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Murder Clinic: Death in the Dressing Room (EP1700s) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment,
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  Speaker 1: email it to me Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net,
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  Speaker 1: of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com slash Radio Detectives. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it is our seventeen hundredth episode special and we're just
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  Speaker 1: actually on the cusp of our sixth anniversary, which will
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  Speaker 1: be on October the twenty sixth, so only fifteen days
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  Speaker 1: away from the release date. So thank you to everyone
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  Speaker 1: who's been so supportive of the show over the past
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  Speaker 1: six years, financially, emotionally and in every other way. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much to everyone. It has been a wonderful
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  Speaker 1: time that we've had on this show, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to revisit in old favor. And it's been a while
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  Speaker 1: since we've played an episode of this. It's the series
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  Speaker 1: Murder Clinic, and the last time we played an episode
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  Speaker 1: of this was episode eight fifty.
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  Speaker 2: Four, the.
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  Speaker 1: Which was in celebration of our eight hundred and fiftieth episode,
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  Speaker 1: and I played actually in the course of three hundred
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  Speaker 1: episodes three specials of this series Murder Clinic, and then
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  Speaker 1: I pulled back mainly because there are only six in
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  Speaker 1: existence and I didn't want to burn through them at
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  Speaker 1: some sort of record pace. But since it's been a while,
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  Speaker 1: I'll explain how the series Murder Clinic worked. Murder Clinic
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  Speaker 1: aired from nineteen forty two to nineteen forty three, and
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  Speaker 1: it contained an astonishing number of great classic detectors. Each
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  Speaker 1: week they would mix it up with a different character
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  Speaker 1: thrown in characters such as John J. Malone and Poirot,
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  Speaker 1: and Miss Marple and Father brown Pie and even Evan
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  Speaker 1: Pinkard and Max Carrados. Just a wide variety of different characters.
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  Speaker 1: And sadly, only six of these episodes actually survived to
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  Speaker 1: this day, which made this series is a big loss
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  Speaker 1: of you're a fan of classic mysteries, But what we
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  Speaker 1: do have is something to we get to hear some
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  Speaker 1: of these detectives, most of which never had their own
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  Speaker 1: radio series, and many of whom have been forgotten to
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  Speaker 1: all but mystery officionados in today's world. Today's detective is
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  Speaker 1: Sir Henry Merravell, who was created by John Dixon carr
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  Speaker 1: who had many pseudonyms. His initials H. M were upun
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  Speaker 1: on his majesty, and he was occasionally referred to as
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  Speaker 1: the Maestro. Don't know whether he ever got a cease
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  Speaker 1: and desist order from Ellery Queen, but being facetious there
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  Speaker 1: he was Carr's probably second most prominent detective behind Gideon Fell.
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  Speaker 1: The character of Merravell developed quite a bit as the
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  Speaker 1: books went on. At this point the character had only
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  Speaker 1: been in existence nine years, but over time he would
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  Speaker 1: be owned to be a barrister and also to have
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  Speaker 1: a medical degree. So here now, from September the twenty
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  Speaker 1: ninth of nineteen forty two is Murder Clinic. In Death
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  Speaker 1: in the Dressing.
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  Speaker 3: Room Murder Clinics stories of the world's great detectives, men
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  Speaker 3: against murders. Each week at this time w O. R.
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  Speaker 3: Mutual turns the spotlight on one of the world's.
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  Speaker 4: Great detectives of fiction.
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  Speaker 3: And invites you to listen to the story of his
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  Speaker 3: most exciting cakes the Nights. We meet Sir Henry Merivale,
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  Speaker 3: known to his post of friends as HM in the
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  Speaker 3: story Death in the Dressing Room. Good evening, HM, tell
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  Speaker 3: me you were with Scotland Yard for a long time
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  Speaker 3: before you retired.
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  Speaker 4: Weren't you I was indeed miss Knight.
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  Speaker 3: And didn't I hear that you ran some sort of
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  Speaker 3: a sacred department for them?
