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personally, and not Great Detectives of Old Time Radio. Well listener Christy requested
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that we replay the one hour Thinman episode, the first one, which would
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refer back to the Lux Radio Theater presentation of The Thinman. The Thinman was
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written by Dashel Hammett in nineteen thirty three and came to movies theaters in nineteen
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fifty thirty four and was just a phenomenal success. The film won four Academy
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Award nominations, including Best Actor William Powell and best director ws Vandyne and would
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eventually spawn five sequels. This story was produced for the Lux Radio Theater as
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its second episode from Hollywood. Lux Radio Theater actually began in New York City.
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However, of those first eighty two episodes, only one survives to this
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day. So this was the start of a brand new era for LOX.
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And we'll talk more about the movie afterwards, but here now. From June
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the eighth of nineteen thirty six is The Thin Man, Hollywood, California.
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Monday, June eighth, The Nuts Radio Theater, presented from its you home
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on Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California, NUT presents Hollywood such great personalities as
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William Powell, Myrna Lloyd W. Wes Van Dyke, Leader Baron, James
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Demour, Nine Gamble, Porter Hall, and many others will take part in
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this presentation. Since you by the makers of Luck Toilet Soap, the Beauty
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Soap of the Stars appearing before he distinquished Hollywood audience, Mister Powell, Ms.
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Rooy and the cast of eighteen great players presents the play that has broken
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Fox OFFFIC records from coast to coast, The Thin Mass and as producer tonight
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we present the director who did The Thin Man on the screen, together with
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such triumph as Naughty Marietta Vater Horn Rose Marie I Lived My life and compliss
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others smash hit pictures. Mister w Wes van Dyke, Mister van Dyke,
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Hello everybody. Well, it's a great scene at the lux Radio Theater tonight.
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In our audience we have Betty Davis, Jimmy Mudieald Gleeson, Bob Armstrong,
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Oley Olsen of Poulson and Johnson Stu Erwin, Jimmy Starr, famous communist
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devil indentible and Missus Leon Slashing Schlessing and jer Maybe it would interest you on
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a little inside information on the show we're doing tonight, The Thin Man,
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and about William Powell and Myrna Lloyd who are going to do it for you.
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As you know, The Thin Man was the best selling novel by Nashal
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Hammer Hunt Stromberg. Out at the studio. MGM got a hold of it
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and brought it to me. Who do he said, if he'll make this
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picture out by the story. Well, I read it, and well it
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was a good enough mystery story. There was something else about the book that
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struck me here was something new and fresh, charming, a romance between a
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man and his wife. It's a story of a couple of kids that understood
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each other and had a blessed confidence in each other. Beneath all the casualness
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and all the wise cracking, there is a lovely, wholesome relationship, something
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really deep and sweet and inspiring. Well, we decided to make the picture
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Albert Hackett, the Princess Goodrich Walt to swell script. William Powell and Marna
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Ley played the parts, and how they played them beautifully because Powell was just
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Paul and Lay was just Lay, both of them wise cracking all the time
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and plowning right through the picture. I suppose you know the plenty of motion
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pictures take from two months to a year to shoot. We did The Thin
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Man in sixteen days, retakes and all. Of course it wasn't a pretentious
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picture. We didn't make it as one. I hate ethics, but it
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is evident that people liked it. It has been very interesting to study out
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how they can tell this story on the radio. Hill and Murna have had
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a lot of fun getting it ready for you, just as they did making
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the picture, and from the original story from the original motion picture cast.
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We had and are porcement having Minegambo Porta Hall, William Henry and Thomas Jackson
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hit So here we go with William Powell and Nick Charles and Myrna Lly as
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Norah in The Thin Man. Here they come Bill Powell and Marta Lloyd.
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We're in a fashionable cafe Momart, New York City. It's Christmas Eve and
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the well appointed dining room is filling rapide. From the bar comes a good
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looking young fellow of about thirty five, tall, casual and worldly wives.
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He's Nick Charles, the well known private detective played by William Powell, and
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he's waiting for his charming wife, Norah played by Marta Lloyd. As he
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takes his place at the table, a young girl on the other side of
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the room recognizes him and hurries over, I mean you and you mister Nick
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Charles. The detective cryan, yeah, I'm Nick Charles. I thought I
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recognize you. My name is Josh. Yes, how you do you mind
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if I sit down from but I expect my wife a few minutes. You
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don't mind explaining your presence of her? Of course? That's nice fiancee over
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there to the other table. Oh well, that makes everything all right,
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doesn't make it down? Thank you. Your name is uh Dorothy Wan.
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I'm Clyde Wan. Oh has courts. Your father was having some trouble about
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one of his inventions a few years ago. I haven't taste for her.
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I know. That's that's why I want to speak to you now. Oh
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well, I'm not practicing him more. Miss Why I you see, I
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retire? I need you. That seems to be the trouble. It's dead.
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If you went away about three months ago and I haven't heard from him,
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not a word, I'm worriing six. Oh, I wouldn't have vide
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with you, after all, he's in November. He gets an idea he
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wants to work on. It's only not trouble. He could hide away somewhere
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he's gonna before, yes, but never for three months. Did you see
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him before I left? No, mister McCauley was the only one you spoke
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to. Well, McCauley and Julia Woolf she's dead, secretary Julia Wolf I
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really met there. And mccaullie is your father's lawyers yea, his lawyer and
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his secretary of both speaking him before, he believes, but no one knows
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where he was. He wouldn't tell me. What about your mother, He
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wouldn't tell her. Rather, no, mother and dad aren't. They haven't
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seen each other for some time. I see, well, I don't know
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just what I can do for you. Why don't you speak to a callie.
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Maybe he heard from your father and forgot to let you know. Oh
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well, i'll call him now, it turns out. But of course i'll
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be back in a few minutes. I'll be here, Adam. You can't
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bring that dog in here. Dog joined aloud. I'm sorry, I'll be
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here. Asked that I stick him here? Boy? Yeah, down,
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boy, your dog? We allowed everyone. Oh here you are, asked
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quiet after Norah, I hear you brought the dog. I didn't bring him.
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He brought me the door man's madam. I'm afraid you have to take
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the dog outside. It's all right, Joe. It's my dog and my
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wife. You might have mentioned me for mister child. Are you sure that
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is? Of course, I'm sure he's well trained. He'll behave himself and
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nobody might bite him. No, no, only me, Joe. He
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only bites me. Yes, he's talking about what he go yet, Joe,
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I'll be respond before any well, sir, if you say, are
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you all? My dear? See what an influential husband is? Drift?
