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at stored on Greatdetectives dot net. Now it's time for today's episode of The
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Saint. The original aired eighth January fourteenth of nineteen fifty one, and the
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title is Simon Takes a Curtain Call The Adventures of the Saint, starring Vincent
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Price. The Saint based on characters created by Leslie Charters and known to millions
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from books, magazines, and motion pictures. The rather mote of modern crime
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now comes transcribe to radio, starring Hollywood's brilliant and talented actor Vincent Price as
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the Saint. They say, each man kills the thing he loves, and
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so I have killed you, my love. But the cruel, merciful knife,
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which parts our flesh, shall bring us yet together in it together,
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which is forever. I'm ready, officer, pardon me? But when may
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I wait for mister Bennett And he's still on face? Yeah, I know
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I was in the audience. My name is Temper. Oh yeah, said
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the temple. He's expecting you. You can wait on his recond room.
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It's nice down the whole first time a life, the one with all the
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flowers are thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank
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you. Darling did you reality? I am joy? Thank you? See
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you shot me come in my dear, you were sweet dear. But he
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congratulations. I'mon Templar, How perfectly wonderful love you to come? As I
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was saying, my dear Shadi, you were sweet and utterly charming throughout,
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but never never a cross in front of me. Never. Yes, Mercy,
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I remember, and you were. Thank you, thank you, Oh
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shorty, this is my old friend, Simon Templar, Temper, Shardy Bebcock,
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my leading lady. How do you do? How do you do?
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Go? Change, my dear, I'll meet your short good bye, mister
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champion. Good I'm miss bad cut Hell. Your taste is still excellent,
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Mercy. I picked my leaves on her acting ability alone, Templar. Now
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why I sent for you? By the way, what did you think of
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the play? Well? It was yeah, I know, I know.
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I took only five curtain calls and I'm in a sign for me practically a
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curtsy writers. Why, Templar. Why don't they have writers like Shakespeare around
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these days? It's a plot against actors, I believe you. Well.
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Perhaps the Bennett name will carry this thing along for a season, but it
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will be a strained Mercy. Why did you send for me? Oh there's
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a down, Templar. While I removed my makeup, I am sitting well
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and stand up. No, no, no, no, don't. I
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hate to talk up to someone. I don't work well that way at all,
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Templar. I'm afraid of this play. It scares me to Oh no,
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no, no, not that way, Templar. I've begun to notice
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a peculiar your relationship between Mercer Bennett and his roles. Now you think it's
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a bit eccentric of me, perhaps, but it's true, Templar. I'm
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living my roles. No wait, let me tell you. I don't know
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what it is. Perhaps I put too much of myself into a part.
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But for roles I portray on the stage, I also portray in real life.
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For example, for example, in Time Waits for Tomorrow, I played
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an actor who marries his leading lady. I married my leading lady, astonishing
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waits. In Crossroads of the World, I played a singer who marries the
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Ngenoue. I married the Angenoue. Laugh that all. I don't have to
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I didn't marry or you did, yes, But I could go on,
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Templar. This thing has been plaguing me for years. I have a feeling
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of fatalism about any role I undertake. That it can't help being realized off
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stagef I get excited about it now because, Templar, because in this play,
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I not only fall in love with my leading lady, but I kill
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her. Well, has the first part come true? Well, one might
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say so. Yes, she's oughtibly infatuated with me, of course, and
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she's a charming thing I see. And you're afraid you're going to kill her
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deathly afraid. Well, it's a nice thing you again, may if I
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wait, wait, don't go. I'm not just imagining things the way the
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part was originally written. I shot Shari, but in our tryout in Boston,
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the prop man discovered that someone had put real bullets in the gun.
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Are you sure? Of course I am. That's why I had it rewritten
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to a knife. We use a rubber blade, of course, of course.
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And you have no idea who put those bullets in the gun? None.
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It could have been anyone, even you. That's what haunts me about
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this whole business, Templar. Could I have done it and not know it?