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  Speaker 5: Well, there was nothing secret about it, you see. It
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  Speaker 5: was called the Department of Queer Complaints. All the crack
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  Speaker 5: pots were sent in to me. As a matter of fact.
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  Speaker 5: That's how I happened to be on the spot when
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  Speaker 5: this nightclub murder took place.
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  Speaker 4: You see, I was there.
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  Speaker 5: Investigating one of our queer complaints that didn't seem to
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  Speaker 5: have anything to do with murder. And well, suppose I
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  Speaker 5: begin at the beginning, eh. You know how sometimes a
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  Speaker 5: nightclub will catch the public's fancy a place to see
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  Speaker 5: and be seen at well. At the time of this story,
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  Speaker 5: the Orient Club in London was having just such a season,
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  Speaker 5: flourishing like the proverbial green Bay tree. Tony Kaplin, who
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  Speaker 5: ran it, was a smooth, slippery customer Piccadilly by the
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  Speaker 5: way of Times Square in Monte Carlo, and he did
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  Speaker 5: have one big drawing car, the star of his sure
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  Speaker 5: by the way, another Time Square product, Francine Rapport. She
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  Speaker 5: was a great dancer on the afternoon of the day.
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  Speaker 5: In questions, Tony Kaplan.
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  Speaker 6: What's the matter with you? You're introducing this Javanese temple
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  Speaker 6: dance tonight. Come on, quit clowning and get with it,
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  Speaker 6: will you.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, let's cut it out, Tony.
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  Speaker 8: It's too corny standing in the middle of the floor
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  Speaker 8: waving your arms around like snakes that went out with
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  Speaker 8: the arts.
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  Speaker 6: They'll heat it up, litten Francine, Since when did you
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  Speaker 6: start masterminding your routine?
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  Speaker 9: You dance and leave the thinking to me.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yes, Well, maybe I don't like the way you've
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  Speaker 7: been thinking lately, Tony, And maybe I don't like the
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  Speaker 7: way you've been acting either. Where were you last night
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  Speaker 7: after the show?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, let's not go through that dialogue again. Put on
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  Speaker 6: another record.
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  Speaker 7: Well, don't get any big ideas under that tappener. The
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  Speaker 7: hair of yours I got plenty on you, Tony, and
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  Speaker 7: I might use it. Do you make me see?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I see, I see. Another thing I see is
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  Speaker 6: that I pay the orchestra to rehearse, not to referee
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  Speaker 6: a love match.
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  Speaker 9: Come on, let's try that ending again.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, fellas, Okay, the job I'm picking out a boss
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  Speaker 10: in the finish.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, fran Now you've got it on and two.
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  Speaker 9: Ah well, well see I told you be good.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, but I still think it's right from the silo.
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  Speaker 9: Now, let's try it with that blue spotlight.
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  Speaker 7: Blue spotlight, don't you not tell me you know what
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  Speaker 7: blue does to me?
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  Speaker 6: Look, friend, it's gotta be blue. It's number is supposed to
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  Speaker 6: be mysteriously all the lights out and just that blue
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  Speaker 6: baby spot on. You don't forget you're covered.
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  Speaker 9: From head to foot with those jewels.
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  Speaker 8: You mean, I'm covered from head to foot with that
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  Speaker 8: stinking oil antony. It gets all over me. When I finish,
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  Speaker 8: I feel like I've been in an oil.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you can wash it off after the number. That's
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  Speaker 6: the only thing that will make those cheap sparklers glean,
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  Speaker 6: not quit beefing friends, This number knock them dead.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I hope you know what you're doing.
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  Speaker 9: I always do, baby, okay, boys from the beginning.
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  Speaker 11: Now, Tony, can I speak to you for a minute.
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  Speaker 9: White fathera. You can do more than that to be beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: Come over here.
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  Speaker 9: That's on your mind, sugar.
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  Speaker 11: It's that costume of Miss Francine.
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  Speaker 12: You know, it's just net and with all the sony
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  Speaker 12: jewels and it, Tony, I won't be able to get
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  Speaker 12: her into it fast.
