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The Shadow - "Makeup for Murder" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On December 1st, 1946, the Mutual Broadcasting System brought listeners
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  Speaker 1: episode 275 of The Shadow, sponsored by Cary's Salt. In
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  Speaker 1: Makeup for Murder, written by Joe Bates Smith, Brett Morrison
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  Speaker 1: is Lamont Cranston, joined by Margo Lane as they investigate
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  Speaker 1: a frightened beggar's death on Beggar's Road. The trail leads
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  Speaker 1: to Mike's Flophouse, a lodging house known as the Graveyard,
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  Speaker 1: where authorities see hard luck and cheap liquor. But the
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  Speaker 1: shadow suspects the recent deaths are no accident. Taking the
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  Speaker 1: identity of Flipper, an acrobat, Lamont enters the Flophouse to
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  Speaker 1: learn what has placed its residents in jeopardy. And now
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  Speaker 1: we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: What evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the Cary Salt Company, producer of salt for every
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  Speaker 1: farm and home use, brings you the thrilling adventures of
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  Speaker 1: the shadow, the hard and relentless fight of one man
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  Speaker 1: against the forces of evil. These dramatizations are designed to
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  Speaker 1: demonstrate forcibly to old and young alike that crime does
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  Speaker 1: not pay. In just a minute, today's exciting adventure will begin.
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  Speaker 1: And that minute is just time enough to remind you
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  Speaker 1: that good food tastes oh so much better when it's
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  Speaker 1: properly seasoned with Cary's Brown Package Table Salt. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: that's true. For Cary's salt is different. Cary's salt is
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  Speaker 1: deep penetrating.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Cary's salt is different. Cary's salt is deep penetrating. You see,
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  Speaker 1: Cary's salt is extra refined.
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  Speaker 5: Its good, pure flavor goes deep.
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  Speaker 1: Down into the heart of foods. Yes, carry salt always
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  Speaker 1: carries the flavor. So, of course, it makes good food
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  Speaker 1: taste better. Get carry stable salt at your favorite food
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  Speaker 1: store in the round white box with a bright red band.
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  Speaker 1: It comes either iodized for added health protection or plain.
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  Speaker 5: But now, the shadow.
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  Speaker 1: The shadow who aids the forces of law and order
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  Speaker 1: is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town.
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  Speaker 1: Years ago on the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and
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  Speaker 1: mysterious secret. The hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so
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  Speaker 1: they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely
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  Speaker 1: Margot Lane, is the only person who knows to whom
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  Speaker 1: the voice of the invisible shadow belongs.
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  Speaker 4: Today's drama, Makeup for Murder.
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  Speaker 6: Makeup for Murder.
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  Speaker 1: Margo, darling, I hate to have to walk you home
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  Speaker 1: so late at night through this part of town.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty gruesome, isn't it, Lamont? I can see now
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  Speaker 2: why they call it Beggar's Row.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I guess most of the poor beggars in town
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  Speaker 4: sleep in these old flophouses.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder why Shreevy's cursed out. You told him to
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  Speaker 2: come back to the party and pick us up.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he probably got a fare that took longer than
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  Speaker 4: he expected. Besides, I don't think anyone will bother us
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  Speaker 4: in this get-up. You look frightening, darling.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, Angel.
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  Speaker 2: You look horrible, too.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we should be very proud of our costumes and
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  Speaker 1: make up one first prize.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that was a wonderful idea, holding a hard-time
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  Speaker 2: party in a vacant saloon.
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  Speaker 7: It wasn't?
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  Speaker 4: Come on. What is it, darling?
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  Speaker 2: Look, there's a man crouched in that doorway. He's got
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  Speaker 2: a club in his hand.
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  Speaker 3: Stay there.
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  Speaker 7: Don't move.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's only an old beggar.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, listen, mister. How about leaving the poor old man
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  Speaker 3: have a little change, huh?
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  Speaker 4: He's using that stick for the cane, darling.
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  Speaker 3: You heard me, mister. I.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good one.
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  Speaker 8: How about leaving me have a little change, says I,
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  Speaker 8: to a couple of bums worse off than myself.
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  Speaker 3: And we're bums in these cases.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sorry to bother you, stranger. They call me Soft Shoe.
