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Suspense - "The Blue Hour" (Old Time Radio, 1947) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Dancer Lois LaPaul arrives at a New York nightclub to
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: begin a new engagement, shadowed by the recent murder of
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  Speaker 1: her wealthy boyfriend. A reporter named Alec Mahoney and nightclub
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: proprietor Anthony Licata take an interest in what Lois may know,
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: and in a valuable diamond tied to the killing. From Suspense,
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  Speaker 1: this is The Blue Hour, Episode 5, dated September 2nd, 1947.
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  Speaker 1: Claire Trevor stars as Lois LaPaul with Wally Marr and
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  Speaker 1: Hans Conrad. Marty Schwartz wrote the script. We now take
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  Speaker 1: you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Suspense.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight, suspense brings you Miss Claire Trevor as star. But first,
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  Speaker 3: a word from your announcer.
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  Speaker 4: please the most discriminating tastes. And there's a magnificent Cresta
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  Speaker 4: Blanca wine to distinguish your dining, to enrich your entertaining.
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  Speaker 4: the vines. Shenley's Cresta Blanca Wine Company, Livermore, California.
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  Speaker 5: And now, Shenley brings you... Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.
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  Speaker 5: Presented by Roma Wines. That's R-O-M-A. Roma Wines of Fresno, California.
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  Speaker 5: Tonight's star, Miss Claire Trevor in The Blue Hour.
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  Speaker 3: A suspense play produced, edited, and directed for Shenley by
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  Speaker 3: William Spears. Just one more.
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  Speaker 6: Just one more, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Paul.
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  Speaker 6: Are you sure you don't know who killed Mike? Not
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  Speaker 6: even a guess? Just one more. Oh, boys.
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  Speaker 1: Just one more. Oh, oh, please.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, all right, boys. The show's over. We're taking off now.
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  Speaker 6: See you on Broadway. Goodbye. Goodbye, you've all been just grand.
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  Speaker 6: Just grand, boys.
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  Speaker 3: Love you all.
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  Speaker 1: Bye.
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  Speaker 7: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: Bye.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, stewardess. Where's my seat, honey? Well, that was that.
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  Speaker 6: From then on, I had a nice quiet ride.
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  Speaker 7: Into New York with nothing to do but look down
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  Speaker 7: at the scenery. You never know when the break's going
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  Speaker 7: to come in show business. I've been hoping for six
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  Speaker 7: years now, and the best I ever did was a
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  Speaker 7: one-night stand in some greasy clip joint. I know I'm
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  Speaker 7: no ballerina from the Ballet Russe de Monte.
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  Speaker 6: Carlo, but I can do a couple of whirls without.
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  Speaker 7: Breaking my neck. And besides, I got looks. That's what
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  Speaker 7: the men ask for. At least that's what Jason White
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  Speaker 7: asked for. He was my only connection with high society
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  Speaker 7: before he passed away. Oh, don't feel sorry for me,
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  Speaker 7: because his getting bumped off was my break. They had
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  Speaker 7: my legs in every paper in Chicago. That's how I
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  Speaker 7: happened to come to New York. I got a contract
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  Speaker 7: to dance at an extremely chic joint called the Blue Hour,
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  Speaker 7: with a minimum, mind you. All the way from Chicago,
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  Speaker 7: I worried no one would meet me when I.
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  Speaker 6: Arrived, but I was wrong.
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  Speaker 7: There were about nearly a million reporters at LaGuardia Airport...
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  Speaker 7: You'd have thought I was Miss America or a Bueller
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  Speaker 7: or somebody. I was really intriguing them until he showed up.
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  Speaker 6: That man, Mahoney.
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  Speaker 2: How about one more picture, Miss Lepore?
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  Speaker 6: A little more leg? Ah, that's it. Thank you. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: thank you, boys. Come around and see me at the
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  Speaker 6: Blue Hour. I'll give an extra good show if I
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  Speaker 6: know you're there. Go up to you, Miss Lepore.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're pretty smooth at extra good shows, aren't you?