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  Speaker 6: Forget the costume ballan costume fed and you are truly
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  Speaker 6: for a change.
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  Speaker 9: You know how many you two things?
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  Speaker 12: To me, mister Tony, not dear. Someone will see you,
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  Speaker 12: Miss Francine, she's looking.
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  Speaker 6: I'm crazy about you, baby, you know that.
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  Speaker 9: Don't believe that.
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  Speaker 6: To me, baby, little Tony'll fix everything everything.
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  Speaker 11: You will make Paula the great dunce not to have him.
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  Speaker 6: More than that, you'll have cards, jewels for the works.
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  Speaker 7: To me, she's coming, he's not that music, not the music?
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  Speaker 7: Say what's going on here between you two? Paul I
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  Speaker 7: told you the same in addressing room.
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  Speaker 12: And finish my costume, didn hears man, It was just
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  Speaker 12: as I wanted to ask mister Chaplin a question about it.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yes, well I ask me from now on.
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  Speaker 8: You've been asking mister Kaplin a lot of questions lately,
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  Speaker 8: and he's been giving you an awful lot of answers.
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  Speaker 9: Oh come on, friend, can a guy be light? Do
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  Speaker 9: a nice little girl?
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  Speaker 7: Not when he works so.
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  Speaker 11: Hard at us?
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  Speaker 7: You lay you off?
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  Speaker 11: Do you hear?
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  Speaker 8: Next time I catch her hanging around you, little Paula
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  Speaker 8: won't live here anymore?
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  Speaker 6: All right, all right, if you'll take my advice, you'll
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  Speaker 6: put your other expression back on in the count of
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  Speaker 6: you got company. Don't look down. I think the white
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  Speaker 6: hope of the Foresight's fortune is at it this way,
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  Speaker 6: the kid self, the heir of the fourth. You're just
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  Speaker 6: about ready for the squeeze play.
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  Speaker 9: What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: Friend?
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  Speaker 9: Well the fish basee he won't I will?
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  Speaker 7: Why monkey, How sweet of you to drop in.
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  Speaker 4: Franccene, I've got to see you now. I've got to
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  Speaker 4: talk to you.
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  Speaker 8: Why of course, Monty, she and mister Caplan can hold
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  Speaker 8: up the res of for a few minutes.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, certainly, boys, suppose we run on that.
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  Speaker 7: Let's go to my dressing Well, Monty, suppose you've come
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  Speaker 7: to talk to me about those letters again.
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  Speaker 13: But Franccene, you don't understand. Those letters are very important
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  Speaker 13: to me.
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  Speaker 7: But Sugar, they're very important to me too. They're so sweeze.
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  Speaker 7: I've never had such letters before.
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  Speaker 4: Let's just dit franccene.
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  Speaker 13: You see, I'm in the diplomatic service, and those letters
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  Speaker 13: ever get out, well, I mean, they aren't very discos
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  Speaker 13: It would mean the end of my career almost before
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  Speaker 13: I started.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I see, it wouldn't be so good if anybody
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  Speaker 8: else saw them.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I guess you can have them back.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Francy, and you're wonderful. I knew you'd understand. I
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  Speaker 4: knew you've give them back to me.
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  Speaker 8: Give them back. Well, it amounts to that, I guess.
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  Speaker 8: But there's a favor I've got to ask of you
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  Speaker 8: in return.
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  Speaker 4: Monty, of course, ramcying anything when you see.
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  Speaker 8: I'm afraid I've been a bit extravagant lately, and I'm
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  Speaker 8: terribly hard up.
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  Speaker 9: I have see, yes, I see perfectly.
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  Speaker 4: How much?
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  Speaker 7: Now, don't be mad, Sugar. It's only a thousand pounds.
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  Speaker 4: A thousand pounds, but that's impossible. I haven't that much money.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't know where to get it.
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  Speaker 8: That's your business, mister diplomat. Why I'm giving you a bargain,
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  Speaker 8: that's because I like you so much. I just think
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  Speaker 8: what the Daily Comment would pay me for you win.
