# Screen Guild Theater: The Glass Key (EP4920e)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 1 Mar 2026, 36 min.

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Today's Story: The best friend and top lieutenant of a political boss finds himself in the midst of a murder that threatens his boss's career. Original Air Date: July 22, 1946 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Alan Ladd; Marjorie Reynolds; Ward Bond Thank you to our newest platinum patreon supporters who have been supporting the podcast since March 2016...Dan, Jennifer, Jesse, Jim and Rachel, Judith, Michael, Nancy, and Paul Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Patreon Supporter of the Day: James, Patreon supporter since March 2020 Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Take the listener survey at http://survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call at 208-991-4783 Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectives Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.

## Transcript

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[1:53] Speaker 1: thank you so much for supporting the podcasts these last
[1:57] Speaker 1: ten years. I really appreciate it. Our listener support and
[2:01] Speaker 1: appreciation campaign begins tomorrow and we'll talk more about that
[2:07] Speaker 1: after tomorrow's show. But as part of that, we will
[2:11] Speaker 1: bring you three special episodes, and we're going to start
[2:16] Speaker 1: with another adaptation of a story we brought you previously.
[2:21] Speaker 1: And I actually thought this one was more recent that
[2:25] Speaker 1: we did the first adaptation of it, but when I
[2:28] Speaker 1: was looking back, I see that this was actually we
[2:31] Speaker 1: did our three thousand, eight hundredth episode special, which was
[2:36] Speaker 1: the Campbell's Playhouse adaptation of The Glass Key. Today, we
[2:41] Speaker 1: are going to bring you the screen Yield Theater adaptation
[2:44] Speaker 1: of The Glass Keep. This, of course, is based on
[2:48] Speaker 1: the nineteen forty two film starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake,
[2:54] Speaker 1: and Brian don Levy. Now let's go back to the
[2:57] Speaker 1: screen ye Old Theater, the Lake the Esther Screen Guild Theater,
[3:01] Speaker 1: this time from July twenty second, nineteen forty six. Please
[3:05] Speaker 1: enjoy The Glass Key.
[3:21] Speaker 2: Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild players, the Lady Astra
[3:37] Speaker 2: Screen Guild play Tonight the Glass Key, the starring players,
[3:42] Speaker 2: the selling lad This.
[3:43] Speaker 3: Is Marjorie Reynolds and this is Ward Bond.
[4:00] Speaker 2: Tonight, Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild players in Paramount
[4:03] Speaker 2: Pictures exciting mystery drama The Glass Key. It stars Marjorie
[4:08] Speaker 2: Reynolds as Janet Alan Ladder's Ed and Ward Bond as Paul,
[4:13] Speaker 2: the Lady Esther screen Guild players in The Glass Key.
[4:35] Speaker 4: Paul used to say, we made a great combination. He
[4:38] Speaker 4: had the fists and I had the brains. Not that
[4:41] Speaker 4: you could call him dumb. You don't get to be
[4:43] Speaker 4: political boss of his state without having something under your hat.
[4:47] Speaker 4: The trouble was when he wanted something, he just grabbed
[4:49] Speaker 4: it off and didn't count the costs. And that's what
[4:52] Speaker 4: worried me that night.
[4:55] Speaker 5: So had the new posters just came in?
[4:57] Speaker 6: How do you like him?
[4:58] Speaker 4: Elect Gralph and three color job?
[5:01] Speaker 5: Not bad?
[5:01] Speaker 4: Huh, Paul, are you really going through that crazy idea?
[5:04] Speaker 5: What crazy idea?
[5:05] Speaker 4: Throwing him with old man Henry the whole reform ticket.
[5:08] Speaker 5: Sure, we're making the deal tonight at dinner at his house. Hey,
[5:13] Speaker 5: what's the matter.
[5:13] Speaker 4: Don't you like it now more than I like those
[5:15] Speaker 4: socks you're wearing?
[5:17] Speaker 5: Huh? What's wrong with him?
[5:19] Speaker 4: The clocks? They tick too loud? Yeah? I thought it
[5:23] Speaker 4: was pretty Nick Vegas isn't going to like it either.
[5:26] Speaker 5: No, I ain't that just too bad?
[5:28] Speaker 4: You know they rated his gambling joint last night.
[5:31] Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. I passed the word myself.
[5:34] Speaker 4: Nick budd protection. He's going to want it.
[5:36] Speaker 5: Yeah, but it just happens that we're cleaning up this time, Paul.
[5:39] Speaker 5: He's too big to take the boot from you now,
[5:41] Speaker 5: I mean, he's too big to take it laying down,
[5:42] Speaker 5: but he'll take it. This is the kiss off.
[5:45] Speaker 4: And after election, you think Henry will play ball.
[5:47] Speaker 5: I know he will. Add why he's practically giving me
[5:49] Speaker 5: the key to his house.
[5:51] Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, a glass key. Look out it don't break
[5:55] Speaker 4: off in your hand. I know what the score was,
[6:03] Speaker 4: of course, oh man. Henry had a daughter, Janet Henry.
[6:06] Speaker 4: Paul had met her and gone off his nut about her.
[6:09] Speaker 4: I'd never seen the dame myself, So that night, when
[6:11] Speaker 4: Paul was at her place for dinner, I dropped in too.
[6:14] Speaker 4: Just happened. I had to deliver some papers. I sat
[6:17] Speaker 4: there and I watched Paul shooting off his mouth, and
[6:20] Speaker 4: I watched her laughing to herself, laughing at Paul. Then
[6:25] Speaker 4: I couldn't take it anymore, so I.
