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Mercury Theater of the Air: The Immortal Sherlock Holmes (EP3542s)
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Sherlock Holmes tries to recover blackmail letters leading to a confrontation with the Napoleon of Crime-Professor Moriarty. Original Air Date: September 25, 1938 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a...
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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 have a comment, email it to me box13@greatdetectives.net Follow us over on Twitter RadioDoTestives and become one of our friends on Facebook facebook.com RadioDoTestives well, welcome to the first of our listener Support Listener Appreciation specials. We'll talk about this listener Support Appreciation campaign in more detail tomorrow. As always, you can support the show on a one time basis. Support.GreatDetectives.net or become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters at Patreon.GreatDetectives.net well, we have three very distinct specials we're going to bring you over the next three weeks and we're going to start off with something we played actually a couple of times. We played the Mercury Theater on the airs presentation of the immortal Sherlock holmes back in 2009 as one of the very first Sherlock Holmes plays we presented and then we played it again in 2015 as a listener Support Special. I'm returning to it this year because I've got a better version of the OR of the File than we had in our previous two outings. And plus I do enjoy listening to it. So we're going to go ahead and listen to the Mercury Theater presentation of the Immortal Sherlock Holmes. Original Air Date September 25, 1938 let's go ahead and take a listen.
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Orson Welles
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Before the performance begins, here is the director of the Mercury Theatre, the star and producer of these unique broadcasts, Orson Wells. Good evening. Well tonight it's back to Baker street, back to that unlikely London of the 19th century where high adventure awaits all who would seek it in a handsome cab or under a gas lamp in an inferno cape. For tonight we pay tribute to the most wonderful member of that most wonderful world, a gentleman who never lived and who will never die. There are only a few of them, these permanent profiles everlasting silhouettes on the edge of the world. There is first the little hunchback with a slapstick whose hook nose is shaped like his cap. There is now and always will be the penguin footed hobo in the derby and the baggy pants and the small boy with a wooden head and the long rusty knight on horseback and the fat knight who could only procure a charge on foot. There is also the tall gentleman with a hawk's face and the underslung pipe, the foreign aff cap. We'd know them anywhere and call them easily by name. Punch and the charlies, Chaplain and McCarthy, Kyoti, Sir John and Sherlock Holmes. Now, irrelevant as this may seem, we of the Mercury Theatre are very much occupied these days with rehearsals for a revival of a fine old American farce a lot of you will remember, if only for its lovely title, which is too much Johnson. Its author was William Gillette, which reminded us, as it reminds you, of Sherlock Holmes. As everybody knows, that celebrated American inventor of underacting lent his considerable gifts as a playwright to the indestructible legend of the Conan Doyle detective and produced the play which is as much a part of the Holmes literature as any of Sir Arthur's own romances. And as nobody will ever forget, he gave his face to him. For William Gillette was the aquiline and actual embodiment of Holmes himself. Tis too little to say that William Gillette resembled Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes looks exactly like William Gillette. Sounds like him too. We're afraid and hope devoutly that the Mercury Theater and the radio will take none of the glamour from the beloved fable of Baker street, from the pipe and the violin and the hideous purple dressing gown, from the needle and the cigar on the window ledge and the dry final famous lines. Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary. The mere child's play of deduction. My name is Watson. I am a doctor. It was in the year 1880 that Holmes and I were introduced by a mutual acquaintance. At the time we were both looking for a lodging that would suit our moderate means. This we found on the second floor of a house at 231B Baker Street. And it was during the years that we occupied these chambers together that Holmes established his unique international reputation as a consulting detective. During that time I was privileged to be his daily companion. And I have done my modest share in giving to the world an account of some of his most famous cases. Most famous of these are the ones of which I have written under the names of the Speckled Band, Sinath Thor, Hound of the Baskerville, and the Study in Scarlet. They represent, however, only a minute fraction of the 643 cases, poems successfully solved during the years that we shared the lodgings in Baker Street. Other cases I hope one day to give to the world include the Tarleton Murders, the sudden death of Cardinal Tosca, the adventure of Ricoletti of the Club Foot and his abominable Wife, the case of Mrs. Farintosh, the circus Belle, and the case of the Royal Family of Scandinavia. Each illustrate in their own way the remarkable genius of my friend, Sherlock Holmes. Since my marriage three years ago, Holmes