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Richard Diamond, Private Detective - "Rene Bennet Protection Case" (1949) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Hat designer Rene Bennett hires Richard Diamond to guard the
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: newest creations before an important showing after earlier designs apparently
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: surface with a rival. It is the setup for Rene
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  Speaker 1: Bennett Protection Case, episode 26 of Richard Diamond, Private Detective,
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  Speaker 1: with Dick Powell as Diamond. In this early NBC sustaining
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: era broadcast of October 22, 1949... Diamond moves through Bennett's
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  Speaker 1: fashion world circle undercover as a Hollywood hat designer. But
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: the protection assignment is soon overtaken by murder and suspicions
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: of betrayal within the salon. And now, our story begins.
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: The End.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, private detective.
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  Speaker 4: Hello there, this is Diamond. You know, I like to
• 1:24
  Speaker 4: say that. Hello there, this is Diamond. I don't know why.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe it's just because I say it all the time.
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  Speaker 5: Hello there, this is Diamond. You know, I think it
• 1:33
  Speaker 5: sounds kind of, well, pretty bad. Of course, I'd rather say,
• 1:39
  Speaker 5: hello there, this is I've got a sponsor, Diamond. But
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  Speaker 5: that's silly, too, because if I had a sponsor, I
• 1:44
  Speaker 5: wouldn't have time to say, hello there, this is Diamond.
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  Speaker 6: I'd be overshining his shoes. Confused?
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  Speaker 4: Well, so am I. Want to get really mixed up?
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  Speaker 4: Let me tell you what happened last week.
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  Speaker 6: This is real silly.
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  Speaker 4: So silly, it wound up with murder.
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  Speaker 5: I was sitting in my office thinking about June Allison
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  Speaker 5: when the phone rang.
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  Speaker 4: Diamond Detective Agency. No other corpse can make that statement. Oh, Rick.
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  Speaker 4: Don't believe it?
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  Speaker 5: Just listen to what one of our satisfied customers has
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  Speaker 5: to say about Diamond.
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  Speaker 4: I've been buried now for 30 years. Rick. Hello, Helen.
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  Speaker 4: You idiot.
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  Speaker 7: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: I know this will throw you nothing.
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  Speaker 7: No washing today?
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  Speaker 4: Finished an hour ago. Oh, by the way, I got
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  Speaker 4: a beef. A beef?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, those socks you knitted for me shrunk so much
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  Speaker 5: I need four more pair.
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  Speaker 7: Well, if they shrunk, what do you want with four
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  Speaker 7: more pair?
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  Speaker 5: Gonna start a new fad. Gonna wear them on my toes,
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  Speaker 5: you know, toe socks.
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  Speaker 7: Well, if I knit you four pair, that'll only give
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  Speaker 7: you ten altogether.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, by George, you really pulled off a speedy, didn't you?
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  Speaker 7: Well, howdy. Wasn't half as bad as some of those
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  Speaker 7: ghastlies you come up with.
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  Speaker 6: All right, smarty. Now, what's on your real, real mind?
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  Speaker 7: Would you do me a favor?
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  Speaker 4: Like, for instance?
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  Speaker 7: No, for instance. I told you a friend of mine
• 3:00
  Speaker 7: would come out and see you, and I want you
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  Speaker 7: to do what you can for him.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Diamond?
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  Speaker 4: Hold it a minute, honey. Yeah? Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Diamond, I was told to look you up. I am Rene.
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  Speaker 4: Rick?
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  Speaker 7: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: Helen.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, what's the matter?
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  Speaker 5: Something just tiptoed into my office. I got a hunch
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  Speaker 5: you know about it.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, maybe that's Renee.
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  Speaker 6: That's what it says.
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  Speaker 4: If you are, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Diamond, I wish you'd please pay a little attention to
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  Speaker 10: me or aren't you interested in a potential client?
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  Speaker 4: Hold it a second, honey. Sure, I'm always interested in
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  Speaker 4: a potential client.
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  Speaker 6: What did you do?
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  Speaker 4: Lose your wedges? I beg your pardon?
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  Speaker 6: Forget it.
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  Speaker 4: I've got Miss Asher on the phone now. She just
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  Speaker 4: told me you were coming up.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, well, please say hello to Miss Asher. She's such
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  Speaker 8: a darling.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Honey, Renee says to say hello. Says you're a darling.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 7: Well, say hello to Rene. He makes my hats for me.
