 Get this and get it straight Crime is a sucker's road Knows who travel it wind up in the gutter the prison of the grave There's no other end 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 star to fill up Marlowe we bring you tonight exciting story the good neighbor policy The day was hot and sticky City worried like a wet shirt To make things worse. There was a xylophone playing somewhere in the building and that started me thinking about my neighbors Mostly I was thinking two things about them One I didn't know any of them and two I'd like to shake their hand with a fellow that banged that xylophone day and night and break it Not a very neighborly thought but then it had been one of those days You know the kind that prompts the neighbors to set the dogs on each other Yeah, but now the Sun had called it today The wind had switched from the desert to the ocean Now it's figuring I'd be a better friend of man and woman if I took a long cool shower But there's got to be some legal way to kill xylophone players. Oh, no big finish yet Yes, your name Marlowe Phil Marlowe. Yeah, that's right. I live to a parking star. My heart. You got a call on my phone. I Got a call on your phone. Look the cause there. I'm a busy guy. You wanted it, don't you? Well, sure. Sure. I want it. Okay. Come on. All right. I Didn't catch your name. No, you didn't In here Bones over there on the desk snap it up. Yeah, sure Regular charm of this fella Hello, Phil it's Anne. Oh, hi, honey. Something must be wrong with your phone Your number and getting a very unpleasant little man. Yeah, he's not so little. What's on your mind? Oh It's out tonight. Oh, no, beanie sprained or ankle a little while ago and I'll have to fill in for the hospital tonight That does it what nothing. We'll do it again. Huh soon. I hope Phil call me tomorrow. Yeah, sure sure. Goodbye, honey The lady says she keeps dialing my number and getting you a reported. Yeah, why don't you? That's what I said. Oh packing for a trip in between phone calls for you. Yeah, look, it's only been one and I said I'm sorry What do you want blood? leave thanks neighbor Like I said, it had been hot all day I wasn't getting any cooler exchanging pleasantries with laughing boy Back in my own apartment. I mixed myself a tall cool drink thought about Anne who was neither I Just about decided on that shower again when I remembered about calling the phone company. I reached for the phone and just as I did Hello Ernie's crossed I can't talk now pick up in 10 minutes. We'll clear out a loan. Hey look at minutes are be ready Yeah, I'll be ready, baby. No, my name isn't our and it isn't Oh Well one good turn and all that a laughing boy. Come on open up. Well, yeah, I got a message for you. Come on answer the door Anybody home Yeah, oh, I'm sorry. I I guess it's not home Yes, yes, I guess it would yeah your apartment six on you and Philip Marlowe is it? Yeah, yeah, I am Mrs. Miss. Guarity Miss Adley Guarity Brother a nice name. Don't you think? Well, yeah, yeah, I do miss Guarity. I'm Apartment two. Are you really well apartment? I'll fast you ever so many times to the hall or coming in and out of the door, you know I just never felt that I've known you somehow. No, I suppose not but then you see I often say to Mrs. She's apartment one. Isn't it shameful? I say that we don't know our own neighbors anymore Here we are under the same roof as it were and yet what do we share with each other really the utility But that seems so little Why except for Mrs. Evans the Randall's the McCombs the Nelson girls and them oh Missing now. Oh, yes that young girl who plays with that softball team. Oh What's her name? Well, I really don't know Yeah, happy never ten well as I say except for those two or three people I I don't know a stone in the building. Well, that's the way it goes And then some days you don't know a soul tell me Miss. Guarity among the people in the building You don't know do you also not know the fellow who lives here apartment three? Yeah, this door I've been beating on who's that you don't know and you're making all that fun Yeah, well, it does seem silly. No, I should say so, but I'm afraid I won't be much help to you there Mr. Marlowe he signed you a stench, you know moved in less than a month ago Oh, well, I just thought no, no, I don't feel that I really know him at all Rather a tall young man around here quite nice eyes. I've always thought oh that sounds like I never see Excuse me though or something's a zone rule type. Yeah. Well, look, thanks, Miss. Guarity, but now that I think of it I have seen someone come in Can I catch up you again, Miss. Guarity, that's all man woman a child. I really couldn't Mostly mr. Minter Well, thank you and good night, Miss. Guarity Whoever it was it hung up while Adelaide Guarity was telling me all she didn't know about the man named Minter on The call before someone named Rena had called him art Could be my unfriendly neighbor an apartment free was out met her Yeah, well, that's pretty simple left me nowhere And there