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all my other books. Well, now it's time for today's episode of Nick
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Carter. The original air date March the twenty first of nineteen forty eight and
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the title is the Case of the Magic Rope Contest Winners. Yes, folks
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later we'll announce the Ford Winners and the third Big Jingle Contests. So listen
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while New Post War Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for Chasing Dirt, presents Nick
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Carter, famous for chasing crime. Every week. At this time, two
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the most resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master
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Detective Nick. Why do you want us all here in the workshop? Because
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Patsy, this is where the great Canestra cooked up his most famous illusions,
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and it ought to be a good place for me to pull a couple of
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tricks too. Hey, don't tell me you're going to pull rabbits out of
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a hat. Rabbits No, Patsy a killer, I hope. And now
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the Case of the Magic Rope. Today's adventure starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter,
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brought to you by New Postwar Old Dutch Cleanser. Tonight at the Elton
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Theater, magicians from all over the country will compete for the Fulton Award,
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a ten thousand dollars prize for the best illusion of the year, but the
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greatest magician of them all Carl's consterol will not be present confined to a wheelchair,
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since he's all now a leading contender for the Fulton Award. Ha ha
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ha. You know, Alma, I suggested the idea of the Magician's Award
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to mister Fulton myself, but I did not think he would take me seriously.
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Why not? He can afford it with all his millions. He certainly
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can. Honey hows so many people take up magic as a hobby, isn't
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it? With fulling in it is more than a hobby. It is an
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obsession. But all he's ever learned is a little sleight of hand. But
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let him get on the stage and he's as happy as if he had made
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another million dollars in the stock market. Oh, Colus, I've simply got
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to win that ten thousand dollars prize tonight. Perhaps you should have this,
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that piece of room, that piece of rope, my dear, will mistify
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the world. It is the most spectacular illusion of my whole career. Oh
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how does it work? No? No, no, no, that is
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Connestero's secret. When I return to the theater, you expect to work again,
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But of course I do. I'll be out of this wheelchair. But
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it's know not well well, but that's good news. Alma. You will
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tell me what happened to me the night of the accident. It was the
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equipment, wasn't it. The equipment was all right, Carlos, you slip,
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that's all. But I couldn't have. I had done that three a
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thousand times. Why did I fall through that trap door? Alma? Why?
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Why? Alas Carlos, you mustn't get excited, had for you saw
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your hands are trembling. Let me hold them in mind for a moment.
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There Now I beg your pardon, missus canstra. Dinner is ready to wheel
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yourself into the dining room. Will you want to say something to Alma?
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Very well? Catlin come back again soon, Almah, but I have to
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say, won't take long, Alma, missus cannestra, what you saw didn't
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mean a thing. I don't want to hear any lies. You've been in
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love with my husband for years. Oh that's ridiculous. If you weren't so
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crazy, you never to come here, not get out and don't come back
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back, or what? You'd better be pretty nice to me, missus canstol,
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or I might tell the newspapers exactly why Carlos fail that night? And
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you wouldn't want that, would you? How are you doing Patsy at the
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end of it? Nick, it's twenty five after seven? How did I
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do take in the stage show? Oh? That would be wonderful. I
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haven't been to the theater in months. Oh, I'll answer it. You
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get your hat right, Nick Carter speaking? Oh, oh yes, I
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say yes, I'll be right over. Oh nae, no show, No,
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not even any dinner. That was missus Canstrol, wife of the great
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magician. Well what did she want? She wanted to tell me that her
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husband's been stabbed. It's been dead for at least two hours. That's just
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semester. Where did you find the body? Only a few minutes ago?
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I opened the door and there he walked with that knife in his chest.