[6:26] Speaker 7: Got up to go you're going so early.
[6:30] Speaker 4: Yeah, I had some things to do.
[6:32] Speaker 7: I'll go to the door with you.
[6:34] Speaker 4: Eating, mister Henry. Good night, Paul, good night ahead, see
[6:37] Speaker 4: you in the morning.
[6:38] Speaker 7: I'm sorry you're leaving, mister Beaumont. I'm sure you must
[6:42] Speaker 7: have some interesting stories too.
[6:44] Speaker 4: My off sister. I don't like your technique.
[6:46] Speaker 7: Technique.
[6:47] Speaker 4: Yeah, you've had enough lass from the wrong side of
[6:48] Speaker 4: the tracks for one night.
[6:50] Speaker 7: Oh I've had enough forever, mister Beaumont. I'm sorry for you.
[6:55] Speaker 4: Yeah, you work for it.
[6:57] Speaker 7: You have to be with him every day, you stand it.
[7:01] Speaker 4: I gotta suck you right in the eye. She wasn't
[7:09] Speaker 4: the only one in that family who was bothering me
[7:11] Speaker 4: right then. She had a brother name was Taylor Henry.
[7:14] Speaker 4: No good kid had been hitting all the gambling joints
[7:16] Speaker 4: for months. I've seen lots of times in Nick Vegas's place,
[7:19] Speaker 4: and I knew that Nick Hady's hooks in him. Because
[7:22] Speaker 4: it wasn't enough by itself. The young punk was running
[7:24] Speaker 4: around with Paul's sister, and well, that's one thing you've
[7:27] Speaker 4: got to understand. Paul loved that kid's sister of his.
[7:31] Speaker 4: Wasn't anything he wouldn't do for and I've been wondering
[7:33] Speaker 4: what was going to happen when he found out she'd
[7:35] Speaker 4: been going to Taylor Henry's apartment. I didn't have long
[7:39] Speaker 4: to wait. Just a few nights later. Hello, this is awful. Oh,
[7:46] Speaker 4: I'll slow down, kidd with Samanta.
[7:48] Speaker 7: Paul fought out about Taylor Henry and he's going up
[7:51] Speaker 7: to his house.
[7:52] Speaker 8: He's gonna kill.
[7:53] Speaker 4: Him'll get easy, snif Paul wouldn't be that crazy.
[7:55] Speaker 9: Oh, I tell you we will.
[7:56] Speaker 7: He's gonna kill him. Oh, and you've got to stop him.
[7:58] Speaker 4: Please, Okay, Okay, relax, I'll go right over and headymore.
[8:09] Speaker 4: I kept my promise. I went up to the house
[8:10] Speaker 4: of Big House. There wasn't a light, the place was dark.
[8:13] Speaker 4: I thinkured everything was under control, so I stepped off
[8:17] Speaker 4: the curb to hail a cabin. I saw something laying
[8:20] Speaker 4: there in the street. Yeah, something Taylor Henry. And he
[8:26] Speaker 4: was dead.
[8:31] Speaker 5: Ok okay just a minute. Oh hello, ahed pretty late
[8:37] Speaker 5: to be sociable. I was just getting ready to brush
[8:40] Speaker 5: my teeth.
[8:40] Speaker 4: Come on in, Oh, Paul, did you find Taylor Henry?
[8:47] Speaker 10: Oh?
[8:48] Speaker 5: So Opal calls here.
[8:49] Speaker 4: Huh yeah, yeah, did you find him?
[8:53] Speaker 5: I found his old man I had a wrong talk
[8:56] Speaker 5: with him.
[8:57] Speaker 4: H wasn't Taylor there?
[9:00] Speaker 11: No?
[9:01] Speaker 2: Why?
[9:02] Speaker 4: Well, he's laying in the gutter outside his house. He's
[9:07] Speaker 4: he's dead.
[9:09] Speaker 5: H that's all.
[9:12] Speaker 4: And you hear what I said? Sure? Well, well what
[9:18] Speaker 4: he was killed?
[9:19] Speaker 5: Do you want me to get hysterical about it?
[9:22] Speaker 4: They want me to do? Should I call it the police?
[9:25] Speaker 5: Don't they know about it?
[9:27] Speaker 4: Wasn't anybody around when I found him? Is it all
[9:30] Speaker 4: right for me to say I found him?
[9:32] Speaker 5: Why not? Go ahead? Use the phone? Okay, you're a
[9:43] Speaker 5: big fool ed well one of them.
[9:46] Speaker 4: Sit. Come on, step don't take it so hard. Everybody's
[9:56] Speaker 4: got to go to a funeral sometime.
[10:00] Speaker 7: You love me?
[10:00] Speaker 9: I know he did.
[10:02] Speaker 4: Sure, maybe he did. When you get a.
[10:04] Speaker 7: Bad excuse me, miss Madwig, I'm Janet Henry. Yeah, I
[10:07] Speaker 7: speak to you for a minute if you want. It's
[10:10] Speaker 7: just that I think you ought to know something I
[10:12] Speaker 7: just heard about. What about Taylor's murder?
[10:15] Speaker 4: Come on, let's go sniff.
[10:16] Speaker 7: I beg your pardon. I was talking to miss Madwig.
[10:19] Speaker 4: Funeral is no place to talk about murder.
[10:21] Speaker 9: It is.
[10:22] Speaker 7: If you just heard Nick Vegas talking to my.
[10:24] Speaker 4: Father Vegas, Huh, what'd he say?
[10:27] Speaker 7: He said, he's got evidence that would convict someone for
[10:29] Speaker 7: Taylor's murder?
