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Nineteen Deacon Street [episode 735], Broadcast 1/26/1958 · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Sauspense and the producer of radio's outstanding theater of Thrills,
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  Speaker 1: the master of mystery and Adventure, William M.
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  Speaker 2: Robeson.
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  Speaker 3: One of the many useless nuggets of Swabizov philosophy that
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  Speaker 3: clutter the mind of man is the half truth that
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  Speaker 3: what you don't know won't hurt you. The story you
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  Speaker 3: are about to hear categorically denies this eternal verity. In it,
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  Speaker 3: a man meets death face to face because of what,
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  Speaker 3: or rather whom, he did not know, a girl he
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  Speaker 3: had never met, but whose haunting beauty led him to
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  Speaker 3: the brink of doom. The role of the hapless and
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  Speaker 3: harassed victim is played by an actor well known to
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  Speaker 3: American audiences as the newspaper correspondent in Foreign Intrigue Tonight.
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  Speaker 3: He doffs his trench coat for a pitchman's benny and
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  Speaker 3: abandons the cobblestones of Stockholm for the sidewalks of Chicago's Loop.
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  Speaker 3: Listen listen then, as Jerome Thor stars in nineteen Eagan Street,
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  Speaker 3: which begins in just one minute. We have together ample
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  Speaker 3: capacity in freedom to defend freedom. This is NATO, the
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  Speaker 3: North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Day after day, month after month.
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  Speaker 3: Since April fourth, nineteen forty nine, the activities of the
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  Speaker 3: North Atlantic Treaty Organization have moved steadily forward on many fronts.
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  Speaker 3: This complete cooperation must and will continue because the concept
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  Speaker 3: of national self sufficiency is out of date. Countries of
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  Speaker 3: the Free World are interdependent and only in genuine partnership
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  Speaker 3: and by combining their resources, sharing tasks in many fields,
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  Speaker 3: can progress and safety be found. The United States of
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  Speaker 3: America is a part of NATO. You should be aware
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  Speaker 3: of and alert to the objectives and programs of the
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  Speaker 3: North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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  Speaker 2: And now.
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  Speaker 1: Nineteen Deacon Street starring Jerome bore a tale well calculated
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  Speaker 1: to keep.
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  Speaker 4: You in suspense, neckties and my business whole same. I
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  Speaker 4: came to Chicago with a red hot line and an
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  Speaker 4: exclusive to the Middle West, all sewed up.
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  Speaker 2: At first.
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  Speaker 4: I had to find a place to do business and
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  Speaker 4: a place to live. Well, some am actor on the
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  Speaker 4: train tipped me off to a theatrical rooming house at
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  Speaker 4: nineteen Deacon Street. So I go to this place, and
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  Speaker 4: the Dane that answers the door looks like a tired
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  Speaker 4: old duchess.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, good afternoon.
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  Speaker 6: I am looking for a room.
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  Speaker 5: I'm very sorry, we have no vacancy.
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  Speaker 6: Oh well, an actor in the train said maybe you.
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  Speaker 5: Could put me up an actor. Are you an actor?
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  Speaker 6: Well, yeah, soda.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I do hate to turn you away if you're
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  Speaker 5: in the profession. There was a time when we catered
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  Speaker 5: exclusively to theatrical people.
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  Speaker 6: Any kind of a room would be okay.
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  Speaker 5: Well, come in, young man, we'll see what we can do.
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  Speaker 5: I do have a room that I've never rented. It's
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  Speaker 5: not really fixed up for renting.
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  Speaker 4: Look, lady, I'm not particular. I'm away all day and
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  Speaker 4: all I want is a place to sleep.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm going to show this room to you on
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  Speaker 5: one condition. Yeah, this room belongs to someone very dear
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  Speaker 5: to me. She's away, but well I expect her back sometime.
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  Speaker 5: So I want you to promise that, no matter what,
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  Speaker 5: you will not disturb anything or ask any questions about her.
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  Speaker 6: That's a funny request.
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  Speaker 5: But I must make it. Promise.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, it's a deal.
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  Speaker 5: I'll turn on the light.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's kind of feminine, isn't it. Yellow fluffy curtains,
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  Speaker 4: cost dom dolls, cold cream and grease paint and hey,
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  Speaker 4: lady stockings.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, we haven't changed it at all, because someday she'll
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  Speaker 5: be coming back and she'll find everything just as she
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  Speaker 5: left it. She's good, you see, No matter what they.