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  Speaker 6: I'll get the story from him.
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  Speaker 4: Call you later.
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  Speaker 6: Now, uh, uh, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Rene... Your full name is Rene. Rene Rene.
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  Speaker 8: Rene Rene. How do you do?
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  Speaker 6: How are you, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Rene? Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Diamond, I have a problem, and Miss Asher seemed to
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  Speaker 8: think that you could help.
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  Speaker 4: Me with it. Well, depends. Cigarette?
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  Speaker 7: No, thanks.
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  Speaker 8: I never use them. Depends on what. You don't even
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  Speaker 8: know my problem yet.
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  Speaker 5: Look, I don't care if you swipe John Frederick's toupee.
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  Speaker 5: For $ 100 a day in expenses, I'll grow a mattress
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  Speaker 5: on his skull.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Diamond, I can see that you don't know much about hats.
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  Speaker 6: You are so wrong.
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  Speaker 8: Am I? Well, it may interest you to know that
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  Speaker 8: John Frederick's are two people.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 8: John and Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Frederick's. Look, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Bernay, I don't care if they're patrol number three of
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  Speaker 5: the Brownies. Can you afford $ 100 a day in expenses?
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Diamond, I am the new sensation in hats.
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  Speaker 6: You must look lovely. Okay, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Benet, I take it you can afford me. Now, what's
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  Speaker 4: your problem?
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  Speaker 8: I want you to prevent the theft of my three
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  Speaker 8: latest creations.
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  Speaker 4: Hats? Creations, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Diamond.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, creations. Why do you want to protect him?
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  Speaker 8: Why, because someone is going to steal them before my
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  Speaker 8: fall showing.
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  Speaker 6: How do you know that?
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  Speaker 8: Because on similar occasions, the same thing has happened. Twice,
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  Speaker 8: to be exact. The designs were stolen, and two.
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  Speaker 10: Weeks later, that lowlife George Marchand had his showing, and
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  Speaker 10: my hats were the high point of his show.
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  Speaker 6: What did you do?
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  Speaker 8: What could I do?
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't prove it.
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  Speaker 10: If I attempted to expose him, he would have said
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  Speaker 10: that I was lying. Everybody knows how much we hate
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  Speaker 10: each other. I'd have been a laughingstock.
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  Speaker 6: Do you think he had the hat stolen?
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  Speaker 8: I'm sure of it.
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  Speaker 10: And I'm also sure that someone in my salon is
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  Speaker 10: responsible for the actual theft.
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  Speaker 6: You know definitely?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 10: No, but I suspect my partner, Gerald Winters. He's always
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  Speaker 10: been jealous of my ability.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Diamond, couldn't you open a window or something? It's frightfully hot.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's the air conditioning. I keep a bag of
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  Speaker 5: red-lipped jumbos up in the vent. Sometimes they get stuck.
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  Speaker 8: Red-lipped jumbos?
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  Speaker 4: Pistachio nuts. You like hats?
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  Speaker 6: I get hung up on pistachio nuts.
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  Speaker 8: Perhaps you should see a psychiatrist.
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  Speaker 4: I did.
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  Speaker 8: What happened?
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  Speaker 4: I sent him five pounds of pistachios just yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, well, here's my card. I'll see you at my salon, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Diamond, in about an hour.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, and something else. I don't want my partner or
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  Speaker 10: the help to know that you're a private detective.
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  Speaker 6: What am I supposed to do, buy a hat?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I'll tell them that you're a designer from Hollywood.
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  Speaker 8: That way, whatever you say will be all right. See
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  Speaker 8: you in an hour.
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  Speaker 9: You say this Richard of Hollywood is coming here to
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  Speaker 9: look at our new line?
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  Speaker 8: That's correct, Lillian.
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  Speaker 4: Never heard of him.
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  Speaker 8: Well, that's not so surprising, Gerald.
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  Speaker 10: There are a lot of people I'm sure you've never
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  Speaker 10: heard of, especially the more famous ones.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like that. Oh, don't you?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'm overjoyed that you're sure of one thing, at least.
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  Speaker 9: Now, don't you two start fighting again. I've never heard
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  Speaker 9: of this Richard of Hollywood, either. Well, he's a new man,
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  Speaker 9: works for the studios. He's made quite a sensation the
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  Speaker 9: last year or so.
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  Speaker 11: Well, I'm sick and tired of temperamental artists.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going back to my office.