has continued to occupy the Baker street lodgings by himself. And here almost every afternoon when my work in the office is finished, I am in the habit of calling on him. The sitting room as you go in is exactly as it has been for the past 13 years. The worn bearskin rug, the huge sofa covered with faded chintz, the mantelpiece cluttered with miscellaneous objects, unanswered letters and piles of loose tobacco. On one side of the fireplace, in a deep armchair, his pipe curling forth, slow wreaths of acrid tobacco draped in his hideous purple dressing gown. Sit. Sherlock Holmes with his violin under his chin. Come in. What's. My dear? How are you? Holmes, I'm delighted to see you, perfectly delighted, upon my word I am. But I'm sorry to observe that your wife has left you. She has gone on a little visit. But how did you know? How did I? Well, I like that. How do I know anything? How do I know you've been getting yourself very wet lately? That you're an extremely careless servant girl and you moved your dressing table to the other side of the room. Holmes, if you had lived a few centuries ago, they'd have burned you alive. Such a confrogation would have saved me a great deal of trouble and expense. Tell me now, how did you know all that? Too simple to talk about scratches and clumsy cuts, my dear fellow. On the inner side of your shoe there, just where the firelight strikes it, scratches, cuts, and we scraped away crusted mun. Did it badly, badly scrape the shoe along with it. There's your wet foot, my dear Watson, and your careless servant girl. All on one shoe. Face badly shaved on the right side, always used to be on the left. Light must come from the other side. Couldn't very well move your window, must move your dressing table, of course. But how the deuce did you know my wife was away? What the deuce is your second waistcoat button? Was. What the deuce is yesterday's button ear doing in today's? Appel. And why the deuce do you wear the expression of a Martha? Elementary, my dear fellow, elementary. The child's play of deduction. I'm only doing it for your amusement. Before we pass on to more serious matters. Oh, what is it now though, Watson, my dear fellow? The enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and if you will excuse my saying so somewhat to embellish my little adventures, you've occasionally seen fit to introduce a certain element of romance which struck me as being just a trifle out of place. Something like working an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid. I merely refer to this in case you should see fit at some future time to chronicle a case on which I am about to embark. The strange case of Professor Robert Moriarty. Moriarty? I don't remember ever having heard of the fellow. No, Watson, you haven't. It is precisely this quality of invisibility that makes of Professor Moriarty the Napoleon of crime. Sitting motionless like an ugly venomous spider in the center of his web. But that web having a thousand radiations and the spider knowing every quiver of every one of them. And within 48 hours I'll have the lines drawn so tightly around him that he can't move. And arrest him and his entire gang. My Holmes, this is a very dangerous. My dear fellow, it's perfectly delightful. My whole life is spent in a series of frantic endeavors to escape from the dreary commonplaces of existence. For a brief period I escaped. Congratulate me. The day before yesterday I received in this room the visit of a certain foreign nobleman who has recently inherited a very considerable title and who was about to be married. Seems that this titled gentleman was so indiscreet as to fall in love with a young English lady by the name of Faulkner, socially inferior, and to make her a promise of marriage. Later, at his family's insistence, the thing was broken off and the young lady died shortly after with a broken heart, leaving behind a sister. Also considerable evidence in the form of letters, photographs and jewelry with inscriptions. These the sister kept. These together with the sister, are now being held in a house in St. John's Wood by a pair of blackmailers who go by the name of Chetwood. So far as you see, my dear Watson, a fairly ordinary case of blackmail hardly worth my attention. Last night, on my inspection, a certain element revealed itself which renders the case far more important than I'd expected. And that element was Professor Moriarty. Come in. Beg pardon, Mr. Holmes. Yes, Billy, what is it? Gentleman to see you. By the Name of Foreman. Show him in, Billy. Show him in. Yes, Mr. Holmes. Come in, Mr. Foreman. Good evening, Foreman. Good evening, Mr. Holmes. Watson, this is Inspector Foreman. The day before yesterday he occupies the position of butler under the name of Judson in the home of Mr. And Mrs. Chetwode, blackmailers of St. John's Wood. Well, Foreman, any news? Yes, sir. This morning A little after 9, Chetwode and his wife drove away in a four wheeler. They returned about 11. Basick was with them. You know him though? Yes. When I last had the occasion to meet Mr. Basick he got two years for safe cracking. Go on, Foreman. Well, they took this man Basick into the library. I got a look at him from the outside and there he was opening up the safe where they'd been keeping the letters. Go on. In the end when they got the safe open it was empty, the letters were gone. It seemed like the Faulkner girl got them back somehow. That got them pretty excited. Basic went out to send a telegram. Have you got a coffee then? Yes. Yes, here it is, sir. It's in code. Moriarty. I thought so. Watson, this