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now it's time to get into today's adventure of Frank Race. This one is
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the Adventure of the Runway Queen, The Adventures of Frank Race, starring Paul
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Dubove. The War changed many things, the face of the earth and the
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people on it. Before the war, Frank Race worked as an attorney,
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but he traded his lawbooks for the Cloak and Dagger of the Oss and when
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it was over, his former life was over too. Adventure had become his
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business, The Adventures of Frank Race. Now we joined Frank Race for the
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Adventure of the Runway Queen. Usually of insane asylum comes equipped with barred windows
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and men in white jackets, but there's one in New York that runs wide
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open. It's a simple building in the heart of the theatrical district on forty
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six near Broadway, and from the outside it looks like any other office building.
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It houses talent agents, music publishers, show producers, and theater hopeels
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who rent rehearsal rooms by the hour, And once you get in cyber place,
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you'll be inclined to say, as Mark Donovan did, only cow a
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madhouse, just the place for a nice, RESTful vacation. I wish had
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Dame would take a vacation nobody had take cass. If I had a voice
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like that, I would very gladly close the door for the sake of humanity.
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She is rather uninhibited. Oh, brother, get a load of this
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coming down the hall. What's that thing on his shoulder? Looks like a
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trained pigeon, probably part of a rack. Hey, that's an act.
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Could lay an egg anytime. For that, you could get as split weak
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as a comedian on the Bowery Circuit. Oh, I forgot to ask what
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are we doing here? I'm not sure. Man named Barney Lang dropped me
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a note, asked me to come and see him. He's a telenagent man.
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Maybe he's got a plot for you in Little Women. But then I
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could get a whole week and of Bownery cycle for that one. You could
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also encourage sudden nosebleader. He's Lang's place room for eighteen, So let's walls
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in Hey, sign on the door says closed for the day. Yes,
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you mentioned that one's letter. Send me a keeping the place. Okay,
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who bad? He ain't managing a bank, you, Frank Race, Yes,
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I'm Lang. Let me quickly shut that door. That racket is stick
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my head over. Take more than the door to drown out that kind of
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rock. Oh, what do you know? I had to play sound proof.
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There's usually enough of a racket in't here without having that too. Barney
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Lang a magic name along Broadway, discoverer of more stars than you can see
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from Central Park on an average night. He didn't look the part, though.
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The cigar was clenched between his teeth, he needed a shave, and
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the suit he wore might have belonged to an unemployed mortician. He also looked
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as though he might have been drinking his own embombing fluid ges. You're wondering
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about that key routine, I'm wondering about a lot of things. I had
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to close up to keep the talent out of here and give us a chance
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to talk. I didn't want to call in one of them twenty five bucks
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a day, Private, Eyed Race. This thing I want you to do
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is kind of touchy. I can start off by telling you that I'm expensive.
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One of my clients is giving me a headache. I want to find
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out what goes with her. Her name is Laurie Marlowe. Laurie marlow As
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eat a damas things in a radio. Bigal would to come and get me
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pop up pipe. That's right. She gets five thousand dollars a week for
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that program. Luck Race. I picked this kid up three years ago when
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she was nothing. She was a stripper and her blesque house, and she
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sang a song once in a while. I heard something in that voice the
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other guy's missed. I took her out of the joint, had a train,
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got her a good deal. I don't want to see her blow up
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a career. What makes you think she will? I'm coming to that.
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I got her a picture to her last year, A fat deal. She
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bounced up the cloud eight when I told her, and then all of a
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sudden she freezes, no dice temperament. I got so for a while.
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Then I found something out. It's gonna sound crazy. What is it?
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Laurie has a funny habit race. She disappears in between radio shows, doesn't
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show up all week. You can believe this or not. But she spends
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her time between shows working and blesque five grand a week and ready Mark,
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there's got to be a reason for that race, and it can't be good
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all that dough and radio. When she turns down Hollywood, then she takes
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seventy five a week to strip and some dive. Have you ever asked her
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why? Once I asked her where she was spending a time, she clammed
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up. I'm telling you race. She was scared, told me she'd got
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another agent. If I didn't leave her alone, I'll take the case.
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Lang. Where is she now? She's dancing in the barleycue review race in
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Boston. Boston and burlesque they go together like ice cream and mustard, but
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they do go together. An improper line and a bestseller or a legitimate stage
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show can lower the band like Clancy lowers the boom. But the bump and
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grind artists are not banned in Boston. Well here it is the boilycue reviewed
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theater. Look at him, pictures in the lobby. Good beasts, not
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all of them. Look at that poster Egypsia queen in a runway. Now
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that is a dish that is also Laurie Marlow. No wonder lang is curious.