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  Speaker 6: I beg your pardon? Oh, it's you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mahoney's the name. Alec Mahoney.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't ask your name.
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  Speaker 2: My, my, you're touchy.
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  Speaker 6: Wouldn't you like to know?
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  Speaker 2: Carry a bag for you?
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  Speaker 7: I can afford a porter.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'd like to speak to you.
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  Speaker 6: Call me up sometime.
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  Speaker 2: Who killed Jason White?
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  Speaker 6: Cop or reporter?
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 2: You got two different answers?
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  Speaker 7: Look, Mahoney, if you could read, you'd know from the
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  Speaker 7: papers I had nothing to do with Jason White's death.
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  Speaker 2: I never read the papers, honey. I'm a reporter.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I already gave my interview. Now, leave me alone, Mahoney.
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  Speaker 6: I went through all this with the Chicago police.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know, I know.
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  Speaker 6: Well, then why the sudden interest?
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  Speaker 2: Because the whole thing smelled.
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  Speaker 6: Move, Mahoney. You're beginning to bore me.
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  Speaker 2: Why were you afraid to tell the police you were
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  Speaker 2: at Jason White's apartment the night he was killed?
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  Speaker 6: What are we playing? 20 questions?
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  Speaker 2: No. No, no, no. Just hunches, honey.
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  Speaker 6: Hunches, hmm?
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  Speaker 7: Look, Mahoney, Jason White was a nice guy. He liked me,
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  Speaker 7: I liked his money. We got along swell as long
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  Speaker 7: as he was spending it on me.
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  Speaker 2: Did you kill him because he stopped spending it?
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  Speaker 7: If that's another hunch, get out of my way before I.
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  Speaker 6: Haul off on you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, now look at me.
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  Speaker 6: Look, there's just two things you can do for me.
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  Speaker 6: Drop dead.
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  Speaker 7: Drop dead.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't feel so good after parting with my homie.
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  Speaker 6: He made me feel uneasy, as if he knew something important.
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  Speaker 6: He seemed awfully nosy about who killed Jason White.
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  Speaker 7: He sure would have made a good lawyer. Besides, he
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  Speaker 7: wasn't half bad looking. Just the same, I hoped I'd
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  Speaker 7: never see him again. I finally got a cab and
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  Speaker 7: decided to go straight over to the Blue Hour. Come
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  Speaker 7: to think of it, they didn't have anyone meet me
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  Speaker 7: at the airport. They've got some nerve treating their star
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  Speaker 7: attraction that way.
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  Speaker 6: I'd tell them a thing or two. I couldn't believe
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  Speaker 6: my eyes when I took a gander at the blue hour.
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  Speaker 6: It was the most beautiful place I ever saw. Extremely chic.
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  Speaker 6: The walls and ceilings were covered with real satin, and
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  Speaker 6: the floors were so cleanly glistened.
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  Speaker 7: There were enough mirrors around to powder 4,000 noses at
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  Speaker 7: the same time. And there was an honest-to-goodness band, ten pieces.
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  Speaker 7: They were rehearsing as I entered. Oh, anybody would look
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  Speaker 7: good on that stage with that music. And I wasn't
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  Speaker 7: going to.
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  Speaker 6: Be the exception.
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  Speaker 7: I was in such a daze, I didn't see him
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  Speaker 7: come alongside of me. But somehow he had the knack
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  Speaker 7: of making you feel his presence.
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  Speaker 8: Miss LaPaul?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah. How did you know?
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  Speaker 8: You're quite famous these days. I'm Anthony Licata.
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  Speaker 6: Pleased to meet you, Mr. Licata. I love your joint.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, place. Extremely chic. I know I'm going to
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  Speaker 6: like working here.
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  Speaker 2: I hope so.
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  Speaker 8: Follow me, Miss LaPaul.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, that band is certainly out of this world.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you like it. This way, Miss Lepore.
