
take the street, we could see that the light was
burning on the second floor of two twenty one B.
Speaker 1: We went up the darks nad chairs the boy that
he was waiting for him.
Speaker 3: Because Dunson's complimentary and she wants to know to go
to you.
Speaker 1: Where is mister Hudson downstairs?
Speaker 3: And my compliments and I don't think she can where
she is you been getting sy.
Speaker 1: Regress will be mi It is no.
Speaker 3: Terrible important hemis She wants to know what's left adrectist
in the morning, the same same as winter this morning.
If you didn't have nothing set you want't here, I won't.
Speaker 1: Be here tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Is that all set question? Yes? Thank you, he's the own.
Speaker 3: Here's a letter for your seal of people you live
two minutes ago. We really want I put him addressing, Yes, sir,
that's addresses names by James Ladabye and what did James
to stay the evening?
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I hope you won't say that again.
Speaker 3: I have the honor to inform you that this fastness
has changed her mind regarding the letters at c which
you wish to obtain and as you try to dispose
of them for a monetary consideration. If you wish to negotiate,
would you'll be at nine o'clock at the God's Monument
at the foot of water to place you will see
a fall feeder with wooden shutters to the windows. If
you have the cab follow, they'll try any other underhand
pick you won't get what you want.
Speaker 1: Let me know your decisions, yours two the games out
of it? Fine? True?
Speaker 3: Well, wait, perhaps what a fellow means sell A means
to tell me a breat limitations will not sell the money.
A certain letters he does not possess. I'm proudly buy
them from it now though scenario prove God Monument, cab
with wooden shutters, no one.
Speaker 1: To come with me? Now on to follow all I
don't get what it wants.
Speaker 3: But cab with a wooden shoping and many a little
advice to keep me from seeing where they're taking me
there is Yes, give this to the man younger road,
look quite young, you're handsome or we letter seen the
driver before? Yes, but I can't think where hands to
the lady. Apologize to delay and look at the driver again.
That's there my dear hols, you didn't say you would go,
but I certainly dead. Fellow mean blistered, This fellow means
the sense. And they just come on from the tennis
on the corner to say a man's in it by,
but looks quite a bad joke to look doctor watch
and kind of stuff over and else till.
Speaker 1: The end of them. Younger now got not be back
in the middle the yes, and we brought that message
why to the.
Speaker 3: Chemist day of course, with which boys must have been
a new one tip all seen in the flour Perris.
It downs up quickly, look out the doctor. The boy's
gone as a man with him a mischief.
Speaker 1: Let me know, let's stop a.
Speaker 3: Class ring the door there out here at free a crowd.
Speaker 13: The English heads as the whole the thing that loaded
firearms in the pocket of one's breaking gowns.
Speaker 3: I give you my word to set someone out there.
You'll be taken from here to the hospital. If you
keep your hand behind.
Speaker 1: You like that.
Speaker 3: Ah, that's better. Hum that case, please put pull a
revolver on the table. Everything they don't know me, I
think it's quite evident that I do. If they have
a chair, I think they've five minutes and then say
the careful.
Speaker 1: You got to do, professor my art. They look at
the naivo can.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you when you are five minutes is up?
Speaker 1: Is your intention to pursue this case against then that
is my intention to very end. He regrets it.
Speaker 7: I say your regrets that you think that I would
be here everybody.
Speaker 1: Hadn't made the street quite safe in every way repect.
Speaker 3: I could never still girls they over to make your courage?
Speaker 1: Is that the first as my art, you werenaving with
your friend the.
Speaker 3: Doctor and your boy day will soon return. But so
if please just quite alone, doesn't it quite so?
Speaker 1: As we can talk to.
Speaker 13: The natt road with quiet favors the whole you would
not to be disturbed in the first pace.
Speaker 1: I will score your attention to a few never ender
which had stuck it down, and you will find there
they are. Okay, I'll do that comes down quickly. The
father with that memorandum book you're talking about really has
a small note book. Well, merely don't do it. I
don't want it.
