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Luxradiotheatre - 268Afterthethinman [episode 0] Broadcast 6/17/1940 · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: LUTs three cents. Hollywood the Nuts Radio Theater brings you
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  Speaker 1: William Powell and Murna mooy An acted in Man, Ladies
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  Speaker 1: and Gentlemen, Your producer, mister Cecil D. De mil greetings
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: from Hollywood, Ladies and Gentlemen. When Edgar Allan Poe popularized
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  Speaker 1: the Detective story, he found the great common denominator of
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: American entertainment. Millions of us have stayed up past bedtime
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  Speaker 1: to explore the fascinating realm of who done it, including
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: the President of the United States. And you can find
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: devotees in every walk of life rich man, poor man, beggar, man, thief,
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  Speaker 1: and probably policeman too. Perhaps we haven't investigated this branch
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  Speaker 1: of the drama quite as often as we should in
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  Speaker 1: the Lux Radio Theater, but when we do engage a
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  Speaker 1: man hunter, we get the very best. Tonight, our play
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  Speaker 1: is After the Thin Man, adapted from the MGM picture
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  Speaker 1: and naturally starring the same two players that go with
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  Speaker 1: a thin Man story, Myrna Lay and William Powell. It's
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  Speaker 1: an occasion for great rejoicing, but we also must hang
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  Speaker 1: our heads a little because it's exactly four years since
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  Speaker 1: Miss Lloyd was last at this microphone. There's more to
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  Speaker 1: the story of After the Thin Man than just the
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  Speaker 1: exciting quest of a criminal, because our detective is the
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  Speaker 1: extraordinary Nick Charles. And Nick has a lovely wife named Nora.
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  Speaker 1: They happen to be very much in love, but even
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  Speaker 1: love can't keep Nora from interfering with her husband's business.
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  Speaker 1: When she has an idea, and Nora is a girl
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  Speaker 1: with many ideas. Together, they can solve just about any
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  Speaker 1: problem you give them. But you don't really need a
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  Speaker 1: detective to discover that lux Flakes is the simple answer
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  Speaker 1: to the household problems. It's a deduction that millions of
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  Speaker 1: women have made after giving lux Flakes a trial. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if your wits have been thoroughly sharpened and you're ready
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  Speaker 1: for anything to happen, we raised the curtain on the
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  Speaker 1: first act of After the Thin Man, starring William Powell
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  Speaker 1: as Nick Charles and Mina Loy as Norah Railroad Station
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  Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Into the dim maze of tracks, rolls
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  Speaker 1: a mighty streamliner, sleek and shining after its mad dash
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  Speaker 1: across the country. For the final throb of its powerful engines,
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  Speaker 1: it comes to rest from the gate, tumbles a crowd
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  Speaker 1: of reporters and photographers. They rush breathlessly up and down
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  Speaker 1: the length of the platform, eager to be the first
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  Speaker 1: to greet the arriving celebrities. Mister and missus Nick.
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  Speaker 2: Charles, Darthian.
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  Speaker 1: He's popping a car. There is Nick Charles and his car.
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  Speaker 1: Charles cars back?
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  Speaker 3: Olly is hey, Nate? Hello? Ricky?
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  Speaker 1: How does it feel you're going to stay with zu guys?
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  Speaker 1: He wanted a time, darling. He's a gentleman of the press. Gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: my wife, how do you do? How's about a statement?
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  Speaker 4: Nick?
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  Speaker 1: Are you going to keep on with your detective for no? Gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: I've retired now on. I'm just going to take care
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  Speaker 1: of my wife's money, so i'll have something in my
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  Speaker 1: old lad Oh, you said you'd retired before, but I
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  Speaker 1: know that you took that thin man case in New York.
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  Speaker 1: That thin man was abute. They're still talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: You'd take a case like that, now, wouldn't you? Not
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  Speaker 1: a chance? I just took back to please my wife.
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  Speaker 1: She wanted some excitement. Well I guess you had it.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Charles.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it was wonderful.
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  Speaker 6: Two men tried to kill him, but he's not going
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  Speaker 6: to take any more cases.
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  Speaker 7: You could print that.
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  Speaker 1: That's the girl. So long, gentlemen, come on, darling, get
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  Speaker 1: very nice.
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  Speaker 3: Good bye.
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  Speaker 5: Nice to met you.
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  Speaker 7: Tick, slow down, I can't.
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  Speaker 1: Keep up with the gun. Excuse me, lady. I guess
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't looking where I was going.
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  Speaker 7: No, I guess you were.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Fingers. Well, well Nick, Charles, how are you fine?
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  Speaker 1: How's business? Fingers? Business? Oh? I quit that racket, Nick,
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  Speaker 1: it's called Oh that's a shame.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to meet Fingers McCoy. This is my wife, Fingers,
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  Speaker 1: your wife say, I didn't know she? Oh, I'm sorry
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  Speaker 1: about your price, missus Charles.
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  Speaker 7: But I do Nick, I know I had it with me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it'll turn up, wanted Fingers. I certainly hope. So sure, Well,
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  Speaker 1: so long, Nick, glad I bumped into you.
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  Speaker 7: Good bye, goodbye. Nick. I've got to go back to
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  Speaker 7: the train.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I wouldn't bother dying. Let's get home.
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  Speaker 7: I just can't go walk.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, now, come on, you don't want to embarrass him,
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  Speaker 1: do you? What do you mean, Fingers, he's a purse snatcher.
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  Speaker 1: Think of his feelings?
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  Speaker 7: A purse snatcher?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he must have taken it certainly. But you see,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't know you were my wife. You'll get it
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  Speaker 1: back in the morning, mail lolling. He's a very honest pickbucket.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Nick, you do know the nicest people.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, and Nick, welcome home. I am bum.
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  Speaker 1: See you around.
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  Speaker 7: Surprise by the darling.
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  Speaker 1: No, no wrestler.
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  Speaker 7: Oh a wrestler. That's different.
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  Speaker 2: What's the wait?
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  Speaker 1: Well, hello, slats, how's everything?
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  Speaker 2: I'm okay, I can see it now.
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  Speaker 1: Likewise, now there's a sweet character.
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  Speaker 7: You ought to be in jail just to play safe.
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  Speaker 1: He got out last tuesday.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, welcome home, Norah. Oh, Hello, thank you, nice to
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  Speaker 7: see you, my dear, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Who are those people, darling?
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  Speaker 7: You wouldn't know them?
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  Speaker 5: Their respect, you know, Darling, the best thing.
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  Speaker 8: About going away is coming back home.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose you remember that tonight is New Year's.
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  Speaker 7: I know, got your keys, darling.
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  Speaker 1: I also suppose you've got some ideas on the subject.
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  Speaker 7: Very definitely.
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  Speaker 1: I was afraid of that.
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  Speaker 6: I want to lock the doors and plug the bells,
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  Speaker 6: cut off the telephone, and crawl into bed for month.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Charles, you're a woman out of my own heart.
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  Speaker 1: I won't be awake at midnight so I kiss you now?
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  Speaker 1: Happy you here, Nora?
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  Speaker 7: Happy new here? Darling him?
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  Speaker 3: Folks, what's you stand out there for it? Come on in?
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  Speaker 1: Hey? What is this?
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  Speaker 9: Well, it's our apostle, right on, come on, make yourself
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  Speaker 9: at home, folks.
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  Speaker 7: Well let's go in, dollie, he says. It's all right.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, as long as we're invited.
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  Speaker 2: There's a bar right in there.
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  Speaker 1: Help yourself, Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, what's the celebration.
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  Speaker 2: We're giving a surprise party to Nick and Nora.
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  Speaker 1: Nick and Nora?
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  Speaker 3: Sure, don't you know?
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  Speaker 2: Nick and Nora.