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  Speaker 8: I used to be a hooper, see? That's before I.
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  Speaker 3: Fell and twisted both me legs.
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  Speaker 4: That's okay, Soft Shoe. We all make mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: They call me Flipper. I used to be in show business, too,
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  Speaker 1: an acrobat, see? That's why I took one flip too many,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 3: Looking for a spot to flop, huh?
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  Speaker 8: Well, keep away from the graveyard.
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  Speaker 3: If you know what's best for you.
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  Speaker 6: Graveyard?
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  Speaker 8: That's what we call Mike's Flophouse. There's ten of us
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  Speaker 8: died there in the last two months. But I got
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  Speaker 8: away in time, see.
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  Speaker 4: Before it got me. Before what got you, soft shoe?
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  Speaker 3: Whatever's killing off them other poor bums.
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  Speaker 4: It's murder, that's what it is.
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  Speaker 3: But I got away.
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  Speaker 4: You're off your nuts, soft shoe. Nobody's out to kill
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  Speaker 4: poor beggars like us.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, they are.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I got proof, see.
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  Speaker 4: What proof, soft shoe?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no. No, you don't.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not getting myself into no trouble. I'm just lucky
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  Speaker 8: I got away. I'm just lucky I.
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  Speaker 4: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 3: I'm lucky.
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  Speaker 8: I'm lucky I got away.
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  Speaker 7: Lamont....
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  Speaker 3: Dead, Margo.
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  Speaker 4: Look, there's a bar up ahead, Larry's Saloon. Go there
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  Speaker 4: and call the police. I'll wait here with the body.
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  Speaker 3: Right, darling.
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  Speaker 1: Be sure to ask for Commissioner Weston. The way we
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  Speaker 1: look tonight, any cop who doesn't know us would probably
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  Speaker 1: throw us in jail.
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  Speaker 2: Earth did you insist upon coming down here to the
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  Speaker 2: morgue with Commissioner West?
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  Speaker 4: I want to have a look at Softshoe's body, Margo. Well,
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  Speaker 4: he is satisfied now, Lamont. Not a mark of violence
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  Speaker 4: on him.
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  Speaker 9: But he did say it was murder, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 10: These bombs always blame somebody else for whatever happens to him, Margo.
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  Speaker 4: Any trouble, even death. He said there were other murders
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  Speaker 4: in that flophouse. Ten in the past two months. He
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  Speaker 4: said he had proof it was murder.
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  Speaker 10: Maybe he had a fight with the owner and got
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  Speaker 10: thrown out.
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  Speaker 4: Why did he get the owner in trouble?
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  Speaker 10: They're a tricky lot. They all live on pipe dreams.
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  Speaker 4: Soft Shoe was afraid of something real. If you'd seen him,
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  Speaker 4: heard him inside.
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  Speaker 7: All right, Lamont.
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  Speaker 10: Wait till we get the coroner's report.
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  Speaker 7: And we'll see.
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  Speaker 10: Can I drive you and Margo home?
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  Speaker 1: You can take Margo with you. I think I'll try
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  Speaker 1: and find that flophouse Soft Shoe.
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  Speaker 5: Told us about.
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  Speaker 2: Darling, why don't you wait until we see what the
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  Speaker 2: coroner says?
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  Speaker 4: I've got a funny feeling that Soft Shoe is telling
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  Speaker 4: the truth. I know, Commissioner. You think I can't resist
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  Speaker 4: playing detective, especially in this gear up.
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  Speaker 10: I understand, Lamar, and if anything should come to light
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  Speaker 10: and you need help, you can count on me. By
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  Speaker 10: the way, what did you say was the name of
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  Speaker 10: that place?
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  Speaker 4: Mike's Flophouse. Better known among us bums as the graveyard.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, Mike.
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  Speaker 4: Got a bed for tonight?
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  Speaker 11: Huh? How'd you know me? I never seen you before.
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  Speaker 4: They call me Flipper. Used to be an acrobat, see?
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  Speaker 11: All filled up tonight, Flipper.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you got one empty bunk. Soft shoe won't be
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  Speaker 1: back anymore.
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  Speaker 6: Soft shoe?
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  Speaker 7: What's happened to him?
