 Now we present Herbert Marshall as the man called X the Friday night feature on NBC's five-show festival of comedy music mystery and drama brought to you by RCA Victor world leader in radio first in recorded music first in television By Chesterfield always milder better tasting cooler smoking plus no unpleasant aftertaste and by the makers of Anderson for fast relief from pain of headache neuritis neuralgia Herbert Marshall as the man called X Wherever there is mystery intrigue romance in all the strange and dangerous places of the world there you will find the man called X Here's a word from RCA Victor inch for inch your best buy in television is RCA Victor 19 inch and your best buy in 19 inch television is RCA Victor superb new Hillsdale remember the name RCA Victor superb new Hillsdale and there's more to the Hillsdale's huge 19 inch screen than size itself Bright pictures clear pictures the steadiest pictures you've ever seen make this RCA Victor's finest console television set Extra powerful circuits a new picture pick up on the Hillsdale ensure best possible reception And of course all RCA Victor television is million proof quality proven in over two million homes Yes, the RCA Victor Hillsdale is impressive. It's luxurious 19 inch console television that's unequaled for value and performance It's a purlative entertainment a superlative instrument insist on RCA Victor and remember the name the Hillsdale be sure to see it and hear it and buy the Magnificent Hillsdale at your RCA Victor dealers The anna is a city where the past can never be forgotten For it constantly intrudes on the present a lilting melody can turn the muddy Danube to a shimmering blue again and the proud-faced Statues outside the chanbrune palace will briefly restore the Habsburgs to their toppled thrones But the present can never be completely erased. It is always real and always terrifying a Man sits at the desk and he studied the papers in front of him on rag His fingers tapping rhythmically against the polished inlay his white face mirrored in the glistening wood Yeah, yeah, come in come in. I Had hoped you would come. Oh, I am sorry. I was expecting someone else What can I do? These are the reports from the commissioner's office in Vienna can I've been through him chief just words Bill home middle is dead and all we get is words But what can you expect in a place like that the city divided into four sectors in an international zone That's practically impossible to run down his killer and even if you did Don't forget the Russians have been trying to close down Mitter's newspaper for the last five years and chief The fry height was the last great free newspaper in Eastern Europe. Yeah, I know you've heard about the fight for his ownership Well, I did read something that it was two children fighting each other over the inheritance can drag on for months years And there won't be an issue published until it settled Can it's not the first time a brother and a sister got into a squabble over a will They weren't just a brother and a sister chief. They were closer to each other than than any two kids have ever seen People do change not that much. Let's take my life on it. Yeah Take a look at this cable. Hmm When will you visit Vienna again? Signed Maria. Yeah, it was simple than a few hours of a father's murder Chief I'd like to go to Vienna Sure again But it's hardly a matter of the bureau after all we go home. Mitter was my friend All right, all right, I know how you feel go ahead. Thanks. Oh, wait a minute What about Zell Schmidt taking him with you? Not this time. Are you sure? All right Suppose you were to tell miss Brooks that I'm leaving for Hong Kong what two to one you'll get reservations on the next plane for China so on chief Passing your seat belts, please We will depart from Idlewild Airport in about two minutes. Our first stop will be Shannon Ireland from there Just in a nick of time another minute not be rolled away with those steps out your name, please Hey, gone Zell Schmidt. I don't believe don't bother about finding me a seat. There's plenty of room here with my friend Glad to see me, huh, but listen, do you know what this characters in the airport told me? He said this this plane for Hong Kong didn't leave for another hour yet. If I hadn't seen you getting aboard This isn't the plane for Hong Kong You mean Let me out of here. Sit down. Take on but but if I'm going to Hong Kong with y'all, I've got to Oh, I get it. They put us both on the wrong plane. What a lousy way to run an airport But but yes, sir my friend here got to take up a Hong Kong by mistake I think you can exchange it for passage to Vienna Vienna. I believe so Fortunately, we're not overweight on this flight. He can remain aboard. Will there be anything else, mr Thurston? Sure, you're perfectly comfortable an extra pillow perhaps if there's anything at all Yes, mr. No, that's funny. What's the matter mr. X wonder why you call me first? I Was careful not to use my own name when I made this reservation I'd like to see Maria meter. I am sorry for a line meter is not a receiving visitors I'd be glad to tell her you called here person Ken person is Maria expecting you. Well, perhaps you'd better ask her that. Oh, of course forgive me. You come inside. Thanks I am who go all blends hero blends I'm a friend of Maria's a close friend if you will follow me down the hall to her room. Thanks Hero blends, perhaps you