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  Speaker 6: Say, is this her picture on the mantel?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, isn't she beautiful?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, I never saw such a beautiful day. When
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  Speaker 6: do you expect her back?
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  Speaker 5: I I don't know. Didn't she say no, She didn't
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  Speaker 5: say a word. One day she was here and the
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  Speaker 5: next she was gone without a word.
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  Speaker 6: How long ago did she leave?
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  Speaker 5: In a few days, it will be ten years.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I rented the room.
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  Speaker 4: When the landlady left, I took the French doll off
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  Speaker 4: the pillow and down on the bed for little nap.
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  Speaker 4: But from where I lay, I could look straight at
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  Speaker 4: the picture of the beautiful blonde, and I felt the
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  Speaker 4: back of my neck crawl. There was something about her
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  Speaker 4: eyes and her long golden hair. Finally I couldn't stand
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  Speaker 4: at any longer. I jumped up and turned the picture
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  Speaker 4: to the wall, and I dozed off. As she was
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  Speaker 4: in my dream crying, just her face, soft gray eyes
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  Speaker 4: and the golden hair.
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  Speaker 6: What was she crying about?
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  Speaker 7: What was wrong?
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  Speaker 6: What's wrong?
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  Speaker 4: Laverne Laverne, Laverne what's the matter, Laverne?
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  Speaker 6: Laverne? What are you crying?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, mister Schwartz, Are you all right?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm all right. Just a bad dream, I guess.
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  Speaker 5: But I heard you calling out. You were calling Laverne.
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  Speaker 5: Who Laverne? That's the name you were calling, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know Verne? Yeah, I guess I was.
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  Speaker 5: How did you know, mister Schwartz, How did you know
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  Speaker 5: her name was Laverne?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. I don't know how I knew. I
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  Speaker 6: knew a name, I knew the name of a blonde,
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  Speaker 6: but I'd never met her.
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  Speaker 4: I pestered the landlady for details, begged her to tell
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  Speaker 4: me LaVerne's last name and how she had disappeared.
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  Speaker 6: But the old dame wouldn't talk.
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  Speaker 4: So when I finally got rid of her, I locked
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  Speaker 4: the door and went to work to find out myself.
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  Speaker 4: I went through that room with a fine tooth comb,
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  Speaker 4: but I couldn't find a thing to tell me who
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  Speaker 4: the girl was.
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  Speaker 6: Not a letter, not a.
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  Speaker 4: Card, not an envelope. But I did find a key
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  Speaker 4: and a jacket pocket had a tag on it, and
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  Speaker 4: the figure nine was written on the tag. There was
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  Speaker 4: nothing in the room the key would fit, but maybe
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  Speaker 4: someplace i'd find a locket was made for. And then
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  Speaker 4: high on the closet door, I found a telephone number
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  Speaker 4: scrawled with eyebrow pencil arrogant eight six' one. TWO i
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  Speaker 4: went downstairs at the whole, phone dialed it.
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  Speaker 6: And got a busy.
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  Speaker 4: Signal Sh, well at least the number was still, alive and,
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  Speaker 4: maybe just maybe somebody in the other end could tell
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  Speaker 4: me About. Laverne an hour, LATER i was still dialing
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  Speaker 4: that number and still getting a busy. Signal, FINALLY i
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  Speaker 4: went up back to my. Room after, all what business
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  Speaker 4: was it of mine if some babe disappeared ten years.
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  Speaker 6: AGO i had my own, HEADACHES i had four hundred
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  Speaker 6: dozen fancy neckties to get rid.
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  Speaker 4: Of But laverne was still in that. ROOM i felt
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  Speaker 4: it in my, bones AND i couldn't. Sleep in the,
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  Speaker 4: MORNING i started scrounging around.
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  Speaker 6: The loop looking for a place to set up, shop.
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  Speaker 4: AND i finally found it down On South, state a
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  Speaker 4: building all boarded. Up it looked like it was once a,
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  Speaker 4: theater and it looked like it hadn't been used for fifty,
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  Speaker 4: years so the rent couldn't be too, high and it
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  Speaker 4: was big and, central SO i just ankled around to
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  Speaker 4: the alley and tried the stage.