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  Speaker 1: He kicked off ten minutes ago right in the street.
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  Speaker 6: Soft shoe did?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, poor devil.
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  Speaker 11: The police pick him up?
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  Speaker 7: His body, I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Well, I'll call him in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: See that he gets a decent burial anyway. Why, is
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  Speaker 4: soft shoe a special friend of yours?
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  Speaker 11: No, I just feel sorry for him, that's all. I
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  Speaker 11: try to see that all the bums around here get
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  Speaker 11: a decent burial.
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  Speaker 4: Got a soft heart, Mike.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, and a soft head too, I guess. But the
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  Speaker 11: only time these poor bums look peaceful and happy is
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  Speaker 11: when they're laying in their coffins, dead.
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  Speaker 6: Mike, Mike, you got a dime for a cup of coffee?
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  Speaker 11: You don't need no more of that coffee you drink, Smokey.
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  Speaker 7: Now get back to bed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, who's that?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, we call him Smokey.
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  Speaker 4: Just another beggar, a little screwier than the rest.
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  Speaker 12: I wrote a new poem, Mike, just for you.
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  Speaker 1: No more poems, Smokey.
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  Speaker 6: No, you're gonna like this one, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: Listen.
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  Speaker 6: Men may come, men may go.
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  Speaker 13: Mike will see they go quick, roll upon roll.
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  Speaker 4: Shut up, get back to bed. Got any more poems, Smokey?
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  Speaker 6: Sure I have, friend.
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  Speaker 13: You like them, huh? Minnie's his sweetheart, Minnie's Mike's wife.
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  Speaker 13: Minnie will pat you on the back with a knife.
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  Speaker 14: You crazy bum.
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  Speaker 6: All right. Look who's standing in the door.
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  Speaker 15: Mike, are you going to let that bum make up
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  Speaker 15: poems like that about me?
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  Speaker 13: Minnie and Mike, they're man and wife. They don't think nothing.
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  Speaker 6: Of a beggar's life.
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  Speaker 14: Shut him up, Mike. Get him out of this room.
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  Speaker 7: Come on, Smokey, back to bed with you.
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  Speaker 6: I got more poems to recite.
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  Speaker 4: You heard what I said.
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  Speaker 6: Get back to bed. No, I didn't mean that. Come on.
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  Speaker 6: I'm wrong, Mike.
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  Speaker 11: I tell you to get out of here.
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  Speaker 6: Stop that, Mike. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Mike handles that guy pretty rough, don't he?
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  Speaker 14: Maybe he does. What's it to you, is it?
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  Speaker 4: Nothing. Nothing right now.
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  Speaker 11: That'll keep that crazy bum quiet.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, how about that room, Mike?
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  Speaker 14: Did he stand here? I don't like him. He's too nosy.
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  Speaker 14: Got any more poems, smokies, is he?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: He is kind of nosy, ain't he? Okay, get out, Flipper.
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  Speaker 3: Scram.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, gee, Mike, I got no other place to go.
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  Speaker 14: You heard what Mike said.
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  Speaker 7: Go on.
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  Speaker 3: Scram.
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  Speaker 9: Scram.
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  Speaker 14: Lamont, is that you?
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  Speaker 13: Margo.
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  Speaker 4: What are you doing here? I thought Commissioner Weston.
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  Speaker 1: Took you home.
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  Speaker 2: I was worried about you, so I called Shrevely and
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  Speaker 2: he brought me down here.
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  Speaker 13: In his cab.
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  Speaker 2: He's down the street.
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  Speaker 4: You'd have had a long way, darling. I nearly stayed
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  Speaker 4: at Mike's place all night.
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  Speaker 6: All night in that place?
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  Speaker 2: Whatever for, darling?
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  Speaker 4: There's something strange going on there. I'm sure of that now.
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  Speaker 4: An old bum they call Smokey's been reciting poetry.
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  Speaker 5: Poetry?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, now, darling. I'm serious, Margo. He knows something.
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  Speaker 1: In his own crazy way, he knows some secret. A
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  Speaker 1: secret the proprietor and his wife would rather he kept
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  Speaker 1: to himself.
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  Speaker 6: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 4: Someone's coming.
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  Speaker 3: Why, it's he.