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I wonderful face is as good as the rest of it. He can't
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call what a veil? We may find out later. Stage doors open for
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rehearsal. Let's go in through the alley. Hey, wait, any he
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just can't walk into the's choice it. Don't they have doorman or something.
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We have all sorts of insurance company credentials, mark and theaters carry all sorts
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of insurance. We'll get by. The cubbyhole with a doorman is usually found
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was empty. We went through and stood in the wings. Egyptia was on
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stage, and the dance she was doing was enough to make you forget the
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inadequacies of the pianist and the despairing tone of the dance director as he tried
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to whip the lumbering chorus into a semblance of unity. Keep in the thin,
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keep in the step. Wait, Wait a minute, Wait a minute,
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Cut it, Sam, cut it, Jackie, which is your left
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foot? You only got a two? Take a choice? What do you
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want for forty bucks a week? Ginger Rogers, I'm tired. You're tired.
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Oh break it up, Rudy, We're all tired. You don't need
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me to finish, do you? Oh no, you're all right, Egypt,
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Go get dressed. She walked into the wings and came toward us.
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The piano had stopped, but she carried her own music with her as she
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moved. And it wasn't burlesque music. This girl was definitely on the symphony
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side. Oh, I'm sorry I pumped into you. I wasn't looking.
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That's all right, miss Marlow. What did you call me? You are
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Laurie Marlow, aren't you? No, No, I'm not. That's not
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my name. Let me pass, Please let her pass. He stepped out
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of the shadows near a backdrop. His eyes were an indefinite blue white like
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skim milk, and the cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth was unlighted.
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His lips were almost white too. He looked well. He looked like
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he had finished drinking his own blood, using the cigarette for straw. Addressed
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EGYPTI I'll cool these stage door, Johnny isn't wait for you, all right,
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Reel, you came in through the wrong door. The box officers around
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front. My name is Race. I'm just checking a few. I know
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who you are. I know who you're working for. I got reasons why
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you should quit, meaning the gun you're holding in your pocket. The gun
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says you should go and tell Bonnie Lang to mind his own business. And
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if I don't, a gun can get awful, nasty. Race. This
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isn't the time of the place for trouble rebels, so I'll let that pass.
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But when the time and the place are right, I'm going to take
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that toy away from you and make you eat it. I'm glad you said
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that, Race. I'll tell the boys. Then maybe he'll issue me a
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special hunting license just for you. Rebel had told me two things. One
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was that he had a boss. The second was that Laurie Marlow was not
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in control of her own destiny. Mark and I found a cafe around the
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corner from the theater. Most of the cast wanted in there after the rehearsal
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broke. We took seats at the couter next to the girl called Jackie.
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I just want a cup of coffee when you get a chance. Joe,
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Hello, Hello, had a little trouble at rehearsal, didn't you? Yeah?
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I always have trouble. Were you there in the wings? I thought
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you were doing fine. Ah, that Rudy, he's all right. Until
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Egypt is around. Then he puts on a big act. You'd think he
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was doing a Hollywood musical. Who's Rudy, Rudy Cassana, the dance director.
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You saw him. He's over the corner booth there with Millie, one
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of the girls. Ah, yes, I take it Rudy has a crush
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on Egypt. He'd better not if he's smart. She's aiming for a bigger
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moose than him. Hey, that's my date outside. Never mind the coffee,
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Joe, Well, so long, so long, Jackie? Eh,
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anything Megan sense yet? Race No. I'd like to find out who the
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big moose is, though, the one Laurie Marlowe or Egypt is setting her
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cap for it. You go around a car mark, keep your eye on
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Laurie Tailor wherever she goes. But don't let rebels sneak up on you.
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Worry. I'll play it safe. What are you gonna do? I'm gonna
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make friends and influence people in that corner booth. Go ahead, yeah see
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Letty. Are you Rudy Cassano? Huh oh, yeah, I'm a Cassano.
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They didn't I see you backstage a while ago? Yes, I was
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watching you work. Are you in a business in a way, I'm scouting
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for Barney Lange. He's got a chance to sell some talent for a big
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Broadway musical if he can find the right people. Oh, won't you sit
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down, mister, mister Race, Frank Race. This is Millie Davis.
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She's in a chorus. Hello, I'm very happy to meet you, mister
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Race. Of course you don't know it, Cassano, but we've had an
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eye on you. You and that girly gypsha. Yeah, gee, that's
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well. Hey, you know I do better work than this. I just
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took the should temporarily waiting for a break. I understand. How about the
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girl, Ah, she wouldn't leave here. The rain is much Joe and
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all Broadway. She could get just by marrying a guy that's after say,
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I'm a pretty good dancer, mister Race. Egyptia's boyfriend sounds like big money.