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Could I do it again? Oh, you've got to help me,
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Simon. I'll do what I can. But it might not be much appreciated,
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Simon. I'd appreciate it. Immensely. And when we have the sites
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no tears, where should I start? My agent and business manager will tell
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you whom to see and they take you around Stewart Jackson, low Fellow Meloch
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theme in the morning. I'm deeply grateful, Simon. Why I hardly dare
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look at the girl. I avoid her coming, shorty Darling coming, Well
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you see, yes, I know the show must go on the you tomorrow,
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Mercer. I'm mighty nice to get to take the sound for mister Templar.
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I know it's been working on Mercy. What do you think of this,
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Jackson, This idea that Bennett has about his roles coming true? Well,
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I represented a lot of actors, mister Templar, and they're schooly,
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every one of them. And I'm not sure my sir Bennett's not the schooliest
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to blot, but he's a great actor. Do you think this whole thing
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is about nothing? I didn't say that, maybe on my head, but
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what's in the head gives plenty of trouble. You know what I mean?
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I know what you mean. And after the notice is on the player this
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morning, he'll be schoolier than ever. Not good from Stinkville, and he
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needed the dough too. I thought Bennett had plenty, and al'm only the
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four wives. Nobody's got that much dough. Well, the first one Benneck
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wants you to talk to was Lola, and right, she was his first
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wife. We're not going to talk to all four. Lola is the only
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one in town. Kind of no lish, but a good kid. She
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used to be quite an actress. Well, let's go collect her autograph.
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Well more than Lola, can we come in him? Mister Jackson? Do
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come in? I hope you'll excuse my dest happy just meeting over a frightful
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stack of plays they're baking me to do. Here's me wearing finding a ve
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skip at Lola. This isn't the producer, this is Simon Templar. Oh,
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I don't just say so? How do you do? Mister Templer?
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Thank you? Miss enright, I've enjoyed your performances many times. Must be
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older than you. Look, what's up? Boys, mister Templar. I
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like to ask you a few questions Lola about Mercier. Well, if you're
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going to talk about him, I've got to be fortified. Excuse me,
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mister Templer. Have you ever met my friend? Huh? Oh? Yes,
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yes, I have good and I don't have to introduce you. How
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about joining us? But I'm very fond of your friend, but not this
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early in the morning. About Mercy Bennett, miss Enright, what about him?
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Well, very briefly. He has a fixation about roles he plays on
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the stage in acting themselves in real life, and in his latest play he
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kills his leading lady. Tell him not to worry that turkey will run long
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enough for him to step on an ant. Something has occurred, however,
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to indicate that this isn't all imagination. You know anyone bearing any ill will
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against Bennett? Miss Henrad, Sure I do, anybody that knows them?
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Oh, well, how about you? If I may be blood? You
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mean, would I kill his leading lady and frame him with a murder?
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Let me think it over, Simon, Sure you don't want to say hello
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to my pal? No? No, thanks, Well I do, Mercer
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Vennett, the problem being, would I like to see him accused of murdering
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his latest love? Well? I might, I very well might. Anything
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else I can do for your Simon? Play Camille butch Candy between acts tour
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with the South Pacific Company of South Pacific. If anything comes up, Lola.
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I'll let you know you're a nice boy. Simon. I'll give you
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a tip. Never be seen in public with agents. Song Jackson. Here's
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the crime, Simon. Happy days, Lolan, Happy days. Well,
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what's the next port of Carl Jackson? I know, Prince, mister Templar
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broker, he says, also has a lot of dough on the show.
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Oh yes, she told me. Here's his office here, the secretary.
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I guess we go right on it. I guess so, moring mister Prince,
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are busy? Hello Jackson, have you seen the notices? Did you
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see those? Horrible? Tell them old Prince. This is mister Templar,
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Simon Templar. He wants to ask a couple of questions. Why. Because
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I think a crime may be committed, mister Prince, and I'm trying to
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prevent it. You're too late. The crime happened last night when three sixes
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or seventeen opened. I can understand your point of view. Tell me,
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mister Prince, what was your reason for putting money into the show the play
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itself? I'll tell you the reason, Miss Sharie Babcock and I was made
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up pool of Shary was your girl? If I hadn't thought so, I
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wouldn't have put a send into this egg. I couldn't afford the money.