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  Speaker 4: Smokey, darling.
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  Speaker 11: Let me pass.
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  Speaker 6: I gotta find someone.
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  Speaker 3: To help me.
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  Speaker 4: Smokey, what's wrong? Don't you remember me?
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: You.
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  Speaker 12: Who are you?
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  Speaker 4: Flipper, you remember?
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  Speaker 1: He'd just been reading your poetry to me.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you look for me. Lamont, there is something wrong
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  Speaker 6: with him. Yeah, I've got a new poem.
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  Speaker 12: Flipper just made it up. You never know who your
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  Speaker 12: friends are. That someone wrote. I know who my friends are.
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  Speaker 12: They just... Got my throat.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Smokey, what's wrong? That's a heavy scarf around his throat, Lamont.
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  Speaker 15: And there's blood.
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  Speaker 6: They tried to kill me.
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  Speaker 4: Who tried to kill you, Smokey?
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  Speaker 6: It was... Smokey.
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  Speaker 4: He's falling. I got him. He's just fainted. Get Shrevie, Margo.
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  Speaker 4: We've got to get Smokey to a hospital right away.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, darling.
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  Speaker 1: We can go up and see Smokey now.
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  Speaker 14: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Did the doctor think he could save him?
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  Speaker 1: His constitution was made of zinc. He was even reciting
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  Speaker 1: poetry under the anesthetic.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think Mike did it?
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  Speaker 4: Mike or his wife, Minnie?
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  Speaker 6: 207, isn't this his room?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's see if we can get Smokey to say
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  Speaker 1: something sensible in prose this time.
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  Speaker 4: Lamont, the bed's empty. Wait a minute. The window's open.
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  Speaker 4: He used the sheet for a rope.
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  Speaker 14: Why would he want to escape?
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  Speaker 4: He was safe here.
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  Speaker 14: Where would he go?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know, Margo.
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  Speaker 1: Unless he wanted to get back home for some reason.
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  Speaker 14: Back to that floor post?
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  Speaker 9: That's where he was nearly killed.
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  Speaker 14: Why would he go back there, of all places?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: He must have had a very good reason. It might
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  Speaker 1: be the reason behind all the murders at the graveyard, Margo.
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  Speaker 14: The End.
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  Speaker 4: Quiet now, darling.
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  Speaker 16: See if we can slip in the front door without
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  Speaker 16: being seen. There's Mike behind the desk.
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  Speaker 4: He's asleep.
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  Speaker 6: We've got to tiptoe quietly.
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  Speaker 7: Past the desk.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, he's waking up.
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  Speaker 16: No, he's turning around in his chair. Come on, pass
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  Speaker 16: the dormitory down the hall there.
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  Speaker 2: He's sleeping as innocent as he is, though he didn't
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  Speaker 2: know that.
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  Speaker 1: Smokey had his throat cut. Maybe he doesn't know, Margo.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like a light coming from under the door
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  Speaker 1: at the end of.
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  Speaker 4: This hall, darling.
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  Speaker 2: We can just get past this dormitory without waking any
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  Speaker 2: of those men in there.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Take it easy. So far, so good.
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  Speaker 2: There is a light in that room, Lamont. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: The door's open partway. We can open it the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the way.
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  Speaker 1: The room's empty, Lamont.
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  Speaker 4: So it seems.
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  Speaker 2: Must be Minnie's room.
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  Speaker 4: Look in that dresser.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, Michael.
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  Speaker 6: Listen.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody's in here.
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  Speaker 4: Sounds as if it's coming from that closet door. Might
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  Speaker 4: be Smokey hiding in there.
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  Speaker 2: Or the killer.
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  Speaker 4: Keep that, darling. I'm going to open that closet.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 6: It's mine. It's all mine. You can't have any of it.
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  Speaker 4: Smokey, put down that bottle.
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  Speaker 6: It's mine.
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  Speaker 12: Every bottle's filled with money.
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  Speaker 3: See?
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  Speaker 6: Thousands. Thousands. It's all mine.
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  Speaker 14: Come on, stop him.
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  Speaker 4: Smokey, stop it.
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  Speaker 3: Let me go.
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  Speaker 6: I know I'm dying. But when I go, I'll be
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  Speaker 6: buried right. No potter's field. I'll have a fancy casket. Flowers.