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You do stand in the door? Man? Oh? Yes, may I
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introduce my fiance and he reads? How do you do? How do you
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do? So? Any luck? Yes, he's just around the corner.
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Your father. No, no, mister mccon, we're going to see now
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all fine? Fine, yes, my dear? Oh, I beg your
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pardon missus. Whine mister reed? My wife? How do you do?
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How do you do? I'm sorry we have to rite. You'll excuse it,
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mister child, of course a weird the normative for a couple of weeks.
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Why don't you drop around? Yay? We will, good time?
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Right the wife? Good? Good? Putting up you like blonde? You
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got tip? Only you darling lanky brunettes with wicked jars? Who is she?
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Doth Wine, daughter of Clyde wineyt. I work on a case her
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father, so I'm not wanting to kill him, jarman. What's the matter
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now? Why has disappeared? That's afraid something happened to him? Has anything
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happened to him? My darling wife? Funny though, that secretary of his
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auto knows something sture usually do. Who is she? Who? My girl?
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Julia? I always expected she had some kind of hole on winey,
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That's why he kept her on. Maybe you ought to give her a ring
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before, Oh, just to say hello? Maybe Nicholas hmmm, no,
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no, no, I've got one. I'll be right there. Oh I
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want to go four old nine six two No Skyler old nine. Hello,
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Yes, you were speaking? Who oh oh hello, mister Charles. Yes,
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what what did you wanted to do? Oh? Oh no, I
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don't He didn't tell me, not a word. I'm sorry, that's all
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right, goodbye? Really hell, it was dead, Nick Charles. He
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wanted to know where Winan was. Oh yeah, why he didn't say?
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Did anyone see whine that come here that night? The night you and him
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had the scrap? I don't know. Oh no, well, I guess
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a screen. Where are you going or taking a little stool? That's all?
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Nick Charles is gonna pop up around here. I want to be far
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away when he does. Don't be a fool. He was a sister.
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I got a recognize it, and to come face to face with no dick
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cut down. You need money, don't you yeah, what about it?
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You got some plenty? I'm one and secretary? Oh yeah, what do
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you mean by that? Wouldn't you like to know your friends? Here?
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Said all right? He still didn't tell me what you really want to say?
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Nothing? She didn't know where he was. That's all finished finished,
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Let's get out, grab it down your back, fell where's my first?
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Come on? As us? Cap Hello? Hello, has to be quiet
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toping? Hello? Hello? Yes, who is it? Oh? Yes,
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I said, thank you? Oh Nick If mister McCauley, he's on
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his way up. Call, what would he want? He wanted? Lawyer,
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have you got news? Well you are? Say you're worrying an awful
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lot about this business? Forget it. I'll open up him missus. Hello
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mccaully, Hello, Joe, Well, how are you fine? Son O?
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Thanks? Dorothy told me you were here. I just deliver coming to
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see her, of course, Charles, what's me me up to? Ami?
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Oh? Docter and his mother. She has to be up to something
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that she usually is trying one way another to get money out of wine it.
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I wanted to find out if you were sluting for I haven't been a
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defect her four years. You don't say my wife's father died and left the
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lumbermil on Marrigate's railroad, and who couple of other things. I'm looking after
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them. What's all fuss about winding and hiding? You know as much about
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it as I do. I haven't seen him in three months. He sends
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word through Judy Wolf when he wants money, he give it to her and
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gives it to him mine. Hello, Oh just a moment, it's un
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McCallum, your author. Hello, what he is? Oh? Where is
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he? Very well? Well, he's back in town. Yes, thanks
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Kevin. He's waiting for me in a well. I've got to rush.
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I'll tell you it's no Joe working for a man like that. I'll give
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ye mister child, give my child paw. Merry Christmas. Say to you
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eleven thirty almost Christmas, darling? Is that the hamps? You can drop
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it? You get your present a breakfast not a minute before? See.
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Do you know, Nick? I've been thinking it's funny the way violonce popped
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up all of a sudden. Yes, do you think there's anything behind it
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should be? Oh? No, Jackman is being funny, that's all.
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You're nearer than I am, Darling. Hello, freaking oh, hello there,
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Bob, when, Oh, how did you John John? Who is
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it? Julia Wolf has justin murdered. You are listening to William poul and
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Marna Lawyer and the story of the Thin Man on the Stage and the lux
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Radio Theater in Hollywood Boulevard. Before we go on with the story of Nick
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and Nora, we want to take you on a quick tour of Hollywood Lobby,
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of the Hotel Roosevelt, where stars and newcomers gather. A young actress
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just breaking into pictures is telling her friend the first success. Well, there's
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one thing. I've got one of the best managers in Hollywood, and that
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means a lock. Oh, but the rules is laid down for me.
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Geez, what do you mean rule? Well, you'd think I was going
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into training for the Olympics. I've got them five pounds. I've got to
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take lessons in singing and dictions, and of course my complexion has got to
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be perfect. I've got to be more careful than ever, enough to get
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little blemishes or in large pores and what they call cosmetic skin. Thank goodness,
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I know enough to use Luck's toilet so regularly the way everybody around here
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does. Nine out of ten beautiful Hollywood screen stars use Luck toilet soap and
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howl for years. Here's what the famous Claude at Colbert had to say.
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When I tell people how simple my complexion care is, they always seem surprised.
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I use cosmetics, of course, but I always use luck toilet soap
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to guard against cosmetic skin. It's easy to keep skin lovely my way.
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Now on with the shoulder, thin man. Why an hour has gone by
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since Nick heard about the murder of Julia Wolf. In the living room of
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their sweetest hotel, Nick and Nora listening to the radio, a news reporter
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is broadcasting the latest developments of the case. And here's the latest news of
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the Julia Wolf matter. The police have found out that the beautiful bond secretary
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with the gangster, this girl there spreading the drag net for one Joe Morelli,
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is at to be hiding out somewhere in the city in Paris today.
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The chamber of Deputy never mind the chamber of Deputy Joe Morelli, that's what
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I want to know about. Well, did you get any more information out
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of the headquarters as much as they had? Judy Wolf was shot to kill
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about nine or nine to thirty body discovered on the four of a living room
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and it leave for eleven who discovered it. That'll surprise you. Memi Whineman,
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Jos's mother. Right? What was she doing here? I don't know
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where's cride Wine listening? But McCauley was going to see him. They had
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an a point. I spoke to McCauley. Why I never showed up?