Speaker 7: Got one of my own if you wanted to have someone.
Speaker 1: Get it for you.
Speaker 3: I always like to say my gifts unnecessary.
Speaker 1: Trouble observe it's your whole.
Speaker 3: Boy, it doesn't bound a still m No, but I
have an idea that you will, for it may possibly
be long er that you think. What that boy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that boy?
Speaker 3: You know, I think we're trying to build once more.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't it cursey to see me possibly becas
it does.
Speaker 3: But it also curves me join very much the same particament, Professor,
why are there.
Speaker 1: That's important to someone? Try told me?
Speaker 3: It's quite evident, however, that he's able to do so.
Speaker 1: He's got my don't cut me.
Speaker 3: A right, a, gentleman, I'm carefully pointing out to you
with it forty five desires to have us get something
of his left hand inside coat pocket. He's not feeting
quite himself today, and the consequence of his trying to
do it himself might pool say, oh, I.
Speaker 1: Just you attend to recor him? Is this picture it's done?
Quite so? S I'll put it on the table.
Speaker 3: I'm not there, Billy on this table, right chi, I'll
like you sold Billy what he's got another test? Quite
believe surprised me. That's the gentleman's taking the trouble to.
Speaker 1: When pormos he hasn't winter when he made.
Speaker 3: A sketch for this one. And now, Professor, now that
we have your little memorandum off you, is anything else
you like before Billy goes, any little thing you've got
that you don't want?
Speaker 13: So sorry, thank you, sir, listening homes to me on
the fourth of January, you crossed my bark.
Speaker 1: On the twentieth you incommoded me. Now at the pose
of April, if I may help beast in such a.
Speaker 3: Position through your continual interference, but.
Speaker 1: I'm in positive dinger of losing light of a day.
Speaker 3: Any suggestions made, No, they have no suggestions for me.
Speaker 1: They have affect the state. If you don't prop it
up once, your life's.
Speaker 6: Not worth death.
Speaker 3: I'm a tread processor in the pleasure of this conversation.
Speaker 1: I'm objecting.
Speaker 7: More important, is it, if you excuse me a moment
when I get my pipe up, that.
Speaker 13: Is making here this seasoning, mister Holmes, to see if peace.
Speaker 1: Could not be arranged it quite so. That's so you've
seen fit not only to eject my proposals, but to
meet in souting.
Speaker 13: References coupled with threats to the rest.
Speaker 1: You'll be born of your dinger. You don't heed that morning.
Speaker 6: The sure.
Speaker 10: In the.
Speaker 7: H didn't imagine nineties that gun loaded?
Speaker 1: Did you, profess my art in.
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 1: You are controdut.
Speaker 7: I didn't sposed one of you that gun again, so
I just them out while you were talking.
Speaker 3: Could in my pocket? You'll find them all there that Yes,
you can show, professor my art is the door, yes,
equaited you No, no, my art.
Speaker 1: I never will bill that come in.
Speaker 6: The right.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 1: You're a good boy. Yes, thank you, sir.
Speaker 2: You are listening so they can be A Broadcasting System
presentation of Austin Wells and the Micary Favor on the
air in Philopome with Austin Wells in the title road
and Ray Columns as doctor watchers wait paused a moment
for station not entertain.
Speaker 1: Um there Broadcasting System.
Speaker 2: We continue now with this CBS presentation of philop Holmes
played by Austin Males and the Mictury Favor on the air.
Speaker 3: It was exactly that ot with Sherlock Holmes up the
house in Baker Street, a sister construction that no one
was to follow him if there had been no word
from him by a dual On the following day, he
was notified Scotland Yards. I went to the window and down,
and he went down Baker Street, a tall, thin figure
in a gray upstair, walking with long smooth steps in
the direction of Langham Space.
Speaker 1: There he entered a tab. Yeah what are you doing
right in Macacine. That's what I'm doing chapter watching. It
might be gas, you fool.
Speaker 12: I don't guess it's important day since they had gas
in the room.
