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The Shadow - "The Ghost Without a Face" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A theatrical company is shaken when an actor mutilates his
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  Speaker 1: own face just before the third act, and reports soon
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  Speaker 1: follow that he has returned. On March 10th, 1946, Mutual
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  Speaker 1: Broadcasting System listeners heard episode 362 of The Shadow, The
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  Speaker 1: Ghost Without a Face. Brett Morrison is Lamont Cranston and
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  Speaker 1: The Shadow, with Leslie Woods as Margot Lane, as they
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  Speaker 1: enter a troubled production where the apparent haunting brings danger
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  Speaker 1: to the company. The script is by Joe Bates Smith.
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  Speaker 1: We now take you back to the original broadcast... Who
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  Speaker 1: knows what evil lurks in the.
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  Speaker 2: Hearts of men? The shadow knows.
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  Speaker 3: Once again, the Mutual Network brings you the thrilling adventures
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  Speaker 3: of the shadow, the hard and relentless fight of one
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  Speaker 3: man against the forces of evil. These dramatizations are designed
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  Speaker 3: to demonstrate forcibly to old and young alike that crime
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  Speaker 3: does not pay. The shooting war is over, but your
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  Speaker 3: Red Cross is still in there fighting, planning new invasions,
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  Speaker 3: invasions against suffering, hunger, and loneliness. And speaking of loneliness,
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  Speaker 3: let's not forget the low-point boys still overseas. There are
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  Speaker 3: more than 1,500,000 of them spread out all over the world,
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  Speaker 3: including godforsaken islands in the Pacific. Many of us already
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  Speaker 3: have forgotten, but your Red Cross never forgets. It's still
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  Speaker 3: there with our rear guard, helping to make life a
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  Speaker 3: little brighter, helping to ease the burden. Yes, the job
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  Speaker 3: of the Army of Occupation, according to both Generals Eisenhower
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  Speaker 3: and MacArthur, would be ten times tougher if it were
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  Speaker 3: not for the Red Cross activities overseas. Now, The Shadow.
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  Speaker 1: The Shadow.
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  Speaker 2: The shadow who feeds the forces of law and order
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  Speaker 2: is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town.
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  Speaker 2: Years ago in the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and
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  Speaker 2: mysterious secret, the hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so
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  Speaker 2: they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely
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  Speaker 2: Margo Lane, is the only person who knows to whom
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  Speaker 2: the voice of the invisible shadow belongs. Today's drama, Ghosts
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  Speaker 2: Without a Face.
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  Speaker 3: Third act, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: Curtain going up.
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  Speaker 3: Third act, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Johnson. Is anything wrong? Door's not locked. Maybe he's not
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  Speaker 2: in his dressing room. I'd better have a look. Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, there you are, sir. At your dressing table. And
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  Speaker 2: still in your dressing robe. Sir, that curtain is up, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Raise it high, Billy. That pack of stupid ingrates will
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  Speaker 2: never gaze upon the handsome face of Gaylord Johnson again.
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter, Mr. Johnson? You sound sick. Yes, sick
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  Speaker 2: and dying. You see only my back. Now....
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  Speaker 3: Now, Billy, look upon my face.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Johnson, your face.
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  Speaker 3: It's bleeding. Ripped and slashed with my own razor blade.
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  Speaker 2: There's blood on your arms.
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  Speaker 3: Your wrists are cut. I cut them.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I die, Billy. No. But they killed me. They spurned
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  Speaker 2: me off. Let me go. But they can't escape the
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  Speaker 2: horror that will return to them after death.
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  Speaker 1: Let me go.
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  Speaker 2: Let me go.
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  Speaker 3: You'll see me again.
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  Speaker 2: I'll return from the dead to haunt this theater forever.
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  Speaker 3: For eternity.
