 For the safety of your smile use pepsidon twice a day see your dentist twice a year Lever Brothers Company presents the pepsidon program the adventures of Philip Marlowe starring Van Heflin Pepsidon presents Philip Marlowe Hollywood's famous private detective created by Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe tough cynical private eye of murder my sweet the sardonic case-hardened detective of the brasher de blune The lady in the lake and the big sleep You've seen him in action in all of those top-flight mystery pictures now in order that you may continue to enjoy this exciting mystery series Pepsidon brings you the adventures of Philip Marlowe on the air with a cast of noted radio players and starring MGM's brilliant and dynamic young actor Van Heflin Now families all over America have named their favorite toothpaste new pepsidon with iriam New fresh tasting pepsidon with the new cool minty flavor It's the three-to-one favorite over all other toothpaste. It's true with families all over America New pepsidon is the favorite three-to-one families from coast-to-coast Recently compared new pepsidon with other toothpaste at home They preferred new pepsidon by an overwhelming average of three-to-one over all other brands they tried These families three-to-one said new pepsidon tastes better makes breath cleaner makes teeth brighter Yes, families three-to-one say new pepsidon tastes better makes breath cleaner makes teeth brighter Get new pepsidon toothpaste for your family right away There was a rough desert wind blowing into Los Angeles that evening It was one of those hot dry Santa Anna's that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair Make your nerves jump in your skin itch On nights like that every booze party ends up in a fight and meek little housewives feel the edge of a carving knife And study their husbands next Anything can happen when the Santa Anna blows in from the desert. I Closed up my office early. I got tired of reading Philip Marlowe private investigator backwards on the ground glass of my office door So I opened the door and closed it from the outside and locked it and went out to get a beer before I went up to my apartment Fill her up again mr. Marlin Marlowe Marlowe Marlin is a face Yeah, I know that drunk again. What'd you expect in this business autograph hounds? Be right with you sport. I got to draw this man a beer Outlaw these stumble bums have come in here. You got another customer back is Hey, bud You seem a lady in here lately a lady tall good-looking brown hair a print bolero jacket and a blue silk dress No, sir. No, sir. Nobody like that's been in all right straight Scotch fast left my engine running out there. Yes, sir. Yes, sir This slick looking sarcastic guy stepped up to the bar and drank his Scotch hole Then he turned to go out and he stopped The drunk was grinning at him and then without changing his grin that drunk swap a gun from somewhere so fast It was just a blur coming out made a couple of hard snaps a little smoke curl very little All right show other guys don't move So long Waldo I Don't move you to I made his nose bleed So long boys drink up. I'd get on that phone kid. I'll get his license number Holy smoke Holy smoke dead guy's car Maybe he ain't dead. He's dead. All right. Where's your phone? This is for the police The prowl car boys were there in about five minutes Waldo was out of business. All right, and nothing in his pockets told who he was but he had about seven hundred dollars on him. I Told the cops what I knew including about Waldo's tall brown haired pretty girl in the Balero jacket It's about nine o'clock when I stepped out of the elevator in my apartment house and almost walked right into a tall brown Haired pretty girl in a Balero jacket waiting for the elevator on my floor. Oh Excuse me. Just a minute lady. I said excuse me. I'm in a hurry Look, you better not go outside in those clothes. Just what do you mean by telling me what this isn't a make you're in trouble Trouble yeah, the cops are looking for you in those clothes But I haven't done anything that I'm in room 41 across the hall now. I never collected an etching in my life All right, I'll go with you. I'll go I Got to my room and rustled up some scotch and soda and brought the girl her glass She had a small automatic in her hand. It jumped up at me and her eyes were full of panic I put down both glasses on the table slowly so that I wouldn't be misunderstood Look sister, maybe this wind has got you crazy, too Don't move a man just got shot in a bar down the street before he got it He'd been asking about a tall pretty girl with a Balero jacket like yours What do you look like this man tall 511 slim dark dark brown eyes of a lot of glitter Dark suit white handkerchief in the breast pocket and he must have seen you earlier tonight to know how you addressed. Am I getting anywhere? Used to be my chauffeur. You had an appointment with him, didn't you? Listen, he asked for you didn't he? Yes. I had an appointment with him He'd stolen something from me when he left three days ago. I was going to buy it back from what didn't you tell the police? I couldn't tell it was valuable wasn't it valuable enough for Waldo to steal $15,000 peanuts, but wasn't the value it meant something to me The man I love gave it to me and now he's dead He was a flyer shot down over Germany I'll go back and tell my husband that he