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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Malicious Moor Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Conwa · Sherlock Holmes

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson, what about the adventure of the
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: malicious More.
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: Well, mister Harris. It began in ninety eight at Stratford,
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  Speaker 2: on Ava, birthplace of Shakespeare and historic English shribe, and
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: specifically it began on the stage of the Shakespeare Memorial Theater,
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: from which the Great Bard's plays are annually produced by
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: the most gifted dramatic artists of our time. In this year,
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: the players were rehearsing a Fellow, with the famed actor
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: Rodger Mannering playing the More and his wife Alice portraying Bisdemoto.
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: It was the famous deathbed scene in the fifth act
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  Speaker 2: when the director Albert Forsyth suddenly stop the rehearsal alts
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  Speaker 2: trumpet week thou no, no, no, hold on Mannering.
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  Speaker 3: That's the third time you've forgotten your lines.
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  Speaker 2: What's Ronald?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I just can't seem to concentrate force.
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  Speaker 6: You mean you can't play othellow, my dear husband, Alice,
• 1:00
  Speaker 6: I want you stop criticizing. They call you, Roger Mannering,
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  Speaker 6: the great Shakespearean.
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  Speaker 2: At stop at Alice, stomach you here.
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  Speaker 6: This rehearsal is a mockery. I simply won't go on
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  Speaker 6: playing opposite.
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  Speaker 2: This, this amateur mannering?
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  Speaker 6: How can I play?
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: There's the mono? How can you?
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  Speaker 5: Indeed, your performance, my dear wife, will be nothing to
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  Speaker 5: stir their critics.
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  Speaker 6: Please don't call me my dear white God. I detest
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  Speaker 6: the expression, and I detest you.
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  Speaker 2: You know very well.
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  Speaker 6: I've taken an.
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  Speaker 4: Action for separation, Alice.
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  Speaker 5: Alice, listen, I'm sorry. The idea of you're leaving me
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  Speaker 5: driving me out of my mind. That's why I can't
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  Speaker 5: remember my lines.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 5: I can't live without you, my dear, And that's what
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  Speaker 5: that separation.
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  Speaker 4: Surely you don't mean it, Oh but I do. You can't, Oh,
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  Speaker 4: yes I can.
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  Speaker 6: And as for me, partying is such sweet sorrows. That's
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  Speaker 6: one line out of Shakespeare. You'll remember, my dear Alice.
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  Speaker 3: So now you too. This is no time for a
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  Speaker 3: family quarrel. We've got a rehear to finish, play to
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  Speaker 3: present mannering.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Forsyth, what is it?
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  Speaker 5: Let her go to your.
• 2:04
  Speaker 3: Dressing room and learn your lines. We'll resume this rehearsal
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  Speaker 3: a little later. I mean, oh it's you, Graham. What
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  Speaker 3: is it this time?
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  Speaker 7: Mister Forsyth. If you'd let me try out for the
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  Speaker 7: role of Othellow.
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  Speaker 3: Oh ridiculous, Graham. You must be out of your mind.
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  Speaker 7: Mister Forcyth, I beg of you. Give me a chance.
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  Speaker 7: I rehearsed the role. I know every line. I can
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  Speaker 7: play a fellow as no actor has ever played it.
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  Speaker 3: For the last time, Graham, stop annoying me. I've already
• 2:36
  Speaker 3: given you the part of Rodrigo.
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  Speaker 7: Roderrigo Roderrigo, a secondary role, a few lines, a weak character.
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  Speaker 7: Let me play the more, mister Forsyth, and I'll show
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  Speaker 7: you that I'm the greatest actor in England.
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  Speaker 3: Get out, Graham, but I get out of here. You're
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  Speaker 3: presumptuous fool.
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  Speaker 2: You play a fellow?
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  Speaker 3: Why you couldn't shine Roger Mannering's boots? Now get ready
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  Speaker 3: for rehearsal, and let's have no more nonsense.
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  Speaker 7: So I can't shine Mannering's boots eche, Well, we'll see
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  Speaker 7: about that.
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  Speaker 8: A pity, mister Graham.
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  Speaker 4: A pity.
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  Speaker 7: Oh if you rand the caretaker, Ay.