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Do you hold any animosity toward Shari or Bennett? Toward both of them?
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Are much animosity? Just this, mister Templer, I have a reputation for
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being a manager. Is safe to make a fool? Love? Do I
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make myself clear? I think so? Good? Good day, gentlemen.
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Oh just one more question? Are you what they call an angel? Mister
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Prince? An angel? You needn't answer that. Good day. This is
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Sharlie Babcocks apartment. Mister Templer. I hope you don't mind if I let
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you win alone. I shudder at the thought. Yeah, well, being
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Mercia's business manager an agent both, I ain't got a lot of details.
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Look after if he wanted you to talk to Charlie Glenway, he's the author
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of this bomb. But if you talk to Sharli long enough, Charlie be
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along. Get what I mean? I get what you mean. I see
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your lady, mister Templer. Good morning, miss Babcock. I don't know
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if you remember me, but how could I forget? Won't you come in,
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mister Templer? Simon? Thank you? Shary have you seen the noticin
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Yes, well it was to be expected, of course. Charlie's a nice
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boy, but just not a writer, just not a writer. Charry.
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Are you aware of the fact that as long as this play runs you may
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be in considerable danger? Terribly exciting, isn't it? Huh? You're not
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frightened, But that's Simon dear factors living their roles, the excitement of opening
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nights, the smell of green shy. Let's not do the grease paint in
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the veins bit. H of course you know about what happened in Boston,
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the real bullets instead of the blank. Wouldn't it be fascinating if Darling Old
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Mercer had actually done it himself. Unconscious love but subconscious hate. Fascinating like
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like Ibsen look at a gabler. Did it ever occur to you that,
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Sharry you've seen the reviews? Oh, not Charles Darling, not Simon Templar.
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This is Charles Glenway, author The Rest Desert, The Sinking Ship.
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He thought the play was pretty hot stuff this time yesterday, Charie. Oh,
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how are you Templar? Thank you don't do Charlie. And if one
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simply isn't a playwright, Why don't you say it? Quote Mercer Bennett unquote
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it was a play before he got hold of it, him and his rewrites.
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Of course it ended up garbage. It was boundary was speaking of rewrites,
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Charles Darling. I got some ideas about the second act. My line
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simply have to be fixed. You now your lines have to be fixed?
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Well, you suddenly fixed them last night. All right. Why don't you
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get that dramatic school mush out of your mountain and talk? You think it
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improves things if nobody can hear you in this case? Yeah, my intruding
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on anything? All right? All right, we won't fight Shari. I
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don't want to rhyme, Darling, and you will rewrite my lines in the
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second egg. Yeah, I'll keep score for you. Who is this guy
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anyway? Another arnold? True? There was never anything to Ronald Prince,
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but nice to him. So he put up the money for your show.
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How nice were you? Glenway? I hate you, Charlie Darling, This
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sweet Glenway and templar, Sorry, old man, shall I lean not at
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all? Not at all? I mean, don't rush off about the notices,
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shoddy Darling, disregard them. Of course the play is bad. The
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thing to remember is that I have carried worse plays than this. You were
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younger than jealousy rearing its juvenile head. But it's a good thing you're here,
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Glenway. There's a lot of rewriting and fixing to be done, and
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you might possibly be of some help to me. I have an earthshaking suggestion,
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why not just do the play as it was written in the first place.
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You're questioning my knowledge of the theater. I think you're over the hill.
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Jack Pay no attention to this discribbler, mercer art. I find your
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conduct unprofessional, Glenway, and I find your conduct and becoming to your fellow
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members in the Townshend Club than it hands. What did you say, Templar.
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I have been up since dawn trying to prevent a murder about which I
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now feel almost indifferent. I have forgotten my breakfast, but I find myself
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and unwilling to do so another second. If anyone wants me, I should
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be in the restaurant on the corner, saving a life near and dear to
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me my own farewell Thespians, mister Temple, or sit down, mister Jackson.
