WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:23.600 The story of Mert and Maude. 00:23.600 --> 00:27.560 Myrtle Spear has made a desperate and daring decision. 00:27.560 --> 00:32.400 He has ordered Slim, the taxi driver, to take her to Duke Sandfield, who had sent her a note 00:32.400 --> 00:35.720 telling her to come to him if she ever needed his help. 00:35.720 --> 00:39.700 As you remember, she left Margie at a motion picture show, promising to return in time 00:39.700 --> 00:43.560 for the girls to have dinner and get to the theater for their evening performance. 00:43.560 --> 00:48.120 Meanwhile, Jack Arnold and the police are conducting an intensive undercover search 00:48.120 --> 00:51.360 for Jimmy Mitter, Margie's foster brother. 00:51.360 --> 00:55.480 They want to find him before the gangsters, who are also seeking him, catch up with the 00:55.480 --> 00:57.840 boy and put him on the spot. 00:57.840 --> 01:02.320 In just a moment, we'll see what happens to Mert in her visit to Duke Sandfield as we 01:02.320 --> 01:31.800 listen to today's episode of the story of Mert and Maude. 01:31.800 --> 01:35.480 Only a few minutes have elapsed since Mert left Margie at the motion picture theater. 01:35.480 --> 01:39.320 She has just arrived at Sandfield's gambling casino. 01:39.320 --> 01:40.320 Sandfield greets her. 01:40.320 --> 01:41.800 Well, how do you do, Miss Spear? 01:41.800 --> 01:43.080 I'm glad to see you again. 01:43.080 --> 01:44.960 May I talk to you alone, Mr. Sandfield? 01:44.960 --> 01:45.960 Certainly you may. 01:45.960 --> 01:47.440 Will you come with me up this way? 01:47.440 --> 01:52.120 Oh, are you going to take me up to your special question and answer room again? 01:52.120 --> 01:54.080 I don't think it will be necessary today. 01:54.080 --> 01:55.840 We'll go into my office on the main floor. 01:55.840 --> 01:58.480 Does anyone know you came here, Miss Spear? 01:58.480 --> 02:00.400 Only the taxi driver who brought me here. 02:00.400 --> 02:01.840 Then you got my note. 02:01.840 --> 02:05.400 Mr. Sandfield, why have you had that driver hanging around my apartment house? 02:05.400 --> 02:08.280 I'm afraid that's a little matter concerning me. 02:08.280 --> 02:11.160 Believe me, it's necessary. 02:11.160 --> 02:14.320 Right in here, Miss Spear. 02:14.320 --> 02:16.640 Shall we lock the door today? 02:16.640 --> 02:19.160 No, unless you're afraid someone will come in. 02:19.160 --> 02:21.920 Someone might, so I'd better lock it. 02:21.920 --> 02:25.080 Won't you sit down, make yourself comfortable? 02:25.080 --> 02:27.880 Thank you, I will. 02:27.880 --> 02:32.880 Now, why did you send that note to me to come to you if I needed you? 02:32.880 --> 02:35.920 Because I know the newspapers might try to connect you in some way with the murder of 02:35.920 --> 02:36.920 Harry Duffy. 02:36.920 --> 02:39.640 They're doing their best to try to connect me with it right now. 02:39.640 --> 02:42.000 And the reporters are trying to get a story from me. 02:42.000 --> 02:45.480 Well, if you followed my warning not to tell anyone where you were, it would make it rather 02:45.480 --> 02:48.440 difficult for you to explain where you were, wouldn't it? 02:48.440 --> 02:51.360 Yes, and that's what I've come to see about you, Mr. Sandfield. 02:51.360 --> 02:53.040 Who is that taxi driver? 02:53.040 --> 02:54.040 Is he one of your men? 02:54.040 --> 02:56.000 Yes, Miss Spear, we call him Slim. 02:56.000 --> 02:59.880 Slim tells me he took you and your roommate to the Hayfield Theatre this morning. 02:59.880 --> 03:03.040 You went in the front entrance and he waited outside for you. 03:03.040 --> 03:05.360 When you came out, you were with a man. 03:05.360 --> 03:08.520 Who was the man, Miss Spear? 