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Nobody knows who he is. He's going to be pretty tough on Darth here,
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isn't it? What mean that? It looked as if Clyde one and
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shipped one appointment in order to keep another with Julia Wolf? You think he
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killed him? She was a detective around here, darlings, that's goad.
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You wanted to see me? Yeah? I mean thank you? Is anyone
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here but Norah? Have a see hello, Darcy. I'm I'm sorry for
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breaking in on you like this old That's all right, We're used to it.
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Anything wrong. Julia Wolf is dead. We know that. Here's the
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gun she was shot with. What are you trying to tell me that you
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didn't? Yes? I hated her. She she kept me from seeing my
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father. I went down there to ask her what it was she wouldn't tell
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me. I shut her. Where did you hit her? Pretty good shot?
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You are? What did she do? She's so down? Did she
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make any sound? Didn't screen? I don't know which way did she fall?
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Oh? Yeah, people fall toward a shot, you know, not
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back from it. I knew you were lying. Where did you get this
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gig? I bought it in I thought, So why did you say you
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did it? You try to shoot? Oh? Please know that. You
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got to tell me, Nick, let me Dorothy, look at me.
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Nick is trying to help you. Why don't you help him? You were
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trying to shield your mother, weren't you. No, your father did Dorothy,
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Yes, my father. Why do you think he did it? It
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was the first one find Julia wolf She saw something in Julian and she took
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it. What was it? A watch change? It belonged to my father.
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So you think your father did it? I don't know. I don't
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know. Did your mother turn the chain over to the police. No,
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she she kept. She didn't tell him anything about it, but she showed
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it to you. Yes. Why did your mother go to Julia Wolfe's apartment
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in the first place? She went to us for money? Oh? Money
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again? H yeah? Oh, have him come up? Who is it,
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Dorothy? I wonder if you'd mind waiting in the bedroom, of course,
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be only a minute. Well Nick, Mimi, whyman alone? She's
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never alone? Part of these brothers with a screwy college kid and some guy
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for the name of Chris Jorgenson. Who is he? Calley told me about
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here. I'm an hanger on time. I think he's off for me.
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He's dough, but she maybe that's why she wanted to get some from Junior.
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I'll figure. Oh, Nick, how old are you? Thank you?
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Nick? Is my son? Gilbert? Are you very well? Thank
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you? I mean to christ Jorgenson? He's no friend of mine, my
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wife Linus, Gilbert Linus and mister Jorgans. How do you do well?
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Mimi? I've never been in such a state in my life. You know,
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of course, that I was the one who found Juliu bull so we've
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heard. Oh my dear, it was terrible. I walked him there,
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she was lying dead on the floor. Meant to ask you mother, much
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blood? Gilbert jump me so morbid, But I'm interested and murdered, you
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know, mister Charles, I formed a theory about this when already so in
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my opinion the man who did it? But be quiet. You don't know
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anything about it, But do be quiet, you were saying, Missus Varnan
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about finding Juliu Wulf. I was s tetrified and such a misblif slide minus
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Craton. Absolutely crazy to stay away a time like this though. What do
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the police think he had something to do with it? What do you think?
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Oh? I know he didn't, but I wish I could find him.
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I have something very important to tell Himcaull. It won't help at all.
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He thinks I just want the money. Well, don't you, Nick?
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You're always easy. Missus Varlan. Were you alone when you found Julie
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wolf Why a goose? I was mister Jorbinson with you? I certainly enough.
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I don't know anything about it. That's what I had that Julia Wolfe
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was dead with the Missus Wyman called mit my club? Oh she called you?
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Yes? Why I beg your pardon? Oh, let's not even talk
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about it. The thing to do is to time Clyde, and that's why
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I've come to you for Nick. You will help me find him, won't
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you? Please? Now, Mimi, there are a thousand detectives in New
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York Hire one of them. But Clyde knows you. All you have to
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do is to get in touch with him and tell him that Mimi says everything
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is all right, but that I got to see him. I'll tell you
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again, I don't want any part of it. Is that final final.
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Well, if that's the way you feel, you turn up. You just
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help all you can give a police every possible assistance. What you mean by
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that, Oh, nothing in particular. Oh well, we'll say good night.
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Good I'm sorry I can't help you, mimmy. Oh hello, is
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this the Normandy Hotel? I want to speak to mister Charles. Yeah,
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Nick Charles. Hello, mister Charles. Say, I'm sorry I woke you
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up. I bet mister Charles would like to lay a proposition before you.
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It's about the murder of Julia World. Well, what's the difference who I
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am? Well wait a minute, all right, Aue, don't hang up.
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I'll tell you who I am, but you got to keep it under
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your head. I'm al Mannheim. Yeah Mannheim. I listen, I know
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who murder Julia will see. Sure I do, and I'll spill it to
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you for five grand I'll tell you how I know because I was outside of
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her apartment when she was shot, and I saw the one who did it,
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and I'll spill it to you when I could take with a minute.
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Hey, I can't talk now. I'll call you again. Hello, Hello,
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Hello? Are you still there? Hello? Oh, I don't know,
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I'm crank. I guess you have and you gotta get back to bed
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and get from sleep. Nick, Nick, are you asleep? Yes?
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Good, I want to talk to you. That's Jellia. Don't you think
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you'd like to go back to detection once in a while, just for the
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fun of it. Can't you get to sleep? No, everybody says you
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were a great detective. I'd like to see you work tomorrow. I'll buy
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you a whole lot of detective story. All that poor girl's in an awful
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spot. Nothing I can do to help her. She thinks you can.
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It wouldn't hurt you to find out if you could. Would My guess is
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if Wineant killed Julia and Dorothy knows it and the police will catch him without
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my help. Oh, please put out the life. I'm tired. Oh
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all right? Gone mad at you? Hey? Mm hm, did you
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hear a knock? H shut up? After you want to answer Nick.
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Oh, good lord, Oh, i'd stand dead. I'll do it myself,
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will Yes, I gotta talk to him right away. What about what's
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going on? What's going on? And someone distingue me? That's great.