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  Speaker 2: Help somebody. Mr. Johnson killed himself. Mr. Johnson's dead. He
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  Speaker 2: killed himself. Help. Help. Yes, Mr. Ames, I have heard
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  Speaker 2: stories about your theater, that it's haunted, that some fantastic
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  Speaker 2: ghost without a face roams around at night in that house.
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  Speaker 2: The police search the place thoroughly. There's nothing more they
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  Speaker 2: can do, and that's why I've come to you, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 2: As an amateur criminologist, can't you help me track this
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  Speaker 2: thing down? You say you've actually heard this ghost, that
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  Speaker 2: you've seen it? Others have, too, Mr. Cranston. Actors I've
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  Speaker 2: hired and tried to rehearse there. I can't keep a
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  Speaker 2: cast together. Let's try this, Mr. Ames, if you want
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  Speaker 2: to open your theater again. Rehearse in some other place
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  Speaker 2: until the night your new play opens. On opening night,
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  Speaker 2: have the entire theater searched thoroughly to be sure no
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  Speaker 2: one can be hiding. This thing is a ghost. You
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  Speaker 2: can't find it. Mr. Ames, you and I both know
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  Speaker 2: there aren't any such thing as ghosts. I've seen and heard.
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  Speaker 2: Gaylord Johnson's ghost with its face slashed and buddy. It's horrible.
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  Speaker 2: So horrible that it almost drove Billy, our young stage manager,
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  Speaker 2: out of his mind. His mind is still affected. His
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  Speaker 2: memory is gone completely. I tried to talk to him, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't remember a thing. Frames, it seems to me
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  Speaker 2: the best thing to do to help you is to
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  Speaker 2: deliberately invite your ghost to appear. For you? Yes. Whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is, it's apparently trying to keep your theater closed
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  Speaker 2: by frightening people away. It's certain to do something if
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  Speaker 2: you open your house. Well, I don't think it's wise, Mr. Cranston,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll do it if you insist. Good. And I'll
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  Speaker 2: be there with you to see if I can see
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  Speaker 2: and hear this ghost of Gaylord Johnson. The musty, dark
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  Speaker 2: old place is backstage, isn't it, Lamont? Mm-hmm. Well, first
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  Speaker 2: act's over, darling, and so far no ghost has appeared.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I think we'd better wait here in the wings
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  Speaker 4: out of the way until.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Ames comes off stage, don't you? The play seems
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  Speaker 2: to be going very well. Ames has really splurged on
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  Speaker 2: this one, hasn't he? Yeah. Lamont, what really happened here
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  Speaker 2: that night a year ago? Well, the third act had
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  Speaker 2: just started, as I understand, when Billy, the young stage manager,
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  Speaker 2: came running to Mr. Ames in a terrified, hysterical condition,
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  Speaker 2: telling him that Gaylord Johnson had killed himself. And when Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Ames reached the dressing room, the body had disappeared?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. There was blood on the floor and the dressing
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  Speaker 2: table and on the boy where Johnson had grabbed him
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  Speaker 2: before he died. And no trace of the body has
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  Speaker 2: ever been found? No. I still don't see how it
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  Speaker 2: could possibly have been taken from the theater that night.
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  Speaker 2: Backstage was crowded with actors. The fact remains it never
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  Speaker 2: has been found. Oh, Mr. Cranston, this way.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Ames. How do you like the play? Oh, it's very good, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Ames.
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  Speaker 2: Where did you find that wonderful old actress, Madame Trombetta? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: she did a magnificent bit in that last scene. She's
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  Speaker 2: been in this country since the war. She's a real trooper,
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  Speaker 2: Miss Lane. Here she comes now. Madame Trombetta. Ah, Mr. Ames.
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  Speaker 3: It did go well.
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  Speaker 2: Beautifully, Dorothea. And here are two new fans of yours
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  Speaker 2: to prove it. Miss Lane, Mr. Cranston. How do you do,
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  Speaker 2: Madam Chambetta? It was a beautiful job. Thank you. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you so kind. I must change my costume now. I
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  Speaker 2: will see you later.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps after the show.