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  Speaker 6: Door hey anybody in?
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  Speaker 8: There hey just a, minute what do you think you're?
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  Speaker 9: Doing?
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  Speaker 6: Huh, oh, hello. OFFICER i was looking for the.
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  Speaker 4: Janitor it looked like there'd be a janitor around with
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  Speaker 4: the doors all pad luck like.
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  Speaker 6: This, yeah but there's a light burning. Inside it's just
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  Speaker 6: a work light on the stage burns all the.
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  Speaker 2: Time what do you, want?
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  Speaker 6: MISTER i want to rent the? Joint where CAN i
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  Speaker 6: find the? Owner?
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  Speaker 2: Rented?
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  Speaker 6: Huh you better get in touch With Jasper florence and
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  Speaker 6: the big stage producer that's, right used to run this
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  Speaker 6: little burlesqu house before he was in The. Chips got
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  Speaker 6: us start. Here you'll probably get him on the phone
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  Speaker 6: at his. Office, okay, pal thanks a.
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  Speaker 9: Lot good Morning Florence.
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  Speaker 6: Productions, Hello i'd like to speak to Mister. Florence.
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  Speaker 2: Please who's?
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  Speaker 9: Calling?
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  Speaker 6: Please my Name's. Schwartz what do you.
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  Speaker 9: Wish to talk to Mister florence? About? Please he's very.
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  Speaker 4: Busy YEAH i, know BUT i ain't no ham actor
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  Speaker 4: looking for a. Job tell HIM i want to rent
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  Speaker 4: some space from.
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  Speaker 9: Him rent?
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  Speaker 6: Space, yeah the Old Florence theatre On State. Street oh, well, Hello.
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  Speaker 9: I'm, sorry but The Florence theater is not for, rent
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  Speaker 9: not for? Rent but why Mister florence?
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  Speaker 4: ORDERS i burned up the nerve of that, guy letting
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  Speaker 4: his stare to sit there empty WHILE i needed it so. Bad,
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  Speaker 4: WELL i wanted back to the rooming house and got
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  Speaker 4: a detective mystery and tried to pass the time.
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  Speaker 6: Away but it didn't. WORK i couldn't think of a
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  Speaker 6: thing Except.
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  Speaker 4: Laverne THEN i lay back on the bed AND i
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  Speaker 4: must have been dead, tired because in nothing, FLAT i
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  Speaker 4: was Out.
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  Speaker 6: And there she was, again that beautiful. Girl saw.
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  Speaker 4: It this TIME i was sure she was trying to
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  Speaker 4: say something to, me trying to get a message of
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  Speaker 4: some kind to.
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  Speaker 6: Me BUT i just couldn't understand what was she trying to?
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  Speaker 6: Say was she asking me to find?
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  Speaker 2: Her in a, moment we continue with the second act of.
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  Speaker 4: Suspense another visit With joe And daphne Foreside.
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  Speaker 5: Joe, joe come, On, joe get, up it's two.
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  Speaker 9: O'clock what do we?
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  Speaker 7: Want?
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  Speaker 5: Joe you got to get off that couch and fix
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  Speaker 5: up the.
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  Speaker 7: Yard, john let me.
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  Speaker 5: Sleep, no we've got to keep the place in good shape,
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  Speaker 5: now rise and.
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  Speaker 7: Shine, oh come, On, Daphney i'll do it, tomorrow.
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  Speaker 9: Tomorrow always.
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  Speaker 5: Tomorrow you can't keep putting things.
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  Speaker 7: OFF i Don't who was it but The sabans bond
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  Speaker 7: to take care of our?
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  Speaker 5: Future who suggested the? Idea?
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  Speaker 10: Well who read the story in the paper that told
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  Speaker 10: about bonds being a good investment because they pay off
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  Speaker 10: four dollars for every Three.
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  Speaker 5: And who pointed out the article for you to?
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  Speaker 9: Read?
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  Speaker 5: Wow, Right and Now i'm pointing out the yard to.
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  Speaker 5: You our bonds are guaranteed by the. Government our grass
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  Speaker 5: isn't Mo that proves it.
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  Speaker 7: What our little knowledge in the hands of the wrong
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  Speaker 7: person can be. Dangerous and what does that?
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  Speaker 8: Mean you?
