 Get this and get it straight Crime is a sucker's road. Those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave There's no other end But they never learn From the pen of Raymond Chandler outstanding author of crime fiction comes his most famous character in The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe we bring you tonight's transcribe story the quiet magpie That's a lot. I did liberate dirty luck Council will you restrain the defendant mr. Calloway from making another such outburst? Thank You your honor As I was saying ladies and gentlemen In further proof that Vincent Calloway murdered his father Homer Calloway in cold blood The state has established that a violent hatred existed between them a Hatred that crystallized through the years as Vincent Calloway grew from a pampered coddled only child Into an indolent waste of a man Content to lavish on himself the profits from the Calloway oil company his father's business Without once lifting so much as a finger in the firm's behalf. That's not true. I Worked Council for the defense will advise his client that the court will not count on us another interruption of this thought. Thank You your honor a Hatred ladies and gentlemen that reached explosive proportions when Vincent Calloway recently took as his bride an ex-showgirl a Woman with a long entarnished history of flagrant fortune hunting a Woman whom he floated in the face of his father's expressed wishes and deep desires to the contrary Further the state has proved that just two days prior to his murder Homer Calloway Had decided definitely to change his will Why? Why other than to eliminate his son from its benefit? The court requested the prosecution to find itself to the facts Continue, Mr. DT very well your honor the facts are eloquent enough Homer Calloway was murdered Before his desired changes in his will could be executed Next We learned that on the night of the murder a desperate effort was made by the killer to cloud the real Circumstances of the crime by setting the scene to look as though Homer Calloway had surprised a common thief Robbing his private office this clumsy attempt was at once proved by police officers to be completely fake The motive was robbery all right, but on a grand scale Now ladies and gentlemen let us proceed to tighten this web of proof around mr. Vincent Calloway Let us show beyond any doubt that it was he there was no doubt about it Vincent Calloway was losing the fight for his life D. He the crisp tab colored assistant VA was cutting into ribbons When they called Felix Lohman to the stand I turned around and said good luck Because it was Felix Lohman who had telephoned me earlier and hired me to come to the trial and be on hand when he testified He was a tired little man with a jaded chair of face who got up and walked Unsteadily down the aisle at the bailiff's table He acted like a man on the verge of collapse. Are you all right, mr. Lohman? Yes Yes, yes, I believe so raise your right hand Do you solemnly swear the testimony you're about to give to be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth to help Your god I do Take your name Felix Lohman Take the stand Now, uh, mr. Lohman Will you please tell this court what your association with the late Homer Calloway was? Why yes, sir I was Homer's best friend for many years I was his personal advisor and confident until I Mr. Lohman the man's ill get a doctor No, no that that won't be necessary, sir It's nothing really. I have a friend here Mr. Marlowe Philip Marlowe He'll help me is there mr. Marlowe here That's the way it played My client was helped to his feet and as I half carried him out of the room I heard the judge adjoining court for the day All the way down to my car Felix Lohman stayed as limp as a damp bed sheet But the minute we drove away began a recovery that couldn't be credited to the fresh air alone When we got a few blocks west on Wusha Boulevard A smile spread over his cupidile face like warm syrup over a waffle. Yes a good restaurant. They pull in there Marlowe. All right I feel like a piece of pie And now look mr. Lohman not 10 minutes ago. You were dropping dead in the courtroom Now you feel like a piece of pie. What is this? Come on. Let's go inside where we can talk My performance at the tile was a fake at the laying action Marlowe a bit for time And believe me we need all the time we can get to do what to save young vince and calloway's life How about this good? Oh, yeah, sure But you think he's innocent. Is that it? Why? I have known vince since he was just a boy. He's no killer couldn't be It's completely alien to his nature. Well from what I heard in that hard boiled court today You'll need a little something more tangible than that mr. Lohman. I've got something A dinner menu gentlemen. No just a big piece of cherry pie and a glass of milk. Just coffee bank Now mr. Lohman sell me according to the da vince and that funny emotive. Oh, he hated his father All right. We all did one time or another Marlowe and got hated right back too Homer was that kind dry hard lonely lived on work and nothing else But the rest of that motive stuff you mean about the world Exactly vince expected several years ago to be cut out of his father's will He was resigned to it. So that's out of the motive for vince Well, aren't you forgetting that was before vince married a very expensive little play thing Maybe she changed his economic philosophy Now you're getting warm Marlowe, but you're still a little off. How do you mean the girl's name is joist I'm sure she couldn't change vince that much