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  Speaker 6: I've never seen anything like it.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you sit down?
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  Speaker 6: Thanks, I could use a seat. Those reporters gave me
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  Speaker 6: a good going over this morning.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you tell them?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, the usual stuff, like how many offers I had,
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  Speaker 7: and I picked your club because it was the best
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  Speaker 7: in town, and I gave them a couple of good shots.
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  Speaker 8: Did you tell them anything about Jason White?
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  Speaker 6: Well, they were the usual questions.
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  Speaker 2: What usual questions?
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  Speaker 6: Like, did I love him? Do I miss him? Do
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  Speaker 6: I have any idea who killed him?
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  Speaker 4: Do you?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 6: Look, Mr. Licata, I want to be a dancer, not
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  Speaker 6: an information, please.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sorry, Miss LaPaule, but I'm very interested in crime.
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  Speaker 8: Unsolved crimes.
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  Speaker 2: Just a hobby. Cigarette?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, thank you. When do I start working, Mr. Licata?
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  Speaker 8: You're on salary already.
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  Speaker 6: Gee, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: I could start rehearsing right away. I'd be ready by
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  Speaker 7: tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you must be very tired from the ordeal of
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  Speaker 8: everything that happened in Chicago. You take a two-week rest.
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  Speaker 2: Then we're going to see.
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  Speaker 6: Two weeks? Well, I'll be deader than a mackerel by then.
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  Speaker 7: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Licata, I'm hot as a firecracker now. How long do
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  Speaker 6: you think this publicity can last?
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  Speaker 8: I'm sorry, Miss LaPaul. I don't think it's possible.
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  Speaker 6: You don't think it's possible? Well, I like that. I've
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  Speaker 6: waited six years for this kind of a chance, and
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  Speaker 6: I'm not going to sit on my.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not going to just sit and watch it fizzle out.
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  Speaker 8: Well, unfortunately, Miss LaPaul, you must be satisfied with the arrangement.
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  Speaker 6: Satisfied my foot. I'll get a job somewhere else.
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  Speaker 8: You're forgetting one small detail, Miss LaPaul. You're on the
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  Speaker 8: contract to me. I'm going to see that you stay there.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I don't get it. You chase me around in
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  Speaker 6: Chicago as if I was studded with diamonds.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you are very valuable.
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  Speaker 6: What's the game, Licata?
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  Speaker 8: Don't you know?
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  Speaker 9: No, I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: What a shame, Miss Lapo. I'm sure that before you're
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  Speaker 8: finished here, you'll play the game very well.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't like it. I didn't like it at all.
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  Speaker 7: Because it didn't take a Sam Spade to figure out
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  Speaker 7: that the game he was playing had something to do
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  Speaker 7: with a guy I knew called Jason White.
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  Speaker 6: And Jason White was.
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  Speaker 9: was murdered.
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  Speaker 3: For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Miss Claire Trevor
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  Speaker 3: in The Blue Hour. Roma Wines' presentation tonight in radio's
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  Speaker 3: outstanding theater of.
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  Speaker 2: Thrills, Suspense. Suspense!
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  Speaker 3: And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage
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  Speaker 3: Claire Trevor as Lois LaPaul in The Blue Hour, a
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  Speaker 3: play well calculated to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 7: The Blue.
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  Speaker 10: Hour I may have felt uneasy when I left Mahoney,
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  Speaker 10: but I was downright scared when I.
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  Speaker 7: Left Anthony Licata's office. I must be a real square.
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  Speaker 7: Everybody seems to be talking riddles. I know there's something
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  Speaker 7: cooking that just concerns me, but I'll be darned if
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  Speaker 7: I know what. Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Licata had an apartment for me. In fact, he had
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  Speaker 6: me driven there.
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  Speaker 7: I wasn't blind enough to miss the stooge he planted
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  Speaker 7: outside my door. I was in a fine fix. Lois
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  Speaker 7: LaPaul was going to burn up the big city stuck in.