was Rena's message Ernie's crossless. I'll pick you up in 10 minutes. We'll clear out alone Not exactly social conversation. I Had a hunch about the phone call mix up But before I began to build a case about it. I called the chief operator at the phone company Chief operator. Yeah, well, we've got a friendly little wager going here operator. Will you settle an argument for us? I'll try sir. Good. Is it possible for two telephone wires to get crossed in some way? So that I could dial one number correctly and actually get the other number. Yes, sir. That is possible It could happen only in the case of a slight equipment disorder and Only if the two numbers in question were on the party line Well, in other words by dialing my number correctly you get the person on my party line and by dialing his number correctly you get me is that it That's right, sir Would you like to report such a difficulty? No, no, thanks. Like I said, I just wanted you to set a little argument for us Thanks very much. Not at all, sir Well, now I knew that much Neighbor Minter and I were on a party line and the strange switch and calls was legitimate Now I got this far with the thing I decided to leave the wires crossed for a while just for laughs And I looked at my watch Was time to get a look at Rena if she was coming from mid-air in 10 minutes. She was due I left my apartment started down the hall toward his and Sure enough Harry home lady. Oh, I'm I'm sure he must be I just talked with him on the phone a few minutes ago Oh, well, he maybe's in the shower. Yes. Yes. Maybe that's it. Yeah now, please. Would you mind? That sounds like his phone. Yes, it does Wonder so do I what that nothing? I mean if he answers it'll probably answer your knock, too Yes, I suppose he will Now would you please leave me alone? You know it's apartment was far more frustrating to me than it was to Rena. I knew done. Well, the call was really for me. I Opened the front door out of the welcome freshness the evening breeze in the set of night-blooming Jasmine By the time I'd inhaled a little of both and walked out to the end of the sidewalk Rena suddenly barged out of the building looked desperately up and down the street and then headed sort of car parked across the way and Her car had an Arizona license In a minute she drove away Back in my own apartment. I call the chief operator again Only this time I leveled with her about the crossed wires on my party line After that I took a shower and decided to end a dull day by putting in some sack time Last conscious thought I had was Rena's urgent voice on the phone Ernie's Crossless. I can't talk now I'll pick you up in 10 minutes We're clear alone I still didn't get it Didn't get it the next morning other But I got up dressed and we're starting for the morning paper Which my news boy with questionable accuracy always pegs in the general vicinity of my apartment door Didn't quite get there though before Hello, mr. Philip Marlowe speaking This is the telephone company calling. Mr. Marlowe. Oh Difficulty with your phone that you reported last night has been remedied Normal service may be resumed. Oh fine fine. Thanks for calling. We hope you haven't been unduly and convenient. Oh, no, it's all it's been grand Thank you for your patience, sir. Yeah. Yeah. Well, goodbye Oh Okay, I'm coming. Hello again. I got another call for you on my phone same damn as last night I think you have at the phone company just always argue. There's a call for you on my phone that come on an answer Well, how can I resist an invitation like that? Funny though Wonder how that happened. Yeah, you said that before I know I did I did didn't I Did I say before that I don't much care for xylophones or you I don't remember I don't care In here. Yeah, and the phone's over there on the desk Hey buster that phone's hung up. There's no call for me. What is this? This? This is a gun model. Yeah, I see it. You know too much Marlowe. I Don't like it when you know so much finish In just a moment we will return to the second act of Philip Marlowe But first a blind auction racket in which employees in a customs house have a confederate purchase of battered suitcase containing of fortune in jewels That's what CBS radios gangbusters have to contend with in the case of the Nazi Diamonds tonight on most of these same CBS station don't miss gangbusters tonight for a suitcase full of jewels and thrills Say friends the flood victims of Kansas, Missouri Oklahoma and Illinois need your help many are injured in homeless and you can help to give them food Clothing, shelter, medical care. You can do your part by giving through your local chapter of the American Red Cross Now with our star Gerald Moore the second act of Philip Marlowe and tonight's story the good neighbor policy is quite nice eyes of that late guard he had described them Where as cold and deadly as the automatic he rammed into my stomach Was the first time I'd gotten a really close look at him This one was too close for comfort. I had to keep looking at him No, I knew