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  Speaker 4: But I've got to have time.
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  Speaker 7: Well, of course, Sugar, you can have plenty of time.
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  Speaker 7: Shall we say? Tonight?
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  Speaker 4: Tonight?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, tonight, after my first show. The dough is to
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  Speaker 8: be in an unmasked wallet, and whoever brings it walks
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  Speaker 8: up to Tony Kaplan and says, I beg your pardon.
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  Speaker 4: You dropped your wallet, Kaplin.
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  Speaker 9: So he's a nuther too. I might have known a
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  Speaker 9: pretty little game.
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  Speaker 7: Yes we thought so too, But now I'm tired of playing.
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  Speaker 8: So don't you forget bring that thousand pounds tonight or
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  Speaker 8: else make it After my first show here at the Orient.
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  Speaker 10: Club, I am sorry, sir that I had no.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry sir, we are entirely for you.
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  Speaker 9: Please, but you see.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, good evening, Sir Henry Well Armams.
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  Speaker 4: You have my regular table, of course, but of course
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  Speaker 4: miss you I'll find Sir Henry Merrydale. There is always
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  Speaker 4: with table by this way if you please. Ah, you
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  Speaker 4: see there you are, Matthew.
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  Speaker 5: Was simple when you know how it come along?
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  Speaker 4: Hi jo Jee, I don't see how you do it.
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  Speaker 5: Don't show personality, my boy personality only.
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  Speaker 10: Then here you are, Sir Henry Table sixteen as usual.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, very good, Arma, thank you. Oh I'm here, Thank you,
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  Speaker 4: Miss Judy.
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  Speaker 10: I am well.
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  Speaker 4: I got your message to meet you here. Hm. I
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  Speaker 4: must admit I don't know why we're here, sir. Are
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  Speaker 4: we pluming?
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 4: Exactly?
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  Speaker 5: We're here, Matthews because this club, the audience is run
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  Speaker 5: by two of the thickest crooks I'd ever had the
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  Speaker 5: pleasure of knowing really Tony Kaplan and Francine Rapport And
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  Speaker 5: because Scotland Yard has complaints.
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  Speaker 4: About a new and highly ingenious racket, they are presumably
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  Speaker 4: working pocket picking in the futurist manner. I've read it
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  Speaker 4: under the sander. Let me explain. You see a guest
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  Speaker 4: here with a good many drinks inside him seldom remembers
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  Speaker 4: exactly how much money he has in his wallet. Now,
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  Speaker 4: if that wallet.
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  Speaker 5: Is lifted and deftly returned minus three pounds s or
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  Speaker 5: of fiver, he simply assumes he must have spent. Method
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  Speaker 5: is harmless and very nearly undetectable.
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  Speaker 4: But the takings each week must be enormous, very ingenious, Yes,
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  Speaker 4: isn't it. I say, it's an interesting looking girl, but
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  Speaker 4: one in white at the next table? What why a chair? Eh?
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, No, I don't mean esthetically here in this case,
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  Speaker 4: I'm in professional. She's just dropped the man sized wallet
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  Speaker 4: on the floor. She seemed very nervous when she picked
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  Speaker 4: it up again. And one Adam's wallet. What would she
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  Speaker 4: be doing with a man's wallet? I'm sure I don't
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  Speaker 4: know that. I mean to find out. The floor shows about.
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  Speaker 6: The start transat office for your approval for the best times?
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  Speaker 9: Are you dan the chevity table that.
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  Speaker 4: I say, Jim, look that garden white people just talking about.
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  Speaker 4: She's needing her table, She's going into the bar. Follow
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  Speaker 4: a man, find out play she's going and pro pork me? Right?
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  Speaker 9: Did Lilian White just come in here?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you?
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  Speaker 6: That is sorry?
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  Speaker 9: You can't go?
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  Speaker 4: I think I can here.
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  Speaker 9: I'm a police officer.
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  Speaker 4: What does that door lead?