could tell me the circumstances of bill her middle of death Unfortunately, there is not much to tell Was three days ago and here meet us birthday. Yes. I know we had dinner the four of us here Maria her brother Rudolph and myself we were all to go to the opera later But her meter said some business had come up. He insisted we go without him. I see when we returned We found him at his desk dead his study had been ransacked anything in particular missing. No This is Maria's room Maria. This is her first and hello, Maria. I Can't tell you how sorry I am I understand. Thank you. Was there anything else, Mr. Testum? Hmm. I know you must be in Vienna on business. It was kind of you to drop by but I do not wish to keep you from me I work I'm in no hurry I thought we might have a little talk. Oh, what about what I Got a cable game yesterday, Maria and thought it might be from you So what reason would I have to cable you? It could not have been from Rudolph. He would have no reason either. Where is he by the way? No longer lives here. I Believe he's staying at the Imperial Hotel in the Russian sector. He is I'm afraid the Rudolph is very friendly with the Russians That's why Maria is fighting him for control of the newspaper. I see I May not see you again before I leave Vienna, Maria. So Maybe I'd better say goodbye now. Yeah Goodbye, Mr. Testum There's our man Pagan over in the corner of the bar. Uh-huh But who's that fancy dress character with him? He looks like he's going to masquerade. How can he stand up with all those medals? Yeah, the Russian major and full dress uniform. What's he doing here? Well, this hotel is in their sector They've taken it over. You mean you mean we're in the in the Russian zone. That's right Wait for me. I'll be right back Rudolph I do not believe I have had the best What are you doing here? Don't you know? No, I do not well Mind if I join you for a drink then major park often I was just leaving you will excuse us Do not be so impatient Rudolph. There is no hurry I am pleased to make your acquaintance mr. Thurston. I assume you are an old friend of Rudolph He knew my father that was all Wilhelm metter was one of the finest men I ever knew my father was a fool He lived in the past he had not sense enough to see the world is changing that we must change with it Important things don't change Rudolph do not argue with me first. You want to take a drink with us Here's a drink in your face Good off listen to me listen to you. Yes. Yes. That's all your Americans want someone to listen insult you I thought drink in your face and you want to talk Please the Russians are different. So I've heard you want conversation to you. All right. Let me give you some Get out of the end of this. There are too many Americans here already. Goodbye I They say it is we Russians who are crude and unblessed you see mr. Thurston how untrue it is And yet we are here to carry out the wishes of the Austrian people Whatever they may be So it might be wise to do as Rudolph suggested. No Does that come under the heading of a warning major or a threat merely a Suggested mr. Thurston. Oh sure sure You remember me the steward from the plane. Yeah, yeah, I remember you fine fine. I thought you would oh Oh, there's a telephone call for you. I happen to see you in the bar. Thanks. You can take it in that booth No, it's fortunate. I recognize you the desk clerk had no record that you're staying here. No matter that I'm not Oh, it's too bad. I always stop at the imperial between flights the accommodations are excellent wonderful cuisine Marvelous service and some of the finest people. Yeah, sure sure this booth. Yes Tell me will you be returning to America soon? Excuse me Hello Yes, Maria. What is it? I lied to you Maria. We will continue with the man called X in just a moment You see it in the newspapers. No unpleasant aftertaste. You hear it on the radio. No Unpleasant aftertaste you see it on television. No Unpleasant aftertaste when you smoke Chesterfield. It's the biggest plus in cigarette history Science discovered it. You can prove it science discovered that of all brands tested Chesterfield and only Chesterfield leaves. No unpleasant aftertaste prove it yourself Smoke a pack of Chesterfield. They're always milder better tasting cooler smoking and Chesterfield is the cigarette That leaves no unpleasant aftertaste. That's the biggest plus in cigarette history No unpleasant aftertaste science discovered it Prove it yourself By Chesterfield today How act two of the man called X starring Herbert Marshall with Leon Balasco was Pagan's elchemy The murder of Wilhelm Mitter becomes a link in the chain strangling the red Austrian newspaper at the fry heights And with the death of Mitter's daughter Maria a second link is forged The man called X stares grimly at the body of the murdered girl then slowly turns and walks out of the room I am to blame. No one else. I am responsible for it. You don't understand Mr. Thurston. I Told her to call you. I made her do it I knew she was lying to you before I could tell someone had frightened her Who was it or brands? She wouldn't tell Go on. She was standing here at the telephone. She saw something through that window. She started to scream There was a shot and you get a look at whoever did it No, not really. I think it was a man. I then to Maria carried her into the bedroom When I got back here, there was no one You've sent for the police. Yeah. Yeah