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  Speaker 7: No, we don't need to do.
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  Speaker 2: I but that's not.
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  Speaker 10: Gonna spoil my fun.
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  Speaker 2: It's New Year's So what's the yard? It's going in?
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  Speaker 5: Baked?
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  Speaker 1: It's a sick Oh, thanks for the tip.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, get in there and get some of that Napoleon
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  Speaker 2: friend it more.
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  Speaker 1: It's all gone, dude, I mean I have this stompsmis.
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  Speaker 7: Charles, Thank you, sir. You're a gent Who are all
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  Speaker 7: these people not a sea?
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  Speaker 1: It looks like most stone over there. He's a booking.
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  Speaker 1: I follow with him as a police captain, and I
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  Speaker 1: believe a gentleman in a loud suit runs a full
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  Speaker 1: room I'm following the fireman's hut.
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  Speaker 7: Never mind, that's the general idea.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Charles. Welcome home, madam, Thank you. How are you? Peters?
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  Speaker 7: Never better, mister Charles.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry about the party, sir, but they forced their
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  Speaker 1: way in there, annoying my friends. I can believe that Nick,
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  Speaker 1: I smell something burning, probably just the living room rug,
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  Speaker 1: or if I may be allowed to suggest, sir, that's
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  Speaker 1: probably Missus Charles.
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  Speaker 7: An.
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  Speaker 1: She's been calling all day and very much annoyed. She
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  Speaker 1: wants you to come to dinner this evening, Missus Charles, Oh, dear, goodbye, Darling.
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  Speaker 1: See you next year. She expects you to, mister Charles, me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Katherine wants me to come to dinner.
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  Speaker 7: There must be some mistake.
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  Speaker 6: She couldn't want you, Nick. I'll take it in the bedroom, Peters,
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  Speaker 6: Nick come with.
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  Speaker 1: Me at your aunt Katherine, get out of it. No
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  Speaker 1: more family dinners. I wouldn't go through that again if
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  Speaker 1: you had twice as much money.
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  Speaker 7: Hello, Helena, who is this?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, hello, darling, Darling, I'm Katherine.
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  Speaker 5: Shut up.
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  Speaker 7: It's my cousin Selma. How are you? Selma?
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  Speaker 5: Alright?
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  Speaker 7: I wanted to make sure you're coming well, I'm afraid
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  Speaker 7: not sell you. See, Nora, You've got to come.
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  Speaker 11: I'm in terrible trouble. What please, I can't tell you no, come,
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  Speaker 11: I'm dead.
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  Speaker 7: For that boat.
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  Speaker 5: I won't Hello. I told you not to call anyone.
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  Speaker 7: Hello, Selma, give me the bot. Hello, dear, Hello, is
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  Speaker 7: this this is Aunt Catherine?
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 7: What's the matter with Selma?
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  Speaker 12: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Nothing at all, dear. You know Selma well enough not
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  Speaker 7: to pay too much attention to her.
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  Speaker 5: Will see you to that Ignora?
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  Speaker 8: Well you see, it's New Year's Eve, An Catherine, the
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  Speaker 8: old battle axe.
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  Speaker 7: Shut up? What excuse me, Aunt Catherine, I was talking
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  Speaker 7: to the dog.
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  Speaker 3: We'll expect you at seven thirty.
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  Speaker 7: All right, Aunt Catherine, we'll come. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: What did you say?
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  Speaker 7: I said we'd be over for dinner?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my own wife.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, nicky, but I had to do it. It's Selma.
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  Speaker 7: She's in trouble. You like Selma, don't you?
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  Speaker 1: Not as much as that?
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  Speaker 7: But she sounds so funny as if she's been crying.
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  Speaker 1: Living at your Aunt Catherine. I can't say I blame.
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  Speaker 13: Her that crying.
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  Speaker 7: Do you want the servants to hear?
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  Speaker 11: I don't care, Aunt Catherine. I'm going crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I can't stand it any longer.
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  Speaker 14: I'm going to call the police.
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  Speaker 7: You do nothing of the sort. Haven't we paid out
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  Speaker 7: enough to hush up his other scandal?
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  Speaker 11: You never did anything like this before.
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  Speaker 7: How do we know? But what?
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  Speaker 2: He may be dead?
• 9:18
  Speaker 7: I told you i'd handle this.
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  Speaker 11: I can't go on this way.
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  Speaker 7: Robin is my husband, and let's be quiet. Yes, Henry
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  Speaker 7: big pardon Adam.
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  Speaker 1: But shall I set a place for mister Robert tonight?
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  Speaker 7: Certainly mister Robert will be here.
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  Speaker 2: No, he won't be here.
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  Speaker 7: And Kat, I know nothing of the sort. Now go
• 9:35
  Speaker 7: upstairs and make yourself presentable. When Nora comes, I'm going
• 9:38
  Speaker 7: to tell her who will not tell her? I will
• 9:39
  Speaker 7: not have that husband of her snooping into our family.
• 9:41
  Speaker 7: If I don't care he can help us.
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  Speaker 11: I'm going to tell him the whole story.
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  Speaker 7: Nick, Nick, and Katherine wants to speak to you.
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  Speaker 1: What I do now use the wrong fourth, But listen.
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  Speaker 7: Do you know why Robert wasn't here tonight?
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  Speaker 1: Sure? Because he's smart.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not fooling. He's disappeared.
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: That's swell. Now we can only get rid of I'm Katherine.
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: We'll be all set.
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  Speaker 7: Come on, she's in the library of the sum Here
• 10:16
  Speaker 7: he is a cafe.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Nicholas, I'm sorry to take you away from the family.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's fine, I mean, it's quite all right. Well,
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: what's what's all this about, Selma? How long is rather than.
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: Gone three days?
• 10:29
  Speaker 7: Three days without a word?
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  Speaker 1: You notify the police?
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  Speaker 11: Certainly not, And we're not going to No, Robert, they'll
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  Speaker 11: be kidnapped.
• 10:35
  Speaker 7: He may be lying dead somewhere, but we.
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  Speaker 11: Mustn't do anything about it.
• 10:38
  Speaker 7: Our precious name might get in the paper. Oh, don't
• 10:40
  Speaker 7: pay any attention to us. She's exaggerating the whole affair.
• 10:43
  Speaker 10: However, to please I thought you might investigate the matter
• 10:45
  Speaker 10: quietly with your experience as a as a flat foot.
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  Speaker 7: And I didn't mean to be as blunt as that.
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  Speaker 1: Why not, it's all in the family, Selma.
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  Speaker 11: Have you any idea where Robert might be No, but
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  Speaker 11: as a woman makes up I'm not, Selma, you know
• 10:59
  Speaker 11: nothing of the sort. What about the vanity case they
• 11:00
  Speaker 11: sent me from that Chinese restaurant.
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  Speaker 7: It's a stupid mistake on there the stake. Some woman
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  Speaker 7: left it. He was there with some woman. Tell me
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  Speaker 7: you know that, Robert Bruship. Sure, can you say that
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  Speaker 7: you know he hates me. He only married me for
• 11:10
  Speaker 7: my money. He never did love me. Sometimes I wish
• 11:13
  Speaker 7: you were dead.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm a little confused. Tell me, Semma, do you
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: want him back? Or don't you?
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  Speaker 8: She wants him back, don't Selma, Selma, I'll take you.
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  Speaker 7: Up to you. Do you do at the moment you
• 11:25
  Speaker 7: can give you something to me? Well, Nick, what do
• 11:32
  Speaker 7: you think about it?
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: I'm not thinking at all? What are you getting me into?
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: There are lots of detective in this town, a man
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  Speaker 1: who need.
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  Speaker 7: The job, but no one as good as you.
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  Speaker 1: Nikki. I don' won't get you a thing.
