WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.000 The Tom Mix Rolston's Tritoners are on the air. 00:03.000 --> 00:06.000 And here comes Tom Mix, America's favorite cowboy. 00:06.000 --> 00:08.000 Let's join the cowboy! 00:08.000 --> 00:34.000 The Tom Mix Rolston's Tritoners bring you action, mystery, and smile-a-minute thrill. 00:34.000 --> 00:39.000 Tonight you're about to hear the first episode in a new and battling mystery, 00:39.000 --> 00:45.000 The Storybook Mystery. 00:45.000 --> 00:49.000 This evening we bring you the first episode of a brand new Tom Mix mystery thriller, 00:49.000 --> 00:55.000 a strange and battling case that is to lead Tom Mix down a trail of danger and high adventure. 00:55.000 --> 00:58.000 But first, tritoners, have you heard the big news? 00:58.000 --> 01:05.000 Now you can have complete photographs of Tom Mix, Sheriff Mike Shaw, Wash, Chloe, Jane, 01:05.000 --> 01:08.000 and the favorite characters you hear on these programs. 01:08.000 --> 01:15.000 These photographs have been taken in the famous CM Bar Ranch, in Sheriff Mike's own office, and in and around Doby. 01:15.000 --> 01:21.000 They actually show Tom, Sheriff Mike, and all the other loveable characters on these programs in action. 01:21.000 --> 01:24.000 These photographs is a knockout. 01:24.000 --> 01:29.000 All of the photographs are printed in a beautiful album that in addition to lots and lots of pictures, 01:29.000 --> 01:33.000 contains some amazing other features you won't want to miss. 01:33.000 --> 01:37.000 And listen to this, in addition to the official album I've just described, 01:37.000 --> 01:45.000 Tom will also send you as a special gift an official CM Bar emblem to wear on your shirt, sweater, or dress. 01:45.000 --> 01:52.000 A swell-looking emblem in color that tells the world you're a pal of Tom and a real tritoner. 01:52.000 --> 01:56.000 Now to get your album and CM Bar emblem, here's all you have to do. 01:56.000 --> 02:00.000 From the top of a package of either regular Ralston or instant Ralston, 02:00.000 --> 02:05.000 tear off the little seal with the letters RSS on it. 02:05.000 --> 02:11.000 Mail this RSS seal with your name and address, the call letter to the station to which you're listening, 02:11.000 --> 02:13.000 and ten cents in coins. 02:13.000 --> 02:19.000 Mail to Tom Mix, Box 808, St. Louis, Missouri. 02:19.000 --> 02:25.000 That's all you have to do and Tom will send you your official photograph album and sweater emblem right away. 02:25.000 --> 02:32.000 But hurry, get your order in tonight because this offer is good only in the United States and can't last much longer. 02:32.000 --> 02:38.000 And now, straight shooter, come on out to Dolby where we find our pal Mike Shaw in trouble. 02:38.000 --> 02:41.000 The big question is, and that's to be answered at the moment, 02:41.000 --> 02:46.000 did Sheriff Mike or did Sheriff Mike not subscribe to a lonely hearts club for the love line? 02:46.000 --> 02:52.000 Well, this question is being answered this very minute in Ted Charlie Fisby's drugstore on Main Street. 02:52.000 --> 02:56.000 Oh, here comes the waiter crab apple now, Mike. 02:56.000 --> 02:59.000 The woman you have promised to love, honor and obey. 02:59.000 --> 03:02.000 Look at her, Wark, look at her. She weighs 300 pounds if she weighs out. 03:02.000 --> 03:06.000 Oh, good afternoon, Mr. Fisby, you great big wonderful man, you. 03:06.000 --> 03:08.000 Good afternoon, Mrs. Crabapple. 03:08.000 --> 03:14.000 Oh, I hear so wonderful today, Mr. Fisby. Just wonderful. And you know why, don't you? 03:14.000 --> 03:16.000 Well, now, Mrs. Crabapple, I... 03:16.000 --> 03:21.000 Because I'm going out of the ranch, Mr. Fisby, to meet my Michael for the first time. 03:21.000 --> 03:24.000 Oh, how wonderfully wonderful it is. 03:24.000 --> 03:29.000 And I want to be at my very best, Mr. Fisby, my very, very best. 03:29.000 --> 03:34.000 And so I'd like another bottle of that divine cologne. 