 My name is Regan. I work for Anthony J. Lyon International Detective Bureau. They call me the lion's eye Wednesday at 9 and CBS brings you Jeff Regan Investigator starring Frank Graham as Regan with Frank Nelson as Anthony J. Lyon So stand by for mystery suspense and adventure in tonight's story of the two little sisters When a six-foot 200 pound guy turns up with a knife in his back Maybe a short hundred pounds of cool green-eyed blonde did it and maybe she didn't Well this time there were two blondes sisters They looked alike, but they were about as much alike as a sheepdog and a cobra Goes to show you can't tell by the package Their names was a man ski Mary and Dolly's a man ski They worked for the everybody's happy pastime carnival shows It was old he happy pastime himself who was sitting in the lion's office when I got there about noon Come in. I'd like you to meet our new client proprietor of the everybody's happy pastime carnival shows No doubt you've heard of them Jeffrey sure sure. How are you? I Friend here is troubled with laryngeitis Jeffrey purely psychological purely psychological a result of worry profound worry. Isn't that right? Yes Yes, well Jeffrey what do we do now Jeffrey? I'm glad you asked that question to tell the truth I end the you fine opportunity for you to get out of the city while I sit here sweltering in this heat You Jeffrey get to the point Yes, well Jeffrey the fact is our friend here leaves on the two o'clock plane for Phoenix, Arizona Advance arrangements for the carnival sure yeah sure sure well in mean time the star performer of Everybody's happy pastime carnival shows a girl named a Now where's that piece of paper? I jotted it down. Oh, here. We are Dolly's a man ski the queen of the blades ice skater. Oh I got it. She's a knife thrower with the show Jeffrey best in a line. They say what's a trouble. That's just it That's just it someone's been threatening a man named ran ran It's upsetting her Jeffrey beginning to show in her work. That's what worries our client here. What's ran God on her? Well, I don't know Jeffrey our client doesn't know isn't that right, sir? Yes, no, but we'll retain to find out Exactly get rid of him get rid of him Jeffrey Like the lion said it was a chance to get out of the city I Drilled father time back out to his carnival. He had to pick up his stuff and then make the two o'clock plane at international airport The carnival was set up on a couple of vacant lots out on Sepulveda big sign Everybody's happy pastime carnival shows Tense trailers ferris wheel saw dust the usual stuff The old guy pointed out Dolly's a man skis trailer. That was on my own. I Didn't get far Guy in a 1922 tux three days whiskers and a turban like a second-hand bird's nest after me How do you do sir? The only legitimate thing about the Swami was his breath. That was 90 proof What's up to you? I am Swami. I'll cut you step this way, please into my tent I will consult the crystal the crystal ball tells me many things. Yeah, like what? Sit right here. Thanks The crystal ball tells me mr. Rekin that you've been hired to help dolly zamanski tells me who have been hired by Yes, by the owner of our little carnival. How much of that did he tell you? Yes, mr. Rekin. It was he who told me I saw you arrive together What do you know about Rand? Fred ran. Let me see Let me see the crystal ball is cloudy The sand of time runs through the glass mr. Rekin cut it out. What do you mean? You're a swami like Truman's a Republican. Yes. Yes true Hey, well have a drink mr. Rekin I see much more than this than in the crystal ball Say when when you are thanks I'm a forefinger man myself mr. Rekin been my ruin You said you had information. Yes, there are two sisters zamanski. Yes dolly and Mary who's Mary the younger sister She knew to the show a few months with us her sister get of the job Yes, dolly zamanski is our star performer naturally. She has influence. Okay What about ran I will consult the crystal ball. Look, I don't get paid by the hour What's Ram God on dolly zamanski? I don't know. No, I see letters forming in the crystal play it your way F Z I Can't see anymore now perhaps if you care Maybe the swami had something to sell but if I couldn't get it for free I could go back and buy it later It was only a little ways to dolly zamanski's trailer big expensive job Everything was wide open because of the heat so I walked in Nobody home ladies clothes lying around theatrical makeup grease pain stick Picture of some round-faced guy with a crew cut signed yours adoringly no name knives and daggers around And a frosty blonde with green eyes in the doorway watching me What are you doing here homework? It's clever. Who are you? That's what I ought to ask you. Oh, yes, you're dolly zamanski No, I'm her sister Mary zamanski. Yes I'm Jeff Regan international detective bureau That's it You joined the carnival about four months ago five months five months Been in show business before no, I Was a boy back home that him what photo on the dressing table? No, sister pine pine. He's in love with my sister fine Fine, don't I Harold pine jj pine son. Yeah, you know pine warehouses. They're all over Los Angeles. So your sister's gonna marry them. Why? Think so But maybe she isn't mr. Regan. I wasn't you give me what you know, but four days ago a guy turned up Rand Yes, your sister scary. No, no mr. Regan. That's just it. She's Strong-minded she left home when she was 15 go