• 11:42
  Speaker 7: I retired, but this is different. This is for Selma.
• 11:45
  Speaker 7: You will help find Robert, won't you.
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: Why I didn't lose him.
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  Speaker 7: It's your chance. Nick. He don't get you in right
• 11:50
  Speaker 7: with the family.
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: That's that's what I'm afraid.
• 11:52
  Speaker 7: Of, Nikki, get Jack, Dolly.
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: We're going to get it here while we still got
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: the jab. Well, where's r B still? New Year's Eve?
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: We gotta go some place, all right, Let's go look
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: for Robert. Oh listen my sweep. Oh hie, David, David.
• 12:11
  Speaker 7: How nice to see you. What are you standing out
• 12:13
  Speaker 7: here for?
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, they don't let me in the house anymore. Someone said,
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: you try and meet me later.
• 12:17
  Speaker 7: I'm great. She won't be able to make it. Did
• 12:19
  Speaker 7: you know that Robin had disappeared?
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: If he has, it's the only decent thing he's ever done.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: What's he been up to lately, David? The last thing
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: he pulled one? It was a couple of days ago,
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: called up and said that.
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: If I'd give him twenty five thousand dollars, he'd go
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: away and leave some to meat.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: Lovely boy, what did you say? I asked him to
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: give me a couple of days to think it over.
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: You know, twenty five thousand would be cheap. If bed
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: ready to go? Why don't you chick up a collection?
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: A lot of people would like to contribute. Tell me,
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: did you see someone? How is she?
• 12:44
  Speaker 7: I'm terribly worried about her.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: I know I am too. Come on, David, we're going
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: to go someplace and get the taste of respectability out
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: of om Ale. Thanks.
• 12:51
  Speaker 7: But I couldn't, Oh, David, why not?
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: I've got too much on my mind. Well, I'm glad
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: you're back anyway. Happy New Year to you. Happy here here.
• 13:00
  Speaker 7: Selma was a fool not to have married him instead
• 13:02
  Speaker 7: of Robert.
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: They can't all be as luck. He's you, darling, Well,
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: where are we going?
• 13:07
  Speaker 7: How do you feel about some Chinese food?
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: Awful?
• 13:11
  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm so sorry because we're going to that Chinese
• 13:13
  Speaker 6: restaurant that sent the compact to Selma the lie cheese please,
• 13:17
  Speaker 6: darling mouse.
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: See here. I'm not looking for Robertson.
• 13:21
  Speaker 7: Of course you're not.
• 13:22
  Speaker 13: I am.
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: Hey Mark, Yeah, hello, here one was the table. I'll
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: tell him we're all filled up? I did, He says
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: to tell you his name is Nick Chong, Nick Charles?
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: Where is he?
• 13:49
  Speaker 5: Ah?
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: This is more like it.
• 13:51
  Speaker 7: You must feel right home in a place like this.
• 13:54
  Speaker 5: Too bad we didn't bring Anne Catherine.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: Hello, Nick? Oh, hello, Dansa. Tell me how many tables?
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: I guess I can find one, seeing as it you
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: you just slumming, that's all down said? Oh, yes, you
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: wanted to make sure I don't like business clos on
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: New Year's Oh, say, I want you to be my partner. Hey,
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: I'm key, come.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: In, Yes, I want you to be the friend of mine.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: Lum key. This is Nick Charles and missus John.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm your friend.
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: You bet you?
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: You sent his brother up? Nick lum ying. Remember. Oh, yes, yes,
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: he's the one who spread a tongue or out to
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: includes sticking up a bank a.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: You bet you? You cat you my bather? You play
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: trick on him?
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Don't play trick on hi. No catch him, He'll bet
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: you you're still in jail.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: Oh you bet you?
• 14:40
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: Five years more?
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: Good by Unstauant.
• 14:44
  Speaker 7: Is he a tongue man too, mister dancer.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: No, but you never can tell how close brothers are.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: I thought you might like to know Nick. Thanks, he's
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: a good guy to have liking you. Oh, there's the
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: table little over the wall this way, miss.
• 14:57
  Speaker 7: Charles Nikki, there's Robert.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: I know I saw him before.
• 15:01
  Speaker 7: Why didn't you tell me?
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: Robert?
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: Robert?
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, hello leaving Robert? Happy New Year? Is it, Robert?
• 15:09
  Speaker 7: What are you doing in a place like this? We
• 15:11
  Speaker 7: just saw Selma Robert. Yeah, she's terribly worried about you.
• 15:15
  Speaker 7: Don't you think you'd better go home?
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Sure, I'll go home when I feel like getting up
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: before Robert. Oh, let him go at your table. Mack.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Oh is that for a friend of yours? On the contrary,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: he's a relation. He's been hanging around here drunk for
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: three days. He's got a case on a prima donna.
• 15:31
  Speaker 7: I wish you'd toss him out. His wife is going crazy.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Oh that's too bad. I'll speak to his girlfriend.
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: Well, I don't lie ji.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Hey Polly, Holly, come here, what's up to answer?
• 15:46
  Speaker 7: Us?
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: And boyfriend? You're just pretty drunk?
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: So what I thought that was the idea? Keep him happy?
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Sure, but a couple of his relations just blew in relations?
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: What do we do?
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Give the customers one more song and a knockoff for
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: the night and take him out of here.
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: Okay, I'm getting sick of that guy.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: I'll just beat Lamara honey, and then he can turn
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: them rouge.
• 16:04
  Speaker 7: Tomorrow's a holiday, the banks will be closed.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: That's right. Well, then the next day I'll watch the difference.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Ain't it worth it? I guess, so ask that girl.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: I'll make it snappy, Polly.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: I'll keep an eye on it.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Hey, Polly, Yeah, what I got a message for you?
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: What is it?
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Your brother's looking for you?
• 16:20
  Speaker 7: My brother?
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Where is he in your dressing room? He wants to
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: see you right away?
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Hello, Polly, But no matter.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: It looks happy to see me.
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: Please still don't try to start anything.
• 16:32
  Speaker 11: I'm in a hurry.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: You've been in a hurry ever since I got back.
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: Can I help it? If I got to work?
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: That's not what I'm kicking about. What's go along with
• 16:37
  Speaker 9: this drunk Robert landis nothing?
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Oh no?
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: Then?
• 16:40
  Speaker 9: What's this check doing on your dressing table? Give me
• 16:43
  Speaker 9: that a check made out to you signed by Robert Landon.
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: Get out of here?
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: What are you got up? Or I'll smack you right
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: in the teeth. I'm in on this, you know still?
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Please if you don't cut me in.
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: The parties off, I can't cut you in.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: But check yours? Ain't it?
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: But what? But what?
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: Let me go?
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Let me sure? But this is just to remind you
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: that I'm on the.
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: Deal, you big lug. Look what you've done to my face?
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: How am I going to explain that?
• 17:06
  Speaker 9: There's a lot of things you'll have to explain before
• 17:08
  Speaker 9: I am through you and danswerre taking.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: This Land's guy for plenty of dough? Aren't you?
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: What about it?
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: How much?
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: Come on?
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: How much?
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: Twenty five thousand?
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Did you get it? Yet?
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: No?
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, spill it.
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: Some friend of his wife's is putting it up to
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: get him to leave her alone.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: So you're going to keep him drunk and then collect
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: it for him when I.
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: Don't know where.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Night said tomorrow night.
• 17:28
  Speaker 9: Okay, I'll be around the next morning early.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: What are you doing here?
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: I danser just leave him so long, Polly, what did that?
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: He? You want nothing? It's okay to answer no, I'll listen.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: There's a switch in their plans. I just heard of
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: that doe is being handed over tonight. Tonight, that David
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: guy has meeting Landers in front of his house. Now
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: you better be with landersy.