not dive into murder But I'm also sure that joist herself would try anything Well, that's where you come in Marlowe something fishy my boy Extremely fishy. Yeah, well That's fine. Thank you Tell me what's fishy Felix. Are you trying to say you think joist is a killer? I don't know. I don't know But I do know that item one vince was worried about her for some reason a few days before his father's death. So So And this mess broke I checked up on her myself Followed her home a few times that at 2313 north Ogden and item two I saw a man hanging around the place a fellow with two gold teeth right in front and dark five o'clock shadow Kind of whiskers. I followed him once Nowhere angels light is sure that's where I lost him But I learned that his name is stoner stoner What about item three black male I don't know how or where malo But it's there. Oh, and vince is caught in the middle. I'm good and tight. Yes You've got to find out about this I Wish I could go along but joist knows me too well and that stoner has spotted me also. I'm afraid So I guess it's up to you Okay, I'll get started. I can reach you where home That's done three nine six three nine six and malo I'm just an old buddy daddy, but that boy vince means a lot to me and time is awfully short Give us your best will you? I left little philly slowman ordering a big piece of cherry pie and went outside Was almost dark. I decided to try joist callaway on the north ogden drive sector first I finally located number 2313 which was neatly hidden in a series of obtuse redwood angles surrounding me Rose tinted glass front door to an extravagant duplex I was about to push the buzzer when the door closed at the side of the house So instead I stepped back into a dense plump of handy landscaping and waited It was a man And enough light filtered along the walks in the street lamp to show his heavy dark beard even after a fresh shade The light also bit it off a pair of gold teeth front and center that he whistled through as he passed Whatever had happened inside obviously hadn't worried mr. Stonemuch But it began to worry me I decided to take my chances on picking him up later After he'd gone I went up to the door again and the girl who walked through the entrance hall and taught me What this soft and as glossy as a well brushed kitten Maybe it was her yellow shoulder length hair or the flowing folds of the black velvet hoses gown United case it was even better with the rose colored glass door out of the way And the unmistakable scent of taboo in its place Yes What do you want your joist callaway? That's right. I'm marlowe. This is callaway so marlowe. I'd like to come in and talk to you a minute about your husband Then What about him? Well, it'll keep long enough for us to go inside, huh? Well Well, all right Come on in This is my apartment now What is it? Well, first I'd like to congratulate you The moral support you didn't give him today was real great The busy shopping the drop in at your husband's murder trial why you oh Okay, baby. I asked for it I didn't go because vince said that he didn't want me to now get out On the next time your lousy district attorney's office wants to find out something you can tell him just a minute I'm not from the da. I'm strictly freelance The moment I'm interested in a small matter of blackmail and how a man named stoner ties in I don't know what you're talking about. You'd better get out of here. Now. Listen, baby I'm tired and it's late. I want to know about stoner. I don't know any stoner Okay, let's make it easy He's a bird with a heavy beard and two gold choppers and I just saw him leave by your side door about five minutes ago Does that help? You're crazy. There's been nobody else in here to not get out of here Sure sure You know joys you're either awfully dumb or awfully scared. I don't know which But neither one is going to pay off for you. I promise Starting an angel's flight and working west that took three solid hours of scraping through the scum on bunker hill Before I got a lead on a guy named stoner And another hour went by before I actually found the swayed back three-story rooming house. He called home The scaly front porch was a clutter of big rusty bird cages and the mangy inmates of which complained as I Ease the rickety front door open and pushed my way into a moldy smell sticking up the chew The ragged row of tin mailboxes had stoner's room with second floor rear So I started up I got as far as the landing when I heard a voice in the hall above I went on slowly until I could see It was stoner Back to me talking on the whole home I got my 38 in hand and listen. Yeah. Well, uh Listen joys. Don't worry. I'll take care of him. Yeah, I'll be watching for him Yeah, I mean just like I said only remember it's not good for us to be seen together now to be careful Yeah, yeah, okay Goodbye joys It didn't start watching fast enough stoner Who are you? I'm marlowe The guy little cutie pie just tipped you off about don't move those hands stoner I just love to collect that mouthful of old gold. You're wearing You're no cop What are you gonna do with me? What's your angle? I'm gonna spill the truth out of you goldene to keep an innocent guy from taking the rap for a murder you and his own charming wife cooked up What makes you think I'm connected with that? Maybe I've got eyes in the back of my head That's so You wouldn't get eyes in the back of your head Because if you did you duck Oh See what I mean marlowe Thanks In just a moment the second act of philip marlowe, but first Although the intention of the entire world is