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I was afraid i'd have to go to sleep. Come in. Yeah,
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how about a chair? There were you? I got your covets, so
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don't move. I need a stick up. I got to talk to you,
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mister Charles. I want you to tell me something, and I want
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you to give it to a straight you get me. Do you mind putting
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that gun down? My wife doesn't care, but I'm a very nervous person.
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Thank you? All right? Shoot, I mean what on your mind?
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You don't need to tell me you're tough. How I heard about you?
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I'm Joe Morelli. I haven't heard about you. I didn't bump up
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Georgia, all right, you didn't. I haven't seen her three much.
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We were all washed up. I wouldn't have any reason to hurt her.
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She was always on the up and up with me. But that dirty little
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rat Nunnheim, well he got sore because she liked me and hated him,
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so he put the finger on me. That's all. Very swell brother,
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only you're cutting your fish in the wrong market. I've had nothing to do
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with it. Now listen, the boys used to say that you are okay,
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that square guy. Now that's why I'm here. What's the law doing
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to me? Did they think I did it? Or was it just something
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miss up in on me? I can tell you find you, but I'm
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I'm not lost. The police that he fairly smart. The boys would love
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to have me come in and ask questions. They'd like it right down to
29:19
the end of the Black Jacks. Now I came to you on the level.
29:23
The boys say you're on the level. Be on the level. I'm
29:25
on the level. If I know anything that I don't know. This is
29:29
your party. The police time, I got you right, I'll show you.
29:37
I got that gun robbing. You'll go across me when I'll take that
29:45
gun. Thanks at. They almost had me get some water, Joe Norah,
29:49
Are you all right, Nona? I'm inspect to give her a Homer
29:52
saying a good place. Inspect that. Who's that woman on the floor?
29:53
My wife? This guy shooting now, he tried to shoot me. I
29:56
saw her on the jaw to get her out of the line of fire because
29:59
they hit it too hard. Oh what got my Nora? All right?
30:02
Darling? Oh, you darn fool. He didn't have to knock me out.
30:07
I knew you'd take him, but I wanted to see you do it.
30:10
She's all right, okay, slattering Take Marelli downstairs? I said,
30:17
how do you people have to pop in? Inspector? We here, This
30:18
is getting to be a sort of a meeting place for the Winning family,
30:22
so we figured we'd stick around in case the old man himself shows up.
30:25
Then we've seen Morelli sneaking, and we decided to come up. And I
30:27
was pretty lucky for you too. Morelli a friend of yours. I never
30:32
saw him before. What does he want of you? I want to tell
30:33
me he didn't kill Julia Wolf? What's that to you? Nothing? What
30:37
did he think it was to you? How's Kim? I don't know.
30:41
I'm asking you, keep on asking. Oh so you're going to keep him
30:45
on? All right, mister Charles. I won't bother you tonight, but
30:48
i'll be in tomorrow morning and I'll have plenty of things to add. Good
30:52
night, Thank you, Inspector Gils. Next time you come, try to
30:56
stay longer. Nick, Wake up it's Christmas. Oh yeah, look,
31:10
here's the telegram for you. Just came open it. Will you probably a
31:15
touch from somebody? Well, Nick, it's from Clyde Wine. Listen,
31:22
do you take charge of investigation on Julior Wolfe murder? Communicate with Herbert McCauley
31:27
cride once where it's from Philadel. Then he didn't do it, did he?
31:32
Nick? I don't know. Communicate with McCaulay. Huh, all right,
31:38
we came up here this morning. What do you think he wants them
31:53
to handle a kate? Well? What are the chances are you doing it?
31:57
Slam? Oh? Please quiet dear. I wish you would, mister
32:02
Charles. Would it help any if I could persuade him to meet you?
32:07
I had word from Wine up myself last night, and he gave me a
32:10
COVID message doing certain newspapers in case I wanted to get in touch with him.
32:14
I wouldn't any harm for them. I'm sure you could clear thisself.
32:17
Why it will only come back? It doesn't look well he's staying away a
32:22
time like this? Yes, Oh oh, just a minute, So you
32:27
missed McCauley Police department, Police department, Hello, well in Allentown. Yes,
32:38
well, when's the next train, right, I'll get that. Well,
32:44
why that's tried to commit suicide? They wanted to be down and identify
32:45
him. Well, I guess this changes the whole story, doesn't it.
32:50
That looks like an admission of guilt. I had such hopes. I thought,
32:54
if you got on this case. Uh well, well it's no use
32:59
thinking about it now. Well I'm sorry. I don't waste so much of
33:01
your time. You will excuse me? Want you of course? Good bye
33:05
bye? Well that's that, smiles you all. This is all gone now.
33:12
I wanted you to find out who did it? Maybe I will go.
33:15
I don't, please he did it? I don't. That's but I'm
33:21
going to find out, old doctor. Why don't we going places? I
33:23
want to speak with Peck the guild, Amanda Man, mister Charles, are
33:37
you working on this case? Mando Man inspect the guild. I'm not,
33:38
but he's interested. I don't mind telling you. I'd rather have you in
33:42
on the right side, you mean, not on the Limon's side. I'd
33:45
rather have your working with us than against it. So it's a fog.
33:49
And then do you know about the case. I read the papers? What
33:52
about the suicide. Oh, that's a phony. The men didn't even have
33:54
to go down. I thought it might be From now on, are you
33:58
going to think of every fin of man over six feet with white hair?
34:00
Is winey? Do you think Wynett did it? Looks like he planned something
34:05
and he shut up his apartment in his shop, But there's nothing yet to
34:07
clinch it. Seth, Bill'll get your hundreds. If the wyman didn't do
34:10
it, who's your candidate? I haven't got that far yet. I don't
34:15
think that everything points to Winett. What about the Alibis, they're all okay,
34:19
Missus, Wynant, the boy, Dorothy McCauley, even Marilly. What
34:22
about the Jorgans. Oh, I'll check on that. And I'm afraid this
34:28
is kind of double for you, missus Charles. I'm sitting on the edge
34:31
of my chair. Frankly, I'm stunned. I don't know what to do
34:35
next. What about you, Charles? See? Oh, but I've got
34:40
a hunch. What is it? I got a call last night. I
34:45
thought it with some of crank, but I have changed my mind. Whoever
34:47
it was new something and I've got a feeling out here from him again.
35:00
Hmm, what time is it? Almost ten, still waiting to hear from
35:04
the crank and how hear me that quick? Hello? Yes he is Nick
35:10
Charles, who can't hear you? I gotta can't hear you, that freak
35:17
louder. I can't speak any louder. Ray, this is al Manheim again.