at once This is your top coat you go. Oh, yeah on the rack here Must have belong to her meter Yeah, yeah, you remember now Rudolph and Maria gave their father a coach for his birthday present C Difficult to get anything well made in Vienna now Yeah Maria, where are you? Wait, I said out of my way. I Won't cry for her mr. Thurston. I'm afraid it would not be very convincing and After what happened this afternoon at the Imperial Hotel. I know Who you're trying to convince Rudolph made your buck off You mean he wasn't serious when he got so mad at you mr. Thurston. How about it Rudolph? I thought I was doing the right thing. I was fighting for control of the paper to say Maria's life I love her very much. I know you did. I was sure that if she tried to publish the fry hide the Communists would kill her like they killed my father. Is that why you were playing up to the communists? Yes, of course Anything to save the life of my sister The police are in the other room talking to Hugo before they come in here with something. I want to ask you Rudolph The night your father was shot You were all going to the opera but something made him change his mind at the last minute. What was it? He said he had to work Seems strange at the time because played a mouse was one of his favorite. Yes, I remember While we were having dinner someone came to the door and asked to see him Little gray head man who said his name was Bach. Bach like the composer. Yeah. Yeah, that's how I happened to remember I Took his coat and asked him to wait the whole When I went back in the dining room to my father who it was he insisted her bar be brought in at once what then When he bar came in he suddenly seemed very confused. Uh-huh said he had made a mistake. He had come to the wrong house Dashed out of the room and left before I could even show him to the door Rudolph you go says you gave your power a new coat this birthday. What kind was it? Fine Camels here the delicate play design was an import from England. I see one more thing This is her bar. He was a small man with gray hair. You say anything else you couldn't tell me about him Yes, yes, he had a scar on his upper lip. Huh? He tried to go mustache to cover it But the scar short full all right big arm a Short gray haired man with a scar on his upper lip a few days ago. He was wearing a camel's hair coat find him But mr. Thurston that's impossible. Well, we've got to find him And I guess the best thing to do is hire somebody in each of the different sectors higher waste all that money When I have cousins in all four sectors and uncle Fritzfeld in the international zone, okay? Then what are you waiting for but mr. Thurston? We haven't settled on a prize hundred dollars. You will find him by midnight ten dollars off for every hour after that What am I waiting for? Well, that finishes my report I am sorry to have had to keep you after the other authorities questioned you so long But my government is very much interested in this case. I suggest you report to my office in the morning Aroblance, but I've already told you everything major Marco major Business a matter for the city police rather than the occupational authorities, of course, mr. Thurston it was only a suggestion so There is no point in my staying longer and root out I'm sure the authorities and my sector will be glad to know that ownership of the fry height is now clearly settled And the assistance we may be able to give just a moment major. I Am publishing the newspaper myself without any influence from you or anyone else What's this once more the fry hide will print the tool as I did before my father was killed here Come in Well You hold me a hundred bucks good That means you found the man who called him here a matter just before he was killed with that. All right, Pagon. Let's go a Rudolph Get on down to your paper. Give me an hour or so and I'll have a bang-up story for you Story yes, you'll have to do the follow-up on it though. Remember Remember how Fred Walker handle the Anderson case Walker? Yes, the American reporter you remember Well, yes, yes, of course. Yes, I will follow it up. Good. Come on big one At the top of that stairs, Mr. X. He's been hiding there for nearly a week Don't even come out for food or nothing. No, but listen Why did you tell everybody back there all about I want to be sure the murderer would follow us the murder I think I'll I'll wait downstairs alone. Well, all right. You insist Mr. X. Yeah, who was that Fred Walker and what was the Anderson case? I am the famous idea Help back where your friends were here to help you Don't you know me Ken first and That's not it's a trick. He's an American listen I'm walking out under the light. I don't have a gun. You can see for yourself Well, I Must save me. I know I tell you once I tell everyone myself my country, but but now I have changed Yeah, I thought it would turn out to be you this your room. Yeah, please get inside Why didn't you go to the Americans when you got to Vienna? I was afraid they would hate me send me back to check a Slovakia to the Russians you ought to know it's better than that here flight. It's flight. It's but I thought this character's name Was Bach you worked with Wilhelm Mitter in the underground during the war They all took the names of composers. Yeah. Yeah You know what happened after the war. I joined the party I was secretary of the interior then then you found out he was