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Sit down. But I want you if you interfere with my eggs Benedict
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with Tabasco thoughts, you're a dead man. Mister Phone means you will hear,
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mister Templar. He wants you to come to the play tonight. I
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have seen the play, and every horrible detail is etched with acid on the
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dark mirror of my mind. You know you talk just like Mercer. It
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must be contigious. We just got word, mister Templar, the place closing
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tonight, two day run, just ahead of the lynch mob. You carry
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insurance on your client, mister Jackson, Sure, and put him in another
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disaster like this and they'll need it. But what I wanted to tell you,
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mister Temple, was this Mercy's worried about the prophecy or whatever you want
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to call it. He's afraid that something will happen to sharing. Tonight's the
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last night for it to happen. You'll be there, mister Templar, against
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my complete better judgment, my appreciation of the esthetic, and then utter disregard
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of my sanity, I shall be there. Hello, mister Templar, Hi
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attorney, where have you been out front? Everything all right back here,
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mister Templar. It's all quiet so far. This is the final thing jets.
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He plays the violin to her before he stabs her. You think the
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audience is buying it, mister Templar, Well, they haven't stormed the stage
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is Yeah, it's not a bad player, or it wasn't at first.
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It's Bennett the rewrite. Now it's all hash. Do you like? Shari
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is an actor promising a bit theatrical that she should have a good career ahead
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of it. If nothing happens, that thing won't happen. See, hey,
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there's Prince backstage. I don't like that. I'll keep an eye on.
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And there's Lola too. She said no, she's Bennett's first wife and
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she's better because he hasn't paid her alimony for years. Look, look they're
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going into the death scene. Yeah, I'm watching Charing. Don't let anything
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happen to her, mister Templar, Charling, Hey, what's that on the
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prop table? A nice? It's not a real one. It's like the
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one Bennett stamp Shari with a rubber blade. But if that nice is here,
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what is Bennett gott what? Well? I don't know, temper.
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Sorry, sorry, look good, hold on? Sorry sorry, sorry,
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are you hurt. What happened, Bennette, I don't know. I spoted
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to stap her life. I always doin and the blood came. I had
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the wrong knife. Let me templar, shy, shorry, baby, how
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bad it is? Get a doctor somebody? No, no, no doctors
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follow last moment, Charles. It will always be you and me always.
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Oh no, the legalization came to the bloom with us in the bud.
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It's fragrant secret for sorry next week, east Lynne Simon, Yes, Bennett,
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how bad is it? Simon? Is it fatal? Tell me,
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Simon, I can take it. Oh the doctor City had great difficulty finding
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the scratch scratch, Yes, it was a very minor flesh wound. Sorry,
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just couldn't resist playing a deathbed scene. He's got a well trained center.
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Do you realize what this will do for three sixes or seventeen? What
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publicity? Reams of publicity? The show will run for months? Where is
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she's in addressing? Come on, Shary Mercy, you've come to say farewell?
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Git up, you love Sik. Put a bandage on that scratch.
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You've got a shoulder to tomorrow. You couldn't be killed with a met Wait
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a minute, and I want to see you about some rewrite slidway as soon
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as I talk to the press. We're not closing, Mercy. You are
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closing what, whether you like it or not. If someone tried to kill
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Shari tonight, and if the police had to pick her thoots back, they
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would undoubtedly take you, Yes, yes, perhaps they would. Perhaps they
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might even be right. Say nothing about this dabbing to anyone. Run one
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more night tomorrow night, and let everyone know the closing is definite. After
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that. Why why one more night? We've got one more night in which
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to catch a potential killer. See that everyone backstage tonight is here tomorrow,
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Lola, Prince Jackson, glen Way. And you certainly, Mercy, definitely
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you, they say. Each man kills the thing he loves, and so
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I have killed you, my love. But the cruel, merciful knight,
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which parts our flesh, shall bring us yet together in a together which is
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forever. I am ready, officer. Nothing happens, the places don't miss
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and hand will nothing happened, Charlie's face, Not quite yet, child?