now focused on the critical situation in the far east There are still tragic remnants of another war in europe. There are still the hungry people children who need clothes There's still sickness and the ever-present misery and poverty Now as before it is your job to help these people help them through your generosity through care One ten dollar care package can feed and clothe an entire family in france in italy in germany Send hope to these destitute peoples of europe by showing you care through care Now with our star gerald moore the second act of philip marlowe and tonight's story the quiet magpie The feeling of being hit from behind becomes more or less routine There's an explosion against the back of your head Your backbone is suddenly electrified and your legs melt And a chunk of the floor rushes at you from a cockeyed angle Where it connects there's a second explosion and you start down that long black corridor Very sick dear stomach. Yeah, it's routine. All right, that doesn't make it any easier every time it happens I rolled over under my back and that must be hallway. It's known as rooming house and forced my eyes open As I did I felt a stinging pain like a pin prick in the center of my spine And as things started back into focus I saw a beer bottle gripped in a fat freckled hand that belonged to a fat freckled face that Teared into miles Started a conversation just before I could get the pin prick in my back Well, well, well, look what the cat has dragged in and who are you chum a jewel t-man You need oh, oh my back. What's the matter chum? A little gold ornament. Oh, you must have rolled onto it chum. Yeah Whoever slut me must have dropped it. Uh, what is it? It looks like a bird or something. Yeah A magpie in flight looks like it broke off or something Probably a pin from some babe's handbag or braced it or it's yours. Maybe, huh? Well, if it was alive, it might be Birds of my specialty or ain't you noticed? Oh, you're the landlord here. That's that's right. So now back to you Who are you chum? Now come here fold it up in my all the way Well, it's a long story and I won't keep you from your birds with it. Hey, hey, wait a minute Don't let the Audibond pitch throw you chum I've got a couple of hobbies like sticking your nose in other people's business like bending noses that get stuck into my business So clear out chum and stay out or you'll see what I mean Uh Okay, sure Whatever you say bird lover After all this is your nest So long I figured it would play smoother if I left my tail between my legs and waited for him to return to his birds and beer So outside I let 10 precious minutes go by before I made my move Then it was around to the back up a lopsided rusted fire escaping in through an open window to stone his room There I hope something would tell me where he was going to meet Joyce Calloway But after wasting another 10 minutes it turned up nothing more than the two words gait ells scribbled on the back of an old envelope Which could have meant airport train station or busty for if they meant anything I went for the whole phone. I'd overheard stoner used And put through a call of my client Felix loman to bring him up to date Although this is splendid why from what you say Vincent Calloway is practically a free man Out now so I understand stoner enjoys Calloway who are going to blackmail Vincent kill Vincent's father so that vindia more profitable And more or less with of course everything backfiring when Vincent was arrested for the murder But look mr. Loman will add and subtract later, huh right now. We got to catch up to him Yeah, that he was heading for a meeting with Joyce Calloway See, I got one thing to go on. I found the words gait ells scribbled on an envelope You have any idea if it would mean a train depot or a bus? Yeah Is that what you said gait ells? Yeah. Yeah, does it mean anything to you? Say loman, what's the address of that place? It's uh east l.a. Isn't it? Uh-huh now look loman. Do you have a gun there in your place? I mean a gun? Yeah Well good get it and go over to the refinery right away I may need someone who knows the inside the names and numbers of all doors windows and pipes you got that Yes, but why not the police because they come with bells on we can't take a chance All for you. I'm close. Why without you? Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about it later. Mr. loman. Goodbye It's chum. You'll get this beer served bottlenor Now now see what made you come back very treasure. You see it's up here I know one of your little birds Remember smart bloke you're an housebreaker and anything I do to you is okay with the law Now what with you and stoner? Why do you keep a diary? No a neat bank balance And all of it comes from cutting in on the right thing at the right time So once more chum What's with you and stoner? Well, you see we went to the same prep school and I promised a headmaster I'd always keep an eye on okay snoop. Are you asked for it? Like god I figured right bird boy Bum aim goes with a bum temper. It's only just beginning sweetheart It's black in here like a pit when I get my hands on you. You're going to be sorry Hear that Well Talk up Talk up. Come on yellow belly. Let's hear from you Come on Okay So it's iron seeker No Now listen to the birdies sing chum With a 20 minute drive from angel's flight to the callaway oil refinery in east l.a. And all the way through the wide deserted streets of the city's heavy industries called home After three tries I found the sliding gate marked l On one side of it and pulled it up like a marionette on