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  Speaker 6: I'll have a fine funeral.
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  Speaker 4: Smokey, you've got to go back to that hospital.
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  Speaker 11: Now, come along.
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  Speaker 6: You keep away from me. You come to get my money.
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  Speaker 6: I'll kill you before I let you take it from me.
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  Speaker 2: Look out, Lamont.
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  Speaker 14: He's coming toward you with that broken box.
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  Speaker 4: Smokey, I've come to help you.
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  Speaker 6: You come to steal my money, but you won't.
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  Speaker 3: I'll cut your throat, too.
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  Speaker 2: Look out! Look out!
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  Speaker 1: We'll return to the shadow in just a minute. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's winner's time. That's right, time to announce the two
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  Speaker 1: winners of the carry salt contest for the week ending
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  Speaker 1: November 15th. A gorgeous $ 100 17-jewel Harmon gold watch goes
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  Speaker 1: to each of them just for writing an interesting letter
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  Speaker 1: about carry salt.
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  Speaker 5: The ladies' watch goes to Mrs. Gus DuBois of Ottumwa, Iowa.
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  Speaker 5: In her winning letter, Mrs.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: DuBois gives what she calls a very dependable recipe for
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: canning corn.
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  Speaker 5: She mixes 20 cups of sweet corn.
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  Speaker 1: One scant cup of sugar, and one scant cup of
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  Speaker 1: curry salt. She lets this stand for 15 minutes and
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  Speaker 1: then processes for 35 minutes.
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  Speaker 5: In a pressure cooker. Sounds easy?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and I'll bet it tastes mighty good, too.
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  Speaker 5: Now, here's an unusual use for curry smoke salt.
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  Speaker 1: The fine curry salt to give cured meats that old-fashioned
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  Speaker 1: smoke flavor.
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  Speaker 5: It's from D.R. Crowley, Jr.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: of 331 Ridgemont in San Antonio. He sprinkles Carrie's smoked
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: salt around and atop anthills, and in 12 hours, he says,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: the ants are completely eliminated.
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: Congratulations to both winners.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: And, folks, if you'd like to win one of these
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: beautiful watches, listen for the easy rules later in this program. Meanwhile, remember,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: there's a fine Carrie's salt for every farm and home use.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: There's deep-penetrating Carrie's stable salt, Carrie's meat-curing salt, Carrie's mineral
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: supplement salt, and many others. Always look for the white bag, box,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: or cotton with the bright red band. But now, back
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: to the shadow. In their attempts to solve the mystery
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: of the strange deaths in a flophouse on Notorious Beggar's Row,
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane find themselves in the room.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: Of the owner's wife.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: And here they find the latest victim, a beggar named Smokey,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: who attacks Lamont with a broken bottle.
• 16:26
  Speaker 14: Lamont, he's got your cheek. It's bleeding.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: I've got his arms now.
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: I'll kill you. I won't let you take my money.
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: I'll have a good burial.
• 16:33
  Speaker 12: I'll see I'm buried right.
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: Not like the other bombs.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Smokey.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: You'll have a good burial, all right, Smokey.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: He's dead?
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Yes, darling.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: What a shame.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: He might have lived if he hadn't come back for
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: this money.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: There's a fortune here, Margo, in these bottles.
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: What?
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: There's someone coming down the hall.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: It's a woman's footsteps. Minnie must be coming back.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: We've got to get out.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: I want you to go, darling, quickly. Down that fire escape.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: What about you?
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Don't worry about me. Minnie won't see Lamont Cranston. It'll
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: be the voice of the shadow who greets her.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: The End.
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: Loki.
• 17:28
  Speaker 8: Ed.
• 17:30
  Speaker 14: My money all over the floor. He came back to
• 17:33
  Speaker 14: steal my money.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: Money you stole from the beggars, Minnie? Whose voice is that?
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: The voice of the shadow, Minnie. Shadow?
• 17:43
  Speaker 14: What kind of a gag is this? Where are you?
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Shadow is everywhere and nowhere, Minnie. Perhaps the shadow was
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: here when Smokey died. Perhaps he knows that you killed Smokey.