03:34.000 --> 03:38.000 There seems to be something wrong, Mrs. Crabapple. 03:38.000 --> 03:41.000 Wrong, wrong? What could be wrong, Mr. Fisby? 03:41.000 --> 03:44.000 Well, you see that big fellow who just reached the front door? 03:44.000 --> 03:47.000 The fellow that's walking on his tiptoes? 03:47.000 --> 03:49.000 Yes, I wondered why he was doing that. 03:49.000 --> 03:51.000 Well, man, that's your attendant. 03:51.000 --> 03:55.000 What? My attendant? Come back here, you. 03:55.000 --> 03:57.000 Mr. Fisby, I'm a branded maverick. 03:57.000 --> 03:59.000 I told you, Mr. Fisby, I told you. 03:59.000 --> 04:06.000 Michael, my Michael, my dream boy. It's your pinnacle. 04:06.000 --> 04:09.000 Yes, the pinnacle of Crabapple. Sound like you mean it. 04:09.000 --> 04:13.000 Turn around, dream boy, and kiss me. 04:13.000 --> 04:15.000 Kiss you forever. 04:15.000 --> 04:18.000 Now, lookie here, ma'am, I'm innocent of all of this. 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 What? Why, why you not Mike Shaw? 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 No, ma'am, no, ma'am, I am two other people. 04:22.000 --> 04:26.000 Now, if you'll just ease up on that straight old jug on my neck. 04:26.000 --> 04:29.000 Mr. Fisby, how could you make such a mistake? 04:29.000 --> 04:31.000 I haven't made no mistake, Mrs. Crabapple. 04:31.000 --> 04:33.000 Why, of course, that's Mike Shaw. 04:33.000 --> 04:34.000 Why, Charlie, quiet. 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 I ought to know Mike Shaw when I see him. 04:36.000 --> 04:39.000 Behind bacon, you's one man to another. 04:39.000 --> 04:41.000 No, the man and boy, that's Mike Shaw, all right. 04:41.000 --> 04:43.000 Sheriff Mike Shaw, I'm doby. 04:43.000 --> 04:45.000 Well, he doesn't look like Mike Shaw. He... 04:45.000 --> 04:48.000 Oh, the quite. 04:48.000 --> 04:51.000 You dear, dear boy. 04:51.000 --> 04:54.000 You did it for me, didn't you? 04:54.000 --> 04:57.000 You did it to surprise me, didn't you? 04:57.000 --> 04:59.000 Ma'am, I ain't done nothing to help me. 04:59.000 --> 05:01.000 I don't know nothing about all this. 05:01.000 --> 05:05.000 Yes, you do, you honey bun, you. 05:05.000 --> 05:09.000 You deliberately sent another picture of a man who isn't one chance a chance to be you. 05:09.000 --> 05:12.000 And you didn't tell me you were a sheriff. 05:12.000 --> 05:16.000 Oh, how wonderful to marry a real sheriff. 05:16.000 --> 05:18.000 Oh, you did by the surprise, didn't you? 05:18.000 --> 05:19.000 Oh, there you have. 05:19.000 --> 05:22.000 Oh, ma'am, there, that ain't nothing to the surprise you give me. 05:22.000 --> 05:26.000 Oh, dear, sweet and wonderful boy. 05:26.000 --> 05:27.000 Oh. 05:27.000 --> 05:29.000 And I bet you didn't do it just for today. 05:29.000 --> 05:31.000 Mike, will you pay for this bottle of swoon, 05:31.000 --> 05:34.000 seeing as how it's all going to be in the family? 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 Oh, looky here, I've had enough of these. 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 I never saw this woman in my life before. 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 I never sent her no pictures and she never sent me none. 05:40.000 --> 05:44.000 And I sure ain't never been no member of a lonesome hearts club or whatever you call it. 05:44.000 --> 05:46.000 Oh, sheriff, I don't understand. 05:46.000 --> 05:48.000 Well, ma'am, there's been a mistake somewhere. 05:48.000 --> 05:49.000 What do these letters? 05:49.000 --> 05:51.000 Do you deny that you wrote them? 05:51.000 --> 05:53.000 Go on, go on, look at them. 05:53.000 --> 05:54.000 Read them. 05:54.000 --> 05:57.000 Dearest, passion, flower. 05:57.000 --> 06:00.000 I ain't never wrote nothing like that in my whole life. 06:00.000 --> 06:03.000 Do you deny that you sent me this photograph? 