35:25
You know I called you last night? Hey listen, are you still
35:30
interested in that proposition? Yeah? Huh? All right, then, now
35:36
here's the dope and get this straight. The man who killed Julia? What
36:07
this girl? Do you think? Whya killed Julia wolf Amnnheim? Right?
36:10
Why? Two reasons? First off, made me why not came across with
36:15
the watch change he plucked off Julia's body? Well she did? It belonged
36:19
to Clyde Wan. What's the second reason? The pit the bullet that killed
36:22
Nonnheim came from the same gun. That's all right, fuckers, all right,
36:27
it's perfect. Clyde Wynan is guilty of both though its murders. Maybe
36:31
what you'll still get you one hundreds, I say, wine, it's innocent.
36:36
You can say what you want, but I'm spreading a drag net for
36:38
that guy over every town of the United States, and I'll get him too.
36:53
Leaving he pick up playing why man last yearnings? Do you think they'll
37:04
find him? Nick? Not be in New York? Probably is, Oh,
37:07
it's getting me down hunts our dogs to day. But she's broken off
37:13
her engagement. No asked me. She was a little hysterical, something about
37:16
not wanting to ruin her fiance. Is life, daughter of a murderer and
37:21
all that. Well, you made a dog. But do you think you're
37:25
going I'm gonna take out some walk. He's just p walk. We're going
37:30
to fight, Nick? What are you up to? I gotta hunt.
37:35
I'm going down to look at wine and shops. I'm gonna find out why
37:37
it's closed. Well I should he closed? He went away? You want
37:40
to wait? A lots of times when I knew him, but they never
37:42
closed his shop. I canna hunt something up. Me might be hiding there.
37:46
I don't know, but these things you got my good. I got
37:49
to find out Nick sick. I won't have you going down there at this
37:52
hour of the night. He's a crazy man. He might kill you.
37:54
He'll be all right. I got asked her to protect me. All right,
37:59
go on, go on year bye care. But it's a dirty trick
38:01
bringing me all away to New York just to make me a widow. You
38:04
wouldn't be a widow along you, bet, I wouldn't not with all your
38:07
money, you dog. Goodbye, doting Niki, take care of yourself phone
38:12
sure, I will. Don't say it that way, say it this inmented.
38:15
Why be the little woman cares? I don't care. I'm just used
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to you. That's come on our first. Why call me darling please,
38:27
I'll be waiting to hear from you after after if you let anything happen to
38:30
him, you will never wag that pail again. You are listening to the
38:49
Luxe Radio Theaters production of The Thin Man starring William Powell and Manloi with the
38:52
newsic under the direction of Louis Silver's. This is W. S. Vaandyk
38:54
speaking. We have here tonight the man who wrote the great picture Lawyer Man
39:00
or Bill Powell. Here. He's a producer too, but just on the
39:04
writing end. He's done many great pictures Forty Second Street, The Gold Diggers,
39:07
King of Burless, and lots of others, including an original musical,
39:10
Ladies in London, which you'll be seeing soon. And here he is the
39:14
man whose name you'll see on the screen before the picture starts one of Hollywood's
39:17
greatest picture writers, James Seymour Naked. Thanks, Woody. I've been a
39:28
movie writer for ten years. That's the first kind word anybody is said to
39:30
me. Listen to Jim. The average person thinks the movie writers a fellow
39:36
thatsists by himself as a sipewriter hammer, hammers out a lot of dialogue and
39:38
hands it in. Would you like to direct correct that impression? I certainly
39:42
would. Nobody works alone and by himself to make a picture. It's a
39:45
matter of constant cooperation between producer, director, technician, actors and the writers.
39:52
Some of the best story ideas come out of the conferences. Jim,
39:54
how many writers would you say there are on an average picture Monday? Believe
39:58
it or not. I've seen picture is where there were more writers than actors.
40:01
If all the people who contributed to the story got screen credit, would
40:05
look like a page from the telephone directory. You resembles the stage of the
40:08
screen. Jim. Tell the posts how they're different. Well, pictures have
40:13
less talk, but they tell more and less time. Like concentrated foods,
40:16
all the good and none of the waste in the theata. Everything must be
40:21
brought to the audience on the screen, you take your audience wherever the camera
40:24
can go. And here's another important point that comes right back to your Lux
40:29
radio theater. On the stage, the star just enters, but on the
40:34
screen she's introduced with a big close up, a picture of the stars face
40:37
many times larger than life stize. Every time a movie stars complexion is mentioned
40:42
in this Lux radio theater, I think of those close ups. Those stars
40:46
just have to be beautiful, and they found that Lux toilet soap helps them
40:51
look their best. Producers know it too, and that's why it's the official
40:54
soap in all the great studios in Hollywood. Right Woody, right on an
40:59
osium. Thanks is coming over. Thanks for asking me good night, He
41:07
paused for station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. The thin Man
41:20
Nick is on his way to Clydewyne's deserted laboratory in a dark and desolate section
41:23
of the city. His cap veers sharply around the corner and pulls up in
41:27
front of a gloomy, old rickety building. Says sir, are you sure
41:35
this is the place you want to like it? Come on after jump,
41:38
I'll show are you tell us twenty. Oh do you want me to wait?
41:42
No? Never mind? Oh that's good to say. No neighbor would
41:44
have been at two o'clock in the morning. I want to get out of
41:45
here. You are, thanks, so come on after up for you?
41:58
Hello, Norah, what are you doing here? I beat you down.
42:02
I want to go with you next. No, you're not going in that
42:07
place alone. The next settle and I'll get out that skellet and hears yours
42:10
and open that door. I'm here to say, all right, come on,
42:17
nice neighborhood wine and picked up his laboratories. I can almost hear the
42:22
change rattling. Do you believe in girls making? Hell? We are?
42:29
Come in quiet? That's a lot. I've got a flashlight, like,
42:35
after all, that's the shot going on? Which way straight ahead? Can
42:43
get the lay out of the places? Also to me, you can't even
42:47
with the shutters right now? Who's yes? This looks like why that's worth
42:54
table like a slab and the moors there's a cement's fool around. Yeah,
43:01
there's probably a lot of weekos on that table. Come on way to now,
43:05
a little desk, go on, I want to look at it.