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You ever seen this knife before? Yes, it was part of carlos magic
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act. He kept a tearing the workshop with his other I suppose you've notified
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the police. No, I did not know what. I'll call him Nick,
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all right, but get me a clean envelope first for you? Why
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did you find something? Yes? Canstro whoever't they tried to put up a
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fight. Oh, the fingernails in his right hand are broken, as if
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something had been torn out of his hand, and these bits of fiber were
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under his nails. What hey look like the stuff they make robottoms? I
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thought, here put him in the envelope. The rope trick, Mister Cardrie,
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just gone. What rope trick? It is an illusion? Carlos was
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where. He wouldn't tell me how it worked, but he said it was
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the most spectacular trick he'd ever created. It was here on this desk only
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this afternoon. A trick as good as that would be worth a fortune to
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Nymagy. That must have been what he was shouting about, shouting, what
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do you mean? Well? We had an early dinner and I went up
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to my room about six, Yes, and a few minutes later I heard
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Carlos screaming at someone. He was in a rage. I didn't think anything
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about it at the time. Carlos was always excitable, rememberbody said. He
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was shouting, no, you cannot have it, No one can have it.
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You haven't had any idea whom he was talking to. No, I
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haven't. People were always dropping in. He'd go to the door and this
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wheelchair let them in. Himself. That is how Alma Whiting got in this
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afternoon. Alma Whiting, isn't she a magician too? Yes she was.
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She was here this afternoon. Maybe I've had a top two. You will
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find her at the Elton Theater competing for the Foot and No One say.
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I read about the Foot and the Ward on the paper today. It's a
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ten thousand dollars prize for the best magic trick of the year, isn't it.
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Maybe he could not have been known, mis she noting all before this
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happened. That's the same, missus Canstra. She may be able to give
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us some information. That's you get that police call through right away. We're
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going to see a show tonight, after all. I beg your pardon,
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mister Fulton, who let you into my box? I distinctly told you.
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My name's Nick Carter U Nick Carter, the detective. That's right. This
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is my secretary of Patsy Bowen. How do you do well? I'm happy
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to meet you both, I'm sure, but what are you doing here?
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I'd like to talk with one of your performers. I'll a Whiting, but
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perhaps you could tell me when the best time would be. But Elma's on
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in a few minutes. Is it something urgent? Is if you'll call murder
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urgent murder? Carlos Canestra was stabbed to death about six thirty this evening.
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Canisto stabbed doctor. I can't believe it, sorry, but he was,
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and Miss Whiting seems to be the last person who saw him alive. Mister
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Pholton, tell me if you have any of the magicians done a rope trick
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and ropeck? Now, no, can this s Troe dead? The greatest
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magician in the world has ever known dead? Well, can you take us
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backstage and introduce us to Miss Whiting? No, certainly, I'll take you
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back just as soon as Marvella finishes his act. He's nearly true. I
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have to stay and judge the contest fic. You know, thank you,
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thank you. Oh ladies and gentlemen, watch close with me. This is
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the contest trick coming up. Well, you're a patient to this very familiar
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updy holding my hand, common ordinary piece of broke me. Do you suppose
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that work could a w But I hope to find out before long watches that
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Miss bows the credit dark backstage here, Oh, there's Elma Elma Alma.
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Yes, mister Fulton, this is mister Carter and mister Bowen, Alma.
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How do you do I'm not something Terrible's have and Comistro is dead, is
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what you're stabbed about? Six thirty this evening, this writing? Who killed
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him? I step, we're trying to find out. You mind telling me
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where you were at that time? I was right here in the theater rehearsing.
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I suppose you can prove this, of course I can. Mavello was
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here too when he saw me. If you think you're going to put the
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blame on me, you're out of your mind. What's the audience laughing at?
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Oh that's the comedy magician going on after Marvella's act. Oh do you
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want to talk to Mavello? To mister Carter, Yes I do. I'll
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get him right away. Mister Carter, I don't understand this. Why would
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anybody want to kill Carlos? Well, missus Kinestro thinks it was to steal
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a magic trick he just perfected. That's ridiculously she knows this. Nobody who
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knew Carlus would do anything like this? Why not? Because he well,
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I mean they know they couldn't get away with it. Why not? Look,
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I've got to check my props. I'll talk to you in the axe
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over. Is that all right? Okay? Thanks? What do you think?