that if I glanced away blinked and I made anything resembling a key movie blast made a kingdom come little ahead of my time Is that wrong on one score though, you got my call from Marina last night You know too much. How can I know too much? I don't know anything now look mentor when I saw you last night You didn't know my name. You've been asking questions around, huh? Well, so if I Come on gumshoe. We're gonna take a little walk. I look kid. You're all wrong We take we take that little walk. We're gonna take a little ride You can tell me all about how wrong I am as long as you can talk Get going. Okay, okay Remember Marlo, you're just gonna walk down the hall and out of the building with me. No funny stuff This gun staying right in your bank. I see what you mean Why it's mr. Marlo, oh It's garrison and mr. Minter I believe Well, we're up early aren't we? Yes, we are a little too early if you ask me Have you the hiccups mr. Marlo if you do I know the best cure just put your hands up high over your head I don't have hiccups miss garrison. Oh, then perhaps it was mr. Minter and all lady I don't have hiccups either. Well someone hiccups and it wasn't me Oh, but no matter. I just came up for my paper. I won't keep you gentlemen I know you must be off somewhere and such a lovely morning. I don't believe it's warm today to you Seems warmer to me. No. No, I don't believe it is. Do you mr. Minter? Look lady. We're in a hurry. Well, I'm sure I'm not keeping you I must say I was just trying to do the neighborly thing. That's all Yeah, I was saying to mrs. Evans just the other day what happened to the old-fashioned good neighbor policy Look lady and this little incident this morning is certainly answer enough for me. It's gone. That's where it is Don't get moving my miss charity. You're the one who plays that delightful xylophone Oh, you can see it from the doorway. Yeah Well, I'm so glad you enjoy it. Mr. Marlowe. I do. I do. I want to tell me would you I know it's a lot to ask Play something for you. Yeah, mr. Marlowe. Come in. Come in. You make one move for her door She's right in front of me welcome in gentlemen or aren't you a music lover, mr. Minter? Oh, yeah, sure I am a Justin. I'm gonna get your paper for you Get inside your problem scouting quick At this time you won't matter Don't get near the door Why you struck him in the face with my paper. Yeah, I did way much You see the street in your windows and scaring yes, oh here's your paper. Sorry. It's wrinkled. Oh, thanks very much I'm pretty I still don't understand your behavior. Mr. Marlowe. Yeah, he beat it. All right And get lost in that traffic in no time What will mr. Minter think you're striking in that way? Oh Well, I've got a mean streak Hey, wait a minute. Let me see that headline Well, I'm sure I don't know what's in it if you remember I haven't had Let me see it a minute, please. Oh, yeah, man murdered an investment hold up Ernest Tolland 38 employee at Hinshaw Investment Company Was found shot to death when the company opened its doors as mine Up was a $50,000 in cash and security Missing from the same Please please tell him to work late last night in the company safe They shall say please At least we're attempting to locate Toland's widow. Mrs. Rena Toland whom neighbors saw leaving the house with suitcase Ernie and Rena friends of yours mr. Marlowe. No, no, but minute is right. I do know too much I'm sorry, mr. Marlowe, but I don't feel up to playing for you right now. What no this morning has gotten off to such a That you're peculiar start. I'm just Not in the mood for this dialer phone. Oh, I know how you feel. Don't give it another thought, Miss Garity ever again I Called the landlady when I got back to my own apartment to see if she knew anything about midter like where he worked She was good enough to be out of town I even went back to Miss Garities But she'd already hit the trail as she had the morning's excitement with any of a dozen people including probably that girl Who played with the softball team? But old mr. McWilliams the janitor was bringing up the morning mail Morning, mr. Mack How's the mail situation? 12b has two packages again again. How about me? Well, sir, you don't even rate advertisement this morning Yeah, well you can't win all the time Tell me how about mr. Mitter Mr. Mitter, you know, he's he's in apartment three. He asked me to pick up his mail if there is any sure If you can carry it all Just this postcard. Oh, I can manage. Yeah. Well, thank you from his mother in Tucson. Really? They're all well. Oh, well, that's good. That's good. Nice to see you again, mr. Mack They're saying here saying here Yeah, is it hot enough for you? It was And mr. Mack was right Met his family were all well except for the return address in Tucson there wasn't a lead on the whole postcard But who puts lead on postcards? I Took the card back to the apartment with me and called a questionable character I knew in Tucson and told him to find out all he could about ought Mitter quick And I remembered about Rena's