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  Speaker 6: An apartment with a bodyguard.
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  Speaker 7: The sad part of it all was I didn't know
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  Speaker 7: a soul to turn to for help, except.
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  Speaker 6: Except... No.
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  Speaker 7: No, it wasn't possible. He wouldn't help me. So, there
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  Speaker 7: was nothing for me to do but sit there and eat.
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  Speaker 6: Who is it?
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  Speaker 2: I'm a homie.
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  Speaker 6: Oh....
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  Speaker 2: Hello there, beautiful.
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  Speaker 6: Shut up and come in.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm honored, Miss Lepore. Tell me, is this to
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  Speaker 2: be a social visit or.
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  Speaker 6: I'm scared. I need help.
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  Speaker 2: Well, your attitude seems to have changed.
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  Speaker 6: Did you see a man outside?
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  Speaker 2: An autograph hunter?
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  Speaker 6: More like a head hunter. He's planted there to watch me.
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  Speaker 2: Who planted him?
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  Speaker 6: Anthony Licata of the Blue Owl.
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  Speaker 5: Licata, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is developing faster than I figured. He sure
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  Speaker 2: is impatient.
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  Speaker 6: Nuts, he's impatient.
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  Speaker 7: He's making me sit around doing nothing for two weeks.
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  Speaker 6: It's some game we're playing. Only I don't like games,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm scared.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, you do have human instincts.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Mahoney, what's going on? Why am I involved?
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  Speaker 2: Close the faucet on those crocodile tears, honey.
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  Speaker 6: Why don't you believe me?
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  Speaker 2: Because you're not playing square with me.
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  Speaker 6: What do you want from me, Mahoney?
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  Speaker 2: The truth.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I.
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  Speaker 2: You were in Jason White's apartment the night he was killed.
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  Speaker 2: Weren't you?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I was.
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  Speaker 2: What were you doing there?
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  Speaker 6: I went to see him. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, just like that, huh?
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  Speaker 6: He called me and asked me to come right up.
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  Speaker 2: Do you always run when a man asks you to
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  Speaker 2: come up to his apartment?
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  Speaker 6: He sounded frightened.
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  Speaker 7: He told me to hurry. I grabbed a taxi and
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  Speaker 7: got there as fast as I could. I knocked several times,
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  Speaker 7: but there was no answer, so... I walked in. Every
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  Speaker 7: light in the place was lit. Every chair, table, and
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  Speaker 7: drawer was upset. You know that from the newspaper stories.
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  Speaker 7: Jason was sitting in the one and only chair left upright.
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  Speaker 7: I remember he smiled as I walked in.
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  Speaker 2: You got here very quickly, my dear. Thank you. Jason,
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  Speaker 2: what happened?
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  Speaker 6: What's been going on here? Oh, forget about that.
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  Speaker 2: Come over here beside me.
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  Speaker 6: I don't understand this.
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  Speaker 2: Never mind, my dear. It's unimportant. Listen to me carefully.
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  Speaker 6: You sound sick. What's the matter? Nothing, my dear.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry. Here, take this.
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  Speaker 6: It's a bottle of perfume.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I've had it for you for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: But like most men, I forgot to give it to you.
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  Speaker 7: Take it now.
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  Speaker 6: You mean you had me rush all the way up
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  Speaker 6: here for this? What's the gag?
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  Speaker 8: Jason....
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  Speaker 6: Jason, you're bleeding. You've been hurt. I'll call a doctor.
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  Speaker 2: No, Lois, please don't do that. I'd rather have it
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  Speaker 2: this way.
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  Speaker 6: Who did it, Jason?
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Lois promised me one thing.
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  Speaker 3: Don't open that bottle of perfume until I catch and
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  Speaker 3: convict whoever attacked me.
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  Speaker 2: If you do, your life will be in danger.
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  Speaker 6: I promised, Jason. You'd better go now.
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  Speaker 2: Forget... If you were ever here tonight... God bless you,
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  Speaker 2: my dear.