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More than money, mister Race, real big shot family. He's a
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Henry Brewster Burton, the third Henry Brewster Burton, the third most eligible bachelor
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in Boston, cream of the social register, and a powerful man in Washington.
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Laurie Marlow was really moving into the big leagues and doing it the hard
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way via burlesque runway. It didn't add up. You'd be wasting your time
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with Egypt, mister race. Besides, I'm a better dancer than she'll ever
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be. All I need is a break. That's what we all need,
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just one break. I'll see both of you later. I watched Laurie Marlow,
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masquerading as a gypsha, do her show at the Burlecue Review that night.
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She took off everything the law would allow, except the veil that covered
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the lower half of her face. Mark tailed her from the theater and I
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went back to the hotel to wait for his report. I was dozing off
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on a chair when by it me Laurie Marlow. I opened the door and
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she came in without the veil. Her face looked like it had been done
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by Michael Angelo on one of his better days. There was something about the
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lips that made you think of all the kisses you would ever enjoyed, and
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then made you forget them in the hope of the one you might get.
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Surprised to see me a little. You weren't very happy with me this afternoon.
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I was angry with Barney Lyon for sending you. You see, I
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started out in rolesqueing for some reason. I love it, that's all.
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So you mix it in with a five thousand a week radio career. You
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know, sometimes a farm kid makes good in a big town, gets his
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own swimming pool, But when he gets a chance, he takes off his
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shoes and goes waiting in a brook. Sometimes that's the way it is with
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me. You're lying, baby, Why should I lie to you? Raid?
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Her hands took the lippels in my jacket, and she drifted into my
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arms. I kissed her and it started bells ringing one of the buildings.
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I didn't like. It was the phone. Don't answer, Race, I'd
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better or whoever his ringing might come up? Hello, Hey, Race,
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it's me, Dame, won't you yes, Mark, I thought so.
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Rebel drove her rover. I lost them down in a lobby. So keep
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your eyes open. He's Hannah loose in the building. I get it,
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I know, you know. Look, blood, he's getting rough, kid.
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Just hold a news vershon of car Ready on. We got a stiff
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on our hand. Who is it? We shot and killed in his office
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earlier this morning? They just found a body. We'll return to the Adventures
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of Frank Race in just about one minute. Now back to the adventures of
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Frank Race. I managed to get Laurie Marlowe out of the hotel room,
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took the backstairs to avoid meeting Rebel and his gun. At that point,
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Mark and I took a night drive to New York. We got there in
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the early morning and my key let us in to Barney Lane office. Race.
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You know something, It would not be good if the cops found us
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prowling around here and look glausy in stripes. I know, Marcus, but
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whatever Barney Lange was killed for, it was something he found out after we
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left him. Yeah, but he ain't going to be telling us now.
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I want to check his files on Lorie Marlow. They should be in his
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cabinet. Matter lock. Yes, there's a fire ax just outside the door.
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Get it, Okay, it's the second drawer. Fire letters h to
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end. Hit it with the butt end as near to the locker as you
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can. Please, please, Chump, you are talking to a kid which
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almost played ball with a Yankee. See what I mean? That did it?
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The lockers sprung? Yeah, this is the folder Lorie Marlow. See
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what you can find around here? While I go through this okay. There
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were some odd conditions in Laurie Morrow's contract with Barney Lange. No personal appearances,
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no club dates, no publicity pictures released without her approval, no studio
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audiences permitted, her broadcasts, no television shows. And Mark added to it.
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Hey, cry, there's a bunch of clippings and pictures in a Morrow
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dare. Oh how are you good provo with her? I don't know.
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Why don't you never get a good flash at a faced? Look of them
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hats would have veility. And this one here all black taken from the side.
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That's a silhouette. Are they all like that? Yeah? Except this
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old one here taking down in Mexico, and it looks at the buildings and
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those big hats. She and a guy with her were it is. No,
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she's coming with shadows, so is he. For some reason, Mark,
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this girl can't show her face in public. But the picture does show
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one thing on her hand, a wedding ring. Yeah, Race, what's
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behind it? I don't know? Put everything back. I'll go through Lange's
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desk. Is there anything here that you want me? Can I come in?
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Oh it's you, mister Race, Yes, Milly, it's me.