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  Speaker 8: It's me the caretaker who said many an Othellow done right,
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  Speaker 8: and trapper I heard him tell you up through the
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  Speaker 8: door while I was sleeping at the corridor.
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  Speaker 2: He won't give me a chance. Rand.
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  Speaker 7: Of course, I won't even try me out as a fellow.
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  Speaker 8: And you could do it, Lad, I've heard you speak
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  Speaker 8: the lines, and you could do it.
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  Speaker 4: There's many an.
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  Speaker 8: Actor which hasn't had justice, and many a writer too.
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  Speaker 8: There's stevere in this business like any other.
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  Speaker 7: I'll show them, Rand, I'll show them all somehow, I'll
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  Speaker 7: have my chance to play a fellow.
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  Speaker 6: Alice, Oh, Roger, what are you doing in full makeup
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  Speaker 6: and a black beard at this hour?
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  Speaker 4: Alice?
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  Speaker 5: I want to rehearse our fifthbac scene alone here on
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  Speaker 5: the stake before the others get here.
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  Speaker 6: Isn't that just a little silly?
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  Speaker 4: Please, Alice, let's go through the scene just once. I
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  Speaker 4: want to make sure of my liones. Please very well.
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  Speaker 5: I'll start the scene well into the scene on that
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  Speaker 5: the Iago lion you ready noes Theemona. His mouth has stopped, honestly,
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  Speaker 5: I have taken order fort.
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  Speaker 2: It, Oh my fear, interpret what is he dead?
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  Speaker 4: And all his hair has been lives? My great revenge
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  Speaker 4: and stomach for them all us.
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  Speaker 9: He's betrayed, and I undone strumpet we stow fall into
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  Speaker 9: my face, vanish my lord, but kill me, oh, stramp
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  Speaker 9: kill me tomorrow, let me live tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Nay if you try half now being done, there is
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  Speaker 2: no pause while I say one prayer strump di. I
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  Speaker 2: can't read that. I can't read that. Not dead, not
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  Speaker 2: quite dead? I that am cruel, am your merciful?
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  Speaker 4: I would not have the linger in my pain? Well?
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  Speaker 2: Well, just amna a.
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  Speaker 4: Mister.
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  Speaker 1: I am Sherlock Holmes, and this is doctor Watson, my
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  Speaker 1: confidant colleague.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, mister Holmes, I was informed by the theater board
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  Speaker 3: that you've come to supplement the investigation of the official police.
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  Speaker 1: When you've been misinformed, my dear sir, I take quite
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  Speaker 1: the opposite you.
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  Speaker 2: I should say, sir. The fact is the official police
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  Speaker 2: usually supplement.
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  Speaker 1: Us a home quite But now, mister forsythe let us
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  Speaker 1: get the facts as I understand it. Alice Smaannering and
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  Speaker 1: her husband rehearsed the scene from Othello in private. Later,
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  Speaker 1: when the cast came to the stage, they found Desdemona
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: indeed smothered to death and my husband missing. Is that correct, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: mister Holmes, that is correct. A few moments later, a
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  Speaker 1: man was seen rushing from the theater. He leaped on
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  Speaker 1: a carriage whipped up the horses and escaped.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, the official police are looking for Roger Mannering now,
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  Speaker 3: as well as Hugh Graham, do Graham? Yes, doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 3: Graham was part of our company, but he had ambitions
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  Speaker 3: to play a fellow. He was well somewhat unbalanced on
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  Speaker 3: the subject.
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  Speaker 2: I see the outcome of all this is a greater
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  Speaker 2: tragedy than Shakespeare and Soul they were bargain for.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, quite Watson, quite. But now I should like to
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  Speaker 1: go outside the theater and examine the road.
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  Speaker 2: Well hops. We saw the carriage tracks at the front
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  Speaker 2: entrance of the theater. You yourself said it was the
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  Speaker 2: carriage in which the killer made his escape. Yes, and
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  Speaker 2: why the devil? We examining the drive here near.
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  Speaker 1: The rare entrance, because, my dear fellow, I believe in
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  Speaker 1: an exhaustive methodon a ha are eh. The same carriage
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  Speaker 1: tracks only in multiple prints. That means that the escape
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: vehicle waited here at the rear entrance on numerous occasions.