[10:30] Speaker 4: Who who did?
[10:32] Speaker 7: He say? It was your brother?
[10:34] Speaker 4: Listen to you? Why don't you peddle your scandal to
[10:37] Speaker 4: someone who wants to hear it? But Ed, come on,
[10:39] Speaker 4: let's go snip. I don't like the company, he.
[10:46] Speaker 12: Said, Ed, glad to see you. Hi, Sure, but what
[10:50] Speaker 12: brings you to the DA's office.
[10:52] Speaker 4: If you didn't know what about Taylor Henry?
[10:55] Speaker 12: Well, of course some people think we're kind of slow
[10:58] Speaker 12: and cleaning up that murder.
[10:59] Speaker 4: Yeah, think so?
[11:00] Speaker 12: Oh I want special. It's just well, here take a
[11:07] Speaker 12: look at this a letter. You know how it is
[11:10] Speaker 12: a lot of cranks around. They always write anonymous letters.
[11:13] Speaker 4: And well, if if.
[11:15] Speaker 12: Paul Madviick didn't kill Taylor Henry, how did his best
[11:18] Speaker 12: friend happen to find the body?
[11:21] Speaker 4: Said anything about that?
[11:22] Speaker 9: To?
[11:22] Speaker 4: No, don't now it.
[11:24] Speaker 12: Huh. I'm not taking this letter seriously. It's just that, well,
[11:27] Speaker 12: there's a lot of pressure on this case. The paper
[11:30] Speaker 12: is The Observer, especially.
[11:31] Speaker 4: I know Nick Vegas owns the Observer. Matthew's only one
[11:33] Speaker 4: hundred grand dice, Well, just have it far? What is
[11:37] Speaker 4: Nick got?
[11:38] Speaker 12: He's coming in tomorrow? I mean well ed ed. I
[11:42] Speaker 12: I just can't sit.
[11:43] Speaker 4: Around and oh tell you tell your set stand and
[11:45] Speaker 4: ride a bicycle.
[11:46] Speaker 12: Listen, I'm district attorney of this city in county. I
[11:50] Speaker 12: of course a few with Paul. I mean, if there's
[11:53] Speaker 12: any reason why I shouldn't.
[11:54] Speaker 4: There isn't any reason. And I wouldn't like you to
[11:57] Speaker 4: think you're going around thinking it was I'm going up
[12:00] Speaker 4: to see Paul, and if I were you, i'd buy
[12:03] Speaker 4: that bicycle.
[12:12] Speaker 5: Now look here, I just forget about it. I've had
[12:15] Speaker 5: the newspapers after me before, and I'm still sitting.
[12:17] Speaker 4: Pretty ever tried sitting pretty in electric chair. Don't scare me.
[12:22] Speaker 4: I'm serious. Paul, he observe is hitting about a secret
[12:24] Speaker 4: witness hot hair. You're wrong. Vegas has promised to give
[12:28] Speaker 4: them something. Patch up your trouble within. Paul, he's the
[12:31] Speaker 4: one who's spreading all the dirt.
[12:32] Speaker 5: I'll patch up nothing with that monkey. He's got to
[12:34] Speaker 5: learn the When I say things are closed down, they're
[12:36] Speaker 5: closed down.
[12:37] Speaker 4: All right, have it your own way, but don't calm
[12:38] Speaker 4: me in what I'm pulling out New York Tonight.
[12:49] Speaker 7: Comn Hello, do you mind?
[12:53] Speaker 4: Will you? Huh? What is this slumming again.
[12:57] Speaker 7: You don't like me, do you, mister Beaumont.
[13:00] Speaker 4: I don't know. I think I do.
[13:02] Speaker 7: I'm pleased. Why why you're very direct, aren't you?
[13:06] Speaker 4: Yeah? Why are you so pleased?
[13:08] Speaker 7: Well, for some obscure reason, I think you're nice.
[13:11] Speaker 4: Okay, now let's have a not so obscure reason.
[13:14] Speaker 7: Well, I I was hoping you'd help me tell me
[13:17] Speaker 7: something I want to know. Now, what did Paul mad
[13:21] Speaker 7: Big kill my brother? No, you're sure, after all, you're
[13:26] Speaker 7: Paul's best friend and you found Taylor's boy, did you not?
[13:32] Speaker 4: Huh? All right? Handed up? What ladder? Come on? Yeh?
[13:38] Speaker 4: Now you're being smart. I knew you had, But I mean,
[13:41] Speaker 4: I don't sure exactly like the one far got some
[13:44] Speaker 4: half footed crackpie.
[13:45] Speaker 7: But what if it isn't. I've got to be sure.
[13:49] Speaker 7: Please help me you want to I can tell you too.
[13:55] Speaker 4: No, I know why.
[13:57] Speaker 7: It's because you're Paul's friend.
[13:59] Speaker 4: Now, lesson not getting corny ideas I wanted. Dude, wouldn't
[14:02] Speaker 4: make any difference whose friend I was.
[14:03] Speaker 7: But you do like me? You just said you did.
[14:06] Speaker 4: Sure, Sure you've got a pretty face, nice manners that
[14:11] Speaker 4: I wouldn't trust you out of this room. You're slumming,
[14:13] Speaker 4: and I don't go for it. You think you're too
[14:16] Speaker 4: good for me, But sister, it happens. I think I'm
[14:19] Speaker 4: too good for you. Now, if you don't mind, I'll
[14:23] Speaker 4: answer my phone. Hello, Yeah, speaking you do? What for? Well,
[14:31] Speaker 4: I'm not promising anything. Don't be surprised on there. Yeah,
[14:37] Speaker 4: that's right about fifteen minutes. Well, miss Henry, I guess
[14:42] Speaker 4: you'd better run along.