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But what do you mean with the pronuct, with my time, with the
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pall alcohol, the night call to night, ma'am? None o the po
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the job you don't me? Yes, well, Simon, the road is
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over. The play is finished, and the leading man did not kill his
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leading woman. Now he didn't. Come on, Chary, Let's get out
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of here, no child, why not, Simon to please over? Not
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quite yet, Mary, sir, you forget it in your own play,
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Charlie the murderer carried at six minutes past eleven. It's now just ten forty
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five. You're suggesting we stay here until six after eleven. I'm suggesting it
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very strongly. Charles. Would you ask Galola, Arnold Prince and Stuart Jackson
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to join us? They're all backstage. Okay, mister, what are you
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expecting such? I'm expecting another attempt on your life? There have been two
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already. I intend to see that this is the final one. But what
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if it's a success. If my theory is correct, it won't be.
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The Saint is never wrong, Shai? Are you well? Hardly? Ever?
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Let's join the other Shalli, I'm giving a theater party. How much
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longer are we going to have to sit here? Temporary? Just a few
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minutes, mister Prince, it's after eleven now I'm getting very dry. Simon
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patient, slow notations creep in. Here is everyone gone? I don't like
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being the bait in the trash. You have a whole squad of protectives Shari,
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except that one of them could be a murderer. I got any series
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on the case, mister Temple, or a few Jackson h three minutes after
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eleven, hell, I guess we've got time to hear some of them.
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It will pass the time. In this case, the question seems to be
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motive. Who would profit by killing Shari? Or who would profit by framing
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Bennett? Here with the killing of Shahi, always presuming that the assailant is
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not Bennett himself. Thank you, mister Arnold Prince. A motive, certainly,
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I agree with you. A rejected suitor who feels himself used badly.
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She's a little why you, gentlemen, gentlemen? No violence until six after
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eleven? Mister Prince lost money he could ill afford to lose. He thought
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he lost Miss Bambcock to mister Bennett, and so had reason to hate them
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both. Stick around, mister Prince. Don't worry. I wouldn't miss Sharishma
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for twice as much door as I poured in this wrap home. Miss Lola
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Enwright a motive, perhaps my desperate, hopeless love for this road company,
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Barrymore and hatred for the younger rival. Right, Simon couldn't have done it
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better myself. I'll stick around Simon. Mister Mercer Bennett a strange fixation that
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he is destined to carry out whatever roles he plays on the stage. A
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mania. Perhaps I've tried to get him to an analyst. Mister Templer,
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many times I ask him to shut off Jackson. Tempers are getting edgy as
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we approached the hour, mister Charles glen Way, one of the best of
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motives. What, oh I might warn you? I don't know if the
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electrician knows we're still here, though, we might find ourselves in the darkness,
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Simon, and then it might not happen at all. I see where
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where we are. Oh, yes, yes, sir Charles Glenn. Charlie
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couldn't do it, Simony. All right, drop it? You drop it,
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or I'm going to break your wrist. Drop it there, all right,
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Sam, you can put the lights back on. Sam there, Jackson,
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Jackson, pick up his knife, Charlie. Sure, anything to say,
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mister Jackson. Funny but not here, mad fellow. But why Jackson,
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Templar, He was my agent. He was making a good living out
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of him, not good enough. It was also your business manager. He
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told you you were paying animony to all four of your ex wives. Lola
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hasn't gotten anything in years, right right. This suggested the juggling of your
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books. And then I'm always suspicious of business managers anyway. He also told
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me he had your life insured. If you were to die for the murder
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of Sharlie Bambcok, Jackson would be a rich man, and no questions asked
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about his books. Eilon, But why Jackson? You were still collecting commissions
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from me? Shall I tell him Jackaon? Or will you? I'll tell
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him you're just about crew. You're big ham. You can't play leading men
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anymore. You're too old, sharper than the serpent's tooth. The French say,
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share se la firm. The Anglo Saxon say, share sha la financial
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angle. Anything I've left out Jackson? Yes, I hate actress. I've
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always hated him, and Bennett I hated worst of all, sneering at us
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all the time, running us down behind her back. I hate him.