probably hired you. He did how much is he paying me and Where is this husband of yours? He's at a meeting this late at night. He's a very important man He's a hydroelectric engineer. I'll have you know that my husband is one of it I'll take him out to lunch sometime and have him tell me himself and about Waldo Whatever he had on you is dead stock now like Waldo himself Yes, sister, he's dead dead dead dead lady. He is dead. Oh, I scream and I'll give you two black eyes I'm not going to scream Who would that be? There's a dressing room behind that door right there. Don't argue with me Do it all right and I went to the door making a loud yawning sound the backs of my hands were wet I opened the door Without a gun that was a mistake. I certainly knew the gun I was looking into a 22 target automatic that had already killed one man that night And I knew the ball head and the flat shiny eyes and the face like a poisonous lizard Baldi put the muzzle of his gun likely against my throat. I I backed into the room and Baldi kicked the door shut You alone look for yourself. I'm asking not looking I'm alone Even that dumb bartender saw me dust off Waldo. What did Waldo do to you? Who's asking just making conversation? He stole on me on a bank job. We did together got me four years in Michigan, Penn How is he dead? I'm still good drunk or sober Tell me why I came here pal. You heard the barkeeper and me talking. I told him my name where I lived That's how pal. I said why I skip at the hangman won't ask you to guess why he's there. Oh, you're pretty tough at that, ain't you? But you're slamming off pal All right, but you could get that gun out of my neck and try somewhere else So it isn't my neck save when pal She'll party I leaned against the gun The door at the dressing room showed a crack of darkness the crack widened I began to shake a little the girl came quietly into the room, but there was white all around her eyes She she was scared She had her gun in her hand, but I was sorry for her dead sorry She'd try to make the door scream either way it would be curtains for both of us. You're scared, mister You're worried about any little thing. I couldn't talk the girl floated in the air somewhere behind Baldy And her horrified face was drifting toward us My mouth was as cold and dry as yesterday's toast while Ken How's it feel? You ready yet Go on say the word. Well, don't take all night about it. If you're if you're gonna do something about it Why not pal? I like this. I suppose I yell go ahead. Yeah, go ahead Thanks, sister. Thanks that that buys me everything I have is yours now and forever You flatter me no in lady. I only punched him right now get out of here while I call the cops down on this killer Hey, wait, wait leave that Blair jacket here and marks you for the cops Yes, here. Okay See you again. Why? Oh, I don't know Now I guess not after all who might be the rival of a dead flyer I'll see that the police get Jesse James here Good night, lady Yeah, I mean me. Yes. Oh You again, huh? I must talk to you. You want to know what happened at headquarters, huh? Well, I went down there with the law and gave him the story I left you out of it. Oh, thank you You saved my life. So no one knows a thing about you. Well, incidentally neither do I Well, my name is Mrs. Frank Barcelli 212 Fremont Place, Olympia 2 4 5 9 6 Is that what you want? I guess so Well, there it is. And why did you really come back? I Wanted my pearls pearls pearls to All right, tell me about the pearls We've had a murder and a beautiful mystery woman and a sadistic killer and a heroic rescue Now we will have pearls. I was to buy them back from the man called Waldo Well, I saw everything that came out of these pockets and there weren't any pearls Could they be hidden in his apartment? It's possible Waldo lived on the same floor you do in this apartment house And why didn't I know him at least by sight moved in last week? He managed to get a sublet great a sort of an amateur magician on the side, huh? It's getting rather late. Yeah What about your husband this hot mysterious night? He's still at his meeting. You could have brought him along You could have sat in the back seat working out a problem in hydroelectrics. What? Wow, what? Well, I didn't have any answers. They wouldn't sound cheap or just ridiculous or from the sophomore class and rape our team Had an unlit cigarette in my hand. I threw it out of the window. I Took a hold of her and kissed her. She said very still I was shaking when I let go of her Her voice trembled a little when she spoke I meant you to do that. I Wasn't always that way Only since Johnny Dalmas was killed in the war He gave me those pearls 41 of them perfectly matched with a diamond propeller class I'd have loved them if they'd been wooden beads because he gave them to me. I loved Johnny The way you love just one time You understand that What's your name Lola Lola How did you explain a $15,000 pearl necklace to your husband? I told him they were imitation than I bought them myself How did Waldo latch on to them what they stood for or my husband was in Argentina walled and I'd go for long drives. I Was restless and wretched because of Johnny Sometimes Waldo and I had a little drink together, but that's all but you can fight in Waldo about this pearl I was a fool when your husband came back Waldo stole the pearls and offered to sell them back to your he tell papa