[14:43] Speaker 7: But aren't you going me?
[14:44] Speaker 5: Beat it?
[14:45] Speaker 4: I just made a date.
[14:53] Speaker 6: I'm glad you're acting sensible, and I'm glad you came over.
[14:56] Speaker 4: I'm glad you're glad. Nick. That makes everybody happy.
[15:00] Speaker 6: You're quite a guy.
[15:01] Speaker 5: Ed.
[15:02] Speaker 6: That's why I've been thinking about you. I figured you
[15:04] Speaker 6: and I could slice some turkey together if you'd break
[15:07] Speaker 6: down and do me a little favorite.
[15:09] Speaker 4: Noh, what you want to know?
[15:11] Speaker 6: Plenty about Medley?
[15:12] Speaker 4: Got your proposition?
[15:13] Speaker 6: Why did Paul bump off young Taylor?
[15:16] Speaker 4: Hey, that's a nice desk cost very.
[15:18] Speaker 6: Much plenty, But you haven't answered my question.
[15:21] Speaker 4: You haven't made your proposition.
[15:23] Speaker 6: I'll stick you to the finest gambling place in town.
[15:26] Speaker 6: I'll let you run at the suit yourself. Give you
[15:28] Speaker 6: plenty of protection.
[15:29] Speaker 4: Where would you be getting protection?
[15:32] Speaker 6: You are not so hot for putting in with me,
[15:34] Speaker 6: are you? It wasn't my it is, so I guess
[15:36] Speaker 6: I'm shut down. Yeah, sure, sure, I'll give you ten
[15:41] Speaker 6: grand in cash right now, ken more on election night
[15:44] Speaker 6: if we beat Paul and the gambling house.
[15:46] Speaker 5: Office still goes, what do I have to do?
[15:48] Speaker 6: Give you a story to the observer, how Paul's sister
[15:50] Speaker 6: phoned you, how you went up to Taylor's house about that?
[15:53] Speaker 4: Sure?
[15:54] Speaker 6: Sure, I know everything about that kid. I had to
[15:57] Speaker 6: yield me so much dough say you didn't. Don't be funny. Look,
[16:03] Speaker 6: if you'll talk, tell me why Paul bumped the kid off.
[16:06] Speaker 12: We can go to the DA and I.
[16:07] Speaker 4: Get that neck. Nobody's going to see the DA. Nobody's
[16:10] Speaker 4: going to talk.
[16:12] Speaker 6: That's what you think. Hey, Rusty Jeff, what's up?
[16:15] Speaker 5: Nick? Do you want okay ed?
[16:18] Speaker 6: If you want it this way, you can thanks.
[16:21] Speaker 4: I guess I'll just buy it.
[16:23] Speaker 6: Hey, what do you know he passed out from one clip?
[16:28] Speaker 5: Yeah so he did, all right?
[16:32] Speaker 6: Now bring him to and then clip him again and
[16:35] Speaker 6: keep on clipping him until he talks.
[16:51] Speaker 2: The second act of the Lady Uster Scream Girl Play
[16:54] Speaker 2: will follow in a moment. Now a word from Lady Ester.
[16:59] Speaker 13: So many of you have ask me in your letters
[17:01] Speaker 13: why your face shows signs of age sooner than other
[17:04] Speaker 13: parts of your body. The answer is simply this. The
[17:07] Speaker 13: skin of your face is much finer textured. It's more delicate,
[17:12] Speaker 13: more easily damaged by wind and sun, by dirt, by
[17:15] Speaker 13: rough or careless treatment. That's why I think it's such
[17:18] Speaker 13: a mistake to use beauty creams that must be rubbed
[17:21] Speaker 13: in to do their job. You see, rubbing your skin,
[17:25] Speaker 13: Rubbing and stretching those fine, delicate skin structures may easily
[17:29] Speaker 13: do more harm than good. That may surprise you, but
[17:32] Speaker 13: it's an important thing to know. Rubbing may stretch the skin,
[17:36] Speaker 13: may break down its firm texture. Yes, it can make
[17:39] Speaker 13: you look years older than you are. However, millions of
[17:43] Speaker 13: women who use Lady Ester four Purpose face cream have
[17:46] Speaker 13: no such problems. For this famous cream isn't rubbed in
[17:50] Speaker 13: as most other creams are. Being so velvety soft, it
[17:53] Speaker 13: doesn't need to be rubbed in. Lady Ester four Purpose
[17:57] Speaker 13: face cream is just smoothed on, gently wiped off. That's
[18:00] Speaker 13: all there is to it. The cream itself does the work,
[18:03] Speaker 13: not your fingers. Lady Esther four Purpose face cream thoroughly
[18:08] Speaker 13: cleans your skin without rubbing, softens your skin, helps nature
[18:12] Speaker 13: refine the pores, and leaves a lovely smooth base for powder,
[18:16] Speaker 13: all without rubbing, which may break down and damage the
[18:19] Speaker 13: delicate skin structures. And if you have an especially dry
[18:23] Speaker 13: or sensitive skin, listen. Lady Ester face cream contains one
[18:27] Speaker 13: of the most beautifying ingredients known to modern science. A
[18:31] Speaker 13: single application often makes your skin look softer, more pliable,
[18:35] Speaker 13: and younger looking. Tomorrow, make this simple experiment, Get a
[18:40] Speaker 13: jar of Lady Ester for Purpose face cream and prove
[18:43] Speaker 13: to yourself that here, at last, is a face cream
[18:46] Speaker 13: you don't have to rub in to bring out the
[18:49] Speaker 13: beautiful qualities of your skin.