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I've always expected it about agent. I must be more careful. Now,
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come along, Jackson. I can get you a long contract with no options.
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Uh, Templar, Yes, after you turned Jackson in, you didn't
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give the full story to the papers, did you the full story? Not
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yet? Why don't don't as a favor to me. Oh but this will
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be wonderful publicity for your show. It will run forever. I'd rather you
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didn't. But why well Jackson's statement about me being too old for leads.
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Of course it's totally untrue. But if word of a charge like that gets
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around your business, well you know it. I see my lips the thanks,
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Templar. Thanks. Maybe the trouble is I'm not wearing a tight enough
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girdle and maybe steps acting. You know, Jackson may have been right.
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You have been listening to another transcribed adventure of as the Robin Hord of modern
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crime. Now Here is our starve and some price. Ladies and gentlemen.
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It's difficult to comprehend the fact that you can hold life itself in the palm
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of your hand. The shape it takes isn't particularly dramatic. It's as simple
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as this. A few coins, a few dollars, your contribution to the
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Red Cross, the life you hold is that of some unknown person who will
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be restored to health through the Red Cross National Blood Program. That program is
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already in its second year. It still hasn't been fully developed. It still
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isn't bringing the amazing medicine of whole blood to all those who need it.
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That won't come without more doctors, nurses, technicians and equipment. That won't
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come without your help. The only thing that makes it possible for the Red
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Cross to carry on its mission of mercy. More than fifteen hundred hospitals have
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been supplied free of charge with blood and blood derivative. More than half a
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million pints have already been provided for medical use. And yet this is only
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part of the Red Cross program. The Red Cross follows in the wake of
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disasters of all kind, treating the injured, feeding the hungry, and sheltering
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the homeless. From the Red Cross emanates a network of services to the armed
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forces, to veterans, to the community as a whole. The complete cost
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of all these operations for the next year will be sixty seven million dollars,
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But the cost to you is whatever you can give to help the helpless.
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Remember, all of us can help through the Red Cross This is Vincent Price
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inviting you to join us again next week at this same time for another exciting
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adventure of the Saint good Night. This Adventure of the Saints was written by
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Vic Paul. Our cast included theaterre Vroon, Elvis Bennett and Mary Ship as
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Shodi at Begley was Jackson, Maggie Morley, Lola Prince was played by Stanley
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Ferrar and Charlie by Bob Park. Harry Bond was the Doormaan. The Saints
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based on characters greeted by Leslie Charters. There is a James L. Stathier
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production and is directed by Helen mac Vincent Price is soon to be seen co
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starring in RKO's production of His Kind of Woman. All you Saint SAMs will
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be glad to know that mister Christ the guest editor of the January issue of
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Inside Detective, World's largest selling detective magazine, Here an answer, Don Stanley.
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Three chimes mean good times on MBC. The chimes are ringing for the
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night's broadcast of The Big Show, Radio's greatest spectacle. Your stars for this
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evening's Big Show. In addition to the unpredictable Tallula will be Louis Calhern,
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Jimmy Durandy, Jack Carter, Martha Ray, and many many more. But
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drama Tonight Theater Guild on the Air presents a one our adaptation of the fascinating
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story Troby starring Lex Harrison and Teresa Wright. So remember the Big Sean Theater
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Guild on NBC Welcome Back. I could definitely appreciate when Simon decided to go
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off and get some breakfast. That sounded more appealing than dealing with these people.
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This was not one of my favorite episodes, but still did have some
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good points, and in the end, the Saint definitely work things out Mars
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marvelously without anyone actually dying, so the agent's not going to go to and
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for the rest of his life, but probably for a good long while.