06:03.000 --> 06:05.000 I've never seen that photograph before. 06:05.000 --> 06:06.000 Wait a minute. 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 Just let me have a closer look at it. 06:08.000 --> 06:12.000 Yeah, kind of a skinny looking run, undersized and run down. 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 And he's wrote on this here picture, 06:14.000 --> 06:20.000 with all my love, from bootly bumps to poochy watch. 06:20.000 --> 06:21.000 Oh. 06:21.000 --> 06:26.000 Do you deny that you're my bootly bump and that I'm your own dear poochy watch? 06:26.000 --> 06:30.000 Now, ma'am, may I be torrid and feathered if I was ever guilty of six languages of that? 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 Oh, Miss Quinsby, this sure don't make sense to me. 06:32.000 --> 06:34.000 It sure don't sound like Mr. Mike. 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 Oh, but when a man's in love. 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 Eh, eh. 06:38.000 --> 06:39.000 Ah, ah, ah. 06:39.000 --> 06:40.000 Now, ma'am, now, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am. 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 You don't love me. 06:42.000 --> 06:44.000 Now, ma'am, as to that. 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 Wait a minute, wait a minute, ma'am. 06:46.000 --> 06:49.000 Here on the back of this picture, it's got the name and address of the photograph. 06:49.000 --> 06:54.000 Life Like Studios, 714 Main Street, Groby. 06:54.000 --> 06:55.000 Groby? 06:55.000 --> 06:56.000 The town of Groby? 06:56.000 --> 06:57.000 Yes, was, yes. 06:57.000 --> 06:59.000 And ma'am, don't you see? 06:59.000 --> 07:00.000 You have made a mistake, ma'am. 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 No, I haven't. 07:02.000 --> 07:03.000 But ma'am, you have. 07:03.000 --> 07:07.000 Now, I reckon this year fellow's name is Mike Shaw, but he lives in Groby. 07:07.000 --> 07:09.000 I live in Doby. 07:09.000 --> 07:11.000 Ma'am, you've got the wrong Mike Shaw. 07:11.000 --> 07:13.000 Oh, no, ma'am, ma'am. 07:13.000 --> 07:14.000 Nobody loves me. 07:14.000 --> 07:16.000 I'm just a poor young thing. 07:16.000 --> 07:17.000 Ma'am, now, please. 07:17.000 --> 07:18.000 I'm just a poor young thing. 07:18.000 --> 07:19.000 I promise you a step of life. 07:19.000 --> 07:21.000 I think he may be poor, but she sure ain't young. 07:21.000 --> 07:23.000 Now, please, please don't take on so. 07:23.000 --> 07:25.000 I'm sure that something can be done about this. 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 Oh, you will help me. 07:27.000 --> 07:30.000 You'll help me to find my own true love. 07:30.000 --> 07:32.000 Well, yeah, sure, sure. 07:32.000 --> 07:37.000 I reckon that all we got to do is telephone him, and he'll come a scally-hooting over to get you. 07:37.000 --> 07:40.000 Groby's only about 150 miles away. 07:40.000 --> 07:46.000 You're a wonderful child, wonderfully, wonderfully wonderful. 07:46.000 --> 07:47.000 Oh, shucks, ma'am. 07:47.000 --> 07:51.000 Oh, I felt so lonely until now. 07:51.000 --> 07:55.000 So alone and miserable, but no one to turn to. 07:55.000 --> 07:58.000 But now, now I have you. 07:58.000 --> 08:00.000 Temporarily, ma'am, temporarily. 08:00.000 --> 08:03.000 Now, you just get on back to your hotel, ma'am. 08:03.000 --> 08:08.000 To that lonely, lonely hotel alone. 08:08.000 --> 08:10.000 Well, I can't go with you, ma'am. 08:10.000 --> 08:12.000 You see, I'm due back at the TM bar, and I'm... 08:12.000 --> 08:15.000 Oh, Michael, Michael, couldn't I? 08:15.000 --> 08:21.000 May a poor little defenseless girl cast herself upon your masculine mercy. 08:21.000 --> 08:22.000 Well... 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 Take me with you to the ranch. 08:24.000 --> 08:29.000 Let me be with you until such time as that other Mike Shaw comes for me. 08:29.000 --> 08:32.000 Please, Michael, please. 