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Make listen? She isn't telling us Bessie, and I don't know whether
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she's afraid of them. I thought this was a magic sill. That's the
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idea of the Clowning family relief. I suppose killed time. While he's stripe
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one, I can set up the next. Mister Catta, this is Marvello,
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one of our best magicians. Is he true? The great kind is
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true? He's deep. Yes, you'll excuse me, won't you? Mister
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Katta. I have to get back to my box before Alma zach staff chure.
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Go right ahead, mister bogg uh Novello? What time did you get
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to the theater tonight? About six o'clock? Anyone see you here at six?
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Certainly I spoke to his white things. I can either. I say
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you're her alibi and she is yours. What are you getting at a solution
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to a murder? I hope, Avella. Where's the rope you used tonight?
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I have it to write here in my coat book. That's funny.
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Now, don't tell me it's disappeared. No, no, no, of
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course not. Oh here it is in my left pocket. I thought it
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was in the right one. That's all I see, Mata bar Well on
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my rope. For what, I'm sending it to the police, laboratory police.
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Maybe this is the rope that will killed Conestro's killer. Nick, Where
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are you being? I'm the whiting backs almost over many had him to send
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an officer overly here to pick up that rope. Oh are they going to
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make a comparison test? Yeah, And if those fibers we found under canstrous
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pingernails are from the same rope that my velo used, it'll show up heap.
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Look what you may have another rope for the sergeant to pick up.
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Look what Alm was doing out there on the stage. What's she doing up
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there on that platform? Listen, ladies and gentlemen, you're all representatives of
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the audience. Have examined this rope to be sure there is no trippery.
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Play themselves applied the ropes firmly around my neck. Two rope tricks tonight.
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Seize the rope tested with the heavy standbag. You've see with your own eyes,
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and it does not race within eight feet of the floor. Hey,
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she going to jumpost that platform with the rope on her knae's of course.
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As soon as you fall, she'll be on a sight behind that screen.
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I'll be glad it's her instead of me. My hands, I'm securely tied
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as well as my feet. Looks like a good trick. It's been done
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by the committee from the audience, and that's t's real. Quick though she
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may find this is only a rehearsal for the real thing. And no,
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don't dead dick. She jumped. Yeah, now, there shouldn't be a
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dead board like this. Why doesn't she come out from behind that screen or
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whatever she supposed to do? I don't know. That's something's gone wrong.
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Lookuse man. They're running back to the screen and mister footman's coming up over
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the footlights. Something has yeah up the way quite stuck. The trick didn't
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work. She's at the end of a rope. The rope which she hoped
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would win her the ten thousand dollars put in. The board swings the lifeless
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body of Alma fighting on. We'll see what happens in just a minute.
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Now, back to the case of the Magic Rope. Today's adventure with Nick
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Carter, brought to you by new post war old Dutch cleanser. As the
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police cleared the theater, the body of Alma Fighting is lowered to the stage
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and Nick Carter begins his investigation. She's dead, all right? Her next
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ken nikel happened? What went wrong? I don't know? Hey? Does
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anybody here know this trick? How are you supposed to work? Yes?
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Yes, I do. Oh you I'm Sam Foster. I do the comedy
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clown eye? Well? What was the trick she tried to do? As
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she was supposed to jump off the platform onto the stage, the rope was
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too short for her to reach the stage. I was watching when they tested
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it with the sand bang on. Oh, but there's about five for the
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slight concealed in that cross father rope hangs from Oh. Alma could release it
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by stepping on a foot switch on the platform. Then when she hit the
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floor, she could grab the rope and yank and tight with her hands to
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make it look as though she were suspended in midair. Uh huh. The
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audience couldn't see her behind the screen. Of course, her hands were tied.