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  Speaker 2: Second act.
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  Speaker 3: Places.
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  Speaker 2: Places, please. I suppose you noticed, Mr. Cranston, I asked
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  Speaker 2: the police to surround the place. You had the place
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  Speaker 2: searched tonight? Thoroughly. Before any of the actors came in.
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  Speaker 2: There couldn't be anyone human hiding here. There go the lights, Hermione. Oh, yes. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I think we'd better stay backstage here. I wish you would,
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  Speaker 2: both of you. We can stand right here. Oh. Goodness,
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  Speaker 2: it's awfully dark. Yes, this is the murder scene in
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  Speaker 2: the dungeon. It's quite a startling scene.
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  Speaker 1: They got the kitten.
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  Speaker 2: No! No!
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  Speaker 4: They're not coming near me!
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  Speaker 2: What's that scream? That wasn't on stage! Put your hands
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  Speaker 2: to my throat! It's coming from one of the dressing rooms.
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  Speaker 2: It's Madame Trombetta. It's the ghost!
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  Speaker 4: He's killing me!
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  Speaker 2: Where's the dressing room? Quickly, this way. Down this corridor here.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, quick. Something horrible's happened. Well, this is the room.
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  Speaker 2: The door's locked. Help me break it in. All right. Oh, hurry, hurry!
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  Speaker 2: Once more, Mr. Ames, hard!
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  Speaker 4: There it goes. Diathria.
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  Speaker 2: There's no one in. The room's empty.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we just heard a voice calling for help from
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  Speaker 4: this room.
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  Speaker 2: It's the ghost. Johnson's ghost. He's killed her. He's killed
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  Speaker 2: her and spirited her body away.
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  Speaker 4: Lamont, what's happening in that theater? First the young boy
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  Speaker 4: and now Madame Trombetta?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know yet, Margot. I'm going back there tonight
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  Speaker 2: and find out.
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  Speaker 4: Darling, you've gone there before at night and the ghost has.
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  Speaker 3: Never appeared to you.
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  Speaker 2: I think he might this time, Margot. If he's killed,
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  Speaker 2: Madam Trump, and hidden her body in there.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you?
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  Speaker 2: I was just ghost chasing before, Margot. This time I
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  Speaker 2: think we may find a killer. THE END.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Lamont, look at that old theater.
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  Speaker 2: So dark. So ugly.
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  Speaker 4: It's almost as if it was challenging.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably hidden plenty of secrets. It's been standing there
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  Speaker 2: for years.
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  Speaker 4: Darling, I'm suddenly very afraid.
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  Speaker 2: Let's wait. Come on, darling. Stick close to me. Now,
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  Speaker 2: we'll go down this alley here to the stage door. Well,
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 4: I guess I'd go through most anything to get even
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  Speaker 4: with whatever it was that harmed poor Billy.
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  Speaker 2: The old actress. Yes. Yes. Here's the door. It's so dark,
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  Speaker 2: I can't see a thing. Come on, the door's open.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't touched it yet. And who are you? Who's
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  Speaker 2: coming into this theater? Go away. Get away quickly. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Lamont Cranston. Who are you? What are you doing here? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm Pops the Nightman and the janitor. Hey, I've seen
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  Speaker 2: you two before. You best keep away from here. Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Ames has given us permission to come here any time, Pops. Well,
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  Speaker 2: tonight maybe you'll come once too often.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you say that?
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  Speaker 2: I heard the voice tonight. From there. Louder. Angrier. Angrier
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  Speaker 2: than before. You've heard the ghost, too? It tells me
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  Speaker 2: to follow. But I know that there is death and
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  Speaker 2: madness where it leads. Well, why do you stay here then, Pops? Well,
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  Speaker 2: there's not many a job open for an old fellow
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  Speaker 2: like me. I'm safe if I don't listen. But now
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  Speaker 2: don't you two be going in there. We've got to tonight, Pops.