on Well, life can't have been easy for her. You know show business just tell it. Well She's Independent mr. Regan. I've tried to tell her what about Rand Mr.. You're not I can't tell you lady. I've got a job to do. What about Rand? I I don't know sister scared of him I she is or she isn't something else She told me she didn't know him She said he was trying to get fresh, but twice. I Shouldn't tell you this my feces. I help your sister All right There's a little street two blocks up Sepulveda twice. I walked by there this morning and two days ago There was a green sedan parked there both times and Fred ran and my sister were in it. They were Well, they seem to be arguing Mr.. Regan, that's all I know. Okay How do I find your sister she performs in the main tent, but she must be just about through she might be over there, okay? See you I Started for the main tent got about halfway up the midway when he passed me going down the midway and into the big shiny trailer Broad-shouldered six-foot guy with red hair and when he went into the zamansky sister's trailer. I knew he was ran I Started for the trailer. I thought I heard voices quarreling And then I knew something was wrong. That was Mary zamansky screaming I hadn't had my eye off the door of that trailer 60 seconds since I left nobody went in but ran nobody came out But I busted fast. I made the last hundred yards like Mel Patton on Dexadrine But what I saw when I got inside that trailer stopped me cold It was Mary zamansky and ran But it wasn't like I figured Mary was hanging on to the wall and staring down at the floor and sobbing and on the floor was ran With a knife in his back All right, give it to me give it to me fast What happened come on look you've got ten seconds before the whole carnival be in here. What happened? Tell me what happened Sergeant post police hands above your heads Dolly's a man ski no Your turn mister Maybe we can take our hands down your armed Yeah, what'll I get it hip shoulder? Okay, let him down Thanks Got a permit to carry this sure show it Regan private detective International Detective Bureau. Here's the file copy Look good Regan You kill this guy Okay, Regan Well, maybe you'll tell me who the guy was His name Check Regan what I heard maybe you knew Rand Regan. Nope. How'd you get in here so quick heard screams? Oh, what's the use of all this you both know what happened? No, what did mr.. Rand came in and He'd been bothering darling. Maybe he thought I was done. I we look a little bit alike And he came in and and go on It hung together like the Jap Navy She was sore at Rand because he'd been bothering her sister So when the big six-foot guy came into the trailer she grabbed him and stabbed him in the back Sure It could have happened like that But from the look that came on Sergeant post face. I could see he'd try to make it stick He looked like a hungry kid at a bakery window He was seeing lieutenant stripes Well half an hour later Mary went off for the ride downtown in the party wagon I Figured it was a funny thing Dolly's a man ski hadn't showed up. I decided to look for her. She wasn't around She'd finished her act a little bit before the wreck has started and looked like nobody had seen her since Then I saw a tent with some stars and crescent moons painted on the front and that reminded me of something a Phony swammy with information for sale He was inside All right, swami get busy on that crystal ball and dish up some answers like FZ The crystal is clear it's a murder rap now FC what? Rand yes, Fred Rand Mrs. Fred Zemansky Rand Dolly Zemansky was his wife. I have said something That gave me something to work on but halfway to my car. I remembered something else Something Mary Zemansky had said a green sedan parked twice in the same place Maybe it was parked there a third time It figured the owner wouldn't be driving it away. He was taking a free ride as a guest of the county to the morgue It was there green sedan on the little street two blocks up Sepulveda the door was unlike The registration on the steering post read Fred ran That figured The address was on a street called Delancey in San Francisco But maybe I wouldn't have to go that far There's a card down on the floorboards one of those commercial hotel cards Globe Hotel Main Street. I Stuck it in my pocket. That was when a guy said I'm gonna kill you Fred I hit the car door with my shoulder that knocked him back, but he came in again and tried for me. I blocked it That was when I got a good look at him He was the guy in the picture in the Zemansky sisters trailer Yours adoringly Harold Pine This is CBS and you're listening to the story of the two little sisters tonight's adventure with Jeff Regan investigator I'd like to stuck around had a little talk with Harold Pine Maybe knew some answers But one answer he didn't know was who killed Fred Rand When he made that college try on me and called me Rand it didn't take the FBI to figure he didn't even know Rand was dead But it looked like Pine was gonna be asleep a while so I went downtown the globe hotel Last stop on the line for the canned heat crowd brass platoons Row of cracked leather chairs along the front two or three old guys dying in them Nobody at the desk, so I picked up number 306 from the register and went up door wasn't locked Inside you could see why Nothing in the joint, but a brass bed Cardboard suitcase on a chair with a couple of neckties in it Fred Rand had been