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  Speaker 1: Would note too, that this is not the stage entrance,
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  Speaker 1: which is on the other side of the building.
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  Speaker 2: What of it holds? You sound as though you'd found
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  Speaker 2: something significant?
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps I have Watson, Perhaps I have suppose we look
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  Speaker 1: for the caretaker.
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  Speaker 2: Now the caretaker, what.
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  Speaker 4: I should like him to.
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  Speaker 1: Show us Roger Mannering's dressing room.
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  Speaker 5: So this is Mannering's dressing room, may ran by mister
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  Speaker 5: arms him that strangled his wife out on stage.
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  Speaker 2: It seems to be in some disarray home.
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  Speaker 4: S Watson.
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  Speaker 1: Note the makeup jars, they're all open, and the grief
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  Speaker 1: chained for they untidily smeared on the dressing table.
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  Speaker 2: Huh what is it?
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  Speaker 1: Host that huge costume trunk in the corner, What about it?
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  Speaker 1: There's a spot of blood on it.
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  Speaker 4: Blood, mister arms Slier then ran, yes, sir, you have
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  Speaker 4: a key to this trunk?
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  Speaker 8: I why no, sir, But mister madam, I always kept
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  Speaker 8: a key on a hook over the mirror.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, yes, here it is. Now what scene supposed we
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  Speaker 4: unlocked this trunk and look within it?
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  Speaker 2: By all means? Who? Good law?
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  Speaker 4: There's a buddy in the trunk, mister arms.
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  Speaker 1: Abots it's yes, friends, I'm missing a pillow. Roger Mannering
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  Speaker 1: shades of William Shakespeare, Doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 2: But this is some adventure, yes, mister Harris, and I
• 8:38
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• 8:42
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  Speaker 1: And our doctor Watson, you were relating to us the
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  Speaker 1: adventure of the malicious Moor.
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: So I was, mister Harris, so I was? The news
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: naturally swept through the theater like wildfire. Meanwhile, Hugh Gray
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  Speaker 2: and the actor was apprehended in the Birmingham Tabor and
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: brought back to the theater. Holmes, however, seemed interested in
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: Manarin's body lying in the truck. The corpse had a
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: knife in its chest and the stripped of a fellow's costume,
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: but Manarin's face was still in maker a grisly swarthy
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  Speaker 2: death masque, and my friend Holmes summed up what an
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: happened in his usual terse fashion to forsythe and myself.
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  Speaker 1: It is quite obvious what is transpired here, gentlemen. A
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: killer came into Roger Mannering's dressing room and made himself
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  Speaker 1: up hastily but expertly. Then, dressing in the dead man's costume,
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  Speaker 1: he impersonated the Moor, played the deathbed scene with Missus
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: Mannering and strangled her.
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  Speaker 4: Then he ran off, leaving them both precisely.
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  Speaker 3: But mister Holmes, who could this focus a fellow be?
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: It's plain foresight that the killer was an actor, and
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  Speaker 1: a very good one too.
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  Speaker 4: And speaking of actors, suppose we have a look at
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  Speaker 4: Hugh Graham.
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  Speaker 1: I understand the police are interrogating him at this very moment.
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  Speaker 3: Well, mister Arms, in my opinion, we've got Graham here
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  Speaker 3: dead to rights.
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  Speaker 7: No, no inspector.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you I didn't do it. I swear to it.
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  Speaker 7: It's true I wanted to play a fellow in Mannering's place,
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  Speaker 7: but I tell you I didn't kill him or Missus.
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: Mannering look at her.
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: Graham, you hurried away from strapperd and Ivan just I'm
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: of these murders. I'd call that a suspicious circumstance.
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  Speaker 2: Now, wouldn't you. I I don't know. I was frustrated.
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  Speaker 7: I left in a half, That's all there is to it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, mister Olmes, we're old and Grahame here on suspicion
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  Speaker 3: of murder.
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: I suppose you want to question the suspect.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: Now, no inspector, I have no desire to interrogate him,
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: no question.
• 12:19
  Speaker 4: That is precisely what I said.
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: But Holmes, what the juice? This isn't at all like you.
• 12:24
  Speaker 4: My dear Watson.
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  Speaker 1: One has only to look at Graham here to ascertain
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  Speaker 1: his participation in these crimes. Suppose we put our time
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: to much better use by talking to Rand the caretaker.