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You're a long way from Boston. Aren't you well? When you told me
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about mister Lang looking for people, why, I just thought i'd take a
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plane down and see him myself. Where is he? You want to keep
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posted on the news, Milly, He's in the county Morgue. Laurie Marlowe
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was hiding from something. But what All roads were dead ended except the one
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we hadn't tried, mister Henry Brewster Burton the Third. We returned to Boston
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to pay a call at the exclusive back bay mansion of the Brewsters, a
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manage that you'd hardly expect to produce a pursuer of a burlesque queen. Henry
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the Third received me in the library. I understand you're an investigator, mister
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Race. Yes, I want some information about a girl you've been seeing?
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What girl and what sort of information? Egyptian? At the Burlicue Review.
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Sorry, I will not answer any questions concerning Egypt. Look, Burton,
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this is important. A man has been murdered. Are you implying that Egypt
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is involved in it? Very definitely? What kind of a game are you
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trying to work? No game? I'm looking for information. You have it,
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I want it. I'm going to ask you very politely to get out
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of here, unless you'd prefer to have me throw you out. I wouldn't
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try that if I were you. I was intercollegiate boxing champion for three years.
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Mister Race, Now get out. You are pretty good, not bad,
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So let me go. Race. No, I'll hold on to disarmon
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till you decide a operate And next time you see your college boxing coach,
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have him explained why you should never be drawn into a right hand lead.
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All right, you win the fight that doesn't get you the information you want.
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Stop being a lot and start being practical about your lady love Burton.
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I've got an idea she's been playing you for a sucker. Believe in being
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brutally frank, don't you. I'll let you decide for yourself. The girl's
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been working you for something, hasn't she some kind of favor to be done
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through your influence? Yes, what kind of a favor? Maybe the key
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to a murder? Burton. You may help her later if she's involved,
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but you can't cover for her. The favor was both political and personal.
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There's a man in the federal penitentiary, her brother. His name is James
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Marlow. She asked me to use my influence to have him moved from a
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West Coast prison to one in the east. James Marlow, that's right,
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James Marlow. The name started Wiel's turning. Convicted a post office robbery and
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sentenced to twenty years, still had fifteen to go. Does that help any
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Race? It helps a lot. And I think she was lying to you.
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I think James Marlow will turn out to be her husband, not her
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brother. Her husband. Yes, I've an idea that she was married in
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Mexico. That's why American police couldn't find any record of a marriage when Marlow
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was tried. But he's been in jail for five years. Race, Yes,
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Burton, but the eye witnessed. The postal clerk whose testimony convicted him,
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swore that a girl was with Marlow when the robbery was staged. They
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went to nextco and got married as a mutual cover up, so neither could
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be forced to testify against the other if they were caught. I've been taken
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in, haven't I. Race. It happens to the best of us.
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But for your sake, I hope you didn't try to arrange that favor.
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That's the trouble I did. Marlow is on a train right now, being
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moved east. Then you'd better call your contact in Washington. Have a heavy
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guard rushed to the train as soon as possible. This is the payoff of
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a long range plan. Marlow will make a pitch for freedom. They'll try
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to get him off that train. It was still no solution to the murder
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of Barney Lang. He had found out some things, that was certain,
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But how I kept thinking about it as I left Burton's house to join Mark
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in the car, thinking so hard that I missed Mark's signal. Somebody jammed
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a gun into my ribs. All right, Nosy, climb into the car.
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Sorry, Race, I try to catch your eye. All right,
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start the car, let's move. You're a busy little fellow, aren't you.
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Rebel? I asked the boys for that license, Like I said,
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Race, I got him. You ain't gonna like this ride too bad?
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You had to come along. I just found out why you haven't had more
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company. What do you mean you look like part of a gang? Rebel?
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You're the type. But the rest of the boys are meeting the boss,
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aren't they. James Marlow. They've got to get him off a train.
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Oh, I know you gotta be cooled. You should have stayed in
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New York after you went through Lange's office this morning. I kept talking to
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keep Rebel's mind on me and away from Mark. I didn't know what kind
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of a play Mark would make, but he was at the wheel and I
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had a count on him to come up with something. He did. It
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was a ten ton truck parked in front of a highway diner. He Rebel,
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I haven't hit a ten ton truck at ninety miles an hour. No,
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smart guy, you're going a smart guy. Rebel had a natural reaction.
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He forgot us, leaned on the door handle, and jumped. Look
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Out, you missed that truck by an inch. Mark, Yeah, yeah,
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Rebel didn't. He hit it on a fly when he jumped. It
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won't be enough left of blot up. We better get back to the Burloku
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review Mark, I've got a hunch of gypshas giving her farewell performance. This
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evening is Laurie's dressing remark, wait to watch you come, Hello eyes,
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I've been expecting you. Tired of running, Laurie, Yes, tired.