[19:03] Speaker 2: And now Lady As represents the second act of The
[19:07] Speaker 2: Glass Key, starring Ward Bond, Marjorie Reynolds and Alan Ladd.
[19:24] Speaker 4: Let Jeff Wait over two hundred pods. Yeah, it fists
[19:27] Speaker 4: like hams. You know how to use. How many times
[19:30] Speaker 4: he clipped me? How many times I got to my feet?
[19:33] Speaker 4: How many times he clipped me again? The next thing,
[19:36] Speaker 4: They had me in a little room somewhere. When I
[19:39] Speaker 4: came to I was stretched out on a cot and
[19:42] Speaker 4: Jeff and Rusty were sitting at the table. They were
[19:44] Speaker 4: playing two hundred poker.
[19:46] Speaker 5: What are you guys? Right?
[19:47] Speaker 4: Stee two bare?
[19:49] Speaker 5: That makes four bucks?
[19:50] Speaker 4: I owe you.
[19:53] Speaker 5: Like he's coming to again. Ain't that nice?
[19:59] Speaker 4: We can have some more one and you beat it.
[20:02] Speaker 4: He's still trying to get up.
[20:07] Speaker 14: Oh, sweetheart, you shouldn't do to try to get out.
[20:12] Speaker 14: Remember we warned you.
[20:15] Speaker 5: Be right there, rushy tail him out.
[20:18] Speaker 4: Listen, sweetie, but you want.
[20:20] Speaker 5: To lay down. You don't feel so.
[20:22] Speaker 4: Good, watch out, you'll croak him.
[20:27] Speaker 14: You can't croak him. He's tough. He likes this, don't
[20:33] Speaker 14: you baby? You ain't that too bad? He's thrown in
[20:39] Speaker 14: at the joke him la Jeff.
[20:42] Speaker 4: God is delt right. I'll take two too off the top.
[20:49] Speaker 6: Say how long you're gonna keep working on him?
[20:52] Speaker 4: You know what Nick said, until he spills the dope
[20:55] Speaker 4: on mepic.
[20:57] Speaker 6: You don't show no signs of talking yet.
[21:00] Speaker 4: And it is shame.
[21:01] Speaker 5: I'll have to keep her train.
[21:10] Speaker 4: After a while, a long while, I guess the bell
[21:12] Speaker 4: stopped ringing in my head. I managed to get one
[21:14] Speaker 4: eye open, and finally I realized I was alone. Lasteen
[21:18] Speaker 4: Jeff rob in the kitchen. I could hear the meeting
[21:20] Speaker 4: even from there. Of course, said locked my door, and
[21:24] Speaker 4: there wasn't any window in the room, just the cot
[21:26] Speaker 4: and a lot of newspapers. That's that's what gave me
[21:30] Speaker 4: the big idea. I crumbled them up and piled them
[21:33] Speaker 4: by the door, and for once, my cigarette light have
[21:34] Speaker 4: worked on the first try. Pretty soon I had a
[21:37] Speaker 4: nice fire going, and pretty soon they smelled the smoke.
[21:41] Speaker 5: I told you we shouldn't have left him rusty to heel.
[21:44] Speaker 5: He's got the place on fire yet, pile of fire
[21:47] Speaker 5: crab where is he? I can't see a thing with
[21:49] Speaker 5: the smoke.
[21:50] Speaker 14: He's gotta be an here somewhere.
[21:51] Speaker 6: He couldn't get out, I couldn't.
[21:54] Speaker 5: Step through the window.
[21:59] Speaker 4: Yeah, it was just simple as that. A nice clean drop,
[22:03] Speaker 4: and I was on my way to the hospital.
[22:09] Speaker 11: He's been calling for you, mister Madvick, ever since they
[22:11] Speaker 11: brought him in.
[22:13] Speaker 4: Well there he goes again. Listen, you have mad Vic,
[22:18] Speaker 4: se mad Vic.
[22:19] Speaker 5: I'm here, ed, Yeah, it's me, it's Paul.
[22:22] Speaker 10: Oh. I guess ye gotta stop and fall he's he's
[22:30] Speaker 10: alwa he's fainted again. Lead another transfusion.
[22:33] Speaker 5: Don't stand here talking, get going, will you? Of course? Listen, doc,
[22:36] Speaker 5: If this guy dies, I'll turn this joint into a warehouse.
[22:48] Speaker 4: I felt fine by the time he let me out
[22:49] Speaker 4: of the hospital. Yeah, I felt fine until I saw
[22:53] Speaker 4: the Observer, big screaming headlines right across the front page,
[22:57] Speaker 4: practically accusing paula murder. I knew I had to move fast,
[23:01] Speaker 4: so I followed a hunch. That night, I went to
[23:03] Speaker 4: Taylor Henry's apartment. I found what I was looking for,
[23:06] Speaker 4: a hordible typewriter on the desk. And that wasn't all.
[23:09] Speaker 4: While I was standing there at the front door open,
[23:12] Speaker 4: so I tuck behind the drapes and waited.
[23:23] Speaker 7: I thought, so you, what are you doing here?
[23:26] Speaker 4: I could ask you the same question, only it happens
[23:28] Speaker 4: I know the answer. Yeah, the same as all those
[23:32] Speaker 4: other little poison letters. Paul Madvick didn't kill Taylor Henry
[23:35] Speaker 4: out of his best friend.