08:32.000 --> 08:34.000 Uh-oh, Mr. Mike, you are so... 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 Shut up, Wash, shut up. 08:36.000 --> 08:38.000 I've got to help a woman in distress, don't I? 08:38.000 --> 08:39.000 It's all right, ma'am, all right. 08:39.000 --> 08:41.000 You can go along with us to the TM bar. 08:41.000 --> 08:43.000 I reckon there's plenty of room. 08:43.000 --> 08:45.000 Yeah, she sure is going to need it, too. 08:45.000 --> 08:50.000 So, if you is ready, shall we depart, boogly-boos? 08:50.000 --> 08:52.000 I'm warning you, Wash, I'm warning you. 08:52.000 --> 08:55.000 And I'm warning you, Mr. Mike, give her room at the TM bar, 08:55.000 --> 08:58.000 and she going to turn it into a bridal suit. 08:58.000 --> 09:12.000 And that's the whole story, Tom. 09:12.000 --> 09:14.000 Now, I call up this other Mike Shaw at Groby, 09:14.000 --> 09:17.000 but they tell me he's out of town and he won't be back for some time. 09:17.000 --> 09:20.000 So that leaves us in a pretty pickle with this here Mrs. Crabapple. 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 It leaves you in a pretty pickle, you mean, Mike. 09:22.000 --> 09:23.000 Oh, now, Tom... 09:23.000 --> 09:25.000 Now, don't mess me up in this, Mike. 09:25.000 --> 09:27.000 I draw the line of getting mixed up in domestic squabbles. 09:27.000 --> 09:28.000 Don't derision, Tom. 09:28.000 --> 09:31.000 You talk like we was married, her and me. 09:31.000 --> 09:33.000 Well, from what Wash tells me, you will be. 09:33.000 --> 09:35.000 Mrs. Crabapple has set her cat for you, Mike. 09:35.000 --> 09:38.000 What I hear won't look at you, and she forgot the other Mike Shaw. 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 That's what I suspect, Tom. 09:40.000 --> 09:42.000 I don't think she wants to marry the other fellow. 09:42.000 --> 09:44.000 She wants to marry me. 09:44.000 --> 09:47.000 Tom, what am I going to do, Tom? 09:47.000 --> 09:50.000 Grape guns, Mike, it's not as bad as a laugh. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 She can stay here until we get in touch with this other Mike Shaw, 09:52.000 --> 09:55.000 and then she can go to him or he can come and get her. 09:55.000 --> 09:57.000 All you have to do is keep out of her way, that's all. 09:57.000 --> 10:00.000 Keep out of the way of a woman that weighs 300 pounds, Tom? 10:00.000 --> 10:02.000 It can't be done. 10:02.000 --> 10:06.000 The quicker we get Prunella Crabapple away from the TM bar, the better we'll be. 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 Then, Mike, why did you bring her here? 10:08.000 --> 10:11.000 Well, from derision, Tom, you know me. 10:11.000 --> 10:14.000 When a woman starts to cry, she can just twist me around her little finger. 10:14.000 --> 10:17.000 I just can't stand it to see a woman crying. 10:17.000 --> 10:19.000 Well, you better toughen up a bit. 10:19.000 --> 10:21.000 If you don't, you're going to find yourself married to Prunella. 10:21.000 --> 10:24.000 Tom, Tom, please give me some advice. 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 Lots of gals have wanted to marry me. 10:26.000 --> 10:27.000 Wait a minute, Mike, wait a minute. 10:27.000 --> 10:30.000 Love is a personal thing, and when it comes to your love affair, 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 I'm branding another heifer, if you don't mind. 10:32.000 --> 10:35.000 Now, come on, we've got to get on down to the harvest dance. 10:35.000 --> 10:38.000 Hey, Tom, are we taking that there woman with us? 10:38.000 --> 10:40.000 Well, now, Mike, she's a house guest. 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 We can't leave her here alone. 10:42.000 --> 10:45.000 I'm hooked. I'm finished. 10:45.000 --> 10:46.000 I've reached the end of my rope. 10:46.000 --> 10:47.000 Now, keep your saddle on. 