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  Speaker 7: And thank you. Thank you for.
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  Speaker 2: Everything.
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  Speaker 6: Jason. Jason.
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  Speaker 2: Jason!
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  Speaker 7: And that's exactly what happened, Mahoney, I swear.
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  Speaker 2: Do you still have that bottle of perfume?
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: Of course I have.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: May I see it?
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  Speaker 6: Thinking of using it?
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Perhaps.
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: Well, I keep it in my makeup kit. Here.
• 15:45
  Speaker 7: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Very interesting.
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  Speaker 6: What's very interesting?
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  Speaker 2: Did you notice the name of this perfume?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's in French. I have a hard enough time
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: with my English.
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  Speaker 2: Le Bleu.
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  Speaker 1: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: Sounds like your tongue got stuck.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I get by, honey, I get by. Blue means
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  Speaker 2: the hour, and blue means blue. The hour blue, or
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  Speaker 2: better known as the blue hour.
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  Speaker 6: The blue hour? That's the same name as the nightclub.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, well, well, you catch on fast, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: And here's something else for you to mull over. Jason
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: White bought a diamond in Antwerp in 1929 called the
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  Speaker 2: blue hour. It was called that because it was a
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  Speaker 2: perfect blue-white stone worth about a half a million bucks.
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  Speaker 6: Holy mackerel.
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  Speaker 2: Now, do you know what's in this bottle?
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  Speaker 6: Uh, perfume?
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  Speaker 2: If you're telling the truth, honey, the blue hour diamond
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: is floating around in there.
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  Speaker 6: You mean 500 grand worth of... Oh, brother.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll find out in just a minute. No, no, don't.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: I told you what Jason said about my life being
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: in danger. If that's open before his murderer is convicted.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Sugarface, your life is already in danger. Well, cross your fingers.
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  Speaker 2: Here goes.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Mahoney.
• 16:51
  Speaker 9: Oh, brother.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that thing dazzle.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, gee, it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the blue hour diamond.
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  Speaker 6: Boy, on my finger would that look extremely chic.
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  Speaker 2: Look, baby. Look, if you want to live to enjoy it,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: we've got to beat the early bird to the worm. Now, here.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Sit down here. You've got a full evening in front
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: of you, honey. Now, here. Here's what you're going to do.
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: Alec wasn't kidding when he said we had a full
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: evening in front of us. He had a plan, and
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: I had to memorize it. I was going to do
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: some acting. And here I come to New York to
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: be a dancer. I was so mixed up with all
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: that happened, I wasn't sure of anything, except that I
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: fell in love with Alec Mahoney. He didn't know it yet,
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: but as soon as things were settled.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: I was going to let him know. Meanwhile, I felt
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: that Mahoney was staging a play and I was his
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: leading lady.
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: He said things, had me repeat them till I thought
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: I'd scream, but he assured me one mistake would be fatal.
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: He then picked out my chicest evening gown and had
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: me put it on. I thought I detected a gleam
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: in his eye as I paraded before him, but he
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: pulled himself together, gave me a quick pat on the
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: shoulder and left. I waited ten minutes by the clock.
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: We still had Lakata's fair-haired boy waiting outside. I then
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: opened the door noisily and stepped out.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Hey, you going someplace?
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: Look, stupid, I'm going down to the Blue Hour. If
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: you want to come along, just fall.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: In line behind teacher. Next time.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Coming.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: Good evening, Mr. Licata.
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: What are you doing here?
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: I came to see you.
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: Was there something you didn't understand this afternoon?
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: On the contrary. It was all too clear. Aren't you
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: going to ask me to sit down? Tony? Sit down.
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: Don't call me Tony. My name's Anthony.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, Anthony.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: You look pretty good for a second, Rita.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: See, I'm flattered. I still don't know why you're here.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: I came to play the games.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I see.
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: What caused this sudden change of mind?
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: It's a woman's prerogative, isn't it?