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  Speaker 9: Do? I see? But the girls did go in there?
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  Speaker 11: Yes?
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  Speaker 14: All right, how to my wait? Please wait a minute,
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  Speaker 14: not so fast, young lady. Would you mind telling me
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  Speaker 14: what you did with that wallet you put in your
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  Speaker 14: handbag a minute ago?
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  Speaker 6: Really?
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  Speaker 15: What wallet?
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  Speaker 9: I'm a police.
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  Speaker 16: Officer, one of those persons who have a good time
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  Speaker 16: here and then arrest the management for selling drinks after ours.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I have nothing to do with that. But would
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  Speaker 4: you explaining what you were doing with that wallet?
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  Speaker 11: I'll have to.
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  Speaker 16: I picked it up off the snore, Yes, it's quite true,
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  Speaker 16: not being able to appreciate the chance of this fancy
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  Speaker 16: report which evidently stagger you men. So I went to
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  Speaker 16: the bar during her dance. On the way, I picked
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  Speaker 16: up the wallet naturally, when the lights went up, I wanted.
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  Speaker 9: To find the proper owner, and why didn't you?
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  Speaker 16: What do you think I'm doing here?
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  Speaker 15: This report, I understand is part owner here.
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  Speaker 16: I'm sorry if the proper prestidio is to stand on
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  Speaker 16: the table and shout that you found a wallet.
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  Speaker 9: I thought of taking it to miss Report I see,
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  Speaker 9: and did you give it to her?
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  Speaker 16: No, she isn't here.
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  Speaker 15: Evidently she didn't come back here after her dance. That
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  Speaker 15: you'll be good enough to let me pass so I
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  Speaker 15: can take the wallet to mister captain.
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  Speaker 16: Oh right, you can come with me.
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  Speaker 14: No, let's say you come with me. They're going back
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  Speaker 14: to Fan Things dressing room. No, I won't come with me,
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  Speaker 14: I said, Is this Miss Wrappers dressing room? Yes, well
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  Speaker 14: you shouldn't find out if she's here or not.
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  Speaker 15: You see I told her she wasn't here.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, so you did. But if you don't find I
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  Speaker 9: think I'll just make sure you can't. Who are you?
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  Speaker 4: Then open the door.
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  Speaker 9: I'm a police officer and I want to see her.
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  Speaker 4: Come along very well. She's dead. I couldn't do it,
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  Speaker 4: I swell, I couldn't do it, murdered.
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  Speaker 9: Send in the back of the par Let me out here.
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  Speaker 4: Let me up here?
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  Speaker 2: Where you are?
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  Speaker 4: Both of you do? Now?
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  Speaker 14: You He told me your name is Paula and miss
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  Speaker 14: Rapford's made Yes. Were you here when Miss Rapport came
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  Speaker 14: back from a dance a few minutes ago?
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  Speaker 11: No, no, I was not. I can prove I was not.
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  Speaker 12: She met me at the end of the passageway, gave
• 19:22
  Speaker 12: me a message to take her, mister Cappin to come
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  Speaker 12: back and see you.
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  Speaker 11: I went and told him I was out there, mister
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  Speaker 11: Cappan can tell you that.
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 9: Now, all right, steady, Papa. Do you know what table
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: sixteen is? Yes, all right?
• 19:37
  Speaker 14: At table sixteen you'll find a big, heavy set man
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  Speaker 14: with a sandy ruddy complexion. His name is Henry Merrivale.
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  Speaker 14: Ask him if you'll come in here right away, will you?
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  Speaker 14: But don't say a word about this to anyone else.
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  Speaker 9: Have you got that?
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  Speaker 15: Yes, sir, can't. I don't know she's I can't stand.
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  Speaker 9: Looking at her there.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to
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  Speaker 4: remain where you're I.
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  Speaker 9: Got paper.
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  Speaker 14: Evidence they left and the murderers that's the rest of
• 20:09
  Speaker 14: us from my grasp, got to see you ever you're
• 20:14
  Speaker 14: during monthy?
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: Oh you know him.