And now you think the pearls are upstairs in Waldo's apartment Suppose it's a lot to ask. No sweetheart. I've been paid. I'll go look Wait here. Was a gun along Lola. No well No No pearls. No pearls. Oh There was a man in Waldo's room Man who you know a man named Leon Vosanos not by name. I don't know Mexican South American about 45 small iron gray hair very neat fawn colored suit wine colored tie. No, I don't think I know such a man He the one Waldo's room. Yeah What do you have to say very little in fact nothing? He's dead You are listening to the adventures of Philip Marlowe starring Van Heflin the music composed and conducted by Lynn Murray Yes families all over America have named their favorite toothpaste New pepsidon with invigorating earium foam New fresh tasting pepsidon with a new cool minty flavor It's the three-to-one favorite over all other toothpaste. It's true with families all over America New pepsidon is the favorite three-to-one the feral family of evergreen Park, Illinois I preferred new pepsidon on every single count the feral say New pepsidon tastes best of all makes breath cleaner makes teeth brighter on All these counts by an overwhelming average of three to one Families prefer new pepsidon over all other toothpaste. They've tried. 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I just told her about the Latin-looking man I'd found in Waldo's room in a very dead condition I held her hands until they stopped trembling and I gave her the few remaining details He had a gun and a shoulder holster, but someone had strangled him before he could use it someone Waldo maybe you see that convertible cooped two cars ahead of us been there for hours It was there before I parked here to wait for you Leon the man in Waldo's room came in that car But according to the key containers he carried that isn't his car whose car is it? Does it matter well it belongs to a lady according to the tag on the keys a lady Well, anyway a woman if you're gonna split hairs you genie called Cinco. Hmm in West Los Angeles All right, well you go home now, huh? What are you going to do drive that flossy convertible around wave at my friends impressed people You run along now me. I've got another date Yes, what is it, please miss your genie called Cinco? Yes, what is it? Did you lose or misplace a pigeon gray convertible coop? What are you saying? Now don't be alarmed. I found it and I brought it home to you come in, please It is a reward you wish Shall we snap out of a dragon lady? Who was he who was a little guy Leon you loaned your car to his dad Was he oh? No, no. Oh, yes. Yes your genie darling darling come here, please. What's the matter, honey? Who is this man? I came about miss Colchenco's car What about her car the gentleman who borrowed it couldn't return it on account of he isn't alive. He's dead darling He's dead that's putting it more bluntly of course dead and completely Who are you? Philip Marlowe private investigator My card mm-hmm You told the police yet never do at once what can be deferred pending negotiations Esop I Might negotiate. Oh peachy. What do you know Marlowe a man named a Waldo was shot in a bar tonight I happened to have the inside as to who he was and when I visited his apartment tonight I found this Leo balsanos dead He wouldn't have had five hundred dollars in 20s on him. Would he know but this Waldo had Over seven hundred dollars on him when he was killed at that cocktail bar mostly in 20s. Oh Is there a basis there for negotiations yet? Very well Marlowe I'm a married man Was certain unpaid bills for some stuff miss Colchenco here had charged to my account But you told me I might charge to your account. All right, so I wasn't very bright That might be the understatement of the decade that go on I had the unpaid bill safely in my briefcase Somehow this Waldo had a chance to steal the briefcase. I Hired Leon and gave him five hundred dollars to buy back those bills from Waldo Instead Waldo took Leon's dough and was forced to kill Leon in the process And then he went out to keep another date and accidentally walked into an old pal hostile enough to blow him down And someone still has those bills And I'm in for a divorce soup the man who shot Waldo got away in Waldo's car with your briefcase in it Yeah, that could be the cops caught him. Oh And the police have the briefcase maybe But the police are interested in solving crime not in tossing mud for the benefit of sensation eaters Look, I've got a friend or two at headquarters. Let me see what I can do worth five hundred dollars to me Well, then that's for it'll cost you well Good luck and um, thank you, mr. Marlowe Philip Marlowe remember my name is Frank Barcell a boss Barcell a oh What does that mean the big hydroelectric engineer? Yeah, how did you know my voice is tell me? Oh? Darling this man is money fiercely in sync. It's the heat miscalcane. It's the Santa and it's the desert wind May I use your telephone? Someday I must tell you about ebara Saul of the earth ebara detective lieutenant over central homicide I phoned ebara for miss Colchenko's house and told him where he could find a well-dressed cadaver named Leon and furnished a few small details I Gave you bear a time to check my tip and then I went down to see the good lieutenant and told him why I'd been up in Waldo's room Only to find Leon instead of a certain lady's string of pearls pearls in well I thought