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Maybe.
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: You see, I know something about you, and I think
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: you've guessed something about me.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Stop beating around the bush.
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: All right, Anthony. I know you killed Jason White.
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: For a dumb babe, you think you know an awful lot.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: I was in the room when you killed Jason.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Can you prove it?
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: If I tried hard enough, I might be able to.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: But that's not why I'm here.
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: Then what did cause this social visit?
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: I think you know. I have the blue eyes. diamond
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: I have Put your eyes back in your head, Anthony.
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: So you do have it, huh?
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: Up to this point, you only thought I had it
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Isn't that right?
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: What's the deal?
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: I'll make it short and simple I need money I
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: couldn't possibly pass that rock You know your way around
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: Pass it, split 50-50, and I'll forget I ever saw
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: you in Jason's apartment.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: I never said I was there.
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: So you didn't.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Give me the diamond.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: Don't be stupid. I never carry it around. It's too heavy.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Where is it?
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: Come to my apartment in about half an hour and
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: come yourself, Anthony.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: Leave that Harry A. poem. If there's any funny business,
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: you'll never get it.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: I'll be there. I'll own.
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: I'm sure you'll do as I say, Anthony, because that
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: diamond must mean.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: A lot to you. After all, you committed murder for it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: When I left the Carter's office, the taxi back to
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: my apartment felt like a Turkish bath. But so far,
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: everything went exactly as Mahoney said it would. He would
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: have been proud of me. I didn't muff a line.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Now, the worst that could happen to me was getting killed.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: The prospect of this didn't appeal at all, and.
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: Besides, it took me 25 years to find a guy
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: like Mahoney. I wanted to stay around and enjoy him.
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: Once I got back to my apartment, I had nothing
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: to do but wait for Lakata. That's like waiting for
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: poison to take effect. I turned on every light and
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: the radio.
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: I figured the soft music would help my nerves relax.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: It didn't.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: I smoked 16 cigarettes. I know, I counted them. I
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: was sitting there trying to keep my mind, such as
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: it is, off of unpleasant things, and then... Then I
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: heard it. It was the window opening. Very softly in
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: my bedroom. Somebody had come up the fire escape into
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: my room.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: I should have known that Mercado wouldn't take a chance
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: and come to see me alone like I told him.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: He had one of his gorillas in my other room
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: to make sure that I'd be in his power.
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: This apparently had not occurred to Mahoney.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: Who thought he was so smart. I got up from
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: the couch and stood there listening.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: The guy in there was coming closer because I heard
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: him knock my sewing basket over.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: I looked around for an effective weapon. Then I spotted it.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Just the thing. My big makeup case.
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: I picked it up, hefted it, and I quietly kicked
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: off my shoes and stole over to the bedroom doorway.
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: I leaned back against the wall out of sight as
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: the door started to open. I could see that big
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: gorilla standing there with a gun in the dark with
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: his hat pulled down over his face.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: Then he started to push his face out into the room.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Now look.
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: He fell back into the bedroom and I shut the
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: door and stood there.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: Oh, Mahoney, wherever you are, don't fail me now. Who
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: is it?
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: La Cara. La Cara.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: Oh, come in, Anthony. I'm glad to see your prompt.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: It's a sign of good upbringing.
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: You've got to play that radio.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sorry. Shouldn't keep such late hours, Anthony. It's
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: making you nervous.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Where's the diamond?
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: Gee, you're in a hurry. Got a date?
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I've got to get back to the club.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: All right, Anthony.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: But remember, I don't care what you do with the diamond.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: I just want 250 grand.
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: My share. Is that clear?
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: You'll get your share.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: Good.
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: Here's the diamond. Had it in my handbag all evening.
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: Oh, the blue hour.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I saw it only once.
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: But I knew then that someday I'd have to have that.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: You saw it in Antwerp in 1929. Isn't that right, Anthony?
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: How do you know?
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: I have a crystal ball.
