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Hot Copy: Death Studies the Angles (EP4654)
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Today's Mystery: The anti-vice candidate for mayor dies suddenly. The coroner says it was heart failure, but Anne think he was murdered. Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 27, 1944 Originating from Chicago Starring: Betty Lou Gerson as Anne...
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Ella
How did Ella bake her way to the top?
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Adam Graham
It all started with one smart decision.
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Ella
She test drove a certified used truck from her local Ford dealer. It was inspected, backed by a Ford warranty, and fit her budget.
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Adam Graham
A carfax report was the cherry on top.
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Ella
Soon a pinch of confidence became a truckload of ambition. Cupcakes became customers. Customers became regulars. Hola. Turns out Ella's next great investment was.
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Adam Graham
Herself Ford Blue Advantage used car buying.
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Ella
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Adam Graham
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Ella
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Adam Graham
Regulations come with the job.
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Ella
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Adam Graham
Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. I do want to encourage you to check out our other podcasts. In particular, I'm highlighting our public domain video theater Detective Video Theater, where twice a month we post a public domain detective television program. Right now we are alternating between Mr. And Mrs. North and Dragnet and we are also now available on Spotify. And in addition to our new episodes, we also have been posting our archive episodes. Since our Spotify show is kind of a separate thing from the RSS feed we have on Apple and Podbean and places like that, we have been posting episodes from our archives. So currently you're getting two videos every week. On average, three of those come from our archives and one is the latest episodes. And we'll continue doing that until we've got all of our episodes over on Spotify. But now it's time to talk about Hot Copy. Special thanks to Jim Goodluck of the Hot Copy Radio Theater for providing some information that's been helpful to me in getting this series right because it is a bit obscure. Hot Copy Radio Theater recreates lost episodes of this series and releases them as podcast episodes every month on the 10th. At this point, they've done around three dozen episodes from actual scripts and you can check them out wherever you get your podcast from. Now in terms of the history of the series, Hot Copy was actually introduced to radio on October 4, 1941, and America was introduced To Ann Rogers and her search for news for her column Second Glance, I went through newspaper logs and was able to take a look at details as to what she got up to. And it was a lot of adventures that would typically be the province of your male led detective series. Things like tong wars and kidnapping and all sorts of crime, murder, mayhem. And of course, as the war started only a couple months after the series premiered, you'd have enemy Axis activity which would all be fair game for her during her three years on the air. I should note that some older old time radio resource books state that their series was not on the air between September 1942 and July 1943, but my review of Newspaper Log shows that it pretty much aired continuously. Now, even though Hot Copy was on the air and Rogers was actually played by by multiple actresses and honestly, most of them were quite obscure. We only have two recordings in circulation and these feature the last actress to play her, who was actually the most famous. Betty Lou Gerson took over the role of Ann Rogers in December of 1943 and would play her for the last 11 months of the show's run when it went off the air in November 1944. Now that introduction out of the way here from February 27, 1944 is death.
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Ella
Studies the Angles o Cedar, the greatest name in housekeeping, presents Hot Copy. And so, my friends and fellow citizens, I promise that if elected to this high office, I shall do everything within my power to clean our fair city of vice and corruption. Are you away? What do you want here? No, never mind. I know. More money, eh? You're not going to get it. I've been a sucker long enough. You can't make me fain. I won't. Not afraid of you any longer. After tonight, I'll be top dog in this kennel. And if you try to squeeze one more penny out of me, I'll have you behind bars so fast. Understand? Now get out of here. Get out from where I throw you. Before we present today's exciting adventure of the dynamic newspaper columnist Ann Rogers, whose stories are always Hot Copy, a word for Mosita. Now, some people might say the flowers that bloom on a woman's hat in February are the first sign of spring. But there's an even better way of telling that spring's just around the calendar. It's the fresh, brightest new colors you see in linoleum that