[23:36] Speaker 7: All right, I wrote those letters. I'm sure Paul killed Taylor,
[23:39] Speaker 7: and I mean to prove it.
[23:40] Speaker 4: Yeah, what do you think Paul's going to do when
[23:41] Speaker 4: I tell him?
[23:42] Speaker 7: You're not going to tell him? What good would it do? Besides,
[23:46] Speaker 7: you're too fond of him to hurt him.
[23:48] Speaker 4: You'll get over it.
[23:48] Speaker 7: And there's another reason I'm asking you not.
[23:52] Speaker 4: To cut it. Stay on your own side.
[23:55] Speaker 7: Oh, what's the matter? Can't you forget Paul? For once?
[23:57] Speaker 4: I would settle all that I told you, Paul wouldn't
[23:59] Speaker 4: ma any difference. I wanted you, but I don't now
[24:02] Speaker 4: that you know how I feel. Let's get out of here.
[24:10] Speaker 4: Hi ed Hello, Paul.
[24:12] Speaker 5: Well it looks like you were right about that rat far.
[24:14] Speaker 4: Yeah, get the indict Yeah.
[24:16] Speaker 5: But don't worry. I ain't a judge in town that'll
[24:18] Speaker 5: hold me.
[24:19] Speaker 4: Oh, Paul, listen, then he judge will hold your evidence.
[24:21] Speaker 4: Demand sat Look, you've got.
[24:23] Speaker 5: A level with me, haven't I always?
[24:25] Speaker 4: Yeah? What about Taylor Henry?
[24:27] Speaker 6: What about him?
[24:28] Speaker 4: I'll ask you first? Oh what's the matter? You covering
[24:32] Speaker 4: up for somebody or something? Come on, let's have it, Paul.
[24:36] Speaker 4: All right, I killed Taylor Henry.
[24:41] Speaker 5: But what happened. I was laying into him about my sister.
[24:45] Speaker 5: He got excited and took a poke at me, and
[24:46] Speaker 5: I hit him. He fell back and smashed his head
[24:49] Speaker 5: on the curb.
[24:50] Speaker 4: Oh I didn't just say so before. You've got a
[24:51] Speaker 4: perfect self defense please.
[24:54] Speaker 5: Wow, it's kind of janety I want Janet Henry. I
[24:58] Speaker 5: want her more than I ever want anything. What chance
[25:01] Speaker 5: should I have with her, even if it was an accident?
[25:04] Speaker 4: A chance you to give God with her?
[25:05] Speaker 11: Now?
[25:05] Speaker 5: She doesn't even like you. Oh look there's something I'm
[25:07] Speaker 5: telling you, Paul. She's been trying to shove you right
[25:08] Speaker 5: into electric chair. She's been writing all those letters. Are
[25:11] Speaker 5: you shut up? Shut up and get out of here.
[25:13] Speaker 5: I'll get out when I finished. You'll get out when
[25:14] Speaker 5: you're told to. You haven't said anything. I believe you
[25:17] Speaker 5: never will. No, I'll get out of here. You hell,
[25:18] Speaker 5: this is the kiss off.
[25:20] Speaker 4: Okay, Paul, have it your way.
[25:30] Speaker 12: Hello, Glad to see you sit down.
[25:33] Speaker 4: Thanks.
[25:34] Speaker 12: That's sort of a surprise you dropping in.
[25:36] Speaker 4: That's what you always say.
[25:37] Speaker 12: I didn't think you were going to hang around town.
[25:39] Speaker 12: I heard you and Paul had split up. Did you
[25:42] Speaker 12: pool on ed? What's on your mind?
[25:44] Speaker 1: You?
[25:45] Speaker 4: Oh listen, Fay. They tell me your wife's folks live
[25:48] Speaker 4: in Omaha. Yeah, you a better wireman? Say you and
[25:51] Speaker 4: the miss are on the way. Just a rib huk,
[25:55] Speaker 4: pretty good advice. Tomorrow, Paul going to beat the indictment
[25:58] Speaker 4: you hung on him and the first guy reaches out
[26:00] Speaker 4: for will be you.
[26:02] Speaker 12: What do you mean he'll beat the ticket? Howe?
[26:04] Speaker 4: Well, first of all, and hang on to this one.
[26:05] Speaker 4: It wasn't paula kill Taylor, Henry.
[26:07] Speaker 12: How do you know?
[26:08] Speaker 4: Because he told me he did.
[26:10] Speaker 12: Now listen, Ed, that don't add up?
[26:11] Speaker 4: Sure I does it. It adds a swell. If Paul
[26:14] Speaker 4: had done it, he'd never told me a long time ago.
[26:17] Speaker 4: So I figure he's covering up for somebody taking the rap,
[26:20] Speaker 4: taking it for somebody extra special. And if you do
[26:23] Speaker 4: like I say, we'll make the pinch and you can
[26:25] Speaker 4: postpone that trip to Omaha.
[26:27] Speaker 12: Who is it dead? Who do we have to bring in?
[26:29] Speaker 4: Uh? You better come along far see for yourself, mister
[26:38] Speaker 4: parr Oh, this is absurd. It's the middle of the night.
[26:42] Speaker 4: Janet is sleeping.
[26:43] Speaker 5: I wouldn't think of disturbing herth.
[26:44] Speaker 4: Mister Henry better get it down here. I'll go and
[26:46] Speaker 4: pull out of bed.
[26:47] Speaker 12: This is outrageous.
[26:48] Speaker 5: I'll call the police.