case is taking a most promising turn. Foreman, you return at once to the house at St. John's Wood. In 10 minutes. I shall be there myself. If I remember correctly, the kitchen is immediately below the drawing room. Yes. When I knock over a chair in the drawing room you will overturn a lamp in the kitchen, scatter smoke balls and give an alarm of fire. All other instructions remain unchanged. Very good, sir. Hurry, Foreman. Yes, Mr. Holmes. Well, my dear Watson begins to look like a most interesting evening. No, you can be long. I won't, I won't. Good evening. My name is Sherlock Holmes. Whom did you wish to see, Mr. Holmes? Oh, thank you so much, Mr. Chetwood. I had myself announced by the butler on my way up. I didn't. Oh, very well. Oh, here he is. Yes, Judson? Ms. Faulkner begs Mr. Holmes to excuse her. He is not well enough to see anyone this evening. Will you please hand this card to Ms. Faulkner and say that I. I beg your pardon, Mr. Holmes, but it's quite useless really. Oh, I'm so sorry to hear it. Yes. Ms. Faulkner is, I regret to say, quite an invalid. She is unable to see anyone, her health is so poor. Has it ever occurred to you, Mr. Chetwode, that she might be confined to the house too much? How does that concern you? It doesn't. I simply make the suggestion. Might like to think it over. What's your butler's name? Judson, sir. Very well, Judson. Go on Take my card up. Very good, sir. Well this is really too good. Why of course he can take up your card or your note or whatever it is if you wish it so much. I was only trying to save you the trouble. Thanks. It's hardly any trouble at all, Senator KERN. You know, Mr. Holmes, you interest me very much. Oh really? Upon my word, yes. We've all heard of your wonderful method, the astonishing manner in which you gain information from the most trifling details. Now I dare say in this brief moment or two you've discovered any number of things about me. Nothing of consequence, Mr. Chetwode. I hardly more than ask myself why you were so distressed to see me at this particular moment and what there can possibly be about the safe in the lower part of that desk to cause you such painful anxiety. Very good, very good indeed. If those things were only true now I'd be wonderfully impressed. It would be absolutely remarkable. Excuse me, sir. Judson, A message for you. Mr. Chetwood. You'll excuse me. I trust it's from Ms. Faulkner. Well really? She begs to be allowed to see you, Mr. Holmes. She absolutely implores it. Well, I suppose I shall have to give way. Judson, ask Ms. Faulkner to come down to the drawing room. Say that Mr. Holmes is waiting to see her. Very good. Quite remarkable. Upon my soul. May I ask, it is not an impertinent question what message you sent up that could so have aroused Ms. Faulkner's desire to come down. Merely if she wasn't down here in five minutes I'd go up. Oh, that was it. Quite so. And unless I'm greatly mistaken, I hear the young lady on the stairs. Which case, she has a minute and a half to spare. Alice, it is Ms. Faulkner. Let me introduce Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Mr. Holmes. Ah, Ms. Falkner. I'm really most charmed to meet you. Although it does look as if you'd made me come down in spite of myself. Darned it. I thank you very much indeed for consenting to see me, Ms. Falkner, but regret to observe that you were put to the trouble of making such a very rapid change of dress. Oh yes, I did hurry a trifle.
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Mr. Holmes is quite living up to his reputation, isn't he? Freddie? Come in. Yes, ma'am. What are you doing here, Judson? I beg pardon, ma'am, I was answering the bell. What bell? The drawing room bell, sir. What do you mean you block it? No one rang the bell. I'm quite sure it was rung, sir. Well I tell you it did. Not ring. Your Butler is right, Mr. Chetwod. The bell did ring. How do you know I rang it? What do you want? I want to send my card to the real Miss Faulkner. The real. I said the real Miss Faulkner. Judson. Yes, sir. Holmes, what right have you to ring for servants and give orders in my house? What right have you to prevent my cards from reaching their destination? How does it happen that you and this woman are resorting to trickery and deceit to prevent me from seeing Alice Faulkner? Through some trifling oversight, Judson, neither of the cards I handed to him has been delivered. Kindly see that this error does not occur again. My orders. Ah, you have orders? I can't say, sir. You were told not to deliver my card. What business is it of yours, I'd like to know? I shall satisfy your curiosity on that point in a very short time, Mr. Chetwood. Yes, and you'll find out in a very short time that it isn't safe to meddle with me. It wouldn't be any trouble at all for me to throw you out into the street. Possibly not, but trouble would swiftly follow such an experiment on your part. It's a cursed lucky thing for you I'm not armed. Yes, well, Ms. Faulkner comes down, you go and arm yourself. Arm myself? I'll call the police. What's more, I'll do it now. Oh no, you will not do it now. You will remain where you are until the lady I came here to see has entered this room. What makes you so sure of that? Because you would prefer to avoid an investigation of your suspicious conduct. Mr. James Larabee lar. That is the name under which you are known to Scotland yard, I believe. Mr. Chetwod, this lady here is your wife. Stew Judson. You will either deliver that card, Ms. Faulkner, at once or sleep in the police station tonight. That's of small consequence to me. Would