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  Speaker 2: You stay here at the door. Don't let anyone else in.
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  Speaker 2: We'll call you if we need you, Pops. All right,
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  Speaker 2: but remember I warned you.
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  Speaker 4: I can't see a thing, dear.
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  Speaker 2: Here, take my hand. Have you got the flashlight? No, no, Lamont.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you had. Great. Really in the dark now. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Darling, just what do you expect to find wandering.
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  Speaker 2: Around in here in the dark? I want to take
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  Speaker 2: a look at Johnson's dressing room first. That was where
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  Speaker 2: Johnson died and Madame Trombetta was killed. I wish I'd
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  Speaker 2: waited outside with Pops. This old theater is certainly the
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  Speaker 2: perfect background for a ghost story.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if.
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter, darling? Come on.
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  Speaker 4: There's a body hanging by its neck.
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  Speaker 2: I just bumped into it. Scott, there is something. What
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  Speaker 2: is it? You bumped into one of those big sandbags
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  Speaker 2: that's suspended in the rain. Oh, no. Come on, darling.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get this over with as fast as possible. I
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  Speaker 2: see the dressing that Johnson used is just down here,
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That's it right there, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Come in, my friend. Wait. There's a voice coming
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  Speaker 2: from inside the dressing.
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  Speaker 4: It's the ghost.
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  Speaker 2: It is. We're going to have a look at it.
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  Speaker 2: Come in, my friend, and gaze upon death.
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  Speaker 4: Lamont, there's someone sitting there at the dressing table.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it does look like someone. My face. My ripped
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  Speaker 2: and bloody face.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 2: It's the killer Johnson's voice. The horror of my face
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  Speaker 2: will drive men mad. I'm going after that thing. Lamont,
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  Speaker 2: it's falling. What is it? Nothing but a stage dummy, Margo. What?
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  Speaker 2: Used in that dungeon scene. Someone threw it on this
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  Speaker 2: dressing table chair.
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  Speaker 4: But there was a voice in this room, Lamont.
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  Speaker 2: I heard it. Yes, I heard it too, Margo, but...
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  Speaker 2: There's no one in here but us.
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  Speaker 1: Go!
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  Speaker 3: Go!
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  Speaker 2: Go! Before the horror strikes! Well, now the voice is
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  Speaker 2: coming from somewhere on the stage. Stay here, Margo. I've
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  Speaker 2: got to go after her. Lamont, don't leave me. Lamont,
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  Speaker 2: take me with you. Dooms! Doom! Blundering fools! Lamont, where
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  Speaker 2: are you? Over here, Margot. Come here, take my hand. No,
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  Speaker 2: you are no madness.
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  Speaker 4: Margot!
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  Speaker 2: You shall look upon terror and death. Where are you? Margot! Margot! Look!
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  Speaker 4: Darling, it's so dark, I can't see you. Just reach out.
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  Speaker 2: Your hand and I'll... Oh, there you are. What's going... Lamont.
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  Speaker 4: This isn't you, is it?
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  Speaker 2: No. Lovely lady, you are holding the hand of a ghost.
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  Speaker 3: A year ago today, General Courtney Hodges and his First
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  Speaker 3: Division were battling their way through the streets of Cologne.
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  Speaker 3: Your Red Cross girls were there, directly behind the lines,
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  Speaker 3: dispensing cheer and donuts to the battle-weary G.I.s. Today, your
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  Speaker 3: Red Cross is still there with the Army of Occupation.