• 20:18
  Speaker 15: No, no, I don't.
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: But you know she was dead? Why didn't you tell me?
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: You must have known? I saw you come out of
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: this room.
• 20:23
  Speaker 15: Do you think I'm insane? You only have thought what
• 20:26
  Speaker 15: you're thinking now.
• 20:27
  Speaker 11: But I didn't kill her. I came in here and
• 20:31
  Speaker 11: I found her dead.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: It's all I wanted to do is to get away.
• 20:36
  Speaker 15: I don't expect you to believe that.
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: I probably wouldn't believe it myself.
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: If I'm in your place.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: And what about that wallet, Tony Kaplin's wallet?
• 20:46
  Speaker 15: You might as well known?
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: How oh you stole it?
• 20:49
  Speaker 15: No, I didn't steal it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: He dropped it.
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: He dropped it.
• 20:52
  Speaker 16: I tell you you.
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: Still got the wallet? Well you better let me have it?
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: Here it is, thank you?
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, how pounds got here?
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: Who are you?
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Teddy?
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: Can't touch anything? She's dead, Francine said Catherine. They got her.
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: It was all I had.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Who didn't tell me?
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Who did easy?
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: Kill him? Who's that good? Here?
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: She told me she found your wallet.
• 21:29
  Speaker 15: Yes, that's right now, mister Matthew.
• 21:31
  Speaker 11: You can cure up one thing.
• 21:33
  Speaker 15: I mean about that wallet, mister Captherin can carry it up.
• 21:36
  Speaker 15: I saw him drop it. You can tell you why
• 21:38
  Speaker 15: I'm too.
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: He can watch for me, all right, Captain, that your
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: walet hot wallet? Where what are you talking about?
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Does this wallet belong to you?
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: Certainly that I suppose you will say that you don't
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: know why I am he.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: I don't know what you're talking about. Her know that
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: Francine is dead dead, you understand. I love a come
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: in here to find a step with a pair of
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: I know you people could do his babble about a
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: wall and a wallet.
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: So I don't know who you are. I never saw
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: you before in my life. Did you kill it? Did you?
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: Did you? I've done a lot of things in my life.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: Judge by the number of police in my club tonight,
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: I think I've done a lot more that I couldn't
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: have killed fan Scene. I never left that orchestra platform
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: from the time fan Scene was dancing.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Well just a moment ago.
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: Fifty people will testify to.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: That once in my life, I'm in the clear. When
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: dirty work's been done, this kind of dirty work, this
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: kind what kind.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Of dirty work? Tony?
• 22:39
  Speaker 9: Who are you, sir?
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Henry?
• 22:41
  Speaker 11: Oh?
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: How chief?
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Am I glad to see you? Why? Thank you? Jim,
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Hello Copper.
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: Come to run us all in no.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Frand scenes made told me I've telephoned Divisional headquarters about
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: our unfortunate homicide. Here they'll take charge. Now, I really
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: came to break up your newest and I think most
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: ingenious records.
• 23:06
  Speaker 11: I don't get you.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I yes, this is a test for the air raid
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: warning protection. This is a test. There is no air
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: raid at this time.
• 23:31
  Speaker 17: The First Fighter Command, New York requests that all radio
• 23:35
  Speaker 17: broadcast stations receiving this test transmit time when signal was
• 23:40
  Speaker 17: received by telegraph to First Fighter Commands, New York. These
• 23:45
  Speaker 17: tests will continue at certain intervals. If it is unnecessary
• 23:50
  Speaker 17: to close broadcast stations due to enemy air raid attack,
• 23:54
  Speaker 17: your station will make a short announcement of the fact
• 23:57
  Speaker 17: when it goes off the air.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: This is only a task. Thank you.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: This wallet contains the blackmail money that Kaplin and this
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: rapport wanted from your brother for his letters to miss Raport.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: Doesn't it no, no, crazy, You were instructed.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: To hand the money to Caplin in public, in the
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: presence of witnesses, in a wallet with a little speech.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: This is your wallet, isn't it way to give it
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: to him by the orchestra platform? But the last minute
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: you lost your nerve didn't you, So you followed Francine
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: in here and tried to fling it at her. Instead,
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: you're trying to take me. That's another one of their
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: little games. Nice safe blackmail. They used to pull that
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: one in Paris.