you do. Shall I. Shall I go, sir? Go on, take up the card. It makes no difference to me. A short time since Larrabee, you displayed an acute anxiety to leave the room. Pray do not let me detain you or your wife any longer. Take it you prefer to remain while I talk to Ms. Faulkner. We do, Mr. Holmes. Ah, bless. Ms. Falkner is there, Mr. Holmes? Yes. You wish to see me? Very much indeed, Ms. Falkner, but I'm sorry to see that you are far from well. Oh, not. No. Beg your pardon? What does this mark mean? Oh, nothing. Nothing. No. And the mark here on your neck plainly showing the clutch of a man's fingers. Does that mean nothing? Also occurs to me that I should like to have an explanation of this. Possibly you can furnish one, Mr. Larrabet. How should I know? It seems to have occurred in your own house. What if it did? You'd better understand that it isn't healthy for you or anyone else to interfere with my business. Ah, that is your business. That much at least. Pray Be seated, Ms. Falkner. I don't know who you are, Mr. Holmes, or why you are here. I shall be very glad indeed to explain. My business is this. I have been consulted as to the possibility of obtaining from you certain letters addressed to your sister which are supposed to be in your possession. I cannot give up my sister's letters, Mr. Holmes. There are other things besides revenge. Believe me, Miss Wagner, there is nothing more to say. Good night, Mr. Holmes. But my dear Miss Falkner. Oh, I'm so sorry. How clumsy of me to turn over this chair. What's that? What's that? What's going on in your house here? The lamp for the kitchen, sir. It fell off the table and everything down there is blazing. Quick, start. Come down. Don't alarm yourself, Ms. Faulkner. There is no fire. No fire? The smoke was all arranged for. Arranged for? What does it mean? Mr. Holmes means this, Ms. Faulkner means that I wanted a package of letters, Ms. Faulkner. And that by following your eyes just now when you thought there was a fire, I discovered that you had hidden them in the upholstery of this chair. Quite elementary, as you see. And now that they're in my possession, there seems to be no reason for me to remain any longer in this house. Good night, Ms. Falkner. Ms. Faulkner. Yes? I. I can't take them. Ms. Faulkner, these letters belong to you. I find that I cannot keep them unless you can possibly change your mind and let me have them of your own free will. Hardly suppose you could. I will therefore return them to you and. Oh, there's our friend, Mr. Larrabee returning from the fire, sir. You've got the letters, have you? Now, I suppose we're going to see you walk out of the house for them. On the contrary, you're going to see me return them to their rightful owner. Ms. Faulkner, here are your letters. Should you ever change your mind and be so generous, so forgiving, as to wish to return these letters to the one who wrote them. You have my address. In any event, rest assured there will be no more cruelty, no more persecution in this house. Thank you, Mr. Holmes. You are perfectly safe with your property, Ms. Faulkner, for I shall so arrange it that your faintest cry of distress will be heard. If that cry is heard, it will be very unfortunate for those who are responsible. As for you, Mr. Larrabee, and you, Madame, I beg you to understand that you continue your persecution of that young lady at your peril. Good night, Ms. Faulkner. Come here, Ms. Faulkner. Now are you going to give me those letters? No, never. Are you going to give me those letters? Now then, Be careful, Tim. You shut up. Now then, Ms. Faulkner, do you give me those letters or do I break your ar. What's that? Someone knocked on the door. No, it was on that side. Did you call madam? I think some are not Judson. I'll see madam. I beg pardon madam, but there's no run at the door. Very well, you may go. He's got us watched. What we want to do is to leave it alone. Let the Emperor have it. You mean Professor Mori? That's who I mean. Once let him get at it he'll settle it with Holmes pretty quick. Don't you worry a minute. I tell you Professor Morialti will get at him before noon tomorrow night. He won't wait long either. And when he strikes it means death. Number 82. 3:71. Everything was a trap detonated, baited by an expert. Manning. Manning has disappeared. Disappeared? Sherlock Holmes again. Now this Blackaby job. He's in on that too. That's where he's made his mistake. Mr. Holmes is playing rather a dangerous game. Basic Inspector Wilson tried it seven years ago. Wilson is dead two years later. Henderson took it up. We haven't heard anything of Henderson lately. Not a thing, sir. We'll see about that. Ms. Holmes is rather a talented man. He doesn't realize there isn't a street in London that'll be safe for him. If I whisper his name to Craig, I might even make him a little call myself. Just for the satisfaction of it. Just for the satisfaction of it. Take a street, isn't it? Please take a street. Eh? Baker street, sir. We could make it safe. We could make it absolutely safe with three streets in every direction. Yes we could. We've done it over and over again elsewhere. Police deployed men in every doorway. Do this tonight in Baker Street, 9:00. Call his attendance out on one pretext or another and keep them out. You understand? I'll see this Sherlock Holmes myself. I'll give him a chance for his life. Magic. Yes, sir. Notify the lascar that I may require the gas chamber at Stepney tomorrow night. And have Craig in there at a quarter before ten. With his crew. Tell Larrabee I shall want him to write a letter to