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  Speaker 8: Well, why don't you do that, Gerald? Keep the books
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  Speaker 8: in the black, dear Potter, while I work to pay
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  Speaker 8: for your salary.
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  Speaker 11: You know, Ronnie, someday I'm going to strangle you with
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  Speaker 11: one of your own hats.
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  Speaker 8: Why don't you buy yourself a barbell instead?
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  Speaker 10: Then the next time you get into a bathing suit,
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  Speaker 10: there'll be no doubt that you have muscles.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, this boy.
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  Speaker 9: How can you two continue like this?
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  Speaker 6: It's frightful.
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  Speaker 10: Lillian, my love, I would rather join forces with a
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  Speaker 10: cobra than to keep on with Gerald. But he has
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  Speaker 10: an iron-bound contract that assures him of at least 50,000
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  Speaker 10: a year.
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  Speaker 4: I'm helpless.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, come in.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, Miss.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, Richard, come in, come in.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, thanks, thanks.
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  Speaker 6: You better go out and pour some water on your partner.
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  Speaker 6: I just ran into him.
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  Speaker 8: Gerald, what do you mean?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I was looking for you, and he came up
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  Speaker 6: and introduced himself.
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  Speaker 8: You told him your name?
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  Speaker 5: Told him I was a hat designer from Hollywood, so
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  Speaker 5: he pointed out your office and said.
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  Speaker 4: Something about my lily white hands.
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  Speaker 8: And what happened?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't like the remark, so I shoved one of
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  Speaker 4: them down his throat. Oh, wonderful.
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  Speaker 8: This I'll have to see.
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  Speaker 4: I put a feather in his mouth. He can't miss him.
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  Speaker 9: Uh, Rene... Don't you think.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I'm sorry. Stupid of me. Lillian, this is Richard
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  Speaker 8: of Hollywood.
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Is something wrong?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, no, no. How do you do?
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  Speaker 10: This is Lillian Richman, my junior designer and chief model. Now,
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  Speaker 10: you two think of something clever to talk about. I
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  Speaker 10: want to see Gerald, bloody nose, feather and all.
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  Speaker 9: Cigarette? You look nervous.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, thanks.
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  Speaker 9: So, Gerald was the victim of a collision.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: Do your friends call you Richard?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it depends on how friendly they get. Then sometimes
• 8:24
  Speaker 5: they come up with some real hair curlers.
• 8:27
  Speaker 4: What do your friends call you?
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  Speaker 9: I prefer Lillian, but sometimes they call me Lil.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Lil sounds more interesting.
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  Speaker 9: That's when they call me Lil, when things get interesting.
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  Speaker 9: You don't act much like a hat designer, Richard. More
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  Speaker 9: like you should be playing football.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, I started by designing helmets for Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 9: I understand you work for the movies. You with any
• 8:50
  Speaker 9: particular studio?
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  Speaker 4: Hmm?
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  Speaker 5: Uh, oh, no, no, no. I, uh, I'm, uh, I'm, uh,
• 8:56
  Speaker 5: with an independent company. Real Square Productions. We make training films.
• 9:01
  Speaker 9: Training films?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, that was simply wonderful. I had to pour a
• 9:06
  Speaker 8: vase of water on him. Several customers were so frightened
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  Speaker 8: they left, but it was worth it. And how are
• 9:12
  Speaker 8: you two getting along?
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  Speaker 9: Arisha was just talking about football. He was explaining the
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  Speaker 9: merits of a short pass.
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  Speaker 7: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: Well, if you don't mind, Lillian, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Richard and I have some business to talk over.
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  Speaker 9: Not at all. Get him to tell you how he
• 9:26
  Speaker 9: started by making helmets. Maybe you'll get some new ideas, Renée.
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  Speaker 8: Helmets?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 9: See you later, Richard.
• 9:34
  Speaker 4: I'll wear my muzzle.
• 9:36
  Speaker 8: Isn't she lovely?
• 9:38
  Speaker 10: She has about as much conscience as a tiger in
• 9:40
  Speaker 10: a chicken coop.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, now what about our business?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, of course.
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  Speaker 10: Now, here's a retainer I trust that 500 is enough
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  Speaker 10: to start on.
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  Speaker 6: My landlord will think so.