had a coat of O Cedar self polishing wax. You know, O Cedar self polishing wax does such a grand job of reviving dull winter worn linoleums you could almost call it liquid sunshine. And it's such an easy way to bring springtime life and color into any room. Where you use linoleum four coverings. There's practically no work to it because O Cedar Self Polishing Wax needs no rubbing or buffing. Whether you use it on linoleum, wood or composition floors, simply apply, then let it dry. In just 17 minutes, your floors are sparkling with beauty. Easy to keep beautiful, fully protected against hardware. Tomorrow, ask your store for O Cedar Self Polishing Wax. It pays. And now, a new and dramatic story of Aaron Rogers. Search for hot coffee. Death. Studies the angles. You're calling me Annie. Say, you ought to tape these canopies. Come away from that sideboard slightly before you burst and create a scene. Oh, now listen, sugar puns. It sounds like things would be downright unpatriotic. Who had all this food go away. Yeah, that's just where it will go if you're not careful. What's that again? To waste and gifts and super rolls of fat. All right, all right. You win, Ms. Rogers. So long, Ms. Margaret's board. How long are we gonna hang around here, sugar? Oh, I gotta wait and hear what Barnaby has to say. I'm thinking on getting some material for my column here tonight. Speech. You mean the old goat's gonna make with the vocal cords at this ending? Did you ever hear of a candidate premiere missing an opportunity to beat his gums at a public gathering? Oh, Hiya, Pete. Oh, McNulty, what are you doing here? What's it look like I'm doing? This paraphernalia I'm toting isn't a bag full of toys. Say, what's that in the big bowl? Caviar? Yep. Oh, Chichor. Yeah. Step aside, sprightly, and let Uncle Mac have a whack at the rusty snack. Don't you cameraman ever get a night off? Sure, every time the printing plant burns to the ground. Say, this is the real McCoy. Straight from Uncle Joe Stalin's private fish pond. You tried it sprightly? Well, no, but I don't like Badminia. Yeah, I know that won't pull down over your hip. No, thanks, Pete. I'm on a diet. Starting two minutes ago. Suits yourself. All and all for me. Hey, hey, hey. Look what the cat dragged in. What's he doing at this ball? He poopy. Mickey Delanis over there. The tall. That tall guy with the jet black hair. See him? The skinny one. Nikki Delanos, Peter Gambler. You can say that again, sister. Runs the biggest and most exclusive joint in town. Admission by invitation only, all that kind of stuff. Charlie, this is hot. What do you mean? Wait a little. Barnaby's campaign manager gets a load of this uninvited guest, he'll blow three fuses. Barnaby running for mayor on an anti vice ticket. And Nikki Diana shows it at the announcement party. Who's the girl with him? Where? There. Oh, her. Boy, now I know there's going to be trouble before this shin takes over. Why'd you say that? Who? Who is she? Who is she? Listen, Annie, can you keep a secret? Secret? Oh, yes, of course. Well, Barnaby can. Everybody around town knows that before he talked to Chapo in the political ring, he was a regular visitor to Nicky's gambling casino. He was? Well, sure. I've seen him there a hundred times myself. What were you doing there? Winning a little, losing a little, depending on my luck. I thought you said it was an exclusive joint. Mickey Smart. He'd rather lower the tone of his casino by letting in a few poor but reckless newshawks like myself. Then take a chance on our exposing him to the cops. So candidate Walter Barnaby used to gamble a little before he was chosen to represent the anti vice party. But the woman. Did you ever hear of the Countess Valizi? Countess Valizza, of course. Well, that is her. Really? Well, I'll be done. Looks like royalty, doesn't she? Annie, get a load of that cigarette holder. It must be a foot long. Yeah, and as phony as everything else about the countess. You notice there's no cigarette in the holder. I never can. She never smokes, never takes a drink. But oh boy, can she take the boys in their fat and feverish 40s over the head of. She's been leading Walter Barnaby a married chase for the past three months. Oh, Pete, you're exaggerating. Walter Barnaby's married. He has two grown children. So he is. But did you ever see his wife? Oh, now what? Barnaby's speech. I chose Tweet and Donna. Touch me. Ah. I knew we should have left earlier. Speech. That's my cue, Kitty. I'll see you later. Got to get up there near his nip so I can get a good angle. There's about a million other cameramen here. You want to move forward a bit, Annie? No, slightly. I just want to hear what Barnaby says. Right now I'm much more interested in watching Nikki and the Con H. Why? I think Pete's right that one time pal. Deserting him to run on the Antivirus ticket. They may create a scene. Oh, my goodness. The honorable Walter C. Barnaby. Thank you. Thank you. My friends and fellow citizens all. It is with the utmost reluctance I have consented to say a few words to you. Yeah, that's right. Me high. I want said to be. Johnny. Ms. Danny. What is it? Look. Look at Mickey. Mickey get your little picture. Oh, well, for a piece sake. What do you think of that? A trick cigarette lighter. I've seen him for sale in tobacco shops. Getting a stock room. Yeah, with pointed right at vintage. You better keep quiet. Brightly. First and foremost, I have this to say. If I am