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: I'll be there.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I told Nick that you were taking Landa's home. I'll
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: make sure they see it as you go on. Sure,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: and when the doe's delivered, you know what to do.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I'll be across the street just in case something goes wrong.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I'll get going and no slip.
• 18:02
  Speaker 13: Upsy here.
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: Trying to find a phone. I want to call someone.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: See if Robert come on aust to me a phone
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: in Dancer's office, he won't mind. Hell danswer man? What
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: are you doing in this office? Was calling a number
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: an objection? Once a gum heel, always a gum heel.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I don't like gum heels, and I thought you could
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: have when you married a pot of money?
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: Did he called me a pot?
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I don't like to be critical dancer. You know
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: it doesn't look quite right when you and your partner
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: and your prima donna and your best customer. I'll go
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: out at the same time. It gives the place a
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: sort of a vacant look. Have you ever been thrown
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: out of a place, mister Charles? How many places was
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: it up to yesterday? Missus Charles?
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: How many places have you been in? Mister Charles?
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Hello, I'm Catherine. This is Nick Nicholas. But when I
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: see yes, I will bye? What if you're thrown here?
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Can beat it?
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: What's the matter?
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Nick?
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Bad news?
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: Ah?
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Polly? Come in? Another of our travelers is returned? Now
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: if only lum Key will no sooner said them done?
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Or someone called me by the gathering the clan, isn't it?
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I wonder which one of you would be most surprised
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: if Robert Land has walked in? Now? You know there's
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: no chance of that, don't you? All of you? Now,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Now get out of here.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: What is it? Nick?
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: What's happened?
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Robertson killed? He's killing the front up to your aunt's
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: house police are questioning, So what's that gonna do with us?
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Go on, get out. You said that before dancing is foolish.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to get out. On the contrary, we're
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: gonna have a lot more people in listen you Hello,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Nick Charles speaking. I want to get hold of Lieutenant Abrams,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the homicide squad. Why a you're calling him? It's a
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: sensed None of us atlandis that's all? Well, then maybe
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: you'd like to explain how you knew he was shot
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the curtain. Paul's on Act Run after the Thin Men
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: with Murder Lois and William Powell. During this short innovation
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: before mister DeMille presents Act Too, we introduce a very
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: charming guest. Strike up the bandboo that music, ladies and gentlemen.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Welcomes a real Southern bell, Miss Mary Nell Porter from Memphis, Tennessee.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: In private life, she said abudante, But this spring she's
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: touring the country in a very important role as made
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: of Cotton, representing our huge cotton industry. We're certainly delighted
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: to welcome you to the Lux Radio Theater, Miss Porter.
• 21:14
  Speaker 14: Thank you very much, mister Ruy, I'm so glad.
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: To be here.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I hear that you've been doing quite a little flying
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the last three months.
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: I stay, I have over twelve thousand miles.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: And on top of that, I understand that you've had
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: a staggering schedule of fashion shows and radio speeches and
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: personal appearances in thirty different cities.
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: It has been a.
• 21:32
  Speaker 14: Very interesting experience, and I've enjoyed meeting so many nice
• 21:35
  Speaker 14: people all over the country.
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: We've had such.
• 21:38
  Speaker 14: Large crowds at all our cotton fashion shows.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure the women want to hear about that,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and I'd love.
• 21:43
  Speaker 14: To talk about You know, cotton is terribly smart this
• 21:46
  Speaker 14: year for playsuits and street dresses and evening fox.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Now here, just a minute, please, how about giving you
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: some details.
• 21:54
  Speaker 14: Well, there's a very good looking red white striped daytime
• 21:57
  Speaker 14: dress with big sleeves and has a very full skirt
• 22:00
  Speaker 14: with the cutest Dutch boy pockets.
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: I'm wet with blue shoes.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: That sounds very patriotic.
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: It surely is.
• 22:06
  Speaker 14: Red white and blue is always fashionable this year. A
• 22:09
  Speaker 14: lot of the dresses I show off patriotic.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I see where the stripes fit in, then well.
• 22:14
  Speaker 14: They're smart too, and sow flower prints. My bathing suit
• 22:18
  Speaker 14: has tropical flowers scattered all over it.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, so cotton goes swimming.
• 22:22
  Speaker 14: I should say it does, and dancing too. You should
• 22:26
  Speaker 14: see one evening dress in our fashion show. It's a
• 22:28
  Speaker 14: brilliant red muslin with large white Hawaiian flowers all over.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: It, straight from the South seas well, straight.
• 22:34
  Speaker 14: From a story book. It has the sweetest puff sleeves
• 22:38
  Speaker 14: and long vast bodies.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Well tell me is cotton or glimmer goodness?
• 22:42
  Speaker 14: Now it's simply wonderful for wine in town too. Things
• 22:46
  Speaker 14: like gingham or pouquet or sea suckle make beautifully tailed suits.
• 22:50
  Speaker 14: They're coolest can be and awfully easy to take care.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Of, Miss Porter. Don't you find it hard to keep
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: all these lovely cottons fresh on your trip?
• 22:58
  Speaker 14: Not at all. See the whole wardrobe is luxible, even
• 23:02
  Speaker 14: some of my shoes and bags.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: That makes things easy, doesn't it?
• 23:05
  Speaker 14: I should say so when new quick Lucks fakes are
• 23:08
  Speaker 14: simply wonderful. They take such beautiful kare of all the
• 23:12
  Speaker 14: lovely new countons. You know everything safe in water is
• 23:15
  Speaker 14: safe in Lucks.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Ladies. Please note this year's smart cottons are really fine fabrics,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: and they must be treated gently, just like washable silks,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: rayons and woolens. You quick Lucks is so mild it
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: keeps them new looking longer.
• 23:30
  Speaker 14: That's why we use it for everything in our coun show.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Well, we've certainly enjoyed having you with us tonight, miss Porter.
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: Thank you so much.
• 23:37
  Speaker 14: Am I glad to met you all.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Well, good night and good luck on your trip home.
• 23:41
  Speaker 14: Thank you, good night.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Now our producer mister Debil act too of After the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Thin Man, starring William Powell as Nick Charles and man
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Alaya as Norah. It's two hours later, with mystery shrouding
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: the death of Robert Landers. The police have been questioning
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: some who discovered the body. Now the grilling is over.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Her nerves are worn to the breaking point.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: They're going to arrest me.
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: They're going to arrest me, Nora. No, No, of course him.
• 24:17
  Speaker 14: They all believe I did it.
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: Don't cutine everyone. They don't sell me. They don't think
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: that at all. I know I heard them now. I
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: didn't kill him, Nora.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: I didn't.
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: I'm sure I didn't.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: I couldn't do.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: What what do you mean, Nora? You will help me,
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: won't you tell me what happened? Everything? He came to
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: the house at midnight to get his things.
• 24:36
  Speaker 11: He said he was leaving me. I tried to stop him.
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: He pushed me away and went down the stairs. I
• 24:41
  Speaker 11: followed him to the front door. While he was letting
• 24:44
  Speaker 11: himself out, I went to the library table. There was
• 24:45
  Speaker 11: a gun there, a gun, so I didn't mean to
• 24:47
  Speaker 11: use it. I only wanted to frighten him, to make
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: him come back and listen to me.
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: All right, go on. I went to the door. He
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: was standing on the steps, looking up and down the street.
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: And then and then there was a shot and it fell.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: Where did the shot come from?
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 25:02
  Speaker 10: I don't know, all.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: Right, darling, never mind, You've been through enough. You better
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: lie down now and rest.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I can't.
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: I can't rest.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: I've got to think of.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Laura.
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: Yes, David.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: What about David. He thinks I'm guilty too. He thinks
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: I killed Robert Selmah. He must think so her. He
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: wouldn't have taken he wouldn't have taken what nothing, But
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: he mustn't think that. I couldn't bear it.