03:08.520 --> 03:13.000 You know who he was, Mr. Sandfield, because my roommate called him by name, and Slim, 03:13.000 --> 03:15.080 the driver, wrote it on a card. 03:15.080 --> 03:16.120 I saw him do it. 03:16.120 --> 03:17.640 He must have given you the card. 03:17.640 --> 03:21.120 Yes, I know it was Jack Arnold, Assistant District Attorney. 03:21.120 --> 03:23.440 Shall I tell you why I went to the theatre? 03:23.440 --> 03:26.400 It must have been important to have required the presence of Jack Arnold. 03:26.400 --> 03:29.400 Mr. Arnold was there when we got there. 03:29.400 --> 03:31.840 Perhaps you read the article in the Voice of the People column. 03:31.840 --> 03:36.600 Well, that article and the persistence of the newspapers caused Mr. Hayfield, our producer, 03:36.600 --> 03:38.320 to call me to his office. 03:38.320 --> 03:42.880 He demanded an explanation of my disappearance and said I must not be mixed up in any scandal. 03:42.880 --> 03:45.560 Was he thinking of your reputation or the show? 03:45.560 --> 03:49.720 I suppose a girl's reputation doesn't mean much to anyone. 03:49.720 --> 03:51.800 He was probably just thinking of the show. 03:51.800 --> 03:55.680 I've always been led to believe that anything sensational or notorious was good publicity 03:55.680 --> 03:57.120 for the box office. 03:57.120 --> 04:00.600 I'm afraid not when a murder's involved, Mr. Sandfield. 04:00.600 --> 04:02.080 That kind of thing doesn't go. 04:02.080 --> 04:04.320 Well, what did you tell Mr. Hayfield? 04:04.320 --> 04:10.280 Well, he was told that I was in no way connected with Harry Duffer's murder, but I could not, 04:10.280 --> 04:11.760 and I did not explain my absence. 04:11.760 --> 04:12.760 Why was Arnold there? 04:12.760 --> 04:15.600 Well, he's my attorney, Mr. Sandfield. 04:15.600 --> 04:18.440 One generally tells his attorney everything. 04:18.440 --> 04:21.280 Mr. Arnold knows that I didn't have anything to do with the Duffy murder. 04:21.280 --> 04:22.680 I have an alibi, you know that. 04:22.680 --> 04:25.720 Yes, you have an alibi, and you've had a warning. 04:25.720 --> 04:29.840 But Mr. Sandfield, Harry Duffy brought me straight from here to the theater, and I was 04:29.840 --> 04:32.000 in the theater by quarter after seven. 04:32.000 --> 04:34.800 Harry Duffy dismissed the cab and walked in the opposite direction. 04:34.800 --> 04:37.440 Mr. Arnold said Duffy was killed at 745. 04:37.440 --> 04:39.600 Your man Slim knows all of that. 04:39.600 --> 04:40.600 Yes, so do I. 04:40.600 --> 04:43.840 So what more would you need, Miss Fair to clear you of any connection with the whole 04:43.840 --> 04:44.840 affair? 04:44.840 --> 04:45.840 Isn't that, Mr. Sandfield? 04:45.840 --> 04:49.480 It's the explanation of my absence for 30 hours. 04:49.480 --> 04:52.840 The newspapers won't let me alone because they think my disappearance in some way led 04:52.840 --> 04:54.160 up to the killing of Duffy. 04:54.160 --> 04:56.960 My being innocent means nothing to them. 04:56.960 --> 05:00.680 All I want is a story, and our stage director has threatened to fire me. 05:00.680 --> 05:02.000 That's why I've come to you. 05:02.000 --> 05:04.400 Well, what do you want me to do, Miss Fair? 05:04.400 --> 05:05.400 I don't know. 05:05.400 --> 05:09.560 You warned me not to tell about my having been held here. 05:09.560 --> 05:14.560 And you're sure you haven't told your attorney, Mr. Jack Arnold? 05:14.560 --> 05:19.160 I told him I couldn't explain my absence to him, but it was my own business. 05:19.160 --> 05:23.080 But after all, of course, girls have gone on little trips and forgotten to come back. 05:23.080 --> 05:24.440 And does he believe you? 05:24.440 --> 05:25.440 I doubt it. 05:25.440 --> 05:26.760 You're not that type, Miss Fair. 05:26.760 --> 05:31.200 Oh, I don't know what he believes, but I just can't lose my job, Mr. Sandfield. 