Mr. Sherlock Holmes which I shall dictate. Meet me here at seven. Bessick, place your men at nine tonight for Sherlock Holmes's house in Baker Street. You still go there yourself, sir? I will still go there myself. Meet him tomorrow night, sir, to get him in the gas chamber. If I fail to kill him in Baker street, you'll have him in spondomain. Either way, I have in classic two strings to our boat. Two strings, eh? Classic. That evening, Holmes and I dined together at Scott's in Piccadilly Circus. After dinner we went to a concert at Queen's Hall. I can still see him on this particular night of the Moriarty case, well, knowing that his life was in peril, sitting beside me in the stalls, wrapped in the most perfect happiness, listening to Sarasati play the violin, gently waving his long thin fingers in time to the music. When it was over, he rose, put on his long coat and started with long steps in the direction of the street. Come, my dear Watson. Go on to Baker Street. I have an idea that very soon we shall be receiving most interesting visits. In front of Queen's hall we hailed a hansom and as we came down Baker street we could see that the light was burning. On the second floor of 221B. We went up the dark, narrow stairs. The boy Billy was waiting for us. What is that? Mrs. Hudson's compliment, sir, and she wants to know if she can see you now. Where is Mrs. Hudson? Downstairs in the kitchen, sir. My compliments. And I don't think she can where she is. You'll be very sorry, sir. Our regret will be mutual. It was most terrible important, sir, being as she wants to know what you'll have for breakfast in the morning. The same same as when, sir? This morning. But you didn't have nothing, sir. You wasn't here. I won't be here tomorrow if his. Was that all, sir? Quite so. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Oh, Mr. Holmes. Here's a letter for you, sir, on the table, delivered 10 minutes ago. Read it, Watson. That's a good fellow. I put on my dressing gown. Yes, dear sir. Who last addressed his name? Why, James Larabee. And what is James to say this evening, dear sir? I hope he won't say that again. I have the honor to inform you that Ms. Falkland has changed her mind regarding the letters that Etc. Which you wish to obtain, and has decided to dispose of them for a monetary consideration. If you wish to negotiate, will you be at 9:00 at the Guards Monument at the foot of Waterloo Place you will see a four wheeler with wooden shutters to the windows. If you have the cab followed or try any other underhand trick, you won't get what you want. Let me know your decisions. Yours through the games, Larrabe. Mine truly. Well, Mater, perhaps. What does the fellow mean? Fellow means to sell me a base imitation for a large sum of money of certain letters that he does not possess. I shall probably buy them from him. Now, see if I have the points. Tonight. 11 o'clock, guards monument. Cab with wooden shutters. No one to come with me, no one to follow or I don't get what I want. Quite right. But this cab with a wooden shutter. Merely a little device to keep me from seeing where they're taking me. Billy. Yeah, Turtle. Give this to the man. To the woman, sir. Ah. Young or old? Look quite young, sir. Handsome four wheeler, sir. Seen the driver before? Yes sir, but I can't think where. Hand this to the lady, apologize for delay and look at the driver again. Yes, sir. But my dear Holmes, you didn't say you would go. But I certainly did. This fellow means mischief. This fellow means the scent. I beg pardon sir. A message come over from the Kenneth's on the corner. The same man has been hit by a bus. Looks like his leg's broke. And would Dr. Watson kindly step over and help till the ambulance. Oh, you certainly are good. Watch. I'll be back in a minute, Holmes. Billy. Yes, sir. Who brought that message? Boy from the chemist's course. But which boy? Must have been a new one, sir. I ain't seen him before. Billy, get downstairs quickly. Look after the doctor. The boy's gone. There's a man with him. It means mischief. Let me know. Don't stop to come up. Ring the doorbell. I'll hear it. Ring it loud. Yes, sir. It dangerous habit, Mr. Holmes, to finger loaded firearms in the pocket of one's dressing gown. I give you my word, Professor Moriarty, you'll be taken from here to the hospital if you keep your hand behind you. Like that. That's better. That case, please. Put your revolver on the table. You evidently don't know me. I think it's quite evident that I do. Pray have a chair, Professor. I can spare you five minutes. That's the other thing to say. Careful. What are you about to do? Professor Moyartier? Look at my watch. I'll tell you when your five minutes is up. Come to pursue this case against me. That is my intention to the very End I regret this. I share your regrets, Professor. But do you think that I would be here if I hadn't made the streets quite safe? In every respect I could never so grossly overestimate your courage as that, Professor Moriarty. You imagine that your friend the doctor and your boy Billy will soon return. What? So it leaves us quite alone, doesn't it, sir? Quite alone. So that we can talk the matter over quietly, Mr. Holmes, and not be disturbed. In the first place, I wish to call your attention to a few memoranda which I have jotted down and which you will find there they are forgot. Don't do that. Quickly you're farther away from that memorandum book you're talking about. I would merely have to take out a small notebook. Well, merely don't do it. I don't want it. Got one of my own. If you want it, we'll have someone