elected mayor of Arcady, I tell you with assurance that I will tolerate no rights in any shape or form in this town. Illicit grades and professions must go. Gambling will be eradicated. This is going to be a clean city. That's the way to talk, Mr. Man. Hey, give me room. I want a shot of him staying there. Me too. Turn your head around this way. A little more, Mr. Bunny. Hold it. Now take it. One more, please. Oh, sometimes I'll hurt my eyes, don't they? What's the matter? Sadly, Barnaby's ex friends don't like the tone of his remarks. They're leaving. They're not so. Dumbass. You're off. Let's hear what he has to say. In the past I have been abused of many human rails. These slanders. I will fight truth and claw. I will never allow. Never allow. Annie. What's the matter with him? I don't know. To undermine my character. I will fight truth and I will fight. Fight. Mr. Barnaby. Catch him, somebody. Holy smokes. I want a shot of that water. Bring water, Shorty, quick. Sorry. Let us through, please.
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Adam Graham
Shutting in.
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Ella
Sorry. Excuse me. Yeah. Hold his head up. Here's the boy. What's wrong with him? Excitement. He's fainted. No. Oh, no. What is it, Annie? A stroke? No, it's not a stroke. Barnaby is dead. Well, it sure was nice of you to drop my pictures off at the office like this and then give me a lift home. Ann. Thanks a lot. Huh? Oh, not all Pete. Now look, Anne, don't sit there brooding over what you saw tonight. He went all of a sudden, didn't he? Yep. One minute on his feet, the next flat on his course. A dead fish. Just goes to show how heart failure operates like that. Heart failure? Is that what the doctor said? What else could it have? Oh, now look, Anne. Turn that nose for news the other way, will you? You're not trying to play like this, is Another murder case, are you? I don't know, Pete. I'm just wondering. You know there are several types of poison that cause instantaneous death resembling heart failure. Poison? Oh, cut it out. Any doctor can tell when a man's been poisoned. That's where your aunties. One secret jealously guarded from the public by the medical fraternity. The fact there exists not only one, but several types of deadly poison which, once assimilated into the human body, cannot be detected. But Anne, you mean you think someone at that shindig may have poisoned Barnaby before all that crowd? Possible. There are at least two people present who might have had reason to want him out of the way. You mean. Exactly, Mickey. And I've got his solicitor. But how? When? I don't know what I've been wondering, Pete. You saw Barnaby afterwards, didn't you? Close up. I mean, why is. Tell me, were there any scratches or punctures on him that you could see? No, not a. Wait a minute. Come to think of it, there was one tiny little scratch on his face. The faintest sort of a mark. As if he'd nicked himself while shaving. Could it have been the hole left by a very small jar? A needle thin sliver of steel which might have been dipped in poison? Well, if you're looking for cockeyed possibilities. Yes, but how could either Nicky or the Countess cry. Mantes. Nicky's pistol. Pistol. Quick cigarette light. It was pointed at Barnaby a few minutes before he killed. Oh, we get a man with a knack for mechanics might have rigged that trick lighter into a lethal weapon. Driver. Yes, ma'am? Do you know where the Shamrock Club is? Oh, yeah, sure. Go there, please. Immediately. Oh, sure, okay. Shamrock Club. Well, that's Nicky's place, Aunt Nick. I know, but you can't get in there without a pass or an invitation. Oh, but you can. You told us Nicky gave you the freedom of the club and you can take us in as your guest. Oh, but Annie, I'm tired. I want some shut eyes. Please do this for me. I've got a hunch that Walter Barnaby was murdered. And I'm going to play that hunch. We return to Ann Rogers and Hot Copy in just a moment. But first I'd like you to meet Mrs. Eaton. She's just made a big discovery. Well, the credit really goes to my sister. You see, she dropped in one day and found me on my hands and knees scrubbing the kitchen linoleum. That's not good. You're kinder than my sister. She said you Ought to be ashamed, wearing yourself out like that. And wearing out your linoleum too. My goodness, haven't you ever heard of old Cedar Self Polishing Wax? And you said. Well, I told her I had. And then she really gave me a lecture. She said if I used O Cedar Self Polishing Wax regularly, I'd never have to scrub my floors. I'll bet she did. I'll bet she told you. O Cedar Self Polishing Wax puts a protective finish on linoleums and all floors that seals them against dirt and grime. Makes it easy to wipe up spilled things. Makes hard scrubbing unnecessary. Yes, and you're both right. O Cedar Self Polishing Wax has taken a lot of hard work out of my housework. Of course it has. And friends, remember, O Cedar Self Polishing Wax needs no rubbing or buffing. You simply apply, then let it dry. And now back to hot coffee. The anti vice candidate for mayor has dropped dead under peculiar circumstances. And then Roger suspects murder. Now with two companions, she enters a notorious gambling casino on the trail of the killer. Gosh. Friendship, thinking. Yeah, very suckers Paradise. All these wealthy old goats are here with paper dolls that they can call their own until they go broke. I see.