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: Oh hoes, caretaker doesn't seem to be in his office.
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  Speaker 4: Deep in matt case. Watson will wait for him.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: HM, unusual fellow, this man Ran, what do you mean?
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: Seems to be a literary fellow. Not these bookshelves, they
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: are full of volumes, and all by one author. Bacon Bacon,
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: Sir Francis Bacon, the contemporary of Shakespeare.
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: Holmes in view of these ghostly crimes, isn't this interest
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  Speaker 2: of yours in literature somewhat inconsequential?
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  Speaker 1: Certainly not? What's my many point out? Ah the caretaker,
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  Speaker 1: he's coming up to corridor. Oh you know it's Rand elementary, myea,
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  Speaker 1: Watson elementary. The steps are ponderous, heady, Rand is a
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  Speaker 1: big man. Ah, good morning Rand, Oh mister Olmes.
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  Speaker 2: Dr Watson, you do you were out and we thought
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  Speaker 2: we'd wait.
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  Speaker 8: I don't get much time in my office these days,
• 13:30
  Speaker 8: I don't. It's been pretty actic in the theater here.
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  Speaker 8: What would the play opening tomorrow night? And the arrangements
• 13:35
  Speaker 8: and all, and poor mister Firsight is near out of
• 13:38
  Speaker 8: his mind casting in you a fellow and a new
• 13:40
  Speaker 8: gus the morning before the curtain rises.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes quite. But now, Rand, I should like to
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: request the favorite of you. I'm mister Romes, my friend here.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: Dr Watson will be staying the night at the Red
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  Speaker 1: Horse Hotel of the village. However, I must return to
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: London on rather urgent business.
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  Speaker 4: Would you be good enough to arrange for a conveyance
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  Speaker 4: to the next train.
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  Speaker 8: I'm mister Robbs, ask you to a carriage, right away.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you?
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  Speaker 2: What is all this? Why are you going to London?
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: First? Watson?
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  Speaker 1: I shall have a pipe at Baker Street and indulge
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: in a little quiet reading. After that, I believe I
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  Speaker 1: should go to the theater, leaving Watson.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: Well, hose you're back?
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I am indeed caught the afternoon train back to Stratford.
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: And I hope I'm in time, in time, time for what?
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: In time? To prevent a new Shakespearean taggeredy?
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: At what time does Othello open at the Shakespeare Theater tonight?
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: Quarter past it?
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  Speaker 4: Now? Quick, get your hat and come along with me.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: We must cut it at the theater at once, Watson.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: The theater's crowded to night with admirers of Shakespeare. There's
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: not an empty seat left in the face.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: Never minded crowd. Where are we going? Now?
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: The caretaker's office? Again, here we are?
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: It's not here, Hose the office was empty.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: And so are the bookcases.
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  Speaker 1: Nope, but there isn't a volume of Bacon's words left
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  Speaker 1: from the shelves produce.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: Is so strange about that?
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: Wait? You detect a faint acrid odor in this room? Oh?
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: I don't you sure?
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Positive, My dear fellow, My olfactress, since his farmer developed
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: in yours.
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: And I assure you what is it now?
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: On the table here these tiny shavings of strings string
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: precisely string with a characteristic twist or weed. Come on,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: we better hurry, hurry, hurry where outside the theater? Man?
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  Speaker 4: And quickly?
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Oh you know, I'm completely battled by your strange conduct.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: Why the juice will be lurking outside the Memorial theater?
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Here Watson is lu over there the rear entrance.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: He is a man in the shadow, Yes, the caretaker
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  Speaker 1: Rand whose you mean?
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: I do?
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  Speaker 1: Indeed, Watson Rand is the malicious more who murdered both
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: men and his wife. But he's not yet completed his
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Shakespearean tragedy.
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  Speaker 2: He seems to be bending OVERSI now is just lit
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  Speaker 2: a match?
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  Speaker 4: What Watson after him? Hum? Drop that match, Ran, Although
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: you don't.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Look out home, My arm, my arm, before you go.
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  Speaker 2: Good work, hos you threw the bounder right over your shoulder.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: You stunned it.