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Oh no, no, no, she got the loose during the pattern
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before she jumped, and my part of the act was to come up through
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the trap door in the stage and take her place. I see. Then
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she'd step out in front, pull away the screen, and instead of Alma
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being suspended there, the audience would see me in this clown suit hanging from
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the noose by my feet. All things took only about five seconds, and
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the turlo messed in with that foot switch that was supposed to release the extra
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rope. Yeah, something must have gone wrong with it. Show me that
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switch, will you works by electricity? Here? See this wire running up
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the back of the platform to it. Hey, look, Nick, the
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wire has been caught for the second time. Tonight Patsy were face to face
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with murder. Nick watched the audio coming back here at Canestro's house. Remember
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what all my whiting said that no one who knew Chnestro would have killed him
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to get the rope trick. Yes, but I don't know what she meant
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by it, do I? But I think perhaps missus Canstol does missus sorry
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to disturb you, Missus Canstrol, Please not now come back tomorrow. I'm
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sorry, but this can't wait. The Knick's trying to help you, Missus
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cannestro, but they can help me. No, Carlos is gone. Maybe
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I should be glad he's at peace now. No more soft fering, no
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more, no more, what no, no, except for the lameess.
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His health was perfect. What was wrong? Then? Is mine? His
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mind? Who said anything about his mind? All my whiting told me that,
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Ahma, writing, I might have known. Look, missus Canestra,
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your husband was a famous man, a public figure. You can't hide important
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facts about a man like that. But I had too. His public knew
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him. Is the great Canestra A named It meant as much in the theater
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as Bernhard Caruso. Pablo, of course, could not chatter that illusion.
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I could not let the world know that the great Consterol had lost his man.
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Oh that's awful. So that's what I Almah meant by saying that anyone
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who knew Canestra wouldn't steal his trick. Elma new that is what caused his
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accident. His mind snapped during the performance that ninety said, I, miss
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the only one who knows you say no one else suspected your husband's condition.
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No, you always talked rationally when he had visitors. He'd boast about the
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new illusions. He was creating poor, pitiful little tricks that wouldn't fool a
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baby. I knew his rope trick was no good, but I know someone's
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at the door. I'll go Why hello, Carter, Marvello and I stop
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by to see whether we could do anything for Missus Canestra. I'm glad you
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did, mister Fulton. Come on in, you too, Marvello, huh,
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thank you. Oh Patsy, Are you and Missus canstro coming to the
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workshop here? Please? I want to try an experiment of an experiment.
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Don't tell me you're going to try to produce rabbits out of a hats,
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mister Carter. Rabbits, no, Marvello, I'm going to try to produce
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some murderer. You mean you got us all here in the workshop just to
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tell us Chinestro's rope trick was worthless. Mister Carter, well, I thought
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you might be interested in knowing it. It was worth about fifty cents the
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cost of the rope itself. Damn that boves I did not steal it.
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You saw my rope trick, you heard? Have your audience uploaded? Mavello.
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I got a report from the police laboratory on that rope you used tonight.
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The fibers matched those I found under Canestro's fingernails perfectly. What are you
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trying to say. I'm saying that your rope is the one that was stolen
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out of this room early this evening. The rope somebody killed Carlos Canestro for
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no, no, I did not do it. It is a lie.
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I'll tell you who killed him. Missus Canistro did it what she was wildly
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jealous of Alman Carlos. Everybody in the provision knew that is a lie.
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After she killed him. It would have been easy enough for her to sneak
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backstage and cut the wire on that foot switch. A good theory except for
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one thing. What's there? Alma Whiting left me to check her props just
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before I talked to you, Mabello, and she certainly wouldn't have overlood testing
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anything as important as that switch. Her life depended on it, naturally,
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right then, the wire was cut after she tested it in the last two
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or three minutes before she started erect and at that time we were all standing
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within a few feet of the platform that contained the switch. If Missus s
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Connestro had been there, I'd have seen her. So you're trying to put
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the blame on me. Oh, I'm not. You were talking to me
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all during that time. Marvella couldn't have done it. No, he couldn't,
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and nobody else was there except the stage hands. Well, I think
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we can count them out, mister Fulton. They'd have no re isn't to
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kill either Alma or Canstral. But that does not leave anyone bus click watches
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he's getting away the way all button caught her. Put away that gun.