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  Speaker 7: Know one, plain simple. Fact bonds are a good.
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  Speaker 10: Investment now you not only use it to get me
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  Speaker 10: to buy a bond a month on a payrol savings,
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  Speaker 10: plan but you'll probably use it against me the rest
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  Speaker 10: of my.
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  Speaker 5: Life if it gets you to mow the. YARD i
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  Speaker 5: will move.
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  Speaker 7: Out, Boy i'm. Going i'm.
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  Speaker 10: Going but understand, This my next wife is going to
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  Speaker 10: show more respect for my hard.
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  Speaker 5: Work so WOULD i IF i ever saw Any Bye murder.
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  Speaker 1: And now Starring jerome For act, two of Nineteen Deacon.
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  Speaker 4: Street it took two sleeping pills BEFORE i got rid Of.
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  Speaker 4: Laverne the next, MORNING i set out to see Mister florence.
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  Speaker 4: Personal he lived in a very classy pad up on
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  Speaker 4: The Gold. Coast he looked just like his, pictures tall
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  Speaker 4: and gray, looking with a nice sort of a, smile
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  Speaker 4: but his necktie was.
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  Speaker 11: LOUSY i believe my secretary told you yesterday That i'm
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  Speaker 11: not interested in renting the.
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  Speaker 6: Theater i'm sure she. Did but Mister, florence did you
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  Speaker 6: ever have a hunch a?
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  Speaker 11: Hunch, yes of, Course WELL i got a hunch about your.
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  Speaker 6: THEATER i.
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  Speaker 11: See i'm afraid it's out of the. Question but why,
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  Speaker 11: well it's WHERE i produced my first, shows and it
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  Speaker 11: has memories for me not so. Pleasant opening it up
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  Speaker 11: again would be like opening up a part of my
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  Speaker 11: past That i'd rather keep.
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  Speaker 6: Closed it ain't that kind of, silly Mister.
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  Speaker 4: FLORENCE i wouldn't put on shows. There ALL i want
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  Speaker 4: to do is sell neck ties and wholesale.
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  Speaker 11: LOTS i admire your, persistence Mister, schwartz but the answer
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  Speaker 11: will always be.
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  Speaker 4: No, okay you, win but, now BUT i ain't giving
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  Speaker 4: up because WHEN i want something real, BAD i usually get.
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  Speaker 6: It. Now here's my.
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  Speaker 4: Card i've written my phone number on it in case
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  Speaker 4: you change your. Mind and you'll change your, mind Mister,
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  Speaker 4: florence you think? So, YEAH i think so as you.
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  Speaker 6: Say i'm.
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  Speaker 4: Persistent, so with nothing better to, DO i spend the
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  Speaker 4: next couple of days on the, phone bugging Mister florence
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  Speaker 4: about his theater and trying to get the arrogant NUMBER
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  Speaker 4: i found In LaVerne's. Closet laurence kept telling me, no
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  Speaker 4: the arragont number keeps on sending a busy. Signal but
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  Speaker 4: LIKE i, Say i'm, persistent and finally it.
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  Speaker 2: Answers, Hello Little Joe.
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  Speaker 9: Criento, huh this is a Little Joe. Criento you? Want?
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  Speaker 2: Is?
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  Speaker 6: Uh Is laverne?
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  Speaker 9: There? Oh we got An? Oliver what the number you?
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  Speaker 7: Call?
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  Speaker 6: Arrogant eight six'? One two you.
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  Speaker 9: Got, A dnama but we know Gott?
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  Speaker 6: And oliver and where are? You Located Corner north Clark. And,
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  Speaker 6: Willoby thanks i'll be over for. A Pizza Little joe
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  Speaker 6: sorrento was a rundown.
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  Speaker 4: SPAGHETTI joint i went inside and right away over in
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  Speaker 4: THE corner i saw the telephone that had been giving
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  Speaker 4: me the, busy signal and. No wonder it's a public,
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  Speaker 4: phone booth and right now one guy is in it
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  Speaker 4: and two others are waiting.
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  Speaker 6: FOR it i go over to the.
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  Speaker 4: Bar and cut up touches With little joe. The proprietor
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  Speaker 4: how long you had, This, place joe.