still a check and the comments didn't like it They announced you were killed in a flight to Moscow, but you escaped to Vienna You went to Mitter for help. He had been my friend once. I Thought he would understand and he would have but at Mitter's house. You saw someone who frightened you It couldn't have been Mitter or his children. You expected them so it had to be obliens. Yeah, that's right It worked for the party in Czechoslovakia They sent him to Vienna to get information about Mitter. You knew he'd recognized you so you ran away You were in such a rush you took Mitter's coat by mistake and left your own here Now you will help me get to get to England or France I I do not expect America, but anywhere away from there. Good evening, Mr. Thospan hooker leave the gun on the tables flight. It's Better do what he says First then I must thank you and your friend for finding here flight. It's We've been searching the city for days. Your men can't be very efficient. You go in the long run We are efficient. Mr. X. We have to be Would not look well for a dead communist hero to be found in Vienna Alive and a traitor. You can't keep it from coming out someday. We have met it so far Here Mitter was not permitted to publish this story major bark off to care of death and you took care of Maria Of course It becomes suspicious. So when I found her telephoning to you So now you will all accompany me to the russian zone now. Oh now wait a minute stand back You seem to forget that you are unarmed and I have this gun what you seem to forget is that this building is surrounded by an American Patrol American patrol. What are you talking about that message? I gave Rudolph about Fred Walker and the Anderson story was a tip-off Walker was a reporter who always called in the cops when he tracked down a scoop Mr. X you said that was out for yourself obelisk. It's pretty dark, but you can see men down there You're right Well, Hugo Maybe you better come along with us. No No You think I will allow myself to be tried by the American military police. You're wrong. I still have a chance I did give me a coat wait a minute. Do as I say and do not move any of you Here listen to me Hugo. There is a fire escape outside this window. It's very dark, but your soldiers will recognize the coast I'm sure you have told them about hair fly that's the point. I haven't I don't think the chance They will not shoot me wait you fool See what you are and make no sound I Try to tell you miss Rex the soldiers. They're Russians I could even see that major bark of an all his medals and they thought he was I yeah I had hoped I could store him and told the Americans where to dig it here. This is our zone If there's anything I can do to show my gratitude Sure there is give your story to Rudolph Mitter. I'd like to see them the next issue of deep-fly height I will be glad to I I think you have made the Rudolph's task very easy for him. Mr. No, I wouldn't say that have flight. It's It's never very easy here or anywhere else to print the truth But without a free press there's no real freedom at all You know Pagan That's a pretty good name deep-fly height Freedom our star. Mr. Herbert Marshall will return in just a moment If you would like to know a quick easy way to ease the pain of a headache neuritis or neuralgia Then by all means try anison Your own dentist or physician may at one time or another Append to do an envelope containing anison tablets Then you already know how incredibly fast and effectively anison brings relief Anison is like a doctor's prescription. That is anison contains not just one but a combination of medically proven active ingredients For your own sake try anison Anison is sold to you on this guarantee if the first few tablets do not give you all the relief you want as fast as you want it You may return the unused portion and your money will be refunded You can get anison tablets at any drug counter Anison comes in handy boxes of 12 and 30 tablets and economical family-sized bottles of 50 and 100 now here again Is our star mr. Herbert Marshall? Thanks for being with us and my thanks to Joan banks will write Stan Waxman Paul Freese Tony Barrett Frank Gerstle and Bob Bruce Next week Ken tangles with a couple of information passes behind the iron curtain where death and treasury March hand-in-hand And pay gone. Oh, he'll be alone too paid as usual by Leon Balasco So join us won't you when next I return as the man called X. Good night The man called X stalling Herbert Marshall is the Friday night feature on NBC's five-show festival of comedy music mystery and drama Brought to you by RCA Victor world leader in radio first in recorded music first in television And by Chesterfield always milder better tasting cooler smoking Plus no unpleasant aftertaste and by the makers of anison for fast relief from pain of headache neuritis Neuralgia the man called X is a J. Richard Kennedy production with music by Milton Charles The night story was written by Frank Burt all characters and incidents on this program are fictitious and any resemblance to actual characters or Incidences purely coincidental Be sure to hear the magnificent Montague with Monty Woolley formerly heard on Friday now brought to you as a Saturday night feature of NBC's all-star festival and until next week same time and station This is Jack Latham saying good night for the man called X William Bendick stars in the life of Riley enjoy it on NBC