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Adam Graham
That way, huh?
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Ella
No wonder they made you park your camera in the check room. How much you gonna invest, Sandy? Oh, nothing. You go ahead, ask Sandy and watch for a few minutes. Watch what? Is that a seat? Plenty. Countess Felissa just came in waving a cigarette holder like a scepter. I want to see what she does. Yeah, there's Nicki who just came out of his office. I think I'll walk over and speak to him. You want me to come with you? No, I'll be right back. Yes? I'd like to speak to you for a moment. A pleasure, M. But not here. If we might go somewhere that's public, Mademoiselle, if it concerns a matter of money, the. The club. No, no, it's not that. My name is Anne Rogers. Do you say Anne Rogers not the author of the column Second Glance? Yes, I write Second Glance. But this is an unexpected pleasure, my dear Miss Rogers. Come, we will go to my private office. This way, please. Thank. Ah, here we are. Make yourself comfortable. Ms. Waldo, a cigarette? No, thanks. Yes, I think I would like a cigarette, if you don't mind. Drop them on. It's for certain over here. Jarfish in these compartments, domestic and yellow. Thank you. I'm say that in the light. Oh, I'm so sorry. How stupid of me. Didn't notice those matches on your Desk. Didn't you have a rather unusual lighter, Mr. Deliano? I saw you earlier this evening at the anti vice party. Really? Yes. I couldn't help noticing the lighter. It was so quaint. The shape of an old fashioned dueling pistol, I believe. Yes, I admire it too. It is too bad I lost it. Yes, perhaps in the club. I do not really know. But you wanted to speak to me privately, Ms. Rogers. What is it? Yes, about the candidate for mayor, Walter Barnaby. I understand he used to be one of your regular patrons. Ms. Rogers, you do not mind my saying so. While I have the utmost admiration for your work, you ask. After all, I miss that a woman. In my business one does not discuss pessimism. Please don't misunderstand me, Mr. Deglianos. I'm not trying to dig up scandal against Mr. Barnaby. In fact, it would be senseless to do so now. You mean you didn't know that Barnaby is dead? This Barnaby dead. Does that mean so much to you? Yes. No, I. I do not know. It is. I just see the upper cloud. It is after he lived. He was pledged to put you out of business. There, of course. Never. He dare not touch Nicky. He owed me too much to risk offending me. Then he did owe you money? A lot. Well, yes, but he could have refused to pay. Gambling debt is strictly a debt of honor. Not valid in a court of law. On the whole, Mr. Dalianos, it appears you had more to gain than to lose by Barnaby's sudden death. If you ever sentenced to amplified. Oh. Oh, I beg your pardon. I did not know you had a guest. It does not matter. Comtesse. This is the famous newspaper columnist, Miss. And Rogers. Miss Rogers. Her Highness, the Countess Sofia Delica. Are you the enchante Countess seems excited. No, of course not. Nearly. Her Highnesses what you say? The Iceland type. Always she is overflow with the excitement. It's passed. Yes, but of course, that is it. Just now I am wild because I am Bouvier Fait. I cannot win the baccarat and I lose at La Roulette. Oh, I am angry, you see. Yes, yes, as I see. You mentioned a name as you entered the name of Barnaby. Name? I mentioned a name? Oh, no. Countess, isn't it true that you were very friendly with water Barnaby? Why, yes. Yes, it is too. He and I were friends. Oh, I notice you use the past tense. Then you know he was murdered tonight. Yes, yes, I know. But I swear to you, I know nothing about it. I do not want to become Involved? I cannot here. Shut up, you fool. This woman has no right to question you. You need answer nothing she asks. I'm afraid she's answered more than I've asked already. See Count as you acknowledge knowing Barnaby had been murdered tonight. I'm certain you didn't get that information from the newspapers. Because so far that theory has not been publicly bad. Jesus, you little foolish. You did see the announcement of his death in the papers, I presume? Yes. Yes, I did. Oh, Mickey. Nicky. Why did you do it? I told you I could handle him. There was no reason. You stupid idiot. Be still. It is all very interesting, but I fear I must leave you charming people for the time being. I want to see those newspapers myself and talk to Detective Inspector Collins. No, no, no. I shouldn't attempt to block the door. Mr. Delianos. My friends outside who know I came in here, it would