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The idea of substituting a knife in a stage play as a method of murder
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is an interesting plot idea. They did it on an episode of Monk,
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and of course it occurs to me that the rubber tip knot and a real
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knife are going to have a very different feel. They did something in the
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episode of Monk. I won't spoil it for you, but it's the season
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two episode mister Monk goes to the theater and was an interesting take on this
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whole idea. Well, now we turn to some listener comments and feedback and
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Brian has a good question about the Saint. I really love the Saint and
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Vincent Price. I was wondering if he did the Price of Fear radio show
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around this time period. You commented after the show that his horror movies and
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shows were to come later. Was there any major radio star that actually had
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two different weekly shows on the air during the same time period. The Price
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of Fear was actually a BBC radio program that actually aired for the first time
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in the nighteen seventies, so was not at that time frame in terms of
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weekly radio stars in terms of us of just general. Phil Harris, who
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appeared on the Jack Benny program, also has his own series with his wife
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Alice Faye. This got a bit complicated when the Phil Harris and Alice Fay
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show was still on NBC while Jack Benny had moved to CBS, and so
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what Phil Harrison needed to do was he would stay for the first about twenty
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minutes of the Jack Benny program and then he would run across the way to
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the NBC studios ready to do his own show. Eventually, this was resolved
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once Phil Harrison Alice Fae moved over to CBS in Dramatic Radio. The only
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one I can think of who held down starring roles in two series at once.
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It happened twice as far as I can remember, and both times that
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I'm absolutely aware of. It happened with Jack Webb in nineteen forty nine.
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As summer was approaching, a decision was made to put Pat Novac for Hire
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on hiatus, but he needed a job during the summer. He and his
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wife had a baby on the way, so he needed a radio program.
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He came up with the idea for Dragnet was able to get NBC to agree
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to give it a trial, but it actually began while Pat Novac for Hire
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was still running, and so there was a four week period. But you
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could turned to ABC and hear Jack Webb playing Pat Novak, and then you
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could turn to NBC and hear him playing Joe Friday. And it got a
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little bit confusing because at the very end, Raymond Chandler, who played Inspector
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Hellman, became the first actor to play at back or the second actor to
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play at Bastran chief of Detectives. I remember during that period. It was
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just after that period. One listener commented that with Raymond Chandler in both roles,
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he was expecting Ed Baxtrand to frame Friday for murder. The other instance
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was intentional on Webb's part. He launched a series called Pete Kelly's Blues,
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which we played previously, where he played nineteen twenties jazz Forournett player Pete Kelly,
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and there was mystery, there was intrigue. There was even a couple
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of plot lines recycled from Pat Novak for hire. The series ran for thirteen
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weeks, and he didn't really expect it to run any longer. That was
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an effort. I think it was a labor of love because Pete Kelly's Blue
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it was a project he pursued to a movie and to a television show later.
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So Dak Webb and I wouldn't be surprised if Orson Wells during the war
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had something. Though I've not done deep research, but Wells had so many
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radio projects that were running currently, I would not be surprised if one of
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them crossed over. Now. He turned to some comments regarding episode fifteen forty
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five, Simon Minds the Baby Gypsy says this was such a sweet episode.
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Beverly said, I think Vincent Price was born looking like that picture, referencing
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the picture we use at Great Detectives dot Net on all Sane episodes. Did
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you know he was an art collector? His collection turned the country in the
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late sixties and I was privileged to see it. I'm definitely aware that he
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was a man of many talents and many interests and causes, lived a very
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full life, which you can't always say of every person who was an actor
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in that period. Then just a comment from Mark who says that Vincent Price
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was the best radio saint, and you'll get no argument from me on that.
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Mark, all right, Well, that will do it for listener comments.
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I have mentioned the idea on previous programs about filling in missing Armchair Detective
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segments when we get to Ellery Queen with segments recorded featuring listeners who will have
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listened to the first part of the program. We'll try to guess along with
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Ellery Queen, because that was just one of those things that Ellery Queen was
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known for, and I think it would add to the experience. So if
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you'd be interested in being an armshair detective. Let me know. We definitely
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need to hear from enough people to make that happen. Send your emails to
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Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. Well, that will do it for
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today. We'll be back tomorrow with the lineup. Join us next Monday for
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another episode of the Saint. In the meantime, send your comments to Box
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