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  Speaker 3: We have silenced the Wehrmacht, but your Red Cross still
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  Speaker 3: fights a battle, a battle against loneliness. For the men
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  Speaker 3: now overseas, the warmth and hospitality of the Red Cross
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  Speaker 3: Recreation Club is the one bright spot in their arduous
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  Speaker 3: task yet to be completed. At home, their comrades in
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  Speaker 3: the hospitals and other veterans struggling to adjust themselves to
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  Speaker 3: civilian life are also benefited by your Red Cross. More
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  Speaker 3: than 4,300 Red Cross hospital workers assisted servicemen in our
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: veterans' hospitals during the year of 1945. and 450,000 veterans'
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  Speaker 3: claims were handled by local Red Cross chapters during the
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  Speaker 3: same period. So, give generously to your American Red Cross
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  Speaker 3: for its wide and diversified program of service to humanity.
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  Speaker 2: Now, back to the shadow.
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  Speaker 1: The Shadow.
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  Speaker 2: During their search for the horrible ghost in a haunted theater,
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  Speaker 2: Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane have become separated on the huge,
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  Speaker 2: dark stage. Thinking the figure in the dark beside her
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  Speaker 2: was Lamont, Margo has taken its hand when she discovers
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  Speaker 2: it is the ghost of the dead actor they'd come
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  Speaker 2: to find.
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  Speaker 3: Let me go.
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  Speaker 2: Let me go. Let go of my hand. Let go. Darling,
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  Speaker 2: it's Lamont. Oh. Oh, Lamont, no. No.
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  Speaker 4: No, I felt the cold dead hander.
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  Speaker 2: With the ghost. I know it was the ghost. Whatever
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  Speaker 2: it was that held you, I must have fried into
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  Speaker 2: the well. Oh. Oh, darling. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm home, aren't I? I must have fainted.
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  Speaker 2: You did, darling, and I brought you home with Pop's help.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what happened to you? Your clothes were all torn.
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  Speaker 2: Something dropped me through a trap door on that stage.
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  Speaker 2: Lucky I found my way out of that cell and
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  Speaker 2: up through the orchestra pit.
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  Speaker 4: There are ghosts there, aren't there?
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  Speaker 2: There is something horrible in that theater. Yes, Margot. Something horrible,
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  Speaker 2: but not ghosts. I'm sure of that now. No ghost
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  Speaker 2: would have to resort to such earthly tactics as dropping
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  Speaker 2: me through a trap door to get me out of
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  Speaker 2: the way. Who then, Lamont? Who could it be? I
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: don't know, Margot. I suddenly thought of someone who might
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: help me out. Who? The only living person who saw
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  Speaker 2: Gaylord Johnson before he disappeared. Billy. The young stage manager
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  Speaker 2: who went to his dressing room to call him that night.
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  Speaker 2: His memory's gone. I might be able to get through
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  Speaker 2: to him to help him, Margo. He's going to hear
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  Speaker 2: the voice of the shadow when I visit him tonight. Billy,
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  Speaker 2: are you sleeping or is it only your mind that
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  Speaker 2: sleeps tonight? Voice. Is it a voice? Can you hear me, Billy?
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  Speaker 2: I am your friend. Friend? Yes, Billy. Try to remember.
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  Speaker 2: It's curtain time for the third act. Curtain time? Time
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  Speaker 2: for the third act, Billy. Call the actors on stage.
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  Speaker 2: Call the actors? Call them, Billy. Places, everyone. Places. Places, everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Now call the star, Billy. Call Mr. Johnson. No.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: No. Hurry, Billy. Call Gaylord Johnson. The curtain's up. Up?
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  Speaker 3: The curtain's up? Hurry.
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  Speaker 2: There's not much time now. He's in his dressing room. Yes. Mr. Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: In his dressing room. The door's closed, Billy. Mr. Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Third act.
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  Speaker 2: Places, please. That's it, Billy. Curtain's going up. Try the door, Billy.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe something's wrong. The door wasn't locked. Then open it quickly.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: No. Open the door, Billy. Quickly. The curtain's up. Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Open the door. There's Mr. Johnson in this dressing table
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  Speaker 2: in his robe. He's turning. He's turning now. He's turning
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  Speaker 2: to me. All right, Billy. What did you see? I
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  Speaker 2: saw him. He got up and came toward me. I
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  Speaker 2: saw his awful bleeding face. And then he... And then he...