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  Speaker 4: What do I do?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I've told everyone that you're going to be with
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  Speaker 10: us until the fall showing. You want to see how
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  Speaker 10: I work, perhaps take some designs back to Hollywood with you. Now,
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  Speaker 10: all you really have to do is to get to
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  Speaker 10: know the people that work for me. Now, be here
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  Speaker 10: from nine in the morning to six at night and
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  Speaker 10: keep those designs from being stolen.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, by the way, where are the designs?
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  Speaker 10: They're in my safe here. Tomorrow they go to the
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  Speaker 10: designing rooms and that's when the situation becomes acute. We'll
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  Speaker 10: have nothing to worry about until tomorrow, so I'll see
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  Speaker 10: you tomorrow in the morning at nine, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Diamond. Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, in case you need me, here's my card.
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  Speaker 4: I'll write my home number on it.
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  Speaker 5: For some reason, when I get a client, they always
• 10:28
  Speaker 5: run into silly little things like murder or something.
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  Speaker 6: You just might need me.
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  Speaker 4: See you in the morning. I left Rene and headed
• 10:40
  Speaker 4: for my apartment.
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  Speaker 5: I had suddenly found myself in the horrible position of
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  Speaker 5: a man with a steady job.
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  Speaker 6: Nine in the morning until six in the evening.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I'm a guy who can get along without too
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  Speaker 5: much sleep, especially when the situation calls for it. Like
• 10:55
  Speaker 5: the little blonde dancer that works over on 52nd Street.
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  Speaker 5: There was a situation. But this time, I figured a
• 11:01
  Speaker 5: good night's rest wouldn't do me any harm, so when
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  Speaker 5: I got home, I fixed a bite to eat, took
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  Speaker 5: a hot shower.
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  Speaker 4: And climbed into my little old shack.
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  Speaker 6: Hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm. Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 8: Hmm?
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  Speaker 4: Diamond? Oh, hello, honey. Now, you stop that. Wake up.
• 11:28
  Speaker 5: Hmm?
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  Speaker 10: What?
• 11:29
  Speaker 6: Oh, no, no. Who is it?
• 11:31
  Speaker 4: It's Lieutenant Levinson. Oh, a bully for you. What time
• 11:34
  Speaker 4: is it? It's 4.30 in the morning. Goodbye, Walt. Now,
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: you wait a minute. I'm just trying to make things
• 11:38
  Speaker 4: easy on you. And what was that hello, honey for?
• 11:39
  Speaker 6: Oh, I was dreaming.
• 11:40
  Speaker 5: What do you mean, make things easy for me? At 4.30
• 11:43
  Speaker 5: in the morning, nothing's easy.
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: I wanted to let you get here under your own steam.
• 11:47
  Speaker 4: I know what a shock it would be if I
• 11:48
  Speaker 4: sent Otis down there to drag you out of bed. Oh, yeah. Horrible.
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: At 8.05, the Dracula was loose again.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, what do you want me there for?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I know you won't be surprised, but there's been
• 11:59
  Speaker 4: a literal killing. So what? So you're mixed up in it.
• 12:02
  Speaker 4: Now get down here. Now wait a minute. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 6: Who's dead?
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: A guy named Benet. Auto accident. Rene Benet? Yeah, I
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: guess that's the way you pronounce it. You see, Otis,
• 12:11
  Speaker 4: you mallet head, you were wrong. It's pronounced Benet, not Benny.
• 12:14
  Speaker 4: That idiot was calling him Rene Benny.
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  Speaker 6: Walt, how did you know I was working for Benet?
• 12:19
  Speaker 4: Your card was found in his pocket. I'm at 125th Street,
• 12:22
  Speaker 4: so come on up as fast as you can.
• 12:23
  Speaker 6: As soon as I get my football helmet off.
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  Speaker 4: Football helmet? You sleep in a football helmet?
• 12:28
  Speaker 6: Well, I do. Don't you?
• 12:29
  Speaker 7: Bye.
• 12:36
  Speaker 5: I left the apartment and took off the address Walt
• 12:38
  Speaker 5: had given me. It was way uptown on Riverside Drive.
• 12:41
  Speaker 5: It was cold and the fog had begun to drift in.
• 12:44
  Speaker 5: I found Walt over near the prowl car and he
• 12:46
  Speaker 5: briefed me. Rene Benet had been killed in an automobile accident.
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: His car had crashed over a hundred foot viaduct. He
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: went through the guardrail up there, Rick.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: Wonder what he was doing way up here.
• 12:58
  Speaker 6: Certainly wasn't headed home.
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: Maybe he was going to see someone. Maybe.
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  Speaker 6: Better check and see if he knew anyone out this way.