Speaker 3: And I still said I might be gas. He be
pecky and I will so say he's return.
Speaker 1: That general? Why yount for that? Well your troubles rye.
Speaker 10: That's it right, they didn't you hear it? Here?
Speaker 3: Sir like, hey there to the careful that your boys.
You've got a way they do as I've heard the uncle.
Oh you mean that gold So it's going to count
him around where that's got down and he gets away.
I'm sorry for.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I like help the governor himself, pend somebody else
shut up, pre d.
Speaker 3: The doctor before we grow all your mistakes to night grading,
be careful of that to desirabill he's in on the job.
Speaker 1: Hello lotter you and that's all that's it?
Speaker 13: Small cabin then whatever say no names that might break
the glass.
Speaker 1: If he did, he come up against every iron bar
that tire. We let him tie down before he can
make it.
Speaker 13: The glass you use it before, right as you know
it air tight, everyvere yourself.
Speaker 1: When the men have turned the guest on him, they
leave this door. Yes, they made quite secure.
Speaker 3: If they boost from the outside. There follow those bars overall.
Speaker 1: You see how rich is opera tire man down stairs? Yes,
no needs Harry. See how quick you operate very that's
that's good. Admit up kagin.
Speaker 13: The rest of your one thing, Rember, whatever happens, no
shooting to night of a single jot to be heard
in the early blow. First thing is to get his
revulnerable way before he has gone toe with it. Two
of you writes his attention in front. Jerret, come up
on him from behind and snake it out with sucking.
Then your arrange that quigan private tend to a sent
You understand he waits for you.
Speaker 1: I understand. They give you this opportunity to serve him.
The packet of letters. You fogs and get what you
can get.
Speaker 3: Rebel two hundred thousands doesn't interest names flare of it
there is.
Speaker 1: Oh, I understand. And you finished and drought you money.
Speaker 5: You whistle, and these gentlemen get in and sary.
Speaker 13: H that quigan that's right, and prigion the proper moment,
present a compliment mister Sherlock's homes and say that I
wish in a pleasant journey to the others an edi.
Speaker 3: In a ile.
Speaker 1: Well my all right, by Claire.
Speaker 10: Let me get a whipple in your come right, John,
if you.
Speaker 1: Get down on the corner below, let me know when
it comes. I want to let you know. Well.
Speaker 3: And you see him driving up, I'm down the alley
and whipple three times.
Speaker 5: Very good to.
Speaker 1: What's it?
Speaker 3: What are you?
Speaker 1: What is here? Hu? How did you get the first place?
I followed you in the cab? What have you been
doing since I came up here?
Speaker 6: One in the mony?
Speaker 1: Five? No, that was the same, So I waited a
run in my four morning.
Speaker 7: Yes, you're going to swindle in the seating telling the
pack of the port letters.
Speaker 10: I know that.
Speaker 1: What else are you going to do?
Speaker 10: Do? You?
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you like to know those men that same up here?
Speaker 13: What man?
Speaker 6: Looking man?
Speaker 1: I thought him going at the sea.
Speaker 15: Sure you don't mean these men there is?
Speaker 1: Now? What ef?
Speaker 7: You don't have time to get her out in the
had ab A couple of Yeah, that would.
Speaker 6: Have the cover taken.
Speaker 1: For the internet.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's nice, good evening.
Speaker 1: It's the home. Let's come out of it.
Speaker 3: Really, I said, I thought I fell this driving by
the close cabin.
Speaker 1: Too many something new seen before? Have you mixed the
home all the time? Or two? Now the comes things.
Speaker 3: I mad a friend of yours as Grace, while he
was trying to drop himself out of the window. He
had called him the cracks I was and called him
never out of him before where you said they never
heard of him after? So then race of contents used
these luxurious chambers and things eighty.
Speaker 1: Nine on the hidden let cupboard.
Speaker 3: We put him off the heel. Quite interesting. The times
have changed since.
Speaker 1: Then to their hands, celera, because they hand.
Speaker 3: Then it was only cracksman, concerted, ticktockets and very sinders.