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: You're going a little fast, aren't you.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Cover?
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: You could get into trouble, you know, talking like that,
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: making accusations you can't prove out of nothing.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Not exactly nothing.
• 24:52
  Speaker 14: Anthony Monty forsythe telephoned us, but then he lost his
• 24:56
  Speaker 14: nerve and refused to set a trap.
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: There's nothing else we could do about it.
• 25:00
  Speaker 15: Well, what else could I do? I had to get
• 25:03
  Speaker 15: back those letters, Monty wrote her.
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: He won't help himself, and I I I didn't have
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: made it full of myself.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
• 25:13
  Speaker 15: That's all right, mister Matthews. You may not have caught
• 25:16
  Speaker 15: a pickpocket, but how do you know you haven't caught
• 25:18
  Speaker 15: a murderous Look.
• 25:19
  Speaker 16: There at that piece of paper in Francine's.
• 25:21
  Speaker 15: Hand, that's torn off one of my brother's letters.
• 25:24
  Speaker 16: Now, wonderful mister Catlin knows it as well.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: As I do.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: I don't know what Francine was up to about the letters,
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: that is, she wanted itself some letters.
• 25:33
  Speaker 9: That was her business. But if there were letters, where
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: are they now?
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Well, here's part of one at any rate?
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: No four h.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: By the way, Missports, did you get the letters? No?
• 25:52
  Speaker 16: No, no, I've told you she was dead when I
• 25:54
  Speaker 16: got here. I was only here half a minute. Anyway,
• 25:57
  Speaker 16: I haven't got any letters. Well you can say me
• 26:00
  Speaker 16: if you like hasn't had the letters, it probably still has.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: I never had any letters. Maybe your brother got him.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: Didn't this copper say he's here tonight? What's his alibi?
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: You know, you really are a nasty bit of work that.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Maybe we're none of us perfect, not even you, But
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: you seem it's so and so you're in a gem,
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: a bad gam. Now I am not in a gem
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: at all. I didn't kill that poor kid. I couldn't
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: have killed her. Coppers themselves will tell you I never
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: left that orchestra platform at any time.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Is that true? Yes, it's quite true. I see, No,
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: I don't see.
• 26:40
  Speaker 18: All I know is that it costs Nanty and me
• 26:42
  Speaker 18: nearly everything. We've got to scrape that money together. There'd
• 26:46
  Speaker 18: be lots of poor fools like us. The clever ones
• 26:50
  Speaker 18: of this world have it all our own way.
• 26:52
  Speaker 11: Haven't they.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, I think not, Miss Forsyth. No, come in, Oh,
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: it's you, Paula. Come in and close that door, please, Paula. Paula.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Haven't I seen you somewhere before?
• 27:11
  Speaker 11: Maybe you have? I was it the Tin Hat Club? Two?
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: Three h No, I've never been at the Tin Hat Club?
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: No?
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: No, have I seen you more recently than that?
• 27:22
  Speaker 11: I don't know?
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Very well, we'll skip that. How many dressing rooms are
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: they here? Any other principles aside from Miss Rapport? No?
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: The chorus girls? Did they change in these rooms? I'm
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: talking to Paula now.
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: No.
• 27:37
  Speaker 11: On the other side, Miss Rapport not let them.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: When did you last see Miss Rapport alive?
• 27:43
  Speaker 11: I passed here and she came back off the floor.
• 27:45
  Speaker 11: She gave me message for mister Catherine.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Ah, so you have an alibi too, eh, Tony. You're
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: a good dance director, aren't you?
• 27:55
  Speaker 11: Yes?
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: I guess. So what's that going to do with it?
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: Do you suppose you could teach Paula here do that
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: temple dance now that Francine won't be able to dance
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: it any longer?