get it for you. I always like to save my guests unnecessary trouble. I observe that your boy doesn't answer bell. No, but I have an idea that he will pull off. It may possibly be longer than you think, Mr. Holmes. What? That boy? Yes, that boy. At least we'll try to bell once more, Professor. Doesn't it occur to you that he may possibly have been detained, Mr. Holmes? It does, Professor. But it also occurs to me that you're in very much the same predicament, Professor Moriarty. I beg pardon, sir. Someone tried to hold me, sir. It's quite evident however, that he failed to do so. Yes, sir. He's got my coat, sir, but he ain't got me billet. Yes, sir. Philip the gentleman I'm carefully pointing out to you with his.45 desires to have us gather something of his left hand inside coat pockets. He's not feeling quite himself today. And the consequence of his trying to do it himself might prove fatal. I suggest you attend to it for him. Yes, sir. Is this it, sir? This gun? Quite so. Put it on the table. And up there, Billy, on this table I can reach it more like it. That's all, Billy. Then we'll see if he's got another, sir. Why Billy, you surprised me. After gentleman's taken the trouble to inform us he hasn't. Wednesday when he made a snatch for this one. And now professor, now that we have your little memorandum book do you think of anything else you'd like before Billy goeth? Any little thing you've got that you don't want. So sorry. Go, Billy. Thank you, sir. Listen home, Mr. Meagle. On the 4th of January you crossed my path. On the 23rd, you incommoded me. Now at the close of April, I find myself placed in such a position through your continual interference that I'm in positive danger of losing my liberty. Have any suggestions to make? No, I have no suggestions to make. I have a fact to state. If you don't drop it at once, your life's not worth that. I'm afraid, professor, that in the pleasure of this conversation I am neglecting more important business. If you excuse me a moment while I get my pipe off. Matthew, sir. I came here this evening, Mr. Holmes, to see if peace could not be arranged between us. Quite so, quite so. You've seen fit not only to reject my proposals but to make insulting references coupled with threats of arrest. You've been warned of your danger. You don't heed that warning, perhaps you'll heed this. Pull your hands, Mr. Holmes. Up with the miraculous. Didn't imagine I'd leave that gun loaded, did you, Professor Moyarte? Here are your cartridges. Well, I didn't suppose you'd want to use that gun again, so I took them out while you were talking. Put them in my pocket. You'll find them all there, Professor. Billy. Yes, sir? Can you please show Professor Moyarti at the door? Yes, sir. It's waiter. Don't ever say I didn't warn you, Ms. Stolmes. No. Well, is the Moyarti. I never will. Billy, come here. Yes, sir. Billy. Billy, you're a good boy. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. You are listening to the Columbia Broadcasting System's presentation of Orson Wells and the Mercury Theater on the air in Sherlock Holmes with Orson Wells in the title role and Ray Collins as Dr. Watson. We pause a moment for station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. We continue now with this CBS presentation of Sherlock Holmes, played by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air. It was exactly 9:00 when Sherlock Holmes left the house in Baker Street. He had given the strictest instructions that no one was to follow him. If there had been no word from him by noon of the following day we must notify Scotland Yard. I went to the window and looked after him as he went down Baker Street. A tall, thin figure in a gray ulster walking with long smooth steps in the direction of Langham Place. There he entered a cab. Here. What are you doing, Light Majesty? That's what I'm doing. Chuck it. Why should I chuck it? There might be gas. You fool, there ain't no gas. It's been four days since we had gas in the Room. I still say there might be gas. Did you check it? I will. Here goes. Ready? Give her a turn. That'll do. Turn it off. Five minutes of that, all your troubles are ending here. What's that? Yes, sir. McCain. Yes, sir. Be careful now you boys. You've got a tough one tonight. We did. Who? As I've heard, Sherlock Holmes. You mean that, sir? God's truth. Is going to count him out? Well, if you don't and he gets away, I'm sorry for you, that's all. The governor's here. Not the governor himself. Professor Moriarty. Shut up. Yes, sir. Doctor. Full, Grove all? Yes, sir. No mistakes tonight, Cregan. Well be careful of that, sir. This is Laraby. Hello. He's in on this job. Hello, Laraby. Oh, what's that door, Bassett? Small cabin, sir. No outlet? None whatever, sir. That window. Nail down, sir. Man might break the glass if he. If he did, he'd come up against a heavy iron bar that side. We'll have him tied down before he can break any glass, sir. You've used it before, right? Of course. You know it's airtight. Every crevice is sealed, sir. When the men have turned the gas on him, they leave by this door. Yes, sir. We made great secure. Heavy bolts on the outside, sir. Solid oak bars overall. You see how quick you can operate them? They tie a man down, sir. There's no need to hurry. Let me see how quick you can operate them. Dearing. Yes, that's good. Open it up. Now, Cregan and the rest of you, one thing. Remember whatever happens, no shooting tonight. Not a single shot can be heard in the alley below. First thing is to get his revolver away before he has a chance to use it. Two of you attract his