43:07
What do you expect time doing? If I knew, and I'm fine,
43:10
I wouldn't be. Yes, there's a loose boar that kid. It sounds
43:19
like somebody who's walking over that way, just your imagination. There's no one
43:22
in here with us? No, what about? Why this workshop? I
43:27
could up? What's that? Fasta aster? Come here? He's scratching on
43:34
the cement around the word table fast time, stop it, stop it?
43:39
Do you know what I said? Fast? Take? Look at him?
43:42
Good after something I've given? Scratched the ground like that one one w he's
43:45
looking for fast pasta. No, that look I like a price you Samantha.
43:55
Listen. It's hollow and when I could find something to dig it up?
44:02
There's an iron bar on the table. I just saw it. Really
44:07
not good? No, I guess not a hole in that cement. We'll
44:14
find out what's under there. I'm scared. Ask how quiet you can keep
44:20
them waiting? Nor after comes here once more? There she goes through the
44:25
cement as to get away from there? Get away? Whoa? What is
44:35
it? What's the asker? Were just gonna inspect a guild here? What's
44:38
on the there? A body that have been there for weeks? Oh?
45:00
I dressed the quit now you report it, you'll get your story of sor
45:01
if I can give it to you. Until then, you've got to leave
45:05
you alone. Come on now, get out. Those reporters are enough to
45:09
drive a guy nuts. Well, you were right, Nick, it was
45:13
about a skeleton rather buried in line. I wonder what Winan had against this
45:17
one. Did you find any clothes? Yeah, but no identification on them,
45:22
just a silver belt bottle with the initial d w R d w R.
45:25
Who is that? I got a good idea that case. You worked
45:29
on the guy who threatened to kill Winan. What was his name? Oh?
45:32
Rosewater? Yeah, Rosewater. He said wine and tried to steal an
45:37
invention, didn't they? Yes, But we figured it with the blackmail,
45:40
just the same wine. It wouldn't mind having him out of the way,
45:43
woulding? And according to the dart, the body's been there at least a
45:45
couple of months. It's just about the time whine it closed the shop right
45:52
If you put the skeleton under the Forestcubia half an hour ago we found the
45:55
bullet he was killed with, and something in the leg bone, an old
46:00
piece of shrapnels trappel Yeah, why shrap moel and the leg bone it's probably
46:06
limp. What do you mean, Oh? Nothing? Well, so long.
46:12
And second, I'm going to pick up my wife, take it home.
46:14
It's been a long night, so give up my best. What is
46:16
right? Where are we going back? The hotel of my tweets? Pack
46:27
our bags like a nice trip somewhere a trip. Oh no, my soul
46:30
woman, I give you three murders and you aren't satisfying. I want you
46:34
to stay inside. Wine, I did find it. What do you mean
46:37
he's done in the shop. There's a big body that is very there.
46:43
Wine. Yeah, but they all said it was rose water. Oh that's
46:46
what they think. What makes you so sure it's wine? And start?
46:50
Several things close? For instance, they were carefully present, they were carefully
46:54
preserved. The body was just carefully destroyed. First to kill him, cut
47:01
of one thing, and all Skellot the look alike. Well, jn't say
47:05
sure, but I remember that wine. I've had some sharp throon in his
47:07
shin. They found it under the protostop. How long have you been dead?
47:12
A couple of months anyway, And he couldn't have committed those other murders,
47:15
Marca, Why don't see Dorothy? No nobody but you. I didn't
47:21
even tell Gill. Why not? I want to lie load like at the
47:24
whole dope. I don't want to go off off cuts. What are you
47:27
going to do. I'm going to get the real murderer. I've got an
47:30
idea. I want to see me taken. Yeah, you got a knife,
47:34
even Ingram, Well, I've gotta lose. I'm going to get a
47:37
pope a dinner. Put everything from Russian cave office, canabat cheese, an
47:40
officer behind the palms. It's a du dragging what is there? And I'm
47:45
going to invite all of the subpect the subsets. They won't come, No,
47:49
they'll come. I'll have Gill issue the invitation. Nick, who's going
47:52
to be there? Everybody? You? Me, Donrothy, Eric Fiance,
47:55
his name Andy right, McCaulay, Mimi, Gilbert, Jeorgis, I'm morell
48:00
Oh what a lovely party leaving everybody? What is the leaning of this,
48:21
the meaning of what we me? Why would we all founded up like common
48:23
criminals and talk to the sit eat me and talk? Will everyone please be
48:28
seated? Not I be here? Andy next to her? Please, Charles
48:32
please very well? Mee me on the other side of Andy and mister Jorgson
48:37
over there please, and they can not at all, mister McCauley. Next,
48:40
of course, why fight where you are? Listen and Gilbert you can
48:47
sit just opposite mama. Mister Joe, I have a will listen to it
48:51
later in second guild. You and your men will stand by the door.
48:54
Please, you're fine now, Nora, if you will sit here by me,
49:00
ngiments of Charles. Now we're all ready to begin. Oh me trying
49:04
to tell you missus lyon, No, I will not. I demand to
49:07
know why we are here, all right, I've got some important nudes I've
49:13
seen, win certainly, I mean it. That's nothing I saw myself,
49:19
yes, meaning when last night he can't get me and my appart? Oh
49:22
did he? What did you say? Okay? Very much? You won't
49:25
know how I was and how the children were. I am afraid you're lying,
49:30
Mimi. You see, I really did see why not last night?
49:34
Are you kidding? Now? Why didn't you tell me? Why don't you
49:36
hold him? Because I found out for certain that he didn't commit the murders?
49:43
Thank you, Raley, you knew Julia. But she dripping winey taking
49:47
go on the fly. Well, she don't say she is but I figure
49:52
she is. Yeah, thank you. No, I'll tell you why.
49:54
I know Whyett didn't commit those murders three months ago. Why not found out
49:59
that Julie was cheating him and was splitting with some man. He went to
50:02
find the man, and he did. That man was desperate. He knew
50:07
that he was caught dead to right, and as setting him in the face,
50:09
he took the only way out. He killed. Oh, I'm terrible
50:15
to tell you this way, dotty, that your father's dead. Dead.
50:19
He's been dead for three months dead. Oh, darling, don't cry.
50:24
It's terrible. Isn't really better than he's better? Take a home, man,
50:32
Come on, let them out of Don't cry, darling. Three How
50:45
can you cried? Be dead? You said yourself to the shot him last
50:47
night? So I did. I saw him lying buried in his shop.