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: Now, you wait a minute. You think something's wrong?
• 13:06
  Speaker 5: Could be, huh? He had a partner who might want
• 13:09
  Speaker 5: him out of the way. Oh, it's a mess, isn't it?
• 13:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty badly burned before the fireboys got here. Wait
• 13:16
  Speaker 4: a minute. Otis is over there with him. Otis!
• 13:17
  Speaker 6: Probably warming his feet.
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: He couldn't warm those big things in an atom bomb. Otis!
• 13:22
  Speaker 9: Yeah, Lieutenant?
• 13:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Lieutenant. Yeah, Lieutenant. Did you find anything?
• 13:25
  Speaker 9: Yeah, there's been a fire.
• 13:27
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: Get over here. Walt, what about that card you found
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: in his pocket? Why didn't it get burned? It was
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: in one of his suits over at his apartment. I
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: put in a call, checked his license plate, found out
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: who he was, where he lived, and sent a couple
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: of boys over. They came up with your card. You
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: know how they all love you.
• 13:44
  Speaker 6: Anything else in the apartment?
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: Nothing yet. We'll get a report.
• 13:48
  Speaker 8: Here I am, Lieutenant.
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: He's getting smart.
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: Hello, Chalmers. Otis, get the car started. We'll go back
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: to the station and wait for a report about this accident.
• 13:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: Lieutenant. No!
• 14:00
  Speaker 7: No?
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: That's right. You touch that siren and I'll throw you
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: out of the car.
• 14:03
  Speaker 8: Oh, the guy.
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: Can't have any fun anymore.
• 14:17
  Speaker 6: Oh, Walt, when are you going to get that report?
• 14:19
  Speaker 6: It's 6.30 in the morning.
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: I know it's 6.30. I always yawn like this when
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: it's 6.30. Oh, maybe this is it. Yeah? I got
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: that report, Lieutenant. Take the marbles out of your mouth.
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: What did you say? Oh, yeah, sorry, I'm a little sleepy.
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: Maybe you'd like me to sing you a lullaby. Oh,
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: that'd be silly. Well, then make sense. I got that report. Benny... Benny. Okay. Okay.
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: He died from the fire.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: Autopsy showed he had a slight concussion, but not serious
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: enough to kill him.
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: What about the car? It wasn't tampered with. There was
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: something funny, though. A steering wheel was smeared like someone
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: had been wearing gloves. No prints. Benny didn't have on
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: any gloves. How'd the fire start? Cigarette in the upholstery.
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: Cigarette in the upholstery.
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: Okay, Otis, I'll call you if I need you. Go
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: on back to sleep. Did you hear? Yeah. Benny was murdered.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: What makes you so sure? Walt.
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: Otis said he had a slight concussion, but not enough
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: to kill him, right?
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: Okay. You're going to.
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: Tell me that he was unconscious the whole time it
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: took that fire to start? Ordinarily, a cigarette smolders a
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: long time.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: Then why didn't he get out of the car? Because
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: he didn't have time to wake up.
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: Someone helped that fire along, got it burning in a
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: few minutes, and then pushed the car over the viaduct.
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: Ah, that isn't enough. Okay.
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: How's this, then? Benet didn't smoke. Now, that I'll buy.
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: But how do you know? He told me.
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: I offered him a cigarette in my office this morning. Well,
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: who do you think did it? Well, I know he
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: had two enemies. His partner, Gerald Winters, and another hat designer,
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: George Marchand.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: I'll have them picked up. No, no, no. Let them
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: alone for a while. Huh?
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: Let's have some breakfast first and then go down to
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: Rene's Salon when it opens.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Quite a store.
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: Yes? Oh, good morning. How's Richard from Hollywood?
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: From hunger. Richard from Hollywood? All right, Paul.
• 16:23
  Speaker 8: Oh, I wish Otis was here.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: He'd love this. Well, whose side are you on? Now, Walt.
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: This is Lil. Lillian Richmond, Walt. Lillian, this is Lieutenant Levinson.
• 16:32
  Speaker 9: Lieutenant?
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: Homicide.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: Well, I hope he's just in to buy a hat.
• 16:36
  Speaker 8: For his wife.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: I'm not married, Miss Richmond.
• 16:39
  Speaker 9: Well, to buy a hat.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Lillian, I just called Rennie's apartment to... Oh, what do
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: you want?
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: Walt, this is Gerald Winters.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Who split his lip?