[26:49] Speaker 4: Don't bother the here. See those two cops through the window. Now,
[26:51] Speaker 4: will you bring a down or do I.
[26:52] Speaker 7: Have to add?
[26:53] Speaker 12: What is it?
[26:54] Speaker 4: Okay? Fa, there's your party?
[26:56] Speaker 14: Ed?
[26:56] Speaker 7: What on earth does all this mean?
[26:57] Speaker 4: It means that Far has got a warrant for your
[26:59] Speaker 4: arrest rest What for for the matter of your brother, Taylor, Henry? Okay,
[27:04] Speaker 4: Far better bring her along.
[27:06] Speaker 12: I'm sorry, young lady. I'm afraid of the.
[27:08] Speaker 11: Moment, mister Farr. I think you'd better prepare another warrant.
[27:13] Speaker 11: I am the one you want.
[27:16] Speaker 12: I don't understand this, mister Henry.
[27:19] Speaker 11: I killed my son. I was with Paul and Taylor
[27:22] Speaker 11: when they were quarreling out in front. I sided with Paul.
[27:26] Speaker 11: I told Taylor he was ruining my political career. He
[27:29] Speaker 11: struck me, he scuffled, he slipped and hit his head
[27:33] Speaker 11: on the curb. When Paul and I lifted him up,
[27:37] Speaker 11: he was dead. I made Paul promise not to tell
[27:45] Speaker 11: how Far.
[27:46] Speaker 4: I was getting worried, afraid would have to hang the
[27:49] Speaker 4: girl to make the old man crack right. Didn't here, Cabby.
[28:02] Speaker 4: I've got my bags all packed. You can take them down.
[28:07] Speaker 4: Oh hello, h Cabby, you can start with those two
[28:10] Speaker 4: over there, Yes, sir, I got him. No, what are
[28:14] Speaker 4: you doing here?
[28:15] Speaker 7: I had to come. Why Paul said you were leaving.
[28:20] Speaker 15: I want you to take me with you. No look
[28:25] Speaker 15: at me, and it's no use pretending you love me.
[28:28] Speaker 15: And you know it, and whatever else you say, there's
[28:31] Speaker 15: something inside the law. Always tell me you're lying.
[28:34] Speaker 7: Oh it's true, isn't it? Isn't it?
[28:37] Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I guess it is.
[28:39] Speaker 7: Then take me with you. Why not, Paul? No, Paul
[28:44] Speaker 7: isn't in this at all?
[28:45] Speaker 4: Do you owe him plenty?
[28:46] Speaker 7: Yes, Paul has been fine, and I'm very grateful. But
[28:49] Speaker 7: that's all I could ever give him, this gratitude.
[28:52] Speaker 12: I'm sorry, sister, that ain't enough.
[28:54] Speaker 14: Paul.
[28:54] Speaker 4: I look, PAULI, what are you waiting for your goon?
[29:00] Speaker 4: Are you kidding?
[29:01] Speaker 5: What do you want me to do? Go out and
[29:02] Speaker 5: get you a preacher? Go on, hurry up before I
[29:05] Speaker 5: change my mind.
[29:34] Speaker 2: Thank you, Alan Ladd, Ward Bond, and Marjorie Reynolds for
[29:38] Speaker 2: a thrilling half hour.
[29:39] Speaker 7: Mister Myers. The Motion Picture Relief Fund and its country House,
[29:43] Speaker 7: both supported largely by this program, are doing such magnificent
[29:47] Speaker 7: work that well we considered a privilege to appear here
[29:49] Speaker 7: with the Lady Ester Screen Guild players. And now before
[29:53] Speaker 7: we tell you about next week's program, here's a word
[29:56] Speaker 7: from one of America's best known beauty authorities, Lady Esther.
[30:00] Speaker 13: Thank you, Miss Reynolds, ladies, I'm sure you would never
[30:03] Speaker 13: think of rubbing cream into the delicate skin of your
[30:06] Speaker 13: eyelid or beneath the eye, because if you did, the
[30:09] Speaker 13: skin might be stretched and injured, it might become inflamed.
[30:13] Speaker 13: Now to some degree, the same thing that happens to
[30:15] Speaker 13: your eyelid happens to your face because the facial skin
[30:19] Speaker 13: tissue is finer, more delicate than the rest of your body.
[30:22] Speaker 13: And there's the rub Using thick, sticky cream that has
[30:26] Speaker 13: to be rubbed in is not good treatment. Rubbing those fine,
[30:31] Speaker 13: delicate skin structures is likely to make your skin look
[30:34] Speaker 13: older than you are, and so it is clearly wiser
[30:37] Speaker 13: to use a cream that requires no rubbing. Lady Esther,
[30:41] Speaker 13: for a purpose face cream, it's so soft you need
[30:44] Speaker 13: only smooth it on gently, then wipe it off. That's
[30:47] Speaker 13: all the cream does the work, not your fingers. Yes,
[30:52] Speaker 13: Lady Ester for purpose face cream thoroughly cleans your skin
[30:55] Speaker 13: without harmful rubbing, softens your skin, helps nature, refines the pores,
[31:01] Speaker 13: and leaves a lovely smooth base for powder. It's the
[31:05] Speaker 13: only cream you need, the modern scientific cream, which without rubbing,
[31:09] Speaker 13: does all four things your skin needs most for beauty.
[31:13] Speaker 13: Try it, you will feel You will see how quickly
[31:16] Speaker 13: your skin responds to the gentle, beautifying touch of Lady
[31:20] Speaker 13: Ester for purpose face cream.