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Your husband isn't going to get off that train, baby. The gang will
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be picked up too. I know Burton called me. It made me feel
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like, Oh it was Robin. I did it because I had to.
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Your husband wasn't going to let you enjoy the comforts of life while he wasted
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the whale in jail. Was he? Yes, he let me take the
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radio job because he thought it might be able to buy his way out with
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the money out of a federal ten he was dreaming. I know he had
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Rebel and the other boys watching me. Gave them mortars to keep me working
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in burlesque, to make things. It's rough for me, so I don't
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never forget what a bad time he was having. The only way you could
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get off was to get him off that by you figured it. If I
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quit or try to run, he said he'd have me brought in for the
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post office job. He couldn't testify, but the clerk saw me too.
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I better call a police. Baby, you don't have to raise I called
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him myself. Just a way, leave me alone, please? Right?
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Sure? Well, what's ther matter? Right? I just saw the farewell
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performance. I didn't enjoy it. Oh here comes Millie. Hello Millie.
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I was hoping you'd be around. Why I wanted to tell you that your
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boyfriend, Rebel met with a fatal accident tonight, my boyfriend, you're a
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right of your mom Oh no, I'm not. He knew I'd been the
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body Lang's office. That's a bit of information only you could have given him.
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So sue me Race, who killed Bonnie Lang? Baby? Well,
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since Rebel's gone, I might as well tell you he did. Can you
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prove it? I think so. I went down to New York with Rebel.
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He wanted to see Lange. I waited outside the office. I heard
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the argument, then I heard the shot. You're a confused baby. You
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try to sell Lang information. You told him about Laurie's husband and the set
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up, but he wouldn't stand for a shakedown, so you shot him.
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I told you my version. I'll stick to your story as a hole in
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it. You couldn't have heard an argument from outside Lang's office because the office
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is sound proofing you. Thanks for the gun, Milly. Now we'll take
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you out to the local jail. They let you strip there, and they'll
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even let you take a shower. Then they'll give you something simple to wear
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from now on the Adventures of Frank Race starring Paul Dubov with Tony Barrett as
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Mark Donovan comes to You from Hollywood. Others heard in tonight's cast were Michael
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Ann Barrett, Evelyn Scott, Jackie Shields, Tom McKee, and Ken Harvey.
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This series is written and directed by Buckley Angel and Joel Murcott. The
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music is composed and played by Ivan Ditmars. Be sure to be with us
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again this same time next week for another dramatic chapter in the Adventures of Frank
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Race Art Gilmore speaking. This is a Brucel's production, Welcome Back. This
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was of course a very unique plot involving a radio queen who also did burlesque
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in Boston, and of course it sounded very familiar to me, and with
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good reason, because it had been done on yours truly, Johnny Doller.
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It was the k Bellamy matter, which would be broadcast about three and a
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half years later on January thirtieth of nineteen fifty three. Johnny Dollar was of
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course noted, some might say notorious for reusing old radio scripts, and this,
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of course would be another case where people took a used radio script adapted
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it to Johnny Dowler. Probably helped a little since Johnny Dollar wasn't in s
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investigator. Now we turn to your comments and feedback. Johnston comments regarding episode
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eight fifty five, The Adventure of the Six Week Cure. This was a
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pretty progressive story as that it gave, for it's time, a rather sympathetic
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view of divorces. A good story. I think it was a pretty balanced
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approach and in some ways a lot more realistic than many of the Hollywood portrayals
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of divorce at the time. There were some movies, particularly some that would
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play themselves as comedy, that really played the whole issue of divorce in its
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consequences in a kind of flippant manner. So this one, I think took
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the issue as seriously as this very dark and painful thing. But I thought
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it was a pretty well balanced episode. Doug us as Adam, thanks for
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the show. I first found your Dragnet podcast, but it started enjoying the
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Great Detectives podcast as well. It was nice to hear Art Gilmore returned to
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Frank Race this week after has been gone a couple of weeks. I will
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miss Dragnet, my favorite, but look forward to its return. Thanks again,
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and of course Art Gilmore speaking of Dragnet, involved in many Dragnet episodes
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and even onto Adam twelve, after of course, a long career in radio.
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It's just amazing to hear the number of programs he announced on, including
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things like Doctor Christian, which goes all the way back to the nineteen thirties.
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All right, well that'll do it for today. Join us back here
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tomorrow for a Life in your Hands and we will be back next Monday another
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episode of Frank Race and I. Meanwhile, send your comments to Box thirteen
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at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Facebook, Facebook dot com,
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slash of Radio Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam
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Grahamson and off