be wiser to let me leave peaceably. And if I were you, I'd make no effort to leave town until you've been interviewed by the police. Good. Well, it seems to be the crop, Annie. I think I got them all at the Hell. Banner, Globe. New your paper, Pete. Yeah, that's the old rag that underpays me. So, what's this all about, Annie? You told Collins over the phone a few minutes ago that he better pick up Nicky in the Count. It's unsuspicious. Yeah, and I thought it might be a good idea to look at the pictures you fellas took of Barnaby just before he collapsed. Might be a clue of some sort in him. You know you've got detecting on the brain, Anne. This is nonsense. Mm, maybe. Let's see. Is the Harold shot? Nope. Not much here. Of course not. I told you. And the Globe. Foggy picture of Barnaby's left profile. Yep. That's Joe Wilkes. Always overexposes. Let's try the Banner. Not very quick, this photographer Barnaby surrounded by a crowd. Gotta be on your toes in this game, Annie. Yes, that's right. Well, let's see what kind of a picture you got. Mine is probably the cream of the crop. Oh, come on, Andy. Cut this silly stuff and let's go somewhere and get a nightcap. Pete. Yeah? Horse show. Where is your picture? You took one, didn't you? Sure. Why? Isn't it there? No. Here are a couple of the pictures you took earlier in the evening car at the party. Barnaby shaking hands with the party chairman. There's no shot of his death. Huh. Let me see. Well, what do you think of that? I Waste a whole evening covering that dumb shindig. And when something hot happens, the makeup man leaves my picture out. Lets every land pound in town scoop me. Of all a rotten ear. Gee, that's tough. Let me see. Emmie Spritely, you tore that in half, huh? Me? I did nothing of the sort. Did you? Stupid blundering. Wait a minute, Annie. You threw it yourself. I didn't tell these. I don't know what's come over you lately, Sprightly. You used to be a good secretary, an assistant, really assisted. But you've become careless, stubbornly. What? Now, see here, Anne, and don't talk back to me. I'm tired of your innocent excuses. You better go home. Who? Say, who do you think you are? Mind who I think I am. Get out of here. I see. And I think you better stay away. You can start looking for a new job in the morning. Ms. Poole, I need better and more competent assistance than you can give me. Oh, now, Anne, you're upset. Sprightly didn't mean any harm. Just did. She never means any harm. But she never does any good. Well, I need someone capable of handling difficult situations. And she doesn't measure up to the job so well. What are you waiting for? I told you to go, didn't I? Well, get out. She tried to. I suppose you know what this means. I know exactly what it means. And you know what you're doing? Oh, yes, I know what I'm doing. All right. Goodbye. And I. I hope you joke, you capture. Anne, are you sure you didn't move a bit suddenly? Pete, don't you start to. I've had about all I can stand for one day. Fed up with sprightly carelessness. But I don't understand. I've never seen you like this before. Anne. You certainly have a temper. Please, I'd rather not discuss it. But you've always been such good friends. Please, Pete. Okay, okay. It's none of my business. Well, I guess I better be running along. Ann, I'll see you later. No, wait, Pete. Why, Miss Rogers, you astonish me. The two of us all alone in this big building at this hour of the night. I didn't know you cared. Be funny to you. I just wanted to discuss the Barnaby case. Oh, the Barnaby case. Still on that subject, huh? What about it? Well, there's lots of things. Like why should he have been killed? Nicky wouldn't have done it. Barnaby owed him money. Countess wouldn't have done it. He was lavishing gifts on her. So, Anne, just what are you driving at driving at nothing. At speaking out loud. Same old Sherlock Rogers, huh? But the funny part of it is your thinking usually gets results. Anne, hold that pause a minute, will you? Why? What are you gonna do? Oh, just getting the old camera out. Look, Wim, I'd like to have a shot at the famous Ann Rogers. Feminine intuition in operation. No. What's the matter, Ann? No. What? That camera to me. So. So you know, Ann, huh? No, Peter hurting my arm. You figure that I killed Barnaby and you didn't go for my little act about the makeup editor not using my picture, huh? No, I'm afraid not, Pete. No more than I could go for your explanation as to how a cameraman working for a modest salary could afford a gamble at the Shamrock Club. What was it, Pete? Blackmail? Yeah, it