• 17:52
  Speaker 14: I had to do it. He got too smart. He
• 17:55
  Speaker 14: knew too much for his own good.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Yes, Minnie, but there's someone else still alive who knows
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: your secret.
• 18:00
  Speaker 14: Someone else?
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Who?
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: The bum they call Flipper.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: Flipper?
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: He knows you've got all this money and he knows
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: how you got it. He'll get it from you.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: He'll blackmail you just the way Smokey was going to do.
• 18:09
  Speaker 14: Dirty bum. He won't get a cent.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: How can you stop him? He knows you killed those
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: poor beggars.
• 18:13
  Speaker 14: He'll stop that bum.
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: He'll do it.
• 18:14
  Speaker 14: The professor will find a way.
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: The professor?
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Yes. Who is this Professor, Minnie?
• 18:20
  Speaker 14: He's the one who put me up to this. He's
• 18:22
  Speaker 14: my friend. He'll take care of that nosy bum.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: What will you both do, Minnie? Kill Flipper as you
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: kill the rest?
• 18:27
  Speaker 14: Sure, the Professor will take care of him, all right?
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Very well, Minnie. Tell this Professor what's happened. And get
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Flipper just the way you got the other bums. The End.
• 18:45
  Speaker 14: Professor, quick.
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: Well, Minnie, my flower, what are you doing here in
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: my workshop at this time of night?
• 18:49
  Speaker 14: There's something I've got to tell you, Professor.
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: Oh, you're unnerved, my precious. Wait her like a lamb.
• 18:55
  Speaker 14: No, never mind about the life. Listen to me.
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: My cherub, you're trembling.
• 18:58
  Speaker 15: Listen, a voice just come to me and told me
• 19:00
  Speaker 15: somebody knows we killed them beggars and stole their money.
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: A voice? Oh, come now, my rose petal.
• 19:05
  Speaker 14: I tell you, I heard a voice.
• 19:06
  Speaker 15: I found my bottles broken and the money all over
• 19:09
  Speaker 15: the floor. The voice said that a bum named Flipper
• 19:12
  Speaker 15: was going to blackmail us and get our money away
• 19:14
  Speaker 15: from us.
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: Come, sugar. You're just imagining things.
• 19:17
  Speaker 14: I heard the voice, I tell you. I.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Wait.
• 19:23
  Speaker 15: Just then I felt like there was someone here in
• 19:25
  Speaker 15: your workroom with us.
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: Your nerves are just on edge.
• 19:28
  Speaker 14: What was that?
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: What are you talking about?
• 19:31
  Speaker 14: Your work table just moved. Then I could swear.
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: How could it, Tulip? You don't see anyone, do you?
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: No.
• 19:40
  Speaker 14: Maybe I'm just jumpy. I guess that voice kind of
• 19:42
  Speaker 14: left Professor, look. Those little bottles on your shelf, they
• 19:47
  Speaker 14: just moved.
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: Well, it must have been just the wind.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: See?
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: Just blew the door closed.
• 19:54
  Speaker 14: Yeah, but I heard somebody laugh.
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: You're imagining things. I do say, Blossom, this is odd.
• 20:02
  Speaker 14: What's odd, Professor?
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: I know I had eight bottles of my stuff on
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: this shelf tonight... Now it seems you're only set.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Well, good morning, Commissioner Weston.
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: Good morning, Lamont. Well, you look happy.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Whose canary have you swallowed this time? No one's yet, Commissioner.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Just looking forward to the meal. Tell me, could you
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: have this analyzed for me? What is that?
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: Looks like a little bottle of paint or colored ink.
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: Could be.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: I stole it from the workshop of an artist a
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: little while ago.
• 20:38
  Speaker 10: What are you acting so smug about? Come on, Lamont,
• 20:41
  Speaker 10: let's have the news. You still after Mike, owner of
• 20:44
  Speaker 10: the graveyard?
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Not this time, Commissioner. I doubt if Mike's even in
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: on the deal now. If I was right about those
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: bums being murdered, all I need now, Commissioner, is the evidence. Incidentally,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: you said you had photographs of all the beggars who
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: died taken at the morgue.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: Could I see them?
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Help yourself. Oh, thanks. Mm-hmm.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Very interesting photographs.