Speaker 1: Various kinds. But now well what now? Well between you
and me.
Speaker 3: And the celerab, we've heard some not altogether agreeable rulers
whom it is seen pretty shady work that's far from here,
murder to very clear times. I'm always kind of suspicion.
Speaker 1: Yes, my surmise was correct to hear this is what
this room is caught feel that.
Speaker 3: Things that might have lost nothing to us, That celera
be nothing to us, but it might signify a good
deal with some short devil always been caught and gassed
in this trap. Well, if it's nothing to us, the
pose who leave up alone and get the business.
Speaker 1: My time is living there of.
Speaker 3: Course the very eyes that these reflections.
Speaker 1: Could not suff feel you h if it's a darn down, thanks.
Speaker 3: Good cigars since to Lena, the genuine Holena led to
light now here. It is a little packet of letters
which is the object of this meeting. I haven't opened
it yet, but before that tells me everything is there.
Suppose a less sportner knows nothing about this?
Speaker 1: To fair, we have little names for the discussion. What
do you mean?
Speaker 6: Who told you?
Speaker 1: If she doesn't bow?
Speaker 3: You did, every look, tone, just everything you've said and
done since I've been in this room has informed that
this sportnyer has never consented to a tense section.
Speaker 1: That is a little speculation of your own. I suppose
you think you can hind me like a who no, no,
like a swimmer. Well, let it passed. How much did
you give a thousand pounds? I couldn't take it. What
do you work five thousand?
Speaker 7: I couldn't give it a four thousand?
Speaker 1: But why didn't you take it? Because I intended to
get more? Oh that's then they offered four thousand, They
will give five. They won't give anything? Why not? They
turned the case over in me? Will you give three thousand?
It's a letta is strange, that may appear. My time
is limited as well as yours. I have brought with
me the sum of one thousand pounds, which is all
that I wish to pay. If that is your desire
to sell it this figure.
Speaker 3: Time is praised me affected once it's not with the
wish will very good eating?
Speaker 1: Well you can have it.
Speaker 3: It's a smaller matters I handle over. Give me the money, certainly,
But you think you've only brought up the pound I did?
Speaker 10: This?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 1: You brought a pipe on mine? Quite so? I didn't
say I hadn't brought it anymore. You can be a
little stick when it comes to it, can't you.
Speaker 7: It depends on who I'm dealing with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you give me that money. Come on now, that's
why I want you. James Larrabee. You've been so cunning
and so cautious and so wise.
Speaker 3: We couldn't find a thing to hold you for. But
this little twip will get you in for robbery.
Speaker 1: You're why are your views about being able to get
away from here? Your top? I do not anticipate any
particular difficulty in her robbery. Eh, why even let you
drop away from here? You haven't got a witness. You
haven't got a witness for your head.
Speaker 3: And that's so sure that that bear, I'm so sure
of that you use this fastness to cover dough with
a nice card.
Speaker 5: Back.
Speaker 1: Don't know what it meant. I'm afraid you're.
Speaker 7: Ill have to ask you, gentlemen, to wait just one moment, please.
Speaker 6: What's the idea of sitting down?
Speaker 1: I'm right? Are you writing waiting your will?
Speaker 3: I no, no, they brief the sceiption of one or
two of your gentlemen the sleep wait a bit.
Speaker 1: You better listen to me at all. We're gonna tie
you down nice and tight at the top of that table.
Speaker 3: By you described me gentlemen thinking you're so sure of
anybody in the room, And three bars gone out of
that window.
Speaker 1: Bars bars, You're not going to get off. There are
so many ways. It's the letter that I hardly know
which one to two you better.
Speaker 3: I can tell you that I'll choose at once, mister Kagan,
and my choice falls on the chair fire.
Speaker 7: No, gentleman, no, not try the window. I'm leaving by
the door.
Speaker 3: I had a busy morning at my office in Horty Street,
after eleven before the last of my appointments was over,
and still no news at home you living, doctor peul Parsons.