car having an Arizona license and I sent to check her Yeah, and Ernest told him to Call back in an hour Well, he's got no record model this winter guy Yeah, check I only get this one about a year ago. He gets divorced by his wife. You hear yeah Yeah, go ahead and right away. She hops over to Mexico with his toll and fellow you ask about and marries him Rena did wait a minute. I got it written down here. So yeah, Rena Rena. That's her name Yeah, I told him was with an investment offer here in Arizona. Yeah, but but he transferred to LA a month ago Yeah, that checks. What about Mitter find out where if he works here, will you if he does that is? Oh, yeah Rocky what he works at the Hollywood Library? Hollywood Library It rocked me. All right, the whole thing did Ernest told him now dead had been set up as a pigeon a year ago back in Arizona Only at some point yesterday. He got wise and decided to do the investment job alone Probably was Rena didn't get the art with the news in time. She got to me Now even the law couldn't locate Rena And the last time I saw Mitter He didn't act like a fellow who was heading for the Hollywood Library You never know. I started out into the hall observed gratefully the miscarities Xylophone was still before me for the moment Well, I got about even with Mitter's door something happened very like a familiar song starting all over again Was met its phone ringing I Listen to this door There was no move from inside after the ring Something told me he was another lock that needed Yeah I'll for a while. Yeah, they just wanted where are you? Yeah, it's right No neighbor you talking because I'm at the bell flower in Ventura if you call here after mrs. Guthrie that thing got it You got everything did you when you? Well, I mean you're still gonna split with me. Aren't you? Yeah, sure I was afraid after I ran out, but you understand. Don't you you weren't home. All right All right, you get off work at Ford. Don't you nothing's happened about that. Oh, yeah Well come up here as soon as you can Hurry up Excuse me, but can you You can you tell me where I can find mr. Minter, please mr. Arthur In the stacks on the message that stare here. Thank you very much. Not at all and walk as quietly as you can please People are reading this term the world I was looking for something in investments Take it easy matter. I got a message from Raina. Yeah. Yeah She says you killed Ernie Yeah, I got a message for Rina to Ventura cops probably have a by now my call lieutenant back. You did any good and it always does I'll kill you model Alright, aren't you minute? Come on Where's the dough you took from Ernie and the security today in these permanent files, too Is that why you had to show for work today? But you never get them on me They're throwing books is a good idea Not to be said for heavy reading I Kept my foot on his neck. He'll miss hush downstairs called Matthews. I Needled have he didn't come to and I waved the squad car off to headquarters from the library curb Yeah, well, that's that On the way back to my apartment. I got the thinking about a house With no neighbors no xylophones no crossed wires No funny there No all kinds of things go on in apartment houses all kinds of people leading all kinds of lives What the line Love thy neighbor as thyself but most people act like they hate themselves Oh well There's got to be some legal way to kill xylophone players 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 kathleen height Featured in the cast were high ever back as art metter and jane morgan is Miss garrity with vivi janice is an Dora singleton is rena parley bares old mr. Mac williams and gene baits as the chief telephone operator Gerald moore may currently be seen in the santana production ciraco The special music for philip marlowe is composed by pierre garragank and conducted by wilbur hatch Be sure to listen again next week at the same time when philip marlowe says This time i did a cooks tour of the san fenando valley In search of a missing woman The case had a lot of positive developments But the clincher The clincher was a negative development And in a camera shot There's fine musical listening on cbs radio tomorrow Don't miss guy lambardo time featuring guys distinctive music with vocals by visiting janice page The program comes from norfolk naval base where a guy lambardo time entertains the navy Also untapped tomorrow night of most of these same cbs stations is cbs radios mario lanzashowe with mario and musical company offering a special program of gerome kerne favorites This is roi roan speaking Just as systematic exercise builds a strong body so does systematic saving build a strong future Save systematically for your future and for your country's future with united states defense bonds There's no safer investment in the world Defense bonds are guaranteed by your government So for the defense of your future for the defense of your country's future by your full share Regularly systematically of united states defense bonds This is the cbs radio network