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  Speaker 2: Then he dropped dead at your feet? He fell. I
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  Speaker 2: thought he was dead. But you don't know for certain? No. No,
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  Speaker 2: I was scared and ran out for help. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know whether he was dead or not. You do remember, Billy.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: The shadow has awakened your mind. The shadow? The shadow?
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  Speaker 2: Who are you? I'm your friend, Billy. Yes, my friend.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: The voice in the moonlight. Shadow, you've helped me. You
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: helped the shadow, too, Billy. Go back to sleep now.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: In the morning, you will remember. The shadow will discover
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: the secret of the ghost without a face. I don't
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: care what Billy told you, Lamont.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Even if Taylor Johnson is alive, just the sight.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Of it, Billy, gives me a chill. I'm sure we're
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: on the right track this time, Margo. Here's the stage door.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Who is there? Who? Is that you, Mr. Lane? No, Pops,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: it's Mr. Cranston, Miss Lane again. No, no, not tonight.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: They can't let you go in this place tonight. Why, Pops? Well,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I'm gone. I'm leaving here. I can't stand this job anymore.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: What happened, Pops? It's that voice. It's the ghost again.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Stronger and stronger each night. Tonight I nearly followed. Now, Pops,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: lock up. You'll be able to keep your job. I
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: think we can put the finishing touch on your ghost tonight.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: You just watch the door. If I need you, I'll call.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Come on, Margo. Hang on to me this time. Give
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: me the flashlight, Doc. Here you are.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Are we going back to that dressing room yet?
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: No. I'd like to look around here for a moment,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: on stage. Oh, what a dark, ghastly place this is.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: And it's so big.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Look, shine the light up there, Lamont.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: And just look how high that ceiling is.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: And way up there, there's a little wooden balcony running
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: all the way around.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: You see it? It's a catwalk, Margo. The stagehands hang
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: the sets from there, I guess. Oh. Well, come on, darling.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Lamont, that heavy sandbag.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Right up above us. It's swinging.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: It's falling.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Lamont, look out. Lamont. Darling, you all right? Oh. Oh, yes, I.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: I guess so.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: What a blessing you were looking up.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Just a moment later and we'd have... Lamont, you know
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: that something is trying to kill us, don't you?
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Yes. I think our ghost is desperate now. Looks like
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: it's going to be a fight to the end. Come! Come!
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Follow me! Come when I beckon! The voice again.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Where is it coming from?
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: It sounds like it's coming from Johnson's dressing room down
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: that hallway. Yes. Yes. I come when you call. Look,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: it's Pops. They're across the stage. I come. I hear
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: the ghost's voice now. Pops is going into the dressing room, Margo.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: The door's closing. Come on, Margo, quickly. The door's locked again.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: I'll help him. Hurry. Here it goes, Margo. Keep back. Pops.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: He's fallen. Pops. Come on. Pops, are you all right?
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: He disappeared through that door. Out the door to the stage.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Get him. Get him quick. Stay here with Pops, Margot.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: I've got to get our ghost this time. Right, right.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I'll help you, Pops.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Here, just put your arms on me and let me
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: get you on the couch. All right, I can manage.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Why, Pops. You can stand alone. Wait. Wait, don't come... Pops!
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, take your hands off my throat.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Lamont, we've been tricked. Help. Margot. Help. Hobbs, what are you... Hobbs. Stop.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Come back here. Lamont. There he goes. There he goes, Lamont.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: A best iris case of the catwalk.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Good.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: I got him trapped this time. The shadow will bring
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: that ghost down to earth. They'll never get me. They'll
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: never find me up here. The shadow finds all evil.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: There's someone coming up the fire escape. Put down that revolver.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: You cannot escape the shadow. I can't see anyone, but
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: I hear him coming up. Up, up on the catwalk
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: with me. Yes, Pops.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Up on the catwalk.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: The shadow comes closer to you. Where, where are you?