Is anyone waiting? I have to be in baked speak
at noon.
Speaker 7: There's one chance moontending doctor day lady parents who.
Speaker 1: Wants to see you most particularly but about she didn't.
She said it was most focused to review you.
Speaker 3: Very well out here and call a cab for me
at the same time and have it wait till the.
Speaker 1: Lady in.
Speaker 6: Sweet No.
Speaker 1: Please, doctor's awfully good as you had seen it. I
need to go through his speaking.
Speaker 11: Do you mean I didn't bring my cards to But
if I did, I'd lost him.
Speaker 1: Trouble about cards?
Speaker 11: They said you were mister home to send. Several people
told me that the several the why to be asking?
I could find him today this morning and everything depends
on it.
Speaker 6: Doctor.
Speaker 1: Every time go to mister Holmes once I really you
are there. You went to mister holmes house. Yes, in
day to seat. That's why I came to you and
said you might be here. No, dear, but don't just
set him this morning.
Speaker 3: No, there's no possibility of mister Home's coming as far
as I know.
Speaker 1: You couldn't get him to come. It would be such
a great favor to me. I may must run after saying.
Speaker 11: About him with a dreadful an bout it if you
could get work and mister Holmes, if.
Speaker 3: I could not get him become at And I beg
you to excuse me.
Speaker 1: I'm going out to myself on urn of business. I
have no idea when it's a hometown, probably nothing more.
Speaker 3: Broken down her.
Speaker 1: Door and he put him on to you and don't
allow anybody to come in. I have the more time, honey,
was the doctor?
Speaker 6: Let me know every ready right away? I worry it
down time of doctor.
Speaker 1: God is he don't any whey there can't see anybody?
Speaker 6: He got conn Dody man the straight came all right,
help him in.
Speaker 1: He's like you, no not.
Speaker 8: The poet over the.
Speaker 1: Way said that the bea course of the steep, that
it's the head.
Speaker 7: And Carl the heck, he didn't know.
Speaker 5: You can't.
Speaker 7: That's raight enough.
Speaker 1: He was on the wrong side of the street. He
was you know.
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 1: No, no, this is a chance of that.
Speaker 6: Don't you suppose I know where? I want to sit down?
You'll sit down here?
Speaker 1: That is the doctor, the doctor.
Speaker 3: Ever look at it.
Speaker 1: Here's the doctor, the doctor. He a gott here dump
case you guess coming?
Speaker 10: Ever?
Speaker 6: Look at this o bloat here he's there still little U.
Are you a cabman? Yes, I'm the cabman. Well, I
have you arrested for this whist? Arrested? Arrested? Arrested, don't
arrest May.
Speaker 1: I cont ten?
Speaker 6: Where's my hat? Where's my hat?
Speaker 5: My hack?
Speaker 6: My hat? Yeah? Am I your head? I will my
my hat?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 6: Hold you responsible here?
Speaker 1: You're right here and go on. See that that isn't
my hack?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're responsible. I have you arrested here, come back on,
figure out? Yeah you know I gotta ten. No, when
your heart in here, I want to speak to him.
Let's see.
Speaker 1: I will stay in the street.
Speaker 6: I will get out of your alive.
Speaker 1: So why are you staying at me?
Speaker 6: Before?
Speaker 10: It is so?
Speaker 1: I can't wait for me.
Speaker 3: I must see this her am ifraid to do a
good class For one moment, I'll have a.
Speaker 1: Look at him. Well they're still with him. Well, how
can I remarkable remarkable weather?
Speaker 5: We're having a doctor?
Speaker 1: What on earth? How about having me remove some of
this ictous disguise. Watn't is that you en Watson? Watching all?
Speaker 3: They get out that window, out the blind whit what
we do? Nothing, It's already been done by missus. Larraby here,
get out that way. I don't think they're watching forman
good work from him. I think it's Billy in charge,
the good poman. Wait me outside here, oh watching my death?
And I regect to say that at the present time
the sence and Moriaty and self has not risen.