• 25:26
  Speaker 11: You must tell him, tell him I didn't do it,
• 25:28
  Speaker 11: couldn't you tell him?
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: No, No, somebody might be listening.
• 25:30
  Speaker 11: You'll go to him, tell him.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Hurry, Who is it?
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: It's me, Norah.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Head alone, Nora, this is a surprise. Come in.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: I got over as soon as I could.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: David Selma said, it is anything wrong?
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: What you mean you don't know?
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: No, what what's happened?
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: Rober's been killed?
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Killed? That's impossible. What you mean I saw it. I'm
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: only a little while ago.
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: How long ago?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: About ten o'clock? I'm not had been in front of
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the house and give him twenty five thousand dollars in bonds.
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: Wait a minute, this is too much for me. Where
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: did he go?
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Then he went inside the house to get his things.
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: Oh, then it was when he came out again and
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: he was shot.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I've got to see Soma.
• 26:16
  Speaker 15: Will you come with me?
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Come on, you know, stay right for you here? Boy?
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: What is this? Who are you? Detective Malloy, Homicide Squad.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: We've had our eye on you, buddy.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Try to make a getaway.
• 26:26
  Speaker 15: Here?
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Are you crazy?
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Lesson? Someone's been kidding you, officer. Sure remember you were
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: kidding too, and you were sitting throwing that gun into
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the river. David, it's all right, there's been a mistake.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I tell Soma.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Will you all right?
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Come here, sister, you're not telling anybody anything. You're going
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: along with us where on the headquarters.
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: Oh oh, you don't understand. I'm missus Nick Charles.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and I'm mother Goose. Come on, step on it.
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: Hello, Nick.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: His name froms down at headquarters. Oh, I say, Nick.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: We picked up a woman a few minutes and no
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: one David William hoot.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: She claims he's your wife. My wife, yeah, says her
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: name is Nora. What a part of me? Norah? Nora?
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Oh sounds like a phony to me. You better put
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: it in the juke to I get down there.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: And you want a doctor Nick in the joke?
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: She goes.
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: Right John here, mister Charles, thank you, adroan Nick. Nick here,
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: I am over here.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Hell hello, fine, way to start the new year getting thrown.
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: In the can NICKI get me out of here.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: How long has this thing with David been going on? Oh?
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: Nick, stot that and get me out of here. I've
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: got something to tell.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: You about the case. Yes, oh no, I'll get you
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: out on one condition. No more cases, no more detecting promise.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: But this is important.
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: Do you want be the letter out of mister Charles?
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Definitely not NICKI please well promise, I promise, all right?
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Let her out?
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: Nick, Nick, have you been working on the case.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I've been giving up my undivided attention.
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: What have you found out?
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Nothing?
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: Oh, Nick?
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: The only new development is that Polly has a brother
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: where we don't.
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: Know what about her and Dancer none key.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: All in the neighborhood at the time of the shooting.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: We've established that, but we can't prove a thing.
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: But Nick, somebody killed him.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Yes, I think that's been proved.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Is Charles.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Yes, Lieutenant Abrams wants.
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: Your for questioning questioning, NICKI. They don't think I'm mixed
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: up in this.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Don't worry, darling. If they find you guilty, I'll write
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: you every day. Y's wifely, NICKI, I'll tell me, mister Graham,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Will you.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: And Robert Landis on good times?
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Decidedly?
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Not on bad times, mister Graham, very bad.
• 28:40
  Speaker 15: You and missus Landis were once engaged, weren't you until
• 28:43
  Speaker 15: Landis came along?
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, I have asked her to divorce him and marry you.
• 28:47
  Speaker 15: I may have, but she never said she would, but
• 28:49
  Speaker 15: you'll hope she would.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: And you thought that with him out of the way,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: she might.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I didn't kill Robert.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: No, of course not.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: But you did pay him to go away, Yes, Lieutenant Abrams,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: my wife, Oh, come on here. I got to ask
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: her some questions. Mister Chiles, am Sarah quite all right?
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Go ahead?
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: How missus Chiles? Why did you go to mister Graham's apart?
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: But maybe I'd better leave.
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: No, Selma had a silly idea that David thought she
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: killed Robert. She wanted me to tell him that she didn't.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Well, I can't imagine how she could think a thing
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: like that. It's ridiculous. I haven't seen her for a
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: couple of days.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: There's missus Lander's buss. No, will you come in, missus Landers?
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: David. Oh, I didn't want you dragged into this.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Oh no, it's all right, dear missus Landis.
• 29:33
  Speaker 15: Why did mister Graham think you killed your husband?
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I never said that.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: I never fought it for one minute.
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: Oh, David, he had every right to think I did it.
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: He's just trying to protect me. He heard a shot.
• 29:42
  Speaker 11: He rushed up to me and saw me standing near
• 29:44
  Speaker 11: Robert with a gun.
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: In my hand.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: But I didn't fire a shot.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: It came from the street.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: You mean you didn't kill anything.
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: No, look at the gun, David. It hasn't been fired.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, Selma forgive me, of course, I forgive you. Well,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: that's all cleared up. Oh, Laura, it isn't it up.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: I've got to have something more than that. Where's that gun?
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Missus lambdis I've got to see that gun?
• 30:05
  Speaker 11: Well, I haven't got it. Why well, David took it
• 30:08
  Speaker 11: from me. David, where's the gun?
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: What is it?
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: David? So much? I thought you were guilty. I thought
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I was doing the only thing. I threw it away.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: You threw it away.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I threw it into the river. Oh that's marvelous.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: But they can get it. I'll show them why I
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: threw it. I'll get Diaverst to go on after it.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: They'll find it. They must showy.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: She don't want that gun back anymore than you do.
• 30:28
  Speaker 15: Heym swear out a ward for the arrest of missus
• 30:31
  Speaker 15: Robert Lamb.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: This, I'm suspicion of murder.
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: Nikki, Nikki, are you awake?
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Mm hm no, no, I'm not.
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: Oh I thought you were. Did you say something about
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: scrambled eggs?
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: No, no, I haven't. Ah, I suppose that means you'd
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: like me to fix some oil.
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: Oh no, I don't care about them.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Sure, really good, good.
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: Night, good night.
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: After all, if I want scrambled eggs, I can get
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: them for myself.
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: Of course, I'm not as good a cook as you are. Oh,
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: I don't bother about me. You go on sleeping. I
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: love to watch your sleep.
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: He looks so cute, Nikki. Have you any pictures of
• 31:25
  Speaker 8: yourself taken as a baby.
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: No, Oh, that's a shame. I wanted to see what
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: you look like.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I have one taken in the morning.
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: Poor Selma, Poor David.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Nikki. Can you reach the water?
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: Huh?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah I thought so. Yeah.
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: Oh I didn't want it. I just wanted to be
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: sure you could reach it.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Please go to sleep.
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: I can't I keep thinking of Selma down in that jail, Darling.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: There's nothing to worry about. Come on, they'll find the gun.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: It won't have been fired. Salo will be free.
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: Then you don't think she did it for the tenth time. No,
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: you're not saying that just to make me happy. You
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: really mean it.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I mean it.
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: Of course you're right. She didn't do it. She couldn't
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: have done it. I don't think I'd kill you if
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: you ran off of another woman.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Thank you, darling, I might though. No, h don't be morbid.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Go to sleep. The name up the window.
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: Keep your head down, Nick, somebody smash the window. No really,
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: Look there's a rock with a note a catch to it.
• 32:41
  Speaker 10: Make you a note.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Let's see what is it?
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: What does it say? Mm?
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Silly little woman? I told her to stop writing for me.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Please read it, mister Nick Charles. If you want to
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: know something about the murder of Robert landis get a
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: line on fell Burns. The guy probably says a brother.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: He's an ex KHN and was married to Polly in
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: the Peak of Kansas three years ago.