was blackmail. I had a dozen pictures of Barnaby gambling at the club and with a counter straight around his shoulders. Pictures taken in the club? There are a lot of cameras in there. I'm pretty cute with a camera. And I used a vest pocket rig with a plunger in my pants pocket. Swell for candid camera shots, but. But why kill him? Repeat. If he was petting you? Blackmail. He was. But they weren't turned tonight. Barnaby told me he was going to have me behind bars. He forced my hand. I had to get rid of him. Just as I'm going to get rid of you, Ann Rogers, with this little gadget in my camera. It. She's a poison dog. Oh, yes, Ann. Very tiny. Very deadly. Its puncture looks like a little scratch. Remember, no one will ever suspect. I'm really sorry about this, Anne. I like you. No. I can promise you it won't hurt you little wildcat. There's no one here to help you. Stop struggling. You stop it. Stop your. Stop. All right, Ms. Sherlock. You always get your man, don't you? Congratulate. Yes. Brightly. He's dead. Driver, go to 72nd and Vanderbilt, please. Yes, ma'am. Well, Annie, sometimes I think your column's name ought to be second sight. Instead, a second glance. How did you know it was McNulty? Shouldn't you sign those newspapers? No. Something I didn't see in them. Pete's picture of Barnaby's death. Melody was a blackmailer. But he was also too good a cameraman to miss a shop like that unless his camera had been otherwise engaged. So now when I discovered his paper had no pictures of class at all, he'd sent to me. And that's when you went into your little act with me? I said Scared for a minute. They were so emphatic. It finally dawned on me that you were trying to give me a message. I tried to make it plain enough. I said I need better and more confident assistance than you can give me. Yeah, and I need someone capable of handling difficult situations. Then I needed somebody on a set. He wanted the police. Luckily I found one outside the building. You got back just in the nick of time. Oh, I see. But Amy, I can't help wondering, are you sure you were just play acting when you said that lately I'd become careless and slovenly? My words of course. Right now, honestly, you tell me something. What you really think I'm a substitute? Now ain't that enough to make you beat your brain down? Two nice looking dolls like him, straight as, who knows. O Ceter now brings you an interview with a member of the Women's Army Corps. It's Corporal Henrietta Robinson, attached to Company A WAC headquarters company at Fort Sheridan. Corporal, may I fire when ready. Go right ahead. Well, I understand you had more than a year's service with a wax corporal, is that right? Yes, I enlisted in September 1942. Now they tell me you requested Bakers and Cook's. Yes, I did. My brother in the Navy always said a good cook was the most important member of any ship's company. So I decided to try my hand at cooking for the army. Well, I understand in civilian life you were a bookkeeper. Yes, but I'm still glad I picked cooking as my wax specialty. It's entirely different than anything I've ever done and I'm crazy about it. Well, tell me this, Corporal. Do many of the girls who have careers in civilian life choose a different type of work when they join the wack? Yes, Mr. Dowd, many of them do. Girls like myself who have always done office or administrative work enjoy doing something new. And you know, WAC recruits have a chance of qualifying for any one of 239 different kinds of jobs. So there's plenty of choice. I understand that girls enlisting in the WAC can now choose the type of job, the branch of service, and even the location they prefer before they enlist. Is that right? Yes, it is. And it's working out very well. I only hope more and more girls and women will take advantage of it. Then, as a WAC yourself, I take it you recommend joining the wac? Absolutely. When you're a wac, you're doing a full time job for Uncle Sam. You're right in there pitching and it's interesting and fun to start thank you, Corporal Robinson. Goodbye and happy landing. Yes, the Women's Army Corps, the WAC offers the women of this country a glorious opportunity to help in the fight for freedom. If you're between the age of 20 and 50, go to your local WAC recruiting station tomorrow and learn how you can help your country by serving in the Wax. 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Adam Graham