traveling wide, but there was something else in the suitcase stuck in the lining Item torn out of the weekly variety the show business sheet It said a couple of night throwers named Duncan and Dolly had checked out of Las Vegas For work at a spot called the Blue Dolphin Casino Los Angeles The date line was half torn off, but you could make out the 46 at the end There was a phone on the wall and I tried the Blue Dolphin Casino. There was nobody home too early for a night spot So I decided to let the lion work on that one Lion I've got something for you So we're off the job Go on It just seems Sure sure she did You can understand this this job we stick on They've got the wrong goose. I don't think she's stabbed a six-foot guy in the back I think somebody pitched the strike out in through the window Dolly Saminsky. Maybe I think that's what her sister thinks I think that's why she confessed Should we be with the world full of poor unfortunate waiting to be held cut it out That's the only good news I've had all day I Checked out a ranz hotel the same way I went in When I was crossing the street, I saw somebody coming up the other sidewalk My high school geometry told me that if I walked fast enough I could get opposite where my car was parked the same time she did Okay, come on Get in the car can't do this to me your dollies are masking. I'm doing it get in there and stay still. I don't like you dolly How do you know my name you look like your sister Mary? Who are you never mind? Well, are you taking a ride up Hill Street? There's a place to park above Temple. It's a nice view of the city jail jail That's right jail Man like I said there's a good view What's the pitch Regan? How'd you get back the Regan it's on the steering post you got good eyes Thanks, honey. I didn't say that way so you don't love me. What's the pitch? See that building down there the bars on the windows you said I had good eyes. You know who's in it No, it's the city jail. Do you know who's in it? No, it's your sister Mary Mary Why? She says she killed a guy named Fred ran Fred ran never heard of Fred Randa Then why are you going to the globe hotel? You never heard of that either Talk Williams Okay, I will You get the pine warehouses on the hook. It looks good, but there's just one thing wrong Fred ran You're married to him the guy turns up. Maybe he heard about Harold Pine He blackmailed you okay. He blackmails me so watch so you want to get rid of him You come back from your act this afternoon with the knives in your hands You get near the trailer the windows open you see Rand inside arguing with the sister That must have been an easy pitch for the star of the show your sister's locked up down there on a murder raptor cover you And you got nothing to say Okay, I got nothing on you not now But you'll talk later Get out I got business That gave me nothing so I went down to the jail to try to see Mary's a man ski again Took me an hour to find out I wasn't gonna get to him that I did find out one thing that cop had done his job. Well Mary had signed a written confession to the murder of Rand I Got in my car and buck traffic out to Ventura Boulevard I hit a gas station and checked the address of the Lou dolphin It was in Encino that meant it was near the carnival and I could pick it up later Everybody's happy pastime was doing peak business by the time I got there The midway was lit up like a sailor on shore leave But where I went it was dark Out and back it was a man ski sister's trailer Maybe I could pick up some proof that dolly's a man ski pitch that night that killed Rand I Tripped over a tent rope and bumped into something wait a minute. Who are you? I'm porky. Come on out in the light. Yes, sir You're pine. Yes, sir. I'm pine Parapine, but they call me porky porky pine I reckon you could say it's a sort of a joke porky pine It started when I was in college. Yeah My name's Regan private detective. Oh, I owe you an apology mr. Regan Mean it hit the car skip it. I thought you were Fred Ryan. Why were you gunning for him Fred Ryan? Calls a dolly dolly's a man ski You're gonna marry her aren't you? Oh, well, I what's on your mind? Well, um, well now that there's been a murder Go on. I think I better tell the truth. That's a good idea You asked me if I was going to marry dolly. Well, no mr. Regan Give me that again. I am married to her San Bernardino last Thursday You married dolly's a man ski in San Bernardino last Thursday. Yes My father JJ pine reckons mr. Regan because of the family money sure Sure, you'd want to keep it quiet because of the old man Figured he wouldn't want his boy married to a corny performer. You'd break it to him later So you sneak to San Bernardino and got tired Yes, sir, you couldn't have married dolly's a man ski. She was married to Fred Rand not for three years Huh, they was divorced mr. Regan. You know that well dolly had the decree how else we could we had got a marriage last? Did you see the divorce decree? Oh, yes, sir. When was it granted 1946 month? You remember? Yes, October day Mr. Regan, I don't see what day October 14th 1946 October 14th 1940s Okay, well mr. Regan. I don't understand ran showed up again, huh? Yes, sir So you decided to kill him he was molesting dolly sure Well, maybe I just beat him up. You're a kid pine. Maybe I am keeping bad company. I don't think so. Who do you think nice Fred Rand? I Don't rightly know What were you looking for and back of that trailer? Nothing, I Didn't think of anything. You know dolly sister Mary. I do you think she killed Fred Rand No, then who did I don't know Okay, pine You didn't anyway Well, maybe I was just pretending. I didn't know he was dead when I fought with you at his car. No porky You're not that smart Mr. Regan, I reckon that so Next stop was the blue dolphin casino the manager wasn't there. So I waited around Must have been almost midnight before he showed You're the manager I am you bought it in here your book acts used them You ever hear of Duncan and dolly night throes. Did they have a place? 