50:51
You mean that buddy was perficly And the murderer's right here in this room tonight.
50:58
He's sitting at this table. But who is it? I don't know,
51:02
but I thought we all had a little get together we might be able
51:06
to find out. I'll tell you as much as I know, this murderer
51:09
is a very clever man. He planned the whole thing beautifully. After he
51:15
killed Wymont, he wired McCauley, using Wymytt's name and holding the shot off
51:19
the shop. Then he took Winy's body and spreded it in the shop with
51:22
another man's clothes to throw us off the fight. He even put a sep
51:27
buckle with an R on it, hoping that we'd think it was Rosewater,
51:30
an old enemy of Winan to drop out of sight years ago. I'm a
51:32
ruddy yeah. Would you mind holding your knife to out the way? You're
51:37
worrying and guilty? That nice miss, and I'll look for you're both.
51:42
I hope you'll look well. After our hero had killed Wymant, he got
51:46
a brilliant idea. He realized that he and Juliet could still collect money.
51:52
Wyatt was supposed to be on a trip no one knew where, so our
51:54
dinner guests wrote letters to McCauley, signing Wynett's name so that McCaul they would
52:00
continue to send the money to Julia. He even telephoned McAuley. Do you
52:04
remember McCauley the first day that you came to see me? He telephoned that
52:07
he was in town. It must have been Winers. I should have known
52:09
if it worded his voice all. He was clever about that. He called
52:13
when you were out. That same afternoon, Julia telephoned him. She said
52:17
that you were coming, Mimi to ask about Winett. He got terrified.
52:22
He was afraid that Julia would break down and tell so he went to Julia
52:27
and killed her and left wymant watch chain in her hand. Maybe makes sense,
52:37
Fuie, please, His plan was still working beautifully. The only hitch
52:43
was a man named Nunheim, who had found out something. Oh wow,
52:47
he wrote from him off two he wrote over just one item. The telegrams,
52:52
wiles and telephones roll very well. But no one had seen Winett.
52:58
So the murderer picked on Paul had to strengthen his case. Mimi is the
53:02
only one at this table who can tell us who the real murder is.
53:06
Hem who was it? Told you to say you've seen wineut nobody told me
53:10
I did see What did he pay you, Mimi to stick to that story?
53:13
Is the story? It's true, I did see Wine and he's not
53:16
sick. You're lying, Memi, But then you do anything for money.
53:20
You're getting a good price for saying. This all lineup I'm not going to
53:22
stay here and be and set this for down. You're getting a good price,
53:25
Mimi. But don't forget this. Two other people who are in with
53:30
him on this deal, Julia and Nunnheim, when he thought they might spill
53:34
something, he bumped them off. You ought to know don well that he's
53:37
not going to take any chances on you. What do you want to do?
53:38
Be mixed on his lips? No, no, so no? Is
53:40
he who paid you that money? McCauley. I think that will hold him,
53:49
boy, boy with a Hey, nice work, mister Charles as your
53:52
man inspector. Mister McCauley, I can't believe it. Boy, you want
53:55
me to do wrap him up and sell a p him, Take him up
53:58
and get him out of here. Come on, boy, Graham, let
54:00
me get ahead of him. I knew you would. Yeah, another KA
54:05
re prize fighter. You're grand, You're glorious. I but you say that
54:09
to all the boys. Well that's that the story of the Thin Man with
54:38
William Powell and Martin Lloyd. I'm going to get them back out of here
54:42
and I'm minute to talk to you. As you know, these broadcasts from
54:45
lux Radio Theater quite an event in Hollywood and among our many friends here tonight
54:47
is one of the greatest stars of the silent pictures. I admired her from
54:51
Afar when she was doing such magnificence typicles as Cleopatra, and I was just
54:55
next to her. Today she is the wife of one of our leading film
54:59
directors in order for many years as the most charming and vicious lady. And
55:02
I want you to meet her now, Miss Fita Barrat, Thank you Woody.
55:15
Our Hollywood entertainment has certainly developed amazingly since I was making pictures. Yes,
55:20
everything's different now, as you and I know, we saw our pictures,
55:22
grew up and started to talk. We had to translate all a meson
55:27
into pant mime. Oh you may think you have trouble today, but do
55:30
you remember the difficulty we had working with a flit screen. We had to
55:35
express jealousy, hate, love or devotion or in pant mimes. And at
55:40
the same time, tooth Paste as a director, guided us with a one,
55:44
two, three four, just as a metroanome God's a pianist. Santamine
55:50
has always been one of the greatest arts. And may I say, miss
55:52
Bara, I've always thought that two were one of the greatest masters i've bet
55:54
artor. Oh, you're very kind, Woody. We worked awfully hard making
55:59
those pictures. For instance, in making clear Passa, we had no research
56:02
department at the studios. I work myself a month with the Purato of Egyptology
56:07
at the Methotolisman Museum in New York. It's great fun, though, and
56:12
a panas very You're going to make some radio appearances, Yes, I am
56:15
Anna. I'm also going to do some motion picture work. No, that's
56:17
good news. I'm considering an author now, running through scripts and ideas.
56:22
Oh. I do hope everyone will be as happy about another pseudo barrel picture
56:27
as I am. The public has been very good to me in the past,
56:30
and I know they'll be awfully glad to see you again. I'm sure
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it'll be a great thrill, and not only seeing you, hearing your voice.
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Thanks miss Berry for joining us tonight. I'm glad. That's it.
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Good night. Hearing Peter Barrett talk of her plans brings to my mind some
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other plans I've heard discussed in Hollywood this week. Picture people are talking about
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Charlie Chaplin's recent statement where he will start working on a new picture very shortly.
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Ms Paul had got it will be started. Chaplain will write and direct,
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but will not act in it. A disappointment to many of us.
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Barbara Standbrick and Robert Taylor is starting a new picture today, and I'm tickled
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to death that I got the job directing. It's called his Brother's Wife.
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Speaking of Bob Taylor, there's a lad who's going places. He's got a
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great future, and sometime in that future he's going to do armand to Greta
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Garbo's Camille. Bill Powell and Marner lay here interested in the making of MGM's
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Picture of Good Earth. Louise Rayner who is with him in the great zig
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Field and formed any of the stars. And now Bill Powell and Marna Lawyer
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are coming out on the stage. Arise, Bill murnad, you did a
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great show. You're ready marvelous? What no rethinks? No? No property
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man? Yeah, Bill, I'll bet you're glad my property man isn't here.