• 21:03
  Speaker 10: Now, wait a second, Cranston, before you get any ideas.
• 21:06
  Speaker 10: I've checked on those deaths, and all of them were
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: listed as having died from natural causes.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: If you can call bad liquor a natural cause of death.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid you're mistaken, Commissioner. And I think I can
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: prove it. Because I'm next on the list to.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Be killed as they were. What are you talking about?
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Commissioner, give me 24 hours to set a little trap.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I'll get the killer for you. Using myself as bait.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: There he is.
• 21:37
  Speaker 14: There he is, Professor, that flipper guy.
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: Control yourself, Precious. We'll be clear.
• 21:42
  Speaker 14: What are you going to do?
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: Give him the usual routine. Worked on the others, should
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: work on him. Well, good evening, stranger. How about a
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: drink with us? This is my natal day.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: What's a natal day?
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: My birthday. My birthday, stranger.
• 21:59
  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah?
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: I'm called Professor. And what may your name be?
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: My name may be Flipper.
• 22:05
  Speaker 14: That's good enough for us.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: Three shots, bartender. One double.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: I don't need nobody to buy me a drink.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: Just for friendship's sake, friend, there's nothing like friendship in
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: this world today.
• 22:16
  Speaker 15: That's right.
• 22:17
  Speaker 14: We all need to be friends.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: You've got something there, lady. We all need friends. Friends
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: we can trust.
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: Thank you, sir. The double shot to me, bartender. Well,
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: here's to friendship. How about it, brother? To friendship, the
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: three of us.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, here's to friendship, the three of us.
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: For it's always fair weather.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Sit down, Flipper.
• 22:57
  Speaker 14: Sit down. Make yourself at home.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Hey, where are we?
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: At my studio, Mr. Flipper. Don't you remember? We got
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: thrown out of the bar.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's right.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: They was closing.
• 23:07
  Speaker 14: The professor's got a jug stowed away here.
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: Coming up, my dear.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: Coming up.
• 23:11
  Speaker 14: Give Flipper another drink.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: No, no more for me, professor. No more.
• 23:15
  Speaker 12: Hey, this is just a nice.
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: Little workshop you've got here.
• 23:18
  Speaker 14: Professor's a fine artist.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: I wanted the finest in the world.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Here.
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: Here. Here are some of my pictures.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, I wish I had a beautiful picture like that.
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: How would you like me to give one to you, Flipper?
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, I couldn't.
• 23:35
  Speaker 14: He won't charge you a cent for it, will you, Professor?
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: You mean you'd give me one free?
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: Gladly, gladly. Which would you like?
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: Let's see.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, I like this one with the swords and the snakes.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: Oh, okay.
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: How about this? For friendship, the clasp hands over the sheath.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: And I think I like this one better, the skull
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and crossbones.
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: Well, that's not very appropriate, is it? How about the
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: friendship design, brother? It's just the right size.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Friendship.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
• 24:07
  Speaker 14: Turn your chair around a little, Flipper.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: How's this?
• 24:09
  Speaker 14: Get it over quick. I'm nervous as a cat.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: Where would you like it, Mr.
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: Flipper?
• 24:14
  Speaker 12: I like it.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, how about right across my chest here?
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: Now, we usually reserve that space for something much bigger. Now,
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: right here on your arm would just fit here.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: On the inside of my arm don't show so well there.
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: Hand me the needle quickly, minute.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Turn it on.
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: Now, this won't hurt much at all, Flipper.
• 24:37
  Speaker 14: Hurry up, Professor.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: This won't hurt much either. Oh! Now, let me try
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: the needle on you first, for friendship's sake.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: No, no, stop him, Minnie.
• 24:44
  Speaker 14: Get off of him, you crazy bum.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: What are you afraid of, Professor, dying of blood poisoning
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: like the other bums?
• 24:48
  Speaker 14: Hey, you ain't no bum.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: What is this?
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Clever, weren't you, Professor?
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: You got them drunk, offered them the friendship design free,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: and tattooed them with poisoned ink.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Lamont.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Good work, Lamont.
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: We saw the whole thing.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Well, I think you have all the evidence you need now, Commissioner.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: Yes, but you won't have me.
• 25:01
  Speaker 14: Lamont, he's grabbed the bottle of poisoned ink. He's drinking it, Professor.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Too late.