1946 maybe October I could look it up. Okay over here files over here And plenty of cheesecake on the wall those pictures Acts that have played us. Yeah. Yeah autographed photos the Mandy boy Mandy is me. We're just scared so love dimples Davis Dimples you see what I mean Yeah, see what you mean October 1946 could be hey, hey wait a second last week of September 26 through the 29th last week of September 1946 Duncan and dolly. Let me see that when you're okay Dolly's a man ski and Harry Duncan King and Queen of the blades split week bookings September 26 to 29 1946 I'm thinking King and Queen of the blades Wait a second Behind his locker. Yeah photos all over the place. I'm just remembering we keep the leg on out where you can see it But this stuff you see it. Yeah like I'm remembering The Mandy sincerely King and Queen of the blades Duncan and dolly. Let me see that picture. Yeah You recognize me. Yeah, both of them Dolly and Duncan. Yeah, what it gets you it gets me my answer. I Made it fast back to the carnival the midway was closed But I could see a light on in one of the tents I could hear voices But when I walked in the light went off I told me where they were I Started slow All right Duncan, I'm coming The knife went past took some air that belonged to me and stuck in the tent pole He shoved the table at me and I shoved it back. He made a try for the tent door and that was when I got it Turn the lights on Dolly Harry Duncan the phony swami You should talk He okay, you'll come out of it He'd kill ran thought I'd take the fall You let your sister take the fall and kept your trap shut because you were scared of what he knew what blue dolphin casino End of September 1946. How do you know that when you were supposed to be in a vat a divorcing Rand You got to stay there six weeks, baby. You can't even leave for one day figure it out You're perjured in the Nevada courts. Your divorce is no good when you married Harold pine. You weren't a boss from Rand You don't get pine I'll take care of that your marriage to him is good like a three dollar bill Thanks, maybe I can do something for you sometime so the swami killed ran That's what I figured wrong if Mary didn't stick ran it had to be a tossed job Somebody had to toss that knife through the trailer window somebody professional. I figured you Till I saw that photo of Duncan and Dolly Why'd you do it because he hated ran he loved you. How'd you figure that guys fall in love with dames like you I? Don't know why We were a duo Duncan and Dolly We're gonna get married, but I I ditched him for ran that figures and look good a while Duncan on the bottle when I married ran pretty soon. He got too shaky for a knife Ended up like this the phony swarmy he said ran had beat his time with me said he'd kill ran if he got the chance Didn't think he had the news He's coming out of it Get out of here Yeah Yeah, I wouldn't want to talk to dunk So I'll read it get out of here That wrapped it up for me the police took it from there and after a few hours at headquarters I headed back to my apartment, but if I figured it was that easy to get rid of the lion I was in for a new set of figures The lion was there waiting hat in hand Jeffrey Jeffrey my boy. You've come back at last. I heard all about it I've been waiting for you Jeffrey sure candle in the window Jeffrey. Will you ever forgive me? Will you forget the unkind words? I've uttered the meaningless petty things. I've said. Oh, I rule the day I mistrusted you Jeffrey my boy. It was madness come off at Fatso But Jeffrey I mean it you were right all along Mary didn't kill that man Mary was an innocent girl caught in the tangled web of suspicion But you Jeffrey you defended her in her most trying moments a noble thing Jeffrey, but I'm fired fired Oh nonsense my boy nonsense. Haven't I apologized? It's just that I feel so sad about that poor child Mary and that pine fellow without the bride He had taken to his heart. What will they ever do Jeffrey? Save your sympathy lion. They'll get along. What? What do you mean by that? Well when I last saw them they were sobbing it out on each other's shoulders You mean it Jeffrey? They've discovered each other how charming how positively charming and with all those millions He has to millions of dollars stop drooling Fatso. There's nothing in it for you No Jeffrey. I suppose not but I can dream get her Jeff Regan investigator is written by William Frug and William Feifeel directed by Sterling Tracy and stars Frank Graham as Regan with Frank Nelson as Anthony J. Lyon Original music is by Dick around Jeff Regan investigator is heard each week at the same time over CBS Bob Stephenson speaking and inviting you to be with us again next Wednesday at 9 for more Suspense and mystery and adventure with Jeff Regan investigator, this is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system