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  Speaker 1: The trick of jiu jitsu, My dear, Watson's quite useful
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  Speaker 1: at times.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: What the devil was this fellow doing.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: Trying to blow up the theatre? Watson?
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: You look sharp, you'll note a long fuse and a
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: keck of gunpowder against the wall.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, by Jove, the fragments of string came from the fuse,
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: all right, and the odor was gunpowdercisely.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: And the fact that the volumes of bacon were missing
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: was also significant. This man considered them a great value
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: and removed them so that they wouldn't be destroyed in
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: the glass.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Omes Rand must be met and doubted it.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: But I must correct you on one point, Watson. His
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: name is not Rand, it's Bacon Bacon. It's John Bacon,
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  Speaker 1: a direct descendant of Sir Francis Bacon. I discovered that
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  Speaker 1: pertinent fact in a rare genealogical volume I have at
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Baker Street. Was then, Watson, I obtained a hint of
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: the motive. You are aware of the Bacon Shakespeare controversy.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: It is zion. Indeed, it's famous in English literature.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Quite there any number of people who claimed, through one
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: pbious two or another, that the great plays of William
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Shakespeare were not written by the Bard, but by Sir
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Francis Bacon instead. This school of Deirconians had been quite
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: fanatic on the subject, claiming that Bacon had never been
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: given his rightful due among literary immortals.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Said this man here, rare er Bacon.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Quite his idea of justice for his ancestor was to
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: stop the playing of Othellow, blow up the theater if necessary,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: rather than let Shakespeare live on.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: As with whom you said, the killer had to be
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: an actor, this man is a canty.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: On the contrary, Watson, Bacon here is a fine and
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: accomplished actor with a special talent for mimicry and facial imitation.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: I received that information in London this morning from my
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: very good friend, mister upperm manager of Covent Garden.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Oh what's my man coming to this?
• 17:58
  Speaker 11: It's a lie, Francis Bacon wrote a fellow Romeo and
• 18:03
  Speaker 11: Juliet to fight all the rest me a rubb seated
• 18:07
  Speaker 11: and robbed by Shakespeare shakes.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: A second rate actor, that's what he was, Watson. I
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: believe you'll find a police inspector.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I'll watch Bacon here while you get him, and after
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: that you'll go and see your fellow. I believe the
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: curtain's going up and I should enjoy a little Shakespeare.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Well, Holmes, we'll be in London soon.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: Yes, what's the move?
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Am I say? I? Still don't know how you first
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: respected Rand Bacon.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: And obvious production.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: My dear Watson, you remember the multiple carriage tracks we
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: saw at the rear entrance, the carriage in which Bacon
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: made it get away, as I do, But what they
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: indicated that the owner was some kind of menial since
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: he entered the rare entrance on so many occasions. Hence
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the caretaker was a possibility. And my theory was strengthened
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: later on by another clue.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: What true host the murdered of.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Fellow Roger Mannering was a big man, so too was Bacon.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Obviously the bogus Othello had to be a bigot stature
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: to deceive Missus Mannering into thinking it was her husband.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: As for Roger Graham, he's a man of small bill. Therefore,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I dismissed his participation with a single look, and Bacon,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: along with his knowledge of make up and his gift
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: the military, succeeded in deceiving the luckless Desdemona.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I see, Will Holmes. I must say this is the
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: first time we've ever ended an adventure by witnessing the
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Shakespearean play.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Yes, I put the performance was superb.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: However, I could never quite believe the character of a
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: fellow no, why not hurt? You'll forgive me what smiss
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I seemed to be irreverent, But to my mind a
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: fellow was rather on the stuted side.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Certainly, any man.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: With a no will, respect the facts and an element
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: pH knowledge of logic would never have been deceived by
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Iago and have murdered his wife.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: As the moona.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Then, Watson, I'm not a playwright. I'm merely a private investigator,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Doctor Watson. That was certainly an interesting adventure.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Thank you, mister Harris. And I inscribed it the pleasure
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: to my memoirs, being a lover of the theater, as
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Yes, and now, doctor Watson, what adventure will you relate
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to us next week?
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Next week, mister Harris, I shall tell you of the
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Knife of Vengeance. It concerns a gentleman who is an
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: itinerant knife shot. What is distinctive about him is that
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: he only sharpens knives to be used for cutting throats.