05:31.200 --> 05:33.680 I've got to get out of this trouble and have it cleared up in the newspapers. 05:33.680 --> 05:36.760 I might have believed, Miss Fair, that you would let your friend and attorney, Mr. Arnold, 05:36.760 --> 05:37.760 believe. 05:37.760 --> 05:39.280 He's more than a friend, Mr. Sandfield, a good friend. 05:39.280 --> 05:41.380 Well, go put it this way, Miss Fair. 05:41.380 --> 05:45.120 You think more of your safety or your reputation than you do of the good opinion of your friend, 05:45.120 --> 05:46.120 Mr. Arnold? 05:46.120 --> 05:48.560 Well, what of it? 05:48.560 --> 05:50.560 I'm inclined not to believe you, Miss Fair. 05:50.560 --> 05:55.140 A girl like you would blacken her own character, especially to a friend, for only one reason, 05:55.140 --> 05:57.120 to help someone near and dear to her. 05:57.120 --> 06:01.640 You warned me not to tell anyone about being detained here in this place for 30 hours. 06:01.640 --> 06:03.960 You intimated that it might mean death for me. 06:03.960 --> 06:04.960 Well, how... 06:04.960 --> 06:06.760 Miss Fair, this place will soon be established. 06:06.760 --> 06:11.120 Or I should say, arrangements will be made with our political friends. 06:11.120 --> 06:14.400 And when they get things set, it will be run accordingly. 06:14.400 --> 06:16.760 I don't want anything to interfere. 06:16.760 --> 06:20.080 I shall be most happy to give you a membership card so you and your friends can come here 06:20.080 --> 06:21.280 at any time from now on. 06:21.280 --> 06:25.280 But meanwhile, I still insist that you have never been here before. 06:25.280 --> 06:28.280 Understand? 06:28.280 --> 06:30.920 Aren't you afraid of being raided, Mr. Sandfield? 06:30.920 --> 06:33.000 We're counting on our political friends. 06:33.000 --> 06:35.200 Remember this is a very high-class establishment. 06:35.200 --> 06:38.000 We cater only to the very best people. 06:38.000 --> 06:40.440 Or rather to the people who can best afford to come here. 06:40.440 --> 06:46.140 Well, in the note that came with the orchid, I forgot to thank you for them. 06:46.140 --> 06:49.240 You said that you knew I had nothing to do with the killing of Duffy, and that you knew 06:49.240 --> 06:50.240 who did kill him. 06:50.240 --> 06:51.240 We do know. 06:51.240 --> 06:54.680 By the way, you destroyed that note, of course. 06:54.680 --> 06:55.880 Why, I have it with me. 06:55.880 --> 06:56.880 May I have it, please? 06:56.880 --> 06:57.880 All right. 06:57.880 --> 06:58.880 Thank you. 06:58.880 --> 07:01.720 But you know who killed Duffy. 07:01.720 --> 07:04.040 Why don't you tell the police? 07:04.040 --> 07:06.000 I hardly think it's a thing for us to do. 07:06.000 --> 07:08.080 We don't always get along with the police, you know. 07:08.080 --> 07:12.360 The note you told the taxi driver to give me said, if you need me at any time, come to 07:12.360 --> 07:14.760 me or I will come to you. 07:14.760 --> 07:15.920 Now you refuse to help me. 07:15.920 --> 07:17.760 I haven't said I'd refuse. 07:17.760 --> 07:19.160 And I intend to do all I can. 07:19.160 --> 07:22.320 Of course, you understand we can't jeopardize ourselves in doing it. 07:22.320 --> 07:23.640 Well, then you will do something. 07:23.640 --> 07:24.640 Yes. 07:24.640 --> 07:25.640 I'll help you as best I can. 07:25.640 --> 07:26.640 Oh, thanks, Mr. Janfield. 07:26.640 --> 07:27.640 Oh, I've got to go now. 07:27.640 --> 07:34.200 The little girl who lives with me is at the Capitol Theater waiting for me. 07:34.200 --> 07:36.720 I think I'll take the Eighth Avenue subway to 50th. 07:36.720 --> 07:37.720 But that isn't necessary. 07:37.720 --> 07:39.400 The Slim can take you back to the theater. 07:39.400 --> 07:40.400 I'd rather take the subway. 07:40.400 --> 07:43.160 Well, the Slim will drive you to the subway station. 