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: He ran into a fist.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: Where were you between 3 and 4 o'clock this morning, Mr. Winters?
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: What do you want to know for?
• 16:51
  Speaker 9: Gerald... This is a lieutenant from homicide. I think maybe
• 16:55
  Speaker 9: something's happened.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: What could have happened?
• 16:57
  Speaker 11: I was in bed from 11 o'clock till late. Besides,
• 16:59
  Speaker 11: what's a policeman doing with a great Richard from Hollywood?
• 17:02
  Speaker 11: Did someone see one of his creations and strangle to death?
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Where were you around for this morning, Lillian?
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: Also in bed, but I can't prove it.
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: Bernays been killed.
• 17:11
  Speaker 9: What?
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: You don't seem too upset, Mr. Winters.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: No?
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: Well, you're right. As a matter of fact, I'm not.
• 17:18
  Speaker 9: How did it happen?
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: Car went over the viaduct. Burned to death.
• 17:22
  Speaker 9: Well, then why ask us where we were? It was
• 17:24
  Speaker 9: an accident, wasn't it?
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: No, it was not an accident. Mr. Winters, what happens
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: to you now? You take over the firm?
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: Well, yes.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: It all goes to me. I think you'd better come
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: down to the station. Answer a few questions. Oh, now,
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: you don't... This is absurd.
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: I hated Rene, but I'd never kill him.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: Rick, do me a favor and go over to this
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: George Marchand. Talk to him until I can send Otis
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: down to pick him up.
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: You.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: You aren't a hat designer, are you? Bingo.
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: You went another split lip.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: No, not... Lay off him, Rick. Come on, Mr. Winters.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: Let's go. I knew he wasn't. I just knew that.
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: Man couldn't be famous in Hollywood or anywhere else. Well?
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: Police?
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: Private detective. The name's Diamond.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 18:08
  Speaker 9: Did you ever play football?
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: Stop back after you see Marchand. I'd like to find
• 18:15
  Speaker 9: out more about the game.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: Strong line and a good backfield. You've played it.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Good morning, good morning, good morning. What can I do
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: for you?
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: George Marchand?
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: I'm from the police, Mr. Marchand. The police?
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Your competitor, Rene Benet, was killed last night. What?
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: He was burned to death in his car.
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: Oh, but this is horrible, horrible. But what has Rene's
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: death to do with me?
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: Well, we think he was murdered, and we're trying to
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: find a good motive.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: Diamond, it's true that Rene and I were enemies. Everyone
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: knew it, but to think that I would.
• 19:00
  Speaker 12: Take his life is utterly absurd.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: Where were you about four this morning, Mr.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Marchand?
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: Well, I was in bed, asleep.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: Everybody sure had a dull evening. How well do you
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: know Gerald.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: Winters, Rene's partner?
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: Just slightly.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: How about Lillian Richmond?
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: By reputation only.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: One more question. When's your fall showing, Mr.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Marchand?
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: In two days.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: Well, be sure to be around for it.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: The police get very unhappy if a murder suspect catches
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: the first plane for the border.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: Murder suspect? See you later, Mr.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Marchand.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: I left Marchand counting his pulse and wondering just how
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: much I didn't know. And if he could have seen
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: what was going on in my little old mind, he
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: might have grown a few white hairs. I grabbed a
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: cab and headed for the 5th Precinct Police Station and
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: Walt Levinson.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: Needless to say, he was not happy.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Oh, now you wait a minute, Diamond. I'm satisfied with
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Gerald Winters. He's the only one who had a motive.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: The only one who had a motive that you can see.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Too many things point to someone else. Give me a
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: for instance. Oh, you always want a for instance. Well,
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: hang it. You're trying to convince me that Winters isn't
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: the killer, aren't you? Yes, I am, Walt. Then I
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: want a for instance. I want to know your reason.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: Well, Winters and Rene hated each other.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Even as partners, they really wanted each other out of
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: the way. Are you crazy? You just gave me the
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: best reason for hanging on to Winters.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Walt, when Rene was killed, he was 10 miles away
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: from his apartment going in the other direction.
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: So what?
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Did you find out if he knew anyone who might
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: live out that way? Even if he didn't know anyone
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: out that way, I still say so what? The killer
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: went for a drive with him, got out there, hit
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: him over the head, poured gasoline on the seat, and
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: dropped a cigarette. Pushed him off the viaduct. Winter smokes.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: I know. I sent a whole carton down to his
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: cell to make sure.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: You're right about how the killer did it.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: But do you think Rene would have taken a drive
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: like that with a man he hated, knowing how much
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: a man hated him?