Waldo might have them up there Who's pearls were they ladies go on or they might have been in Waldo's car that Waldo's killer drove away in Yeah, what yeah, they might have also a batch of unpaid bills charged to the account of a certain Frank Barcell a yeah Well now the police aren't interested in domestic scandal they they want to prevent or to solve crime right so so I've got $500 for the police fund if those pearls and those bills are returned to their rightful owners Greet you kid. No. No, it's a it's a valuable necklace. Yeah There's your necklace. That's it 41 pearls perfectly matched diamond propeller class. That's it. That's the one take it away moral on the level Just tell me straight what it's all about. Oh, yeah, sure Sure, well this Waldo was blackmailing a wife with the pearls and her husband with the bills got the name of Barcell a Barcell sent Leon to get the bills from Waldo instead Waldo kill Leon and then stepped out and happened to get shot by that guy at the bar now if Barcell's name stays out of the paper I get $500 and that goes to the police fund We'll keep him out when I'm not in this case for money I just want to get back the bills and the pearls as you say moral the police sound in business to sling mud Well, you can deliver the pearls to the lady yourself if you like she lives it Are you better take them to her you see except for the diamond propeller clasp on them they're They're phony for phony, but it's all but the class moral all but the class So the flyer Johnny down the great lover had given Lola a string of fake pearls Well, I didn't know how to tell her but I called her up and told her to meet me at the beach comb as it to I was In a slip of the bad news slowly I'm glad you asked me to meet you here. Mr. Malo see I I Had to have someone to talk to go ahead. Go ahead talk. I'm listening now. Mr. Malo now more than ever. I must I Must have those pearls why money trouble. Oh, no, no It's just that everything has gone wrong And this morning my husband told me where to separate I'm sorry, but if I had Johnny's pearls, it would be a link with the past and was Johnny And all he meant to me It's how a woman feels mr. Malo. I wouldn't blame you for not understanding. Maybe I do though So please mr. Malo, please you'll try to find my pearls Look, even if it isn't all of them any part of them any any single smallest one It'll be Johnny's Look, will you meet me here again around four o'clock? I'll be here. Okay. I'll see what I can do There was only one earthly decent thing I could do I Took Lola's glass pearls to a jeweler and I had him take off the diamond clasp Put her on one of those strings of so-called simulated pearls that they sell you for three bucks tax included And went back to keep my four o'clock date with Lola at the beach comers Well, mr. Malo Anything you yes, the police found some pearls in Waldo's car They found my bro. No, no not not exactly not exactly a Waldo was getting set to Jepula He had the diamond clasp of your necklace attached to a string of cheap imitations And then he sold the real pearls. Oh how These are the imitations here Yes But it is my clasp Clasp is real. Is that all right? Yes. It's a class that Johnny Domos gave me. Of course. Of course. It's all right. That's well Thank you so much. Forget it. I won't Not if This goodbye Yeah, I think so You'll never get over Johnny Domos Lola if anybody ever bothers you again. Oh, oh, let me know names Philip Marlowe I Drove almost to Malibu and then I parked and walked out on a rock cliff jetting into the Pacific Ocean Then I reached in my pocket and dug out the string of bohemian glass pearls that Antennadee Barrett found in Waldo's car. I cut the knot at one end and slipped the pearls off one by one One by one I flipped them into the water Gulls swooped down on them and then flapped up against screaming indignantly The phony pearls at full Waldo and Lola Barrett's clean, but they couldn't fool a seagull I said to myself To the memory of Johnny Dalmas Just another for flusher. I listened to while to the wheeling seagulls All at once I realized that the wind had died the Santa Anna's blown itself out The red wind was done It was over You have just heard Van Heflin starring in the first of a new mystery series Raymond Chandler's the adventures of Philip Marlowe Brought to you by the Lever Brothers Company makers of pepsidon Have you tried have you tasted the new pepsidon toothpaste its lingering minty flavor is so fresh and inviting Families prefer it by an overwhelming average of three to one over all other toothpaste in a recent nationwide test They said new pepsidon tastes better makes breath cleaner and makes teeth brighter Remember new pepsidon gives you more invigorating irium foam. It sweeps dulling film away No wonder. It's the three-to-one favorite with families all over America Get new pepsidon with irium for your family right away Tonight's story on the adventure of Philip Marlowe was based on red wind written by Raymond Chandler creator of Philip Marlowe The screen's most famous private detective was adapted for radio by Milton Geiger heard with Van Heflin was Lorraine Tuttle as Lola Barcelli and This is Wendell Niles inviting you to listen again next week at this same time to another exciting story on The adventures of Philip Marlowe starring Van Heflin with a distinguished cast. This is NBC The National Broadcasting Company