attention in front. The other come up on him from behind and snatch it out of his pocket. Then you have him arrange your Craig and foil. Attend to it. Sir. Still had to be, you understand? They wait for you. I understand, sir. I give you this opportunity to sell him the packet of letters you forged and get what you can for your trouble. Few hundred pounds doesn't interest me. Mr. Araby saying after his own. I understand, sir. And you've finished and got your money. You whistle. And these. Get them and come in and hear it. Hear that, Cregan? That's right, Cregan. At the proper moment present my compliments to Mr. Sherlock Holmes and say that I wished him a pleasant journey to the other side. Come on, Basic. Good night, gentlemen. Good night. Good night, Barra B. Good night, sir. All right boys, clear. When you hear the whistle? In you come. Right you are, sir. Larry. Yes sir. You get down on the corner below. Let me know when he comes. I will let you know. Well, when you see him driving up, come down the alley and whistle three times. Very good, sir. Here, watch this. How did you get here? What are you doing there in the back. What is it, Lyn? A woman here in the back. Bring her in. Come on you. Come on. Oh, it's you, Ms. Faulkner. It's true then. How did you get to this place? I followed you in a cab. What have you been doing since I came up here? Informing the police perhaps? No, I was afraid he'd come so I waited. To warn him, I suppose. No. To warn him. Yes. You're going to swindle and deceive him. Sell him a packet of force letters. I know that. What else are you going to do to him? Wouldn't you like to know? Where are those men who came up here? What men? Three terrible looking men. I saw them go in at the street door. You don't mean these men, do you Miss Faulkner? Higher up boys. Can't make them all. Here you are, higher up. Listen. That's him. There he is. Now what? Holmes? That's him. That's a signal. He won't have time to get her out. Shove her in there in the cupboard. Yeah, that'll move in with her into the cupboard. Hey lorry. Lock the. Did you come to knife on the inlet. Here. This knife. This will hurt. That'll hold up. Now. Now. Quick, quick. Good evening, Mr. Holmes. Ah, Mr. Laugh already? I certainly thought after all this driving about in the crow's cab. You threw me something new. Seen it before, have you Mr. Holm? Oh, well, a time now to come to think of it. I nabbed a friend of yours in this place while he was trying to drop himself out of the window. Ed Calvin, the cracksman. Calvin Colvin. Never heard of him before. Well you certainly never heard of him after. Sure of that brace of counterfeiters used these luxurious chambers in the spring of 89. Hid in that cupboard. We pulled him out of the heel. Quite interesting. But times have changed since then. So they have, Mr. Larraby. So they have. Then it was only cracksmen, counterfeiters, pickpockets and petty swinders of various kinds. But now, well. What now? Well, between you and me, Mr. Larraby, we've heard some not altogether agreeable rumors. Rumors of some pretty shady work not far from here. Murder to a very peculiar kind. I've always had a suspicion that's it. My surmise was correct. It is. It is what? This room is corked, sealed. What does that signify to us? Nothing to us, Mr. Larraby, nothing to us. But it might signify a good deal to some poor devil who's been caught and gassed. Well, if it's nothing to us, suppose we leave it alone and get to business. My time is limited. Yeah, of course. I should have realized that these reflections could not possibly appeal to you. Well, have a cigar, Mr. Holmes. Ah, thanks. A good cigar, this, Mr. Larabeth. A genuine Havana. Glad you like it. Now, here is the little packet of letters which is the object of this meeting. I haven't opened it yet, but Miss Faulkner tells me everything is there. Suppose, Mr. Larrabee, that as Miss Faulkner knows nothing about this affair, we omit her name from the discussion. What do you mean? Who told you? She doesn't know? You did. Every look, tone, gesture, everything you've said and done since I've been in this room has informed me that Miss Faulkner has never consented to this transaction. It is a little speculation of your own. Oh, I suppose you think you can read me like a book. Oh, no, no. Like a primmer. Well, let it pass. How much will you give? A thousand pounds. I couldn't take it. What do you ask? 5,000. I couldn't give it. Well, I've been offered 4,000 for this little thing. Why didn't you take it? Because I intended to get more. Oh, that's too bad. They offered 4,000. They'll give five. They won't give anything. Why not? They've turned the case over to me. Will you give 3,000, Mr. Larraby? Strange as it may appear, my time is limited as well as yours. I have brought with me the sum of £1,000, which is all that I wish to pay. If it is your desire to sell at this figure, kindly appraise me of the fact at once. If not, permit me to wish you a very good evening. Well, you can have it. Too small a matter to haggle over. Give me the money. Certainly. I thought you said you'd only brought just a thousand. I did. This is it. You brought a trifle more, I said. Quite so. I didn't say I hadn't brought any more. You can do your little sixth when it comes to it, can't you? It depends on who I'm dealing with. Yeah, you give me that money. Come on, quick. Hand it over. Now I've got you where I want you, James Larrabe. You've been so cunning and so cautious and so wise. We couldn't find a thing to hold you for. But this little slip will get you in for robbery. You'll have me