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: Huh?
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: And another thing.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: It was pretty warm yesterday and last night, wasn't it?
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: It certainly was. Lousy weather. Okay.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: The killer wore gloves. Isn't that a little strange on
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: a warm night? So he slipped on some gloves, didn't
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: want to leave any fingerprints.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: No, no, no. The killer was driving.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: The report said there were absolutely no fingerprints on the
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: steering wheel. If Rene was in the driver's seat, there
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: would have been a few of his anyway. We couldn't
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: tell whether he was in the driver's seat. He could
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: have been thrown aside.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: When the car crashed. But I don't get this glove angle.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: You want to catch a killer?
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: What kind of a remark is that? Well, come on.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Where are we going?
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Down to Rene's shop. We can get in through a
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: window I noticed in the alley. There are some designs
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: in his safe, and Walt, the killer, has to get
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: them out tonight.
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: And there you are, Lieutenant.
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: It's Jimmy.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Rick, I don't like this, busting into a place without
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: a warrant. Oh, go on.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: Climb in and watch out for the burglar alarm.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: All right. Come on, Otis. Okay.
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: Here, I'll give you a hand, Diamond.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Well, that ought to be easy for you, Otis.
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah, why?
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: Well, you could hold on with the other four and
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: still have one left over to grab me.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, is that so? You two lay off. Come on, Rick,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: show me where to go. Right over here, in Rene's office.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: What makes you think the killer hasn't already stolen the plans?
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't have done it the night of the murder.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: That would have shown a motive. Wouldn't have done it today.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Too many people in the shop. Go on in. Spooky.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: I can't see a thing.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: Walt, watch this. Boo!
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: Off a peach sack shot!
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Lay off, Otis Diamond, and where do we hide? Just
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: sit on anywhere and be quiet.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: The first person through that door is our killer.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: That clock is gonna drive me crazy. You want me
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: to shut it off?
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: How do you shut off a clock, stupid? Bust it!
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Rick. Yeah? I still don't understand why that glove.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: Angle is so important.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: Well, as a single item, it's not so important. But
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: along with the rest, it was the first thing that
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: gave me an idea of the killer.
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: You tell me.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: I think I got it.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: Oh.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Rick, it's three o'clock. I don't think your killer's going
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: to show. Yeah, I'm getting stiff. Hold it, Walt.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: I think we have a customer.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Otis, get up and stand next to that light switch.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Flip it on when I tell you.
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, right.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Okay, Otis. Oh, hello, Lillian.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 23:45
  Speaker 9: Oh, you startled me. What's this all about? What are
• 23:48
  Speaker 9: you doing here?
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: Waiting for you.
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: For me? I don't understand. I was just coming over
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: to pick up some of my sketches. I forgot them
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: this afternoon.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: So you waited until three in the morning?
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: I had a date. Yeah. Otis, go out and drag
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: in her date.
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: Now, you wait just a minute. I don't know what
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: this is all about.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Go ahead, Otis.
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: Mr. Diamond, would you mind telling me what this is
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: all about?
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Sure, lover.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: Point by point, it goes something like this.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: Rene Benet was killed by somebody new and trusted. He
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: never would have gone for that ride otherwise. Bonnet didn't smoke.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: So the killer was an amateur and started the fire
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: with a cigarette... The killer wore gloves, and it was
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: too hot that night for a man to wear them
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: without looking suspicious.
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: Are you saying that you think I.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: That you killed Rene? Sure you did. Come on, you
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: get in there.
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: You take your dirty hands.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Off of me.
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: Here he is, Lieutenant. This is the guy in the car.
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: What is this all about?
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: You better ask Mr. Diamond, although I don't think he'll
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: make much sense. He just accused me of killing Rene.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: What? Good morning, Mr. Marchand. I thought you didn't know, Lillian.
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: Well, prior to this evening, I did not.
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: I called her because I wanted to talk to her
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: about Renee's death.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Ah, you're lying.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: Today at your shop, you called me Mr.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Diamond. How did you know my name?
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: Well, you told it to me.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, no. You're fibbing again. I just said
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: I was from the police.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: Only one person who knew both of us could have
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: called you, and she also knew I was on the
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: way over to your shop.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: Didn't you, Lil?