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Remember how I used to watch it with the room mistake, when you
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weren't hurring on the set fast enough. Yes, Harry Harve is a great
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fellow and he's the most in the kind of because the whole picture isn't lesson
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Bill. I thought it was with me in the Artic when we made Estimal.
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He was with me in African jungle when he made trade of horn.
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And after a man is handled crocodile, sharks, pythons and polar bears,
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you've got to expected to be afraid of a mere actor. There's only one
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thing I can understand about that picture, Eskimo Woodie. How did they tell
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you from the polar bears? You wore rubbers? I wore a hat.
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It must be pretty tough, Woody when you have to tell through swamps to
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these tropics in the artist. I suppose when you call up and say you're
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going on location, your wife is, oh, yeah, location, Do
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you want the snow shoes or the stake five Madison. Unfortunately she doesn't say
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that. When I say I'm going on location, she just says, you
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are not inclutly. I thought all about that traveling. I thought all about
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it when the Lot soap people asked me to do this broadcast? Isn't it
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funny? And the Arctic soap is something they like to eat, and the
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topics they use soap for money, And here in Hollywood soap is something that
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keeps the stars beautiful. I can see that keeps learning beautiful, Woody,
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but when are you going to start using their is nice? What I do
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use is that that's no kidding anyway, Thanks for coming up kids, you're
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body ye all. Before I tell you about next week's show, I'm going
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to ask our announcement mister Rick, to tell you about more about the cast
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and about Hollywood studios who are cooperating with us. Our cast of characters tonight,
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Nick William Powell, Norah Murna, Lloyd, Mimi Minegondo McAuley, Porter
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Hall, Dorothy Barbara Luddy, Gilbert William Henry, Chris Jorginson, Brett Morrison,
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Julia Booth, Margaret Briton, Inspector Guild, Thomas Jackson, Morelli,
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Wally Mayer, Nunnheim, Ernie Adams, our director w Wes Van Dyke,
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and our stars William Powell and Myrna Lloyd appeared through courtesy of Metro Golden Mayor
1:00:00
did mister William Henry and Porter Hall through the courtesy of Paramount. The musical
1:00:04
director of this program, mister Lewis Silbers, appeared through the kindness of twentieth
1:00:07
century Fox and now here is your producer, mister w West Van guy.
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Thanks to all of you on the casts. It did a swell job.
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Nice three greatest and gentlemen. The LUTs Radio Theater is going to have a
1:00:19
great show for you. And believe me, l Joson Ruby Keeler are going
1:00:22
to be here to appear in Burless. It was a smash it on Broadway
1:00:25
and then a great moving picture and now it's going to make a Marves radio
1:00:29
vehicle for l Joson Ruby Keeper. I think you'll like it to see so
1:00:47
beat and mill return of the LUs Radio Theater and time him to produce Burless
1:00:52
and you know he'll give you a great show. I've enjoyed being with you
1:00:54
all. And good night. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System, welcome back.
1:02:05
A very solid performance led by Powell and Loy, who were absolutely phenomenal
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together throughout the thin Man series. They had major roles together in thirteen different
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films, eleven of these between nineteen thirty four and forty one. When Mariner
1:02:24
Looy decided to put her acting career on hold for the duration and focus her
1:02:30
career and efforts around the Red Cross. It was a very interesting commentary thought
1:02:37
by Van Dine at the start of the radio play about what he saw as
1:02:45
the heart of the story. And he's using the word wholesome. Is a
1:02:50
fascinating thing to say, particularly if you've seen the movie, because in the
1:02:55
thin Man movie, and this is perhaps the most shockingly different thing about the
1:03:00
radio drama is drinking and drinking two absurd levels was pretty much at the core
1:03:09
of the Finnman's story. It was particularly in the movie. I think there
1:03:15
might have been three or four scenes when the character of Nick Charles wasn't drunk
1:03:19
in the movie. And of course the book as a novel by Nashal Hammett
1:03:23
had even more things going on into it, some weird familial relationships, cruelty
1:03:31
abuse, that sort of thing worked in even had a several page section where
1:03:37
they read a section in a book that described the events of the Donner Party.
1:03:42
For some reason. It's not anything over the top off on the book,
1:03:47
but we were talking today's rating scales, we would probably say that the
1:03:52
book's content was probably about PG thirteen, The movie was about a PG.
1:03:58
And this radio was pretty close to G rated. And having experienced all three
1:04:04
versions, I have to say that I think Van Done was right when it
1:04:10
came to what was the core of the story and what really made it so
1:04:15
interesting so worth watching, and it was the relationship between Nick and Nora,
1:04:20
a solid mystery, and of course the chemistry between the two leads, which
1:04:26
just comes through marvelously here. Now. The radio play also could be seen
1:04:30
as setting the stage for what would come in December of nineteen thirty six,
1:04:35
and that would be after The Thin Man, the very first of the Thin
1:04:40
Man sequels. The film had a great influence. Certainly, there would be
1:04:45
many husband and wife mystery solving teams, and all of them really do owe
1:04:53
something to Nick and Nora. Charles and I will have to say, particularly
1:04:57
mir Nilloy and William Powell. I think is one case where the movie was
1:05:01
definitely better than the book. I think another thing that it did is you
1:05:05
have a lot of comedy mysteries that came out after The Thin Man in the
1:05:11
nineteen thirties and into the early nineteen forties. Even some pieces that would be
1:05:16
better played seriously, or so we would think, ended up being played with
1:05:21
some very comic screwball elements. I think in part because this worked so well
1:05:28
as a mystery comedy with some screwball elements in it. There's a lot of
1:05:31
differences between the book and the movie and the radio show. One that is
1:05:36
a big difference, I think between the radio show and the movie versus the
1:05:43
book is the Denuman where Nick Charles gathers the suspects. That wasn't in the
1:05:48
book, but it certainly makes a riveting scenes in the movies. William Powell
1:05:55
was fantastic. They did these in the first five film and did a great
1:06:01
job on them. And overall this is just a very enjoyable radio program and
1:06:06
film. The entire Thinman series is worth seeing, except maybe for a song
1:06:12
of the Thinman from nineteen forty seven, which was made thirteen years after the
1:06:16
original and was just not a great idea to go ahead and make. But
1:06:20
at any rate, we're glad to bring that to you that will actually do
1:06:26
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