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: It's too late, Minnie.
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: I'm dying. No! Forgive me my sins. I'm leaving this world.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: That's right, Professor, but not just now.
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: Huh? Say farewell to all my friends. Say farewell.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: Come on, Professor. Get up off the floor.
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: Huh?
• 25:22
  Speaker 14: But, Lamont, he swallowed the poison, didn't he?
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: All he swallowed was colored water, Margo.
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: What?
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: I switched the poison bottle earlier this evening.
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: Well, I do need to relax after that excitement, darling,
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: but I wish we hadn't come back here to Larry's saloon.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Well, Margo, I couldn't very well go to any of
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: our usual spots dressed in these clothes.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: It is true, then, Lamont, that Mike was completely innocent
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: of what was going on.
• 25:55
  Speaker 11: Yes, Margo.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Minnie, the professor, and Smokey are the guilty ones.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Smokey found out which of the beggars carried their life
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: savings around on their person and told Minnie. Is that it?
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Yes, and she and the professor got them drunk, into
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the studio, and offered them a free tattoo sample.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: Just as they did you.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: But how did you guess about the tattoo marks causing
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: the death, darling?
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Well, I saw Soft Shoe's body and noticed his friendship tattoo.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: When I saw the photographs of the others... I noticed
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: they had the same design on the same place. All
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the tattoos were done on the inner arm over the
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: largest vein, so the poison would be carried directly into
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the bloodstream.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: But didn't the commissioner say they all died of natural causes?
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: If you can call bad liquor a natural cause, is
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: what he said, Margo. Hawkins and Minnie were smart enough
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: to disguise the poison with all the rotten liquor they
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: could get into them.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Oh, I see. Well, I'm glad it's all over.
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: I am too, Margo.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: From now on, no more masquerading or makeup. They just
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: get you into trouble.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Hey, bud, ain't I seen you in this bar before?
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Ain't you the guy they call Flipper?
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Why, yes.
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: Darling.
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: Well, ain't you?
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Uh, no, no. Uh, my name is Lamont Cranston. I
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: never heard of this Flipper. Never heard of him before
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: in my life.
• 27:01
  Speaker 14: Ha, ha, ha.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Ha, ha, ha.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Ha, ha, ha.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Friends, would you like to win a gorgeous $ 100 17-jewel
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Harman Gold wristwatch?
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: It's easy to do in the Keri Salt Company's new contest.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: You bet. Keri Salt is giving away two of these
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: beautiful watches.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: One man's watch and one lady's watch every week. An
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: easy-to-write interesting letter will win.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: Listen to these rules.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: First, write 100 words or less describing some new and
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: unusual way of using any Keri Salt product. Second, print
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: your name and address on your entry. Third, mail to Cary's, C-A-R-E-Y-S.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Cary's Salt and Care of this station. That's all, nothing
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: to buy, no box stops to send in. You can
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: write about deep penetrating Cary's round package table salt or
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Cary's mineral.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Supplement salt or any Cary's Salt product.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Letters postmarked before midnight Friday will be judged in this
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: week's contest, and winners announced three weeks from today. The
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: judges' decisions are final. All letters become Carrie's property. In
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: case of ties, duplicate prizes will be awarded. Remember, the
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: man and woman who write the most interesting letters describing
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: some new and unusual way of using any Carrie Salt
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: product will each win a gorgeous $ 100 wristwatch. Send your
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: letter to Carrie Salt in care of this station. Better
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: jot that address down now. It's Carrie Salt in care
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: of this station. Mail your letter today. This story is
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications Incorporated.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: The characters, names, places, and plot are fictitious.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Again next week, the shadow will demonstrate that.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: The Shadow Knows.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Next week, same time, same station, the Carry Salt Company
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: brings you another strange and thrilling adventure in the shadows'
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: daring battle against the forces of evil.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: Meanwhile, remember, there's a.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Carry salt for every farm and home use. Look for
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the package with the bright red band. And here's a reminder.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Do you attend church regularly? There's a place for you
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: and your talents in the church of your choice. Be
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: a part of United Church Canvas.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: This has been The Shadow in Makeup for Murder from
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: December 1st, 1946.
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