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: I suppose it?
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: Look here, him, what are you getting at it?
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: In fact, you've already taught her, haven't you, Tony? Did
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: you notice the daance finished three measures too soon? Tonight?
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: Tony?
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Didn't that? What are you have?
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: You've gone up your right, I think not.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Let me have a look at your hands, Paula, Yes,
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: both of them.
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: If you're saying Paula had anything of that was killing Francine,
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: you're wrong. She was on on the air flow with
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: me the whole time. Fifty witnesses going to prove it,
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: no doubt. And if you're saying she's a pickpocket, you
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: must be completely off your nuts. What do you think
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: you're finding her hand anyway?
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: Bees Wax?
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: No, not at all. No, only oil oil.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: You're quite right. She was out on that dance floor
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: the entire time. She's got oil on her hands and arms, Tony.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: How did you get it there?
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: How should I?
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you from the oil that was smeared on
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: those jewels on her costume while she was on that
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: floor dancing. Why was she out there sing instead of Francine? Tony?
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: Or shall I tell you that too? Because Francine was
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: in care dead, wasn't she?
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Tony?
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: You killed Fancine before the dam, then you went out
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: to the band's stand and Paula took Francine's place. You
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: were sure no one would recognize her in that dark
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: blue light with a Japanese head dress on. Everybody assumed
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: it was Francine would swear they saw her alive, and
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: everybody would swear they saw you out there all the time,
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: pretty alibi. Ton I gotta swell out of my try
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: and break it down. Well, Paula, who is it to
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: be you or him? No, I didn't kill you, rap
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: on you, Paula. You know that, don't You.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: Didn't killer killer with you?
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: Nothing happened.
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: He probably marrying me.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: I do nothing nothing, all right, s Yes, constable take
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: them away? H a nasty customer, Jim, all.
• 30:12
  Speaker 14: Right, so they both are. It was lucky for you,
• 30:17
  Speaker 14: paul I didn't have time to wash that oil off
• 30:19
  Speaker 14: her arms. You might never have caught her.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, that helped, but it was plain from the
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: first that there'd been a substitution of identities.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Henry.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't see how well, Jim, As you know,
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: I have an eye for a pretty girl.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: But that's not all whatever you might say about Francine Lapport,
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: she was a magnificent dancer. I didn't know who it
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: was dancing out there tonight, but I knew it wasn't Fancine.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: You have been listening to Murder Clinic.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Murder Clinic, the w R mutual series which brings you
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: each week one exciting case, one member from the select
• 31:24
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• 31:24
  Speaker 10: World's great detectives.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Next week, Murder Clinic will bring you one of the
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: best known and best beloved figures in all crime fictions,
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Agatha Christie's Airculee Quaro.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: The Man with the Little Gray Cells.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: The story is the tragedy at Marsden Manor in which
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Quarrel double crosses a double cross.
• 31:58
  Speaker 10: Tonight's detective was H. M.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Mellyvale, played by Roland Winters. Original music was composed by
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Ralph Barnhardt and conducted by Bob Stanley. This program was
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: an international exchange feature over the Coast to Ghost Network
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Tales told on Murder Clinic
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: are adapted by authors Lee Wright and John A.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: Baffett.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Murder Clinic is produced under the direction of Alvin Flanagan
• 32:28
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• 32:36
  Speaker 6: This is Andrew J. Graham, author of the web Surface series,
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: Oh and a Man and his Wife. You're listening to
• 32:41
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• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well this one is just a very neat
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: little mystery, and it definitely fits the typical car story.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Carr was con considered the master of the locker room mystery,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: and well, I don't think this was quite in that category.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: It did appear to be an impossible crime with a
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: very simple and neat solution. The star of this adaptation
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: is best known not for his radio work. Roland Winters
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: is best remembered as the last star of the Charlie
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Chan film series. He took over from Sydney Toller and
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: made six Charlie Chan films, though he had a very
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: rich and very career. All right, Well, that will do
• 33:37
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• 33:40
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• 33:48
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