[31:34] Speaker 2: Next week, the Lady Ester Screen Guild players will present
[31:38] Speaker 2: Naughty Marietta. It will star Irene Manning and Alan Jones.
[31:43] Speaker 2: Be sure to listen. The Glass Key was produced and
[31:46] Speaker 2: directed by Bill Lawrence and was presented through the courtesy
[31:49] Speaker 2: of the author, Dashel Hammett and Paramount Pictures producers of
[31:53] Speaker 2: To Each his Own, starring Olivia de Havilynd and John
[31:56] Speaker 2: loved It was adapted for radio by Harry Cronwan. Alan
[32:00] Speaker 2: Ladd is currently being seen in the Paramount Picture. Oss
[32:05] Speaker 2: Marjorie Reynolds will soon be seen in the Paramount Picture.
[32:07] Speaker 2: Monsieur Beaucaire. Lord Bond is soon to be seen in
[32:11] Speaker 2: the Frank Kapepra production It's a Wonderful Life. Music on
[32:15] Speaker 2: tonight's program was arranged by Wilbur Hatch and conducted by
[32:18] Speaker 2: lud Gluskin. This is Ted Meyer speaking for Lady Esther,
[32:22] Speaker 2: Thank you and goodnight. This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting.
[32:33] Speaker 8: System Welcome Back Well a very different feel than the
[32:53] Speaker 8: Campbell's Playhouse version, but that really leaned much more into the.
[32:58] Speaker 1: Novels, which tended to be where Orson Wells went when
[33:02] Speaker 1: he did those sort of adaptations. Alan Lad's performance is
[33:06] Speaker 1: ed Beaumont in This does still reflect his early career success.
[33:13] Speaker 1: This was released just six months after this Gun for Hire,
[33:17] Speaker 1: so it's very different from Ladd's post war work, a
[33:22] Speaker 1: lot of which really worked to establish him as a
[33:27] Speaker 1: strong heroic actor. Now Ward Bond, I was kind of
[33:31] Speaker 1: curious when they mentioned in the end that he was
[33:35] Speaker 1: in It's a Wonderful Life And if you wondered that
[33:38] Speaker 1: as well, Ward Bond was Bert the Cop. That's all
[33:43] Speaker 1: for today. We will be back next Sunday with our
[33:48] Speaker 1: second listener support and Appreciation campaign special. But in a
[33:53] Speaker 1: week from Monday we will begin our second run through
[33:57] Speaker 1: the Saint But join us back here tomorrow for the
[34:01] Speaker 1: final episode of Danger with Granger. Where Why aren't.
[34:06] Speaker 9: Joining your office?
[34:07] Speaker 4: Because little Lady I wanted to come in here, so
[34:10] Speaker 4: I did an if heard the questions.
[34:12] Speaker 9: Larry told me you'd be upstairs. I tell you come
[34:15] Speaker 9: out and come in here. Larry didn't tell me you
[34:18] Speaker 9: were going to do that.
[34:19] Speaker 4: Larry is not my master.
[34:21] Speaker 5: I go where I please.
[34:22] Speaker 9: I don't understand all this. Whyry was very explicit Larry
[34:27] Speaker 9: should crawl into a hole let someone full up with water.
[34:31] Speaker 9: Well I didn't think you felt that way. We might
[34:36] Speaker 9: as well get home and our business. Here's the money.
[34:41] Speaker 9: That green stuff makes it seem like Saint Patrick's day.
[34:43] Speaker 4: But you're a few months later.
[34:45] Speaker 9: Did Larry give you the paper?
[34:47] Speaker 4: Maybe take this money and put it back in your handbag?
[34:49] Speaker 4: Makes me nervous.
[34:50] Speaker 9: What are you talking about? Larry told me you'd have
[34:53] Speaker 9: a paper for me. I've got nothing, but he promised
[34:56] Speaker 9: to sign a release. You were going to hand it
[34:58] Speaker 9: to me on the right track, but you got the
[35:00] Speaker 9: wrong train.
[35:02] Speaker 3: Your pal Larry came to me with such a proposition
[35:05] Speaker 3: that I threw both him and proposition out the door.
[35:08] Speaker 4: Or go no paper.
[35:09] Speaker 9: You sew Marry out of your office. But he said everything,
[35:13] Speaker 9: he'd be all right. He even promised all Larry Simon's
[35:17] Speaker 9: promises end to end.
[35:18] Speaker 4: It would end all promises.
[35:21] Speaker 9: I think you're a lying.
[35:23] Speaker 4: We're not lying.
[35:24] Speaker 5: Also, I'm not in business with a neat, cheap little blackmailer.
[35:27] Speaker 9: I let the a greasy little friend friend.
[35:30] Speaker 5: Yeah, let me tell you something else.
[35:33] Speaker 9: A young woman as attractive as you have hundreds of boyfriends,
[35:37] Speaker 9: none of them even remotely resembling Larry Simon's.
[35:41] Speaker 4: I make myself clear.
[35:43] Speaker 9: You think Larry is my boyfriend? Sure is not your
[35:46] Speaker 9: cousin Moosten Granger. I hate Larry Simons. Allows another name
[35:51] Speaker 9: to a growing list, so do I. I'm glad to
[35:54] Speaker 9: hear that, mister Grainger. Sorry, I bothered you. Goodbye? Wait,
[36:00] Speaker 9: watch you hurry?
[36:00] Speaker 5: And who are you?
[36:01] Speaker 9: I am the person who's going to give Larry Simon.
[36:04] Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,
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[36:22] Speaker 1: your host, Adam Graham. Sign and off.

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