Speaker 1: To the base. Where do you think he is in
the open streets under some.
Speaker 3: Clever disguise, watching for a chance to get at manage
with this woman?
Speaker 1: Set him right? So okay, So a spy to let
them know by some signal if she's saw me in
the house. Now they know, pull down that blind watch
and I don't care to be shot at from the street.
Speaker 3: Imagine we shall hear from the prison Moriarty as soon
though thrown?
Speaker 1: What did I tell you.
Speaker 3: He's come to somewhere, he asked the course of seat.
He was in there watching these windows. He must have
seen coming till he's just come out. It was a
cab waiting in front of this house. And he climbed
up and changed places.
Speaker 1: Where the drive back it out again quickly and to
dry on him. Yes, thank you, sir Watson.
Speaker 3: You don't never rather heavy portmanteau for a few moments
and I won't do it any harm.
Speaker 1: Pass my life. That's still over in the cornably here.
Speaker 3: Jesus to thank you person it was down there.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 7: Persons you wanted to cab the doctor a short time ago.
Speaker 1: It's been waiting.
Speaker 3: I believe these so good to tell the driver to
come in here and get a relief.
Speaker 1: He comes, tell him that's the one.
Speaker 3: It's really good to ye idea Watson sounds like please,
you should tell your man never to take the first
cab that comes on corn or yes, the second, the
third may be said, but home, Oh, why.
Speaker 1: Did I want to take him down? All right?
Speaker 3: Good bye Watson by Watson. Wait a minute, driver, head
a friend an out the Watsons right.
Speaker 1: You from for yeah, driver, I.
Speaker 3: Got the steps then anyway, that's right. I hold a driver,
you you pull a step. Two little things in bag
that I wouldn't like to lose, and it's just as
well to make quite sure.
Speaker 1: He did not suffet.
Speaker 3: That means a simple pair of handcuffs. You taking a
shot off the ship the head. I ventured the dream
that it might be, you know, quite show other police
will be able.
Speaker 5: To forward me.
Speaker 3: But doesn't my I'm quite sure of nothing take him
away from him. And so my dear Watson ends the
strange case of Miss Alice Partner.
Speaker 1: Well, what about the letter? The letters, they.
Speaker 3: Will return to their.
Speaker 1: Right claner over and now go.
Speaker 3: I expected from the start that miss Partner was really
a nice girls.
Speaker 1: Huh, Yes, what is it all?
Speaker 3: I'm just reflecting, my dear Watson Moriarty, out of the
way London from the point of view of the criminal expert,
like it's become a singularly uninteresting city. One morning paper
of veritable willedness, of boredom.
Speaker 8: Yes, the lady you're making for an hour, he's got up.
Speaker 1: He's a many kid, he's got up.
Speaker 3: From which I deduced that to you, the lady of
over forty one lesson for it five of the strange
douk ut and considerable social eminence, which is just for
some years in near East that she.
Speaker 1: Is now wearing a large drud ruby on the second
thing ever left hand. Holmes, how do you know these things?
Speaker 3: It's amazing elementary, and I do Watson, elementary the child's
play of deduction.
Speaker 2: Against and I the Columbia Broadcasting Systems there as affiliated
spacial Coast to Coat has brought you Austin Wells and
the Mercury Stater on the air. The twelfth production of
this unique series featuring broadways and radios No celebrated theatrical
producing company this evening. The play was Austin Wales's old
adaptation A William direct Sherlock Home in the cast Doctor
Watson played by Ray Collins, Alice Paukner by Mary Taylor,
mat Larrabie by Benda Ford, James Larrabie by Edge Barriers,
Sector Foreman by Morgan Farley, Freagan by Richard Wilson, Classic
by Alfred Shirley, Larry by William Allen, Billie by Arthur
vander Foon, Pross Moriarty by Eustace Wyatt, and Chilock Holmes
by Austin Welles. The orchestra was conducted by Bernard Hermann,
and the production was supervised for CBS by Davison Taylor.
Got announcer is Frank Ellip