• 33:05
  Speaker 7: Married three years ago.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: What are we supposed to do is send him an
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: anniversary present. Look in the way this fellow spells to
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: peak at t O P E K E R.
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: What's the matter with that?
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Nothing, darling?
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: Don oh, Nick, you can't go back to sleep now,
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: Ohn Abrams.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: W didn't have him here keeping us up all night.
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: Oh don't you see?
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: If Phil is her husband, then he shot Robert because
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: he found out about him and Polly.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, Nick, you've got to call him just as you say.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Can you heard me? The phone.
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: Oh isn't it wonderful? Everything's working out beautifully. All we
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: have to do is find this fellow Phil Burns. If
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: we got the murderer here, Darling, call him and jo
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: Now who can that be?
• 33:50
  Speaker 15: Oh?
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Hello, Nick?
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm just gonna call you. Yeah, well, maybe you're
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: better get down here. You know that guy Phil burned Polly?
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: What about him?
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Traced them to his hotel? You find him?
• 34:02
  Speaker 12: Yeah, when somebody else found him faced, he spent, Well,
• 34:15
  Speaker 12: there he is.
• 34:16
  Speaker 15: That's the way we found him. Nick, dead for two
• 34:18
  Speaker 15: hours at least strangled.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like he was beating up a bit before
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: the strangling set him, and he think of prints.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: All over the place. We're checking on him.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Now, what else do you find him?
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: Now?
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Let him much.
• 34:28
  Speaker 15: He had a thirty eight in his drawer, six bullets
• 34:30
  Speaker 15: in it and a little dog.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this key.
• 34:33
  Speaker 15: I guess it's the key to Polly's apartment. It's got
• 34:35
  Speaker 15: her number stamp on it.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Another good guess would be that some of the Landers
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: didn't do.
• 34:39
  Speaker 15: This fair enough, But he wasn't killed the way Landers
• 34:42
  Speaker 15: was either.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Might be a good idea to check the chambers on
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: that thirty eight. He might have fired it and slipped
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: in a new shell.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, anything else on your mind?
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, a key to Polly's apartment? Could I buy that
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: for an hour?
• 34:54
  Speaker 7: Sure? Here?
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe I better give me a skeleton key too, that's
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: for good measure.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Okay, what do you look at?
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: And the faintest side there? Just a hunch? Cary later?
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: Okay, Nick, what did you find in there?
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Dead man?
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: Is that all?
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Isn't that enough?
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: Where are we going now?
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Well? I don't know about you. I'm going to visit
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Polly Burns at.
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: This time of night without a chaperone, Nora.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: This is purely business for me too.
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: Come on, she's not home. Miss Burns keeps late hours,
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: doesn't you. Nick?
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Where'd you get that key from Abrams? It was in
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Phil Burns's pocket.
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: Oh it's good you have an answer for that.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Go on in be quiet.
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: Here's a light switch, you turn it on. What do
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: you expect to find in here?
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know?
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: Well, how do I know what to look for?
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Don't look for anything over there and sit down.
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: I suppose she comes in.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: What do we do? Thought, that's a surprise party.
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: Anything in the doors?
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: They give me a chance?
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: What do you suppose people want a hole in the ceiling.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: They don't, some people do.
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: Look up there where up there? See in the corner
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: a little hole in the plastic. What could that mean?
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Well, it might mean that the ceiling's falling down, or
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: it might what watch the numb at this apartment?
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: Three D?
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I who lives in an apartment four D? Let's go
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: upstairs and find out.
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: Here it is four D. This is right over Polly
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: Burne's apartment.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: What's the name on the bell?
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: Uh? Anderson? Say where did you dig up all these keys?
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: We're gonna visit mister Anderson or miss Anderson? It doesn't
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: say which. Anybody home.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Put on the light. Let's see not holding the ceiling downstairs?
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Us right under this corner. I'm like, these floorboards ought
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: to be loose.
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: I get it. Somebody took this apartment so they could
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: see what went on downstairs exactly. Look through the hole, Nikki,
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: what do you see? Well, that's funny. What is it?
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: You can't see anything? It's the hole has been plugged
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: up from the other side. What but how somebody down
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: there now, somebody who knows about this, people whoever it is,
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: plugged it up While we were coming upstairs.
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: Nick, you stay here, No, Niked, maybe the murderer, NICKI wait, got.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: To see what it is.
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: Listen, whoever it is just left. I can hear him
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: going downstairs.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Nick, let him go, all right, better catch him before
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: he gets the street.
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: Nick, wait for me. Well did you see who it was?
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: He went through that door at the end of the
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: hall that must go to the Wait here and don't move.
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: Nick, be careful. It's black as pitch down there, right
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: black Dolly?
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Would you like to come on upstairs? Don't I have
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: to come and get you? All right? How about your way?
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Come on? I can see you over there.
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: Come on, Nick, Nick, are you all right?
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: I'm okay, come on now.
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: I can't see if he didn't get you.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, but I didn't get him either.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: You got I'll throw a window over there.
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: Oh Dolly, I'm so scared. Where are you? Oh? Put
• 38:54
  Speaker 7: your arms round me, though. Are you sure you're all right? Oh?
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: Nikki, you're bleeding?
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? I'm not bleeding?
• 39:02
  Speaker 7: Nay?
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Where are you?
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: I'm here?
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Then? Who's this man over here?
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: You had just heard act After the Thin Men with
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: William Paul and Rna Loy. During this brief intermission before
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: mister DeMille presents Act three. We bring you another story
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: about Mary. She's washing dishes. Oh boy, is she mad?
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: I say, look at her hands. They're all red, of course.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Here let's see your soap. Mary. Oh, it's harsh and soap.
• 39:56
  Speaker 7: That's harsh.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Pecks away at your hands, no wonder, they're red and rough.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Here's a friendly tip. Try new quick Lucks. It's so
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: kind to your hands, so mild, so pure. I want
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: you to hear about our one hand test of five
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: dish washing soaps, including Lucks. Now here's the story in
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: the words of one of the women who took the test.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: It is you, Rennie of New York.
• 40:23
  Speaker 10: She says, for twenty minutes, three times a day, that's
• 40:27
  Speaker 10: just about the time I spend doing my own dishes.
• 40:30
  Speaker 10: I dipped one hand in Luck SuDS and the other
• 40:33
  Speaker 10: in SuDS from another soap.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Missus Rennie took that test for several weeks under conditions
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: similar to home dish washing. She goes on to say, at.
• 40:41
  Speaker 10: The end of the test, my Luck's hand was still
• 40:44
  Speaker 10: nice and smooth, while the other hand was.
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: Coarse and red.
• 40:48
  Speaker 10: I hadn't realized there was such a difference in dish
• 40:50
  Speaker 10: washing soaps. I'll never use anything but Lucks.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Hundreds of women took that one hand test with similar results.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: It proved Lucks kindest to hands. Try it yourself and
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: see Ask for the generous large box of New Quick
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Lucks tomorrow and use it for dishes every day. It's
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: so thrifty, even in hard water. It gives more suns
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: ounce for ounce than any of ten other leading soaps tested.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: It's fast too, yet it costs you no more. Remember
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: New Quick Lucks in the same familiar box. We pause
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: now for station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: The curtain rises and Act three of after the thin man.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: In the thick blackness of the cellar, Nora has bumped
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: into a man she thought was Nick. Now she discovers
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: her mistake, and Nick rushes to her side with quick,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: tense fingers. He strikes a match. There in the wavering light,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: a man stands dropped against the wall. As they stare
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: at his gleaming white face, he slumps to the floor
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: at their feet. Nick, all right, take it easy.
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: What's the matter with him? Is he?