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You don't seriously think of a man in my poss I don't think multon.
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I know here, Patsy, you hold a gun while I frisk him.
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This is ridiculous. I could buy himsell can that's draw a hundred times.
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Why should I steal anything from him? Because there's some things that money can't
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buy, and that rope trick was one of them. You're being silly,
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am I. You're crazy about magic Fulton, and when you couldn't buy that
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trick, you'll kill Canester to get it. Has he got a gun?
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Me? No, there's nothing at him. Keep him covered while I call
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a police car. Uh huh, at least headquarters and hurry. Oh Patsy.
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Yes, Nick, Patsy, I'll look at me for a minute,
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Yes, Nick, and you see any things? You got the gun away
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from me? Yes, thanks for looking at COTTERR instead of me, Miss
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going now put down that phone, Cottter Okay, Yes, I was kind
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of dumb, wasn't it. Yes, you were, and I'm in command
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now. But you killed Canestro, didn't you, fulk? Yes, you
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were right about that, I thought so. I've always wanted to own one
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great trick, one real illusion that no one else had, So I tried
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to buy the rope trick from him, but he laughed at me, said
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his trick was much too good for a near beginner like me. I flew
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into a race and grabbed the knife off the desk and stabbed him. Yes,
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he shouldn't have laughed. And after you found out the rope trick wasn't
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worth anything, you try to put the blame on my Vellow by planning the
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rope on him, didn't you. Naturally, when I brought my Vellow across
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the stage to you, I took the rope he'd used out of his right
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coat pocket and put Canistro's rope in his left pocket. So it twas you
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who tried to find me. Yes, mar Vello, even Canistro couldn't have
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done a neather bit of slight of hand than that. What about Alma Polton?
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When I switched the ropes on mar Vello, I looked up and saw
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her watching me, so there was nothing else I could do. All right,
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what's your next trick? A disappearing act? Exactly? I'm going to
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lock you all in here while I take my leave. Stand away from that
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door, Cotta, Sorry, Fulton, I'm not moving. Get away from
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that door. I'll put a bullet in you. You're not leaving this room.
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Fulton. Oh, Nick means it. I know it does, and
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so do I. All right, if that's the way you wanted. While
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the others stand by dumbfounded, Phulton, at point blank range, fires his
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revolver directly if Nick Cutter's heart We'll see what happens in just a minute now
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for the conclusion of the case of the Magic Rope. Today's adventure with Nick
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Carter brought to you by new post War old Dutch cleanser. In the workshop
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of carlos Chnestral, world famous magician JB. Fulton makes a desperate attempt to
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escape as He points a gun at Nick's hart and says, get away from
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that door, Cutter, I'll put a bullet in you. You're not leaving
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this room, Pholton, all right, if that's the way you want it,
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all right, get through playing with that gun, Phulton, you are
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Please notice that I've got your cutter to the revolver that shoots real bullets.
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That's what happens. The revolver Fulton has only shoots blank cartridges. I've picked
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it up here in the workshop. It must be the gun Carlos used in
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his act. I guess it was missus chinnestrool but Fulton didn't know it.
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Why you'll step at Fulton, all right, Patsy, call headquarters and tell
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him to come here and pick up Fulton the great Nick. When are you
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going to tell me about that gun trick? Oh? That why, there's
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nothing to at Patsy. U haven't you ever seen a magician have somebody shoot
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a gun at him at close range? Not until I saw Fulton do it
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to you. Well, the magician announces what's going to happen. Then he
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gets people up on the stage to examine the gun. Army officers if possible,
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and it's a real gun. Certainly it is. But after the gun's
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been examined, the magician's assistant makes a quick switch. So I get it.
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The gun that fires blanks is substituted for the real gun. That's it,
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And that gun has no hole in the barrel for the bullet to come
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out of. Hell. I sure wish I'd known all that when I was
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holding that gun on Fulton. You see, I didn't have a Nichols worth
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of proof that Pulton was yelly Patsy, so I had to trick him into
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a confession. I've learned from experience that a murderer talks a lot more freely
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with a gun in his hand. Well, he certainly talked plenty. I
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guess it only goes to prove the truth of the old saying. Oh what
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I was saying is that I give a man enough roupe and I'll hang himself.