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  Speaker 6: Fourteen or nearly? Fifteen years what you've seen a lot
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  Speaker 6: of people come? And go huh by? Shore plenty you
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  Speaker 6: got a memory. For faces look, You see, i'm busy,
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  Speaker 6: mister heah take a look at. This picture so why you?
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  Speaker 6: Recognize her? For sure she's been in here a long?
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  Speaker 6: Time ago what's, Her? NAME joe i.
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  Speaker 5: Can't remember her name aspect she was a.
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  Speaker 6: SHOW girl i Think a.
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  Speaker 4: Claire something Wasn't It, laverne joe, That's Right.
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  Speaker 6: Laverne.
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  Speaker 5: Claire yeah she always coming with a.
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  Speaker 6: Big shot the. Big shot well it wasn't so big,
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  Speaker 6: shot then but he was going to places and then
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  Speaker 6: she jillied him and run off with. Another, GUY yeah
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  Speaker 6: i remember, very good because he used to come.
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  Speaker 9: In here.
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  Speaker 6: After that he get drunk all the time to break
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  Speaker 6: him up. Pretty bad and who is this?
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  Speaker 2: Big shot you?
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  Speaker 6: Remember?
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  Speaker 3: That joe show a Big Producer jasper florence.
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  Speaker 2: In just. A moment we continue with the third act, of.
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  Speaker 12: Suspense the evolution of. A medal in eighteen, forty seven
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  Speaker 12: During the War, With mexico congress established a citation award
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  Speaker 12: for conspicuous service by members Of The United. States army
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  Speaker 12: this Was the Certificate, of merit strictly for army. Enlisted
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  Speaker 12: men in eighteen, ninety one almost a half, century later
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  Speaker 12: non commissioned officers became eligible to receive. The certificate no
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  Speaker 12: medal went with this award until nineteen, o five when
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  Speaker 12: a coin shaped medal in bronze Bearing a roman eagle
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  Speaker 12: was approved. And adopted the suspension ribbon was vertically striped,
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  Speaker 12: in red white. And Blue in july, Nineteen eighteen congress
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  Speaker 12: Abolished the Certificate, of merit replacing it With The Distinguished
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  Speaker 12: service medal And The Distinguished. Service cross the medal is
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  Speaker 12: awarded for exceptionally meritorious service to, the government While the
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  Speaker 12: cross is reserved to honor extraordinary heroism in connection with
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  Speaker 12: operations against an. Armed enemy Before the Certificate of merit
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  Speaker 12: was discontinued in, nineteen eighteen, one thousand two hundred eleven
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  Speaker 12: enlisted men had received the award given in recognition of
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  Speaker 12: gallantry and action or exceptionally meritorious service during time. Of
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  Speaker 12: Peace the Certificate of merit retains an important Place among america's, historic.
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  Speaker 2: Medals and Now.
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  Speaker 1: Starring Jerome for act three Of Nineteen. Deacon street well that.
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  Speaker 4: Was that so first Thing tomorrow i'd go out and
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  Speaker 4: find some other place to peddle. My ties BUT when i,
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  Speaker 4: GOT home i found a note for my Life. Land
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  Speaker 4: lady It Said jasper, florence called he's changed his mind about.
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  Speaker 4: The theater we'll meet you there at. Eight, O'CLOCK well
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  Speaker 4: i hut put it. Over there the padlocks were off the,
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  Speaker 4: front DOOR so i. Walked in no one was in.
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  Speaker 4: The LOBBY so i went into, the theater and there
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  Speaker 4: in the center of the stage was the one big.
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  Speaker 6: Work light the cop Told me florence kept burning all.
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  Speaker 6: THESE years i.
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  Speaker 4: Started to get a feeling in, my stomach sort of a.
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  Speaker 4: Scary feeling there on that big stage Is where. Laverne
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  Speaker 4: danced she must have killed. HER audience i walked down the,
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  Speaker 4: long aisle then up the stairs onto the stage and.
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  Speaker 4: Looked around way up above me in the shadows were
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  Speaker 4: the flies alongside the catwalk and the, asbestos curtain an
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  Speaker 4: old fashioned one and a heavy. WOODEN roller i was
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  Speaker 4: looking at IT when i saw something that made me
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  Speaker 4: almost drop in. MY tracks i saw, SOMEBODY move i
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: was sure. Of it just, off stage a guy moved in.
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  Speaker 6: The darkness come out, of there you out.