his day off with the night watchman Unconscious blood oozing from a small cut on the side of his head And inside thousands of square feet of pavement dotted with a Dozen different kinds of massive black metal oil tanks that were ringed with fat pipes and skinny ladders And in the pale glow of a half moon looked like the kind of distorted stuff bad dreams are made of I slipped my 38 out of its shoulder holster moved into the narrow shadow of a long low building and Slipped a careful step at a time toward a center structure Was shaped like a giant fishbowl on stilts Then I heard it It'd come from someplace just under the fishbowl as I ran taught it I was ready for what would be left of Felix loman and I thought it'd curse myself forever letting him come on ahead on his own But when I was close enough to where I could see I quit calling myself names Felix loman was there all right, but very much alive Alive and holding on tight to a smoking revolver that was still pointing down at the crumpled form of stoner at his feet stoner who was very dead She's up there she has a gun malo look up on that platform behind those tires hold it loman get down But malo you must get down. She's got cover up there. We haven't I don't care You rotten scheming woman. You are going to pay for all this. You're going to die even as you killed vince your father Yes, mrs. Calloway. There's no other way out for you It's too late for you and your life It's your end Joyce Calloway And then you deserve oh she'll get your loman You lost It'll be a life loman if you don't drop that gun Well, dear client. What's your assity and drop it or do I shoot again? No, no Okay, Joyce come on down Get a good look at your husband's benefactor Incidentally murdered home of Calloway murdered his accomplice stoner here and try to murder you You know for a smart guy you're pretty stupid loman You should take better care of your cufflinks A gold magpie shines in the moonlight, especially when you extend your arm to shoot people here Here loman's the mate the one that broke off in the hallway at stoner's place That much of you can still be patched up All right, mr. Marlowe Now that vinson's lawyer has heard it and the police have written it down the press has printed it. How about me? I don't follow it for instance Well Felix loman killed Homer because Homer no longer had any use for him But with Homer out of the way and vinson this place Felix would be set. Yeah, hasn't he good fool? Yes, but the way the whole thing boomer. That was just bad luck You see he staged a robbery at homers office just to talk about his life Well, it didn't the more than that it almost nailed vinson Still with me Oh The second house over there. Oh, I see. Mm-hmm. Oh, what was the black male? Well, that was Felix again and out of the whole cloth You see if vinson lost this trial Felix lost everything he killed for it So using stoner he had me playing follow the leader like stoner pretending to have just left my place when you arrived That's right. Oh that and stoner setting everything up nice and neat You see he was on the phone all right, but when he knew that I was there he pulled a switch And very carefully planted the name joy He did and last of all stoner being killed by Felix and no longer had any use for him And had a lot of reasons to fear him and what was supposed to be self-defense Get it. Get it. He gives you a little to go on and then a lot more each time you get there Yeah, that's the right moment. He brings you in with a phone call. It tells you to come at once for the refinery Oh, if you want to help Vincent Oh Close I came. Yeah Well Thank you, mr. Maro correction Like mr. Magpie It told me that Felix was the one who dropped me in the hallway. It's known as remember. Oh, yes That made adding the rest easy Yes, but how fast you add when it counts Well Good night, mr. Maro Thanks again By the time I pulled up in front of my apartment on franklin The black in the sky. It started to melt and was slate gray And my eyes ached for the long sleep that Oh Well, I sat there for a minute I lit a cigarette and I thought about birds Did you you ever stop to think how some people remind you of birds? For instance the landlord If ever I saw a vulture in pants, he was it and and my client loman A hawk with horn rims a powder pigeon And then there's Marlowe I wonder what kind of a bird I am A dead pigeon The adventures of Philip Marlowe bringing you Raymond Chandler's most famous character star jerald moore Are produced and directed by norman mcdonnell and written for radio by robert mitchell and gene levitt Featured in the transcribe cast were harrell dearenforth Lynn allen wilms herbert carl's lung bill john stone and ralph moody The special music is composed and conducted by richard iran Be sure and be with us again next week when philip marlowe says This time an eager young kid took a beating in an alley A lobster face began to boil in a pair of month old corpses got together All because a woman in a dark tunnel kept a secret That didn't belong to her Most of us approve of saving for a rainy day, but these days it's hard to have enough left over to save It's easy to put off the saving until tomorrow and that tomorrow never seems to come The best way to make yourself save a little every payday is to join the payroll savings plan where you work Or the bond a month plan where you bank Money invested in united states savings bonds today will make possible many dreams for tomorrow So arrange to save with united states savings bonds. 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