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: You know too much.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: Not any more than you do now, Anthony.
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: What was that reporter Mahoney doing here this evening?
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: Mahoney? I don't recall.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: My man told me he was here.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: Oh, oh, yeah, yeah. He came for an exclusive interview
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: of my life.
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: Did he tell you it was going to end tonight?
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: No.
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: You think for one minute I was going to let
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: you run loose knowing what you do about me? I
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: still don't know how you could have been in that
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: apartment when I had to kill Jason.
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: So you did kill him. Mahoney was right.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, Mahoney. I thought so.
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: Only don't count on him, sister, because my boys are
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: out looking for him now.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: Anthony, let's talk this over, huh? You can keep the diamond.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: It's yours.
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: You should have stuck to those clip joints back in Chicago.
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: That's where you belong.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: No.
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: No!
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Are you all right? It's me, Mahoney.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: Mahoney.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Are you all right, beautiful? Are you all right?
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: I'm alive. Oh, good.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Well, what did you have to hit me on the
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: head for, you big dope?
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: Was that you?
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: You know, I almost didn't make it.
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: Well, I never would have spoken to you again, Mahoney.
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: In fact, I never would have spoken to anybody.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: Again, would I?
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're going to be all right now, honey.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: I must have lost four pounds tonight.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Well, I never heard a woman complain about that before.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Come on. Come on, get up, honey. You're all right.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: You're not hurt. Hey, what's wrong? Nothing.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: I'm just saying my prayers.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Okay, Miss Lepore, would you mind facing the sun just
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: a little more.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: So we can see the sparkle? Yeah, that's it. Hey,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: are you going to collect the reward for turning up
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: White's killer? Yeah, Miss Lepore, what about that?
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: Well, I didn't turn him up. Somebody else did. Yeah,
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: not the way I heard it.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Well, why are you going back to Chicago all of
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: a sudden?
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's all, boys. I'm sorry.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Goodbye, Miss Lepore.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Bye.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Bye.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Well, now you're really famous, aren't you?
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: Mahoney, I thought when I didn't hear from you, I thought.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Well, I've been busy. You didn't think I was going
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: to let you run out on me, did you?
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, that.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: I never really thought about it one way or the other.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: No?
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: No, I'm still extremely angry with you, as you may
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: well imagine.
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: You haven't even bothered to explain.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Well, honey, it was this way. Licata was with Jason
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: White on his trip to Antwerp, and he saw Jason
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: buy the Blue Hour Diamond. He offered him all sorts
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: of dough for it, but he wouldn't sell. And Licata
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: never got over it.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: Holy mackerel. Well, he's over it now.
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: There's just one thing I want to know from you, Mahoney.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: How did you know Licata killed Jason White?
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: You didn't? You... You mean everything I did. Risking my life.
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: Playing games with a maniac with a buzzer all because
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: you had a hunch.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: That's right, baby. Never go wrong, Mahoney.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Oh!
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Well, uh... What are you gonna do now, beautiful? You're
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: a rich woman now, you know.
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: How do you speak it?
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Well, the diamond legally belongs to you. I think it
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: would hold up in court.
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: Well, I know one thing for sure. I'm giving up
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: the ballet. And, uh, for two things, um... I think
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: I'll get married. Oh.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Society, I suppose.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: Holy mackerel, you're a big dope, Mahoney. It takes a
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: lot of courage for a girl to do what I'm
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: about to do. Will you marry me?
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: I suppose so.
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: Suspense!
• 27:49
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• 27:54
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• 28:00
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• 28:04
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• 28:09
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• 28:15
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• 28:24
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• 28:28
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• 28:38
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• 29:01
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• 29:04
  Speaker 3: The Velvet Touch. Tonight's play was by Marty Schwartz. Next Thursday,
• 29:10
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• 29:16
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• 29:19
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• 29:30
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• 29:33
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• 29:39
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• 29:54
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• 29:58
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• 30:01
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• 30:30
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• 30:35
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