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Contest, which closed March thirteenth, Well, Nick, are you going to
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make the awards? Am I? Mike? I've been looking forward to this
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all week. Here are the folks who get those brand new nineteen forty eight
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Fords. Eileen Brassfield, I have two two one Emerson Avenue, Aspinwall,
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Pennsylvania. Missus Helen Hill McWilliams in care of E. S. West Up
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one six seven Park Street, East, Orange, New Jersey. Missus Robert
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L. Perry of two three one four West Adams Street, Phoenix, Arizona.
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And Missus Helen Jane Stage of six nine two six Parnell Avenue, Chicago,
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Illinois. And let me add that I hope these lucky people get as
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much pleasure driving their Fords as I had in awarding them. Yes to all
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these Ford and other prize winners, Congratulations, and remember we'll have more winners
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next week, so'll be sure to listen then. Nick Carter Master Detective is
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to the great detectives of old time Radio with Adam Graham. And now let's
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get back into the show. Welcome back. Well, I love mysteries involving
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magic. It's really hard to mess those up. Just great atmosphere and just
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a great fuel for the imagination. This one wasn't perfect, and it did
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have its problems, mainly because in this case, it really did feel like
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when it came to the final confrontation with the villain that Nick Carter was in
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a battle of wits with an unarmed man. That was such a weak trick
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and the guy fell for it. Hey, Patsy, will you look in
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this general direction for no good reason other than to make it look like you're
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we're distracted, so that we can take away so we can take away the
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gun, and he can reveal all of his secrets. Yeah, he can
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do that. Ah, I've got the upper end now. But other than
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that, an interesting story. Well, now we do turn to listener comments
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and feedback at any rate. We turn now to listener comments and feedback,
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and Laurie says, watching an old thriller episode tonight, mister George, Virginia
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Gregg is one of the main characters, and it's so weird to see her
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in an unsympathetic role. When I close my eyes and I can tell it
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as her. I've also been listening to old time radio shows on Cyrus XM,
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and it is so cool to hear so many voices that I know now
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because of your podcast. Thanks for all you do well, Thanks so much,
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Laurie. And it's always a treat when I'll be watching an old movie.
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It doesn't happen all the time because there were a lot of movie actors
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that didn't appear in radio, and a lot of radio actors that didn't go
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into a lot of movie work. Those few times when I'm watching a movie
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and I hear a voice and I'm like, I know, that is such
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a wonderful moment. Of course, Virginia greg has played a lot of characters
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in her career, both sympathetic and non sympathetic. Clearly, she played a
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lot of fatale roles in things like Pat Novak for Hire and even in John
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Boller her role in the Lamar Matter. But I think it's the more positive
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roles that do stick out in people's minds, because when I think about the
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less sympathetic ones, I think of some of her ones where she played on
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When she played on Dragnet in the sixties, there was the Pyramid Swindle episode
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and she was actually hilarious in that one, And in the nineteen sixty six
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Dragnet film there was also a TV episode where she played a sociopathic woman who
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I was willing to ruin two Pulman's careers in order to steal some money she
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claimed they had stolen. But I have to admit that wasn't one of her
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most memorable roles. I mean, she was capable of doing so many roles
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very competently and very well. But I think it is probably the ones that
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really stand out in my mind are things like the Ras Muscin' matter and the
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Mags Palace matter, And of course there was her performance actually in two roles
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of the Nick Scharn matter, and of course brooksy on Let George Do It
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or Helena asher On Richard Diamond. Yeah, she could do a lot of
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other things, and she could be a femme fatale any given episode, but
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it's the probably the more heartwarming performances and humorous ones that really stand out in
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my mind. Thanks so much for the comment, Laurie. We'll be back
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tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny Dollar next Thursday, another episode of Nick Carter.
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