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Is he dead shot?
• 42:31
  Speaker 7: When? When was he? I've seen that man before you
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: know him? Who is he? Light? Another match? Quick?
• 42:40
  Speaker 15: Well?
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: Of course I know. His name is Pedro Domingus. He
• 42:44
  Speaker 7: used to be my father's gardener about six years ago.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Your father's gardener.
• 42:49
  Speaker 16: Wow, that does a lot of good. Come on, we
• 42:52
  Speaker 16: better call Abrams. What'd you find out, Lieutenant?
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: Was that right about his name?
• 43:03
  Speaker 15: Yes, you want Missus Chiles Pedro Domingus, But he wasn't
• 43:06
  Speaker 15: a gardener anymore. He was janitor of this building. Probably
• 43:09
  Speaker 15: shot about five hours before you father.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: But he's a very funny thing. Go ahead, we can
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: stand alive right now.
• 43:15
  Speaker 15: The telephone company tells us that at about eleven thirty
• 43:18
  Speaker 15: last night, that it'd be just before he was shot.
• 43:21
  Speaker 15: Someone here called up information and asked for Nick Charles's.
• 43:23
  Speaker 7: Number, our number. What would Pedro Domingus be calling Nick for?
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know, are you Nick?
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine. I haven't even heard his name for
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: six years.
• 43:32
  Speaker 15: Did you remember him when he saw his face? Now
• 43:34
  Speaker 15: that's funny seeing he used to be Missus Chiles's gardener.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Who remembers the gardener unless he squirts the hose at you?
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Did you recognize him right away?
• 43:43
  Speaker 7: Missus Charles? I had to look twice. He's a lot
• 43:45
  Speaker 7: grayer than he used to be.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: By the way, what do you find out about the
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: person in the apartment over polly Burns?
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Not a thing, not a fingerprint in the place, not
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: a stitch of clothes. Only a hunkle lead pipe.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: And a ladder, he said, lead pipe and a ladder.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: That's interesting anything in Pato's books.
• 44:01
  Speaker 15: Now, Just that someone named Dan Lierson took the apartment
• 44:04
  Speaker 15: a week ago.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Pay cash in advance. That's all, that's all.
• 44:07
  Speaker 15: And the name is Anderson, no front name, no mister
• 44:11
  Speaker 15: missus or miss.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: That's just dandy.
• 44:14
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: I've had a feeling that if we could just find
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: out who took that room, we might have our murderer.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Well what do you think we ought to do?
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Get them all together in the Anderson apartment. Everyone that's
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: mixed up in this. Let's shake them all up and
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: see what happens.
• 44:27
  Speaker 7: Yer on, are you going to take the murderer tonight?
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: We're going to try.
• 44:32
  Speaker 7: How are you going to do it? Nikki?
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: I have the slightest tie there. I'm just going to listen,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: pray that somebody makes a slip, just one slip, you
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: got it?
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Get them all here, all set and waiting. Nick picked
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: up Dancer and lump Key at the light. Chief probably
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: was with them.
• 44:57
  Speaker 15: Then there's that David Grahame guy and your wife's cousin
• 45:00
  Speaker 15: sell my lands anyone else?
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a fat day they call it Catlin. I've brought
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: him along for luck.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Swell. Oh, say, before you go in, I checked Phil
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Pin's apartment.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Dances, finger prints, we're.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: All over the joint dancers. You sure sure? I'm sure
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: you haven't told him, have you not yet? All right,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: don't watch your plan, Nick, build up a case against
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: each other. Throw all we've got at them, and throw
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: it hard enough to bounce. I'll make it bounce, all right,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: and keep them talking, Nick.
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: Come on, the party is getting dark coming.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: See shut that door please, it's enough. Sure, ladies and gentlemen.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: I asked you all down here because we've just found
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: that another murder has been committed. He's a man. I
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: think you all know Pedro Domingez Pedro killed. Yes, what
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: do you know about it, Polly nothing?
• 45:54
  Speaker 7: I only saw him a couple of times when I
• 45:55
  Speaker 7: went down to pay my rent.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: What about you dancing? You're in and out of this apartment.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: You must have known him, sure I know him. So
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: what you lumkey, I'd about Finger's house before you.
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: Knew him Selma? I, well, no, I don't think I
• 46:09
  Speaker 7: remember Selma. He was our gardener six years ago. Oh, David,
• 46:13
  Speaker 7: you remember Pedro Domingus.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, vaguely, a man with long white mustaches. What did
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: you know about him, mister Graham. Nothing, that was six
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: years ago. I haven't seen him since, Nicholas.
• 46:22
  Speaker 7: I can't see what possible connection this can have with us.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: It's very simple, and Catherine, you see, Pedro and Robert
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: were both shot with the same gun. There was some
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: monkey business going on we want to find out about it.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Seems that one week ago Pedro rendered an apartment to
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: someone calling himself or herself Anderson. Did you ever see
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: this Anderson?
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  Speaker 7: Polly?
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: No, did you ever hear anyone in the apartment just
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: over you?
• 46:50
  Speaker 7: No?
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: I thought not. Miss Anderson intended to climb down into
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: your apartment one night with the aid of a ladder
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: and Polly show off Robert with this lead pipe. Then
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: he was going to climb up to his place again
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: and leave you holding the bag for Robert's murder. Now
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: do you know anyone who would be interested enoughing you
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: to do that. Why no, your dancer's girl, aren't you?
• 47:11
  Speaker 7: I worked for it.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: That's not what he is.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Well, did Dancer know that you were going away with Robert?
• 47:15
  Speaker 7: Why come on, come on, you told us before, you
• 47:17
  Speaker 7: said you'd keep that a secret. I'll never trust a
• 47:20
  Speaker 7: cop again.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: You made a dicker with the police. Okay, Polly, but
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: that letter starts a lot on my lockey, Nick. No
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: one did come down that letter, and Landers wasn't killed
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: in her place. The only reason the murderer didn't kill
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: him that way was because he was found out. Pedro
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: came in yesterday to clean up Anderson's apartment and discover
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: the loose boards on the floor. He didn't like the
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: looks of things, so he put a new lock on
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: the door. When Anderson came in, he found he was
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: locked out. He heard Pedro telephoning me, and he killed him.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: So what So who is Anderson?
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: Oh bight?
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Who Polly Phill had a key to your apartment and
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Dancer had one?
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Who else? He's trying to hang this murder up on
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: us to protect his own family.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: That's Helmer Dane.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: She knocked her husband off. Everybody knows that I didn't,
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: and then you got your boyfriend David to throw away
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: the gun. That's a lie, ah, just the minute, pleads,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Look Dan, sir, let's come clean. You and Polly and
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: lum Key were out to shake Robert Landers down for
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: twenty five grand?
• 48:17
  Speaker 15: Right?
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Oh sure? Then I suppose I knock him off and
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: stir up all this fuss before I get to Dole.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: What kind of a stumble bumb does that make me
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: out to be?
• 48:26
  Speaker 15: You're a kind of a stumble bomb that left your
• 48:27
  Speaker 15: finger prints all over the room when you kill Phil.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Burn still Phil's dead? Yes, strangle, Well I didn't do it.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Why did you go to his place? Because I thought
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: he'd gummed up my game? I figured he'd try to
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: stick up Lands and had.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: To kill him.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: So I pushed him around a little to learn the manners.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: And when I left him he had a split lip
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: and a couple of dents in him. But he was
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: just as much yourlive as you are, if that means anything. Polly,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: who knew Fill was your husband? You were married? Weren't
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: you so filled with your husband?
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: As if you didn't not?
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: I never know her now, but I shy had Polly,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: didn't you ever tell anyone that you were married, Polly. No,
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: would Phil have told?
• 49:05
  Speaker 7: No?