Welcome back. On this podcast, we hear a lot of Betty Lou Gerson as a femme fatale or an antagonist. And of course, she's a Disney legend because she was the voice behind Cruella de Vil, so it's fun to hear her as the heroine. It's the same way that if you've watched a lot of horror movies. It's kind of a treat to hear Vincent Price playing the good guy on the scene. I will say that the quality of her acting made the firing the sidekick ruse FL far more believable and maybe too believable. I think it's just my experience with her voice, but I'm like, what's going on here? Will spritely be okay? She was just too good at this. I actually was suspicious of the photographer though. I think they did a good job with misdirection. It may have been more the actor's performance, but the episode does show that Ann's not perfect. She can take a wrong turn, but ultimately will do what she has to in order to get her man. So a really fun episode and a good look at the character. Now it should be noted that at this point in the series the stories are written by Nelson Bond, who might be familiar to you if you listen to the Amazing world of Radio. He wrote a great Christmas script for Dr. Christian in December 1944, shortly after Hop Copy ended, which we played back in 2023. But Bond really made his mark in terms of long term reputation as a pioneer science fiction writer. He started in the 30s writing for the Pulps and then for slick magazines, and he published multiple anthologies as well as a novel and then ended up retiring from writing in 1959. But he had a lot of fans and supporters in the science fiction community, including the great Harland Ellison, and with that encouragement he wrote a new short story in 1995, which is encouraging to those of us who are in a bit of a block on our fiction. If it's not a 36 year block, it's not that bad. Now he was recognized as an author emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America who give out the Nebula Award. So you had an incredible talent who was writing radio mysteries for Betty Lou Gerson. Well, I've referenced the Hot Copy Radio theater at the top of the podcast and if you're curious about it you can certainly go and listen to an episode. But we will be talking about it in more detail next week and we'll have a rare interview on our podcast. We generally don't do them, but we'll be making an exception as next week I'll talk to Rhonda Sigler Ware who plays the role of Ann Rogers, and I hope you'll be with us then. That will of course play after we've played the last circulating episode of Hot Copy, so it'll be a good time and Then in two weeks, we will begin playing episodes of Charlie Chan. Now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day. And I want to go ahead and thank Mark. Mark's been one of our patreon supporters since March 2020, currently supporting the podcast at the shamus level of $4 or more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Mark. And that will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software and be sure to rate and review the podcast wherever you download it from. We'll be back next Tuesday with another episode of Hot Copy, but join us back here tomorrow for Broadway's My Beat.
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Ella
Where what happened this morning? How come $100,000 worth of narcotics was stolen from the Acme Pharmaceutical Company? Let me tell you something. All that merchandise running around loose will play hob with. It's gonna do just there. Mr. Vaughn, unless you decide to get off the dime, fire your questions at me. Mr. Clover, what's the routine here? I mean, when one of your men is assigned to make a delivery, what happens? How does it work? With efficiency and dispatch, like so. Our man is given a parcel for delivery to various supply houses and medical people. At the same time, he's given a route card. Then he doesn't know the route until immediately before he leaves here. Precisely. He goes downstairs to the garage. The dispatcher gets his car. The attendant hands him his keys. He drives out of the garage, picks up a guard at the corner and proceeds. I see. Now, what's your opinion as to what happened earlier today about the robbery? One needs no great perception to know that Wilbur Douglas shot and killed the guard, Joe Mazarik, and absconded with the narcotics. Yeah. Disgraceful. And Douglas with a wife and four little.
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Adam Graham
I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, send your comments to box Thirteenreatetectives.net follow us on Twitter at radiodetectives and check us out on Instagram. Instagram.com greatdetectives from Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham, signing off.