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Who are you? Closer and closer. A shadow comes to you.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: It's a ghost.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Another ghost.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: You won't get me. I'll find you and kill you.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: You'll never find the shadow. I will. If you're up here,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: I'll find you. Now take that gun. Something's grabbed hold
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: of me. Oh, it's a ghost. Drop it. Let me go.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Drop that gun. Now you're getting down off this catwalk.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you are, but if I find you,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I'll throw you over that rail. Come back here, you fool!
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Come back! That rail's breaking! If I find you, I'll
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: kill you!
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Get away from that rail!
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: It's breaking!
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Look out! Help!
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: And so it was Billy who gave you the idea
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: that Gaylord Johnson didn't really.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Die after all. Yes, Margo. That Johnson was still hiding
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: in that theater. Well, how did.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Johnson disappear from his dressing room that night after he
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: told Billy he killed himself?
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: The door to the furnace room was right next to his.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: That's where he went down and changed into Pop's coveralls
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: and beard. He'd actually had to cut his hands to
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: leave traces of real blood. Realistic school of acting, is
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: that it? Besides being a superb makeup artist... He disguised
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: himself as Madame Trombetta when he heard the theater was
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: opening again. Used a heavy accent and plenty of veils.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Killed himself off again to frighten people away.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Yes, but how did he manage so that his voice
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: as the ghost.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: seemed to be right in the dressing room with us
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: that first night? He was actually in the next dressing
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: room and spoke through the ventilator... then ran out onto
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: the stage. I couldn't speak. But why?
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: Why did Gaylord Johnson want to keep that theater closed?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Mr. Ames told me that by the second act of
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Johnson's play... He knew it was a flop. He told
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Johnson he was going to close it that night. Ames
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: said Johnson threatened him, seemed actually unbalanced with rage, and
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: swore that no one else would ever star in that
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: theater again.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: That's a strange, twisted ego, playing the starring.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Role of a ghost. Yes, and what a fantastic performance.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Playing the parts of Madame Trombetta, Old Pops, and the ghost.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Then there weren't any murders after all, were there? No, Margot.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: The only life Gaylord Johnson took was his own. when
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: he tried to kill the Shadow and fell through that
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: broken railing tonight.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: The Shadow returns in just a moment. Since Pearl Harbor,
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: over 500,000 victims of 869 domestic disasters have been given food, clothing, shelter,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: and medical care by your Red Cross. Yes, even in
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: spite of war, Red Cross carried on on the home front,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: for disaster is no respecter of war. When tragedies occur,
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Red Cross disaster workers are on the scene immediately. They feed, clothe,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: and shelter the needy victims, give medical care to the injured,
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: and stay at their side through the long period of rehabilitation.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: But your Red Cross.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Is present not only in time of disaster, it is
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: also with our men still overseas, our wounded in the hospitals,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: and our veterans who are struggling to try and readjust
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: themselves to the problems of civilian life. The Red Cross
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: is G.I. Joe's home away from home, and wherever he
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: sees the sign of the Red Cross, he knows that
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: America isn't really thousands of miles away. So give generously
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: to your American Red Cross for its wide and diversified
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: program of service to humanity. This story is copyrighted by
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Street & Smith Publications, Incorporated. The characters, names, places, and
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: plot are fictitious. Any similarity to persons living or dead
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: is purely coincidental. Again next week, the shadow will demonstrate
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: that the.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: The shadow knows. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Next week, same time, same station, the Mutual Network will
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: bring you another strange and thrilling adventure in the shadows'
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: daring battle against the forces of evil. Be sure to listen.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: THE END.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Remember, friends, give generously to your American Red Cross for
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: its wide and diversified program of service to humanity. This
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: is the Mutual Don Lee Broadcasting System.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: We leave the theater with The.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Shadow and The Ghost Without a Face.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Follow The Shadow for more classic broadcasts.