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  Speaker 4: Of there he didn't MOVE as i walked over closer the,
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  Speaker 4: dressing room and THE guy i Saw Was. Mary schwartz, that's,
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  Speaker 4: Right Me, mary swartz reflected in a dressing. Table mirror
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  Speaker 4: but JUST then i saw a door to another dressing
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  Speaker 4: room across, the hall and on it was the. NUMBER
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  Speaker 4: nine i remembered THE key i had picked Up in.
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  Speaker 4: Leverne's room in, A flash i had it out of.
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  Speaker 4: My pocket was trying at.
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  Speaker 2: The door.
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  Speaker 4: Number nine the, tag said and. IT worked i, stepped
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  Speaker 4: in AND then i stepped. On something it was DARK
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  Speaker 4: and i couldn't figure what, it WAS so i lit.
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  Speaker 2: A match.
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  Speaker 4: There on the floor were the white bones of. A
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: skeleton beside them long golden strands, of HAIR and.
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  Speaker 6: I knew clarence had.
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  Speaker 4: Killed her he had, killed her then closed, this theater
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  Speaker 4: locked it up so she'd never. Be found no wonder he,
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: wouldn't drint AND because i wouldn't take no, for ananswer
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  Speaker 4: HE thinks i know something about. Her murder that's why
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: he called me down to.
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  Speaker 3: The theater that's why he left the, door unlocked to
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  Speaker 3: get me in here and never let.
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  Speaker 6: Me out he's in here. Somewhere now BUT where i
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: had to get out of. There fast there was only one.
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  Speaker 4: Exit across, the stage over, the footlights not THE door
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  Speaker 4: i had. COME in i crossed the stage and reached,
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  Speaker 4: the footlights when suddenly the master of curtain, was unrolling
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  Speaker 4: crashing out.
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  Speaker 2: ON me.
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  Speaker 6: I jumped back just. In Time had.
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  Speaker 8: Schwartz, that wrong it, hits you it would have saved me. The,
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  Speaker 8: trouble florence.
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  Speaker 13: Are you you can't, See, me SCHWARTZ but i can.
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  Speaker 13: See you i'm on the catwalk in, the shadow but
• 20:30
  Speaker 13: you're well lighted by.
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  Speaker 8: The worklight you make a very. GOOD talking i, Wonder.
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  Speaker 8: That schwartz you'll make one move to put on the
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: lighter to.
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  Speaker 13: Get away i'll cut these comonways and you'll be smashed.
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: To nothing you can't get away, With this FLORENCE.
• 20:47
  Speaker 13: GOT i i got away with, it ONCE and i.
• 20:50
  Speaker 13: Went again you don't have much of a chance. To
• 20:54
  Speaker 13: you the master curtain has you fenced in on the
• 20:57
  Speaker 13: stage and you can't get over.
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: THE footlights i can get out by, The.
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  Speaker 13: Side florence that's a, long walk, my friend and long
• 21:05
  Speaker 13: before you, Take it i'll drop these sandbags.
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: On You maybe i'll be faster than. You will, Then.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: What florence then you'll fry for killing that, girl coming
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: and so, of you, my friend.
• 21:18
  Speaker 13: For meddling and you're gonna get It because i'm cutting the.
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: Way close now look out.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: The ring.
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  Speaker 4: That's a long way to fall and an awful way,
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  Speaker 4: to die even, For.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: You florenz.
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  Speaker 6: Well there's.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: The story if you don't, BELIEVE it i wouldn't, blame
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: you but that's the way. It happened oh by, the
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: way if you happen to need, ANY ties i got
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: a nice new line in if you won't think it's in.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Bad taste but, these ties and they come in, all
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: colors got a girl's picture. ON them i call It the.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Laverne tie so don't forget look. ME up i got
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: a little Stand in rosenblat's. Department store you can't.
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  Speaker 6: Miss it it's In The boggain.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Basement suspense.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: In Which jerome thor Starred in William and robeson's production
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  Speaker 1: Of Nineteen deacon Street By lawrence Marcus And. Robert webster
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  Speaker 1: light Supporting mister thor In Nineteen deacon Street Where, Paula Winslow,
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Scott, Jack Krusian ted Decarcia.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 1: Normalden listen listen again next week when we return with
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: another tale well calculated to keep you.
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  Speaker 2: In suspense.
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