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: The name is Miss Richmond. Now prove that I killed Rene.
• 25:15
  Speaker 9: You've got no motive.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Well, the designs are enough to start with.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: You probably suspected I wasn't a hat designer. And you
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: knew you had to work fast if you were going
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: to get those designs to Marchand here before this fall showing.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: That's not true.
• 25:27
  Speaker 12: Lillian never gave me any designs from Rene.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: You know, of course, Mr. Marchand, that if we stick
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: your girlfriend with a murder rap, you're an accessory before
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: and after the fact. What?
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: Sure, maybe you'll get to sit in a nice electric
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: glove seat and hold hands.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: But I had nothing to do with the murder. Well,
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: you knew about it and you knew who did it.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: That's enough to put you away for 20 years. Being
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: mixed up in the actual motive might get you lied.
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: No, no, no, no.
• 25:52
  Speaker 12: She was the one that did it. She knew Winters
• 25:55
  Speaker 12: would be blamed for it.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: George!
• 25:56
  Speaker 12: Yes, she stole the designs for me because she wanted
• 26:00
  Speaker 12: to ruin Benny and take over his salon, but I
• 26:02
  Speaker 12: did not know she was going to kill him.
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: Why, you dirty little man. You did know it. You
• 26:08
  Speaker 9: did know it. You helped me plan it if I
• 26:10
  Speaker 9: got the best sketches for you.
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: I'll tear your eyes out! Get that away from me!
• 26:14
  Speaker 8: Come on, lady, let's go.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Okay, haul them both out to the car. Rick, I
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: don't know how... Rick. Oh, no. Rick! Oh, why does
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: he always disappear like that?
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: Rick, what's that you're playing?
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: It's a new thing, kind of pretty.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: Don't cry, Joe.
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: Well, sing it.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: All right, but you know that gripey neighbor in the
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: other apartment building?
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: Oh, don't pay any attention to him. Don't hear any
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: of the other tenants yelling for you to shut up.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: Well, maybe they're not as forceful as the grouch. You see, honey,
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: I got a couple of letters.
• 27:05
  Speaker 9: Letters?
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm, from the people in that building. Most of them
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: like the singing, but a couple feel the same way
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: the grouch does.
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: Well, there's only one way to find out what all
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: the people in the building think.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: How's that?
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: Open the window and sing so they can all hear you.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: Okay, I'll buy it.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: You open the window.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: Don't you think maybe this is silly?
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: Rick, I like you to sing when you come over here,
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: but I don't want you to do.
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: It if no one else does. Now, go ahead. Okay.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Don't cry, Joe. Let her go, let her go, let
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: her go. Don't cry, Joe.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: Let her go, let her.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Go, let her go. You've got to realize.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: This is the wind-up. You'll feel much better once you make.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Your mind up.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Don't cry, Joe. Let her go. Let her go. Let
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: her go.
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: No reaction yet. Maybe they all took poison.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Well, give them time.
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: We'll find out soon enough.
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: I guess so.
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: Come on, let's go to the kitchen and case the icebox.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: You have just heard Richard Diamond, Private Detective, starring Dick Powell.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Helen was played by Virginia Gregg, Lieutenant Levinson by Ed Begley.
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  Speaker 8: Also in our.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Cast were Wilms Herbert, High Aberback, Kay Brinker, Clark Gordon,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: and Jane O'Bello. Music was under the direction of Frank Worth.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Richard Diamond is written by Blake Edwards and directed by
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Richard Sandville. Dick Powell soon will be seen in the
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: screen version of the best-selling novel, Mrs. Mike. Now, this
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: is Eddie King inviting you to be with us again
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: at the same time next week when we will again
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: bring you Dick Powell as Richard Diamond.
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: Private Detective.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Saturday night brings you some of the week's best radio
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: entertainment when you tune for the stars on NBC. Stay
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: tuned to NBC every Saturday evening for a great lineup
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: of programs, including Hollywood Star Theater, Ralph Edwards' Truth or Consequences,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: your hit parade, A Day in the Life of Dennis Day,
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: The Judy Canova Show, and Grand Ole Opry. All the
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: best on NBC. Stay tuned for Irene Dunn and Hollywood
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Star Theater on NBC.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: That was Richard Diamond, private detective in Renee Bennett Protection Case.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Good night, and thank you for joining us at the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: radio dial. Follow Old Time Mystery Radio for more classic
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: mystery and detective broadcasts.