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 I'll do my best to keep her away from you. 10:49.000 --> 10:50.000 Now, come on, let's go. 10:50.000 --> 10:52.000 Oh, just a minute, Mike. 10:54.000 --> 10:55.000 What in the world? 10:55.000 --> 10:58.000 Hey, Tom, this dance tonight, it ain't a masquerade dance, is it? 10:58.000 --> 10:59.000 No, Mike, it isn't. 10:59.000 --> 11:01.000 See here, sir, I'm looking for... 11:01.000 --> 11:04.000 Hey, Tom, then what's this your fellow dressed up like a shipwreck sailor for? 11:04.000 --> 11:07.000 And from derision, Tom, he's even got a parrot on his shoulder. 11:07.000 --> 11:09.000 Now, who are you trying to do? 11:09.000 --> 11:10.000 What can I do for you? 11:10.000 --> 11:12.000 I'm looking for my man Friday. 11:12.000 --> 11:15.000 Have you seen him? I must find him. I simply must. 11:15.000 --> 11:17.000 Your man Friday? 11:17.000 --> 11:18.000 What kind of a joke is this? 11:18.000 --> 11:20.000 Joke? Joke? 11:20.000 --> 11:21.000 Joke, joke. 11:21.000 --> 11:22.000 I am not joking, sir. 11:22.000 --> 11:25.000 Indeed, this is a matter of tremendous importance to me. 11:25.000 --> 11:27.000 I must find my man Friday. 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 I'm inclined to think something devilish has happened to him. 11:29.000 --> 11:32.000 Man Friday? Hey, that's a fellow in a book. 11:32.000 --> 11:37.000 And say, Mr. Come to Think of It, you look like a fellow in the same book, like Robinson Crusoe. 11:37.000 --> 11:39.000 Look like him? 11:39.000 --> 11:41.000 Sir, that's my name. 11:41.000 --> 11:44.000 Now, listen here. You mean that you... 11:44.000 --> 11:48.000 You white gentleman, I am Robinson Crusoe. 11:48.000 --> 11:58.000 Here is a strange mystery indeed. 11:58.000 --> 12:03.000 A mystery that will defy you, yes, and Tom to find a solution. 12:03.000 --> 12:07.000 For the oddest thrills you've ever had, for the most baffling mystery you've ever heard, 12:07.000 --> 12:15.000 don't miss Tom Mix and his Ralston's Strait Shooters tomorrow in the next exciting episode of The Storybook Mystery. 12:15.000 --> 12:20.000 And don't miss this big chance, Strait Shooters, to get Tom's official photograph album, 12:20.000 --> 12:27.000 a beautiful album containing lots and lots of unusual photographs of Tom Mix, Chuck, Mike Shaw, Jane, Warsh, 12:27.000 --> 12:30.000 and many of your favorite characters you hear on these programs. 12:30.000 --> 12:36.000 In addition to the twirl of pictures you ever saw, pictures taken at the TM Bar and in and around Toby, 12:36.000 --> 12:44.000 this album also contains other sensational features, including highly confidential information every Strait Shooter should know. 12:44.000 --> 12:51.000 And don't forget, if you get your order in right away, we'll send you, in addition to this valuable official album, 12:51.000 --> 12:56.000 a beautiful cloth TM Bar sweater emblem in color to wear on your sweater, shirt, or dress, 12:56.000 --> 13:01.000 an emblem that tells the world you're a Strait Shooter and a pal of Tom. 13:01.000 --> 13:05.000 To get your album and TM Bar emblem, here's all you have to do. 13:05.000 --> 13:11.000 From the top of a package of either regular Ralston or instant Ralston, 13:11.000 --> 13:16.000 tear off the little seal with the letters RSS on it. 13:16.000 --> 13:23.000 Mail this RSS seal with your name and address, the call letters of the radio station to which you're listening, 13:23.000 --> 13:27.000 and ten cents in coins. That's ten cents in coins. 13:27.000 --> 13:37.000 Mail to Tom Nix, Box 808, St. Louis, Missouri. You got that? Box 808, St. Louis, Missouri. 13:37.000 --> 13:44.000 That's all you have to do, and we'll send you your beautiful official album and TM Bar sweater emblem right away. 13:44.000 --> 13:58.000 This offer is good only in the United States and can't last much longer, so hurry. Act now!