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Did you and Phil talk about it?
• 49:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah, one night last week, but no one could have heard.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: We were alone, down in my room alone. Don't forget
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Anderson could hear everything that went on in your room,
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Hew Tenant. When was Phil Burns killed?
• 49:18
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: About two, near as we can figure, at.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Three point thirty. Anderson threw this note in at my window.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: He was meaning to use some of the information he
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: gathered while he was up here. Dancer, how do he
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: felt a peaker? None of your business. This note is
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: a poor attempt at a literacy. The easy words is
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: felt wrong, and the tough one's right like to see it. Plumkey.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: It was meant just to steer me down the Phil's
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: place to find his body and your fingerprints, Dancer. Someone's
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: framing you, Dancer. Yeah, you say you don't know this
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Pedro Lumky. No, Well, I've got a picture of him
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: right here. This picture was taken about six years ago.
• 49:56
  Speaker 7: When Nick, what is it?
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Nothing except except that all this time I've been waiting
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: for someone to make a slip, and someone has made it.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Who We've been wrong? This wasn't a killing for money.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: It was a murder of hatred, revenge, folly. What did
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Phil go to the fen for blackmail? Blackmail? David? When
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: were you supposed to give her up At the money
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: to go away this morning in cash? Yes? But when
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: he decided to go last night you had to give
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: him bonds.
• 50:35
  Speaker 14: Yes?
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: Where were you going to get cash on New Year's Day?
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: A bank holiday? It's funny I forgot about that. No,
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: you didn't, David. You never meant to give rob At
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: that money. You didn't want him to go away. You
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: wanted to kill him. You were going to get even
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: with him for taking Selim away from him. Nor is
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: he fooling? Sure? And you were fooling when you said
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: you hadn't seen Paidroar for six years. You said Pedro
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: had long white mustaches. Well he's got long white mustaches now,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: But look at this picture there he is six years ago.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: His mustache was neither white nor long. You didn't notice
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: him six years ago any more than I did. You
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: remember him as he was last night when you shot him,
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: You kill him, and then you killed Robert. Phil saw
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: you do it. He was going to blackmail you, so
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: you have to kill him too, And then you threw
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: that note in my window hope he could put me
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: off your trail.
• 51:30
  Speaker 11: David, don't let him say these terrible things.
• 51:32
  Speaker 7: Tell him it isn't true.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Ask him why he threw away your gun, Selma. He
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: knew it hadn't been fired. He knew you only had
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: to show it to pull your reticence get he threw
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: it away. Ask him why he.
• 51:40
  Speaker 11: Did that, David, why don't you speak?
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: Wasn't it because you hated her as much as Robert?
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: Wasn't because you wanted to get even with her too.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Wasn't it because you wanted to see her hang for
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Robert's murder? David got the truth, not David. You don't
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: have to pretend anymore. That is the truth. I've hated you,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Selma and Robert ever since you threw me up before him.
• 52:01
  Speaker 15: I've been watching, waiting for the time when I could
• 52:03
  Speaker 15: get even with you for having ruled my life.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: I did kill Robert, but not the way I wanted to.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: It was too easy, too quick.
• 52:11
  Speaker 15: I wanted to see himself of the way he'd made
• 52:12
  Speaker 15: me suffer.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: And you and you, I wanted to see you go
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: gradually madder and madder as the day came when you
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: were going to hang well, I'm not going to see
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: you hang well.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: I'm still going to see you.
• 52:24
  Speaker 15: Diet that gun, don't you, folded boy?
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: I've got six pullots, one for her and one for myself,
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: and the rest for anyone.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: Who tries to stop me.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: Get my.
• 52:36
  Speaker 11: I did him?
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: Okay, Graham, I'll take that gun now.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Nice work, lumb key, Nice.
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: Work, Nick.
• 52:41
  Speaker 7: He saved you, and you sent his brother up.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Oh sure, mister Charles, send him up number one? Did you?
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: I'm not like my brother, I like his girls.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: I'm your friend.
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: All you met you.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Tired darling? Not very where can you believe it? For alone?
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: No reporters, no friends, no surprises.
• 53:09
  Speaker 7: I suppose we really should decide where we're going.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Oh do you care?
• 53:14
  Speaker 7: No? But I haven't any clothes.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: All the better you won't have to pack. All I
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: ain't need in the world is you and the toothbrush. Hey,
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: what's that you're doing?
• 53:25
  Speaker 7: I'm letting something.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: I've gotten very far with it.
• 53:28
  Speaker 7: M Yes, I have there, it's done done.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Why? Hey, that looks like is that a baby sock?
• 53:38
  Speaker 7: M M? And you call yourself a detective?
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Why missus, Charles? We draw the curtain on after the
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: thin men. In a moment, mister de Mill returns with
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: our stars. While we're waiting, let's talk about babies. You know,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: families often speculate on the chances of the stork bringing
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: twins or triplets. Well, here are some figures that may
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: interest you. The chances of having twins is about one
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: in eighty four, of having triplets one in seven thousand,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: five hundred. That makes triplets a pretty rare occurrence. Missus
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: Francis Bardall of Wolebrook, Massachusetts, was one of the mothers
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: who drew the lucky number in nineteen thirty nine, and
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: she's doubly lucky now because she has New Quick Lucks
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: to help her in caring for her three small babies.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: She says, the triplets have.
• 54:53
  Speaker 7: Such sensitive skins.
• 54:54
  Speaker 10: I wouldn't dream of washing their clothes and harsh soaps
• 54:58
  Speaker 10: or rubbing them with cake soap. I just won't take
• 55:00
  Speaker 10: chances on having woolens or diapers getting rough and scratchy.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: She's a wise mother, isn't she.
• 55:07
  Speaker 10: She goes on to say, New Quick Blucks is so
• 55:10
  Speaker 10: mild and gentle. It's the only thing I'd use for
• 55:12
  Speaker 10: the baby's clothes. It's so safe for everything safe in
• 55:16
  Speaker 10: water alone, I can depend on it never to make
• 55:19
  Speaker 10: woolens harsh and scratchy or fade the pretty colors of
• 55:23
  Speaker 10: little dresses and sun sets.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, New Quicklucks is so wonderfully gentle and so easy
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: to use too, so fast in water, as cool as
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: your hand. It dissolves three times as fast as any
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: of ten other leading soaps tested. Ask for the generous
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: big box of New Quick Lucks tomorrow. It comes in
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: the same familiar package and costs you no more. Here's
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: mister de Mill with our stars. As Bill Powell and
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: Manili returned to the microphone. We offer our congratulations to
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: the thin Man on some first fast detective work. Suscil,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: You're seldom wrong, but I'll have to mark that one
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: up against you. However, if it's any consolation, everybody makes
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: the same mistake.
• 56:07
  Speaker 7: Raise yourself for a sharp mister de Mill. Bill is
• 56:09
  Speaker 7: not and never was, the thin Man.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: He isn't he never has been. Mercy Man, I can't
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: we even believe what we see in the movies. Just
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: for the record, the thin Man was murdered in the
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: first Thin Man picture. We haven't seen him.
• 56:22
  Speaker 7: Since, except in the title where he seems amazingly healthful?
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: What's there the name? Draw the picture by any name
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: you like, so long as you and Bill remain as
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: our favorite detectives. What's going to happen next to Norah
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: and Nick?
• 56:35
  Speaker 7: Well, there's another thin man picture plan that we haven't
• 56:38
  Speaker 7: started making it yet.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: It's called the Shadow of the Thin Man, very promising
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: man hunt. I have entire confidence in both of you.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: By the way, Cecil, didn't I hear you say that
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: you're going to do Showboat next week? You certainly did, Bill,
• 56:50
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• 56:51
  Speaker 7: Who's going to be on your cast, mister Demill.
• 56:53
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