07:43.160 --> 07:44.160 It's several blocks away. 07:44.160 --> 07:52.840 Oh, Slim, take this lady to the subway station and keep your eye on her until she gets on 07:52.840 --> 07:53.840 the train. 07:53.840 --> 07:54.960 All right, Duke. 07:54.960 --> 07:57.240 You won't forget what you promised, Mr. Janfield. 07:57.240 --> 07:59.360 I won't forget. 07:59.360 --> 08:02.320 You know, strange. 08:02.320 --> 08:05.300 You kept me a prisoner in this place for 30 hours. 08:05.300 --> 08:08.600 You threatened me with death if I told about it. 08:08.600 --> 08:09.920 Now you decide to help me. 08:09.920 --> 08:13.560 Yes, it is strange what a woman can do with a man. 08:13.560 --> 08:14.560 Well, goodbye, Miss Spear. 08:14.560 --> 08:16.120 I'll give you a ring one of these days. 08:16.120 --> 08:19.120 Perhaps you may need me again. 08:19.120 --> 08:20.120 Goodbye. 08:20.120 --> 08:23.280 Goodbye, Mr. Janfield. 08:23.280 --> 08:24.800 I'll be all right, Slim. 08:24.800 --> 08:25.800 You needn't bother. 08:25.800 --> 08:26.800 I can walk. 08:26.800 --> 08:27.800 Orders, Miss. 08:27.800 --> 08:43.480 Say, Belton, did you read in the paper here about this? 08:43.480 --> 08:45.320 This chorus named from Hayfield's Pleasures? 08:45.320 --> 08:47.760 They say she was mixed up on Duffy's kickoff. 08:47.760 --> 08:50.000 Yeah, swell-looking dish, ain't she? 08:50.000 --> 08:51.000 That's a nice picture. 08:51.000 --> 08:52.000 I'd like to meet her. 08:52.000 --> 08:53.000 Ah, not a chance. 08:53.000 --> 08:56.600 Remember, Harry Duffy was going to bring her over to Red Rooster one night to give us all 08:56.600 --> 08:57.600 a knockdown. 08:57.600 --> 08:58.600 But he didn't. 08:58.600 --> 09:01.400 Yeah, too bad they got her mixed up in it. 09:01.400 --> 09:03.240 You and me know she ain't got nothing to do with it. 09:03.240 --> 09:04.240 Hold your lip. 09:04.240 --> 09:10.160 You talk too much. 09:10.160 --> 09:15.440 This paper here says the day she disappeared, she was accompanied by Harry Duffy. 09:15.440 --> 09:17.480 Say, that ain't bad. 09:17.480 --> 09:19.160 Might throw Spike Duffy off the real track. 09:19.160 --> 09:20.160 He's back in town. 09:20.160 --> 09:24.000 Say, Belton, take a look at that dame sitting across the aisle. 09:24.000 --> 09:25.000 Yeah? 09:25.000 --> 09:26.760 Now, look at this picture in the paper. 09:26.760 --> 09:27.760 Yeah, you're right, Pete. 09:27.760 --> 09:28.760 Same dame. 09:28.760 --> 09:30.200 I wonder if she heard us talking. 09:30.200 --> 09:31.800 Nah, too much noise. 09:31.800 --> 09:34.000 Look, she's reading the same paper. 09:34.000 --> 09:35.600 Yeah, same Pete. 09:35.600 --> 09:36.600 She's all excited about it. 09:36.600 --> 09:37.600 Hey, this station is 59th Street. 09:37.600 --> 09:38.600 We gotta change trains here. 09:38.600 --> 09:42.480 Hey, look, she ain't getting off. 09:42.480 --> 09:43.480 And neither are we. 09:43.480 --> 09:44.480 Let's follow her. 09:44.480 --> 09:45.480 What for? 09:45.480 --> 09:47.240 She knew Duffy and she may be working with their outfit. 09:47.240 --> 09:48.240 You're right. 09:48.240 --> 09:50.240 We're supposed to report to Houston tonight. 09:50.240 --> 10:18.000 Let's take this state and sweat out some information. 10:18.000 --> 10:37.760 Mert now has two of the Houston mobsters on her trail. 10:37.760 --> 10:41.360 What is their role in the series of mysterious events that have befallen our two chorus girl 10:41.360 --> 10:43.160 heroines? 10:43.160 --> 10:46.600 And will Duke Sanfield keep his promise to help Mert? 10:46.600 --> 10:50.840 There should be plenty of excitement when we join our two chorus girl friends in the 10:50.840 --> 10:56.760 next adventure filled episode of the story of Mert and Marge. 10:56.760 --> 11:21.680 This is Andre Barouj speaking. 11:21.680 --> 11:39.580 Have a nice day.