in for you. What are your views about being able to get away from here yourself? I do not anticipate any particular difficulty. Robbery, eh? Why, even if you got away from here, you haven't got a witness. You haven't got a witness to your name. I'm not so sure of that, Mr. Larabeth. Not so sure of that. You usually fasten a cupboard door with a knife. Come on, away from that door, Faulkner. Stand back. Contemptible scoundrel. What does this mean? I'll show you what it means. Pat it quick. I'm afraid you're badly hurt, Ms. Faulkner. Mr. Holmes. Look both you. Jimmy. Hey, hold in there, boy. I'll have to ask you gentlemen to wait just one moment, please. Hear there? What's the idea of sitting down and writing? What are you writing? Writing your will, I suppose. No, no. Only a brief description of one or two of your Gentlemen. The police. Wait a bit. You better listen to me, Mr. Holmes. We're going to tie you down nice and tight to the top of that table. Why, you surprise me, gentlemen. Thinking you're so sure of anybody in this room and three bars going out of that window. Bars or no bars, you're not going to get out of here as easy as you expect. There are so many ways, Mr. Larrabee, that I hardly know which one to choose. You better choose quick, I can tell you that. I'll choose at once, Mr. Cragan. And my choice falls on this chair. Get away in the chair. Watch out. Hey guys, look at his cigar. Cran by the cigar. Look at his cigar. Look out. He's open the window. He's open the leg. He's turned out. Look at his cigar. Just quick altering. There he goes. He's out by the window. No, gentlemen, no, not by the window. I'm leaving by the door. By the way, I left my cigar for you on the windowsill. Good evening, gentlemen. There was no news of Holmes that night. And Billy reported next morning that he had not breakfasted at Holmes. I had a busy morning at my office in Harley Street. It was after 11 before the last of my appointments was over. And still no news of Holmes. Did you ring Dr. Watson? Oh, Parsons. Is there anyone waiting? I have to be in Baker street at noon. There's one person in the waiting room, Doctor. A lady, sir, and she wants to see you most particularly. What about? She didn't say, sir. Only she said it was of utmost importance to her if you'd see her, sir. Oh, very well, I'll see her. And call a cab for me at the same time and have it wait. Show the lady in. Yes, sir. This way, ma'am. This way. Ah, Doctor, it's awfully good of you to see me. I'm Mrs. H. DeWitt's Seaton. Dear me, I didn't bring my card case or if I did I've lost it. Don't trouble about a card, Mrs. Seaton. They said you were Mr. Holmes's friend. Several people told me that to several. They advised me to ask you where I could find him today, this morning. And everything depends on it, Doctor, everything. I'd go to Mr. Holmes at once, but I've been. I've been and he wasn't there. You went to Mr. Holmes house? Yes, in Baker Street. That's why I came to you. They said he might be here. No, he isn't here. But don't you expect him this morning? No. There's no possibility of Mr. Holmes coming as far as I know. But couldn't you get him to come? It would be such a great favor to me. I'm almost worn out with going about and with this dreadful anxiety. If you could get word to Mr. Holmes. I could not get him to come, madam, and I beg you to excuse me. I'm going out myself on urgent business. I have no idea where Mr. Holmes could be. I. What's that? Pothos. Sounded like a hexagon, sir. Probably nothing more than a broken down hansom. See what it is, mother. That's the Belters. Somebody's out, sir, and they're wanting you. Well, don't allow anybody to come in. I have no more time. Very well, sir. But they're coming in, Doctor. Let the old man come in. Bring him in. There ain't nowhere else for him to go. Find a doctor, drop his business and he can't come in when he's hurt. The doctors can't see anybody. He's got a cabin street kid. All right, help him in, Parker. Oh, doctor's Miss Night. Can I be of some use? No, whatever the doctor, I must see the poor fellow. Oh, my leg, my leg. Right this way, sir. Be careful of the soothe. That's it. The accident can't help the accident. Oh, you can't, that's plain enough. He was on the wrong side of the street, he was. And now over to this chair. No, no, I'll sit here. No, no, no, this is the chair, sir. Don't you suppose I know where I want to sit down? You'll sit down here. That isn't the doctor. The doctor will ever look at you. Here's the doctor. That isn't the doctor. Yes, it is a doctor. He a doctor. Just come and have a look at this old bloke, will you? He's hurt hisself a little. Then, uh, are you a cabman? Yes, I'm the cabman. Well, I'll have you arrested for this. Arrested. Arrested. Arrested. Arrested. You can't arrest me. No, I can't, but somebody else can. Where's my hat? Where's my hat? My hat. My hat. Never mind your hat. I will mind my hat. I'll hold you responsible. There's your hat in your hand. Go on, sit down. That isn't my hat. Here. You're responsible. I'll have you arrested. Here, Come back. I'll go and stick around. Yeah. Now I got a guy that said belong. Bring your horse in here. I want to speak to him. I spirit say I won't stay in this place if I ever get out of here alive. What are you staring at me for? Lady, Tell that cab to wait for me. I must see if he's badly hurt. Yes, sir. Now, my friend, if you sit quiet for one moment, I'll have a look at you. Well, stay still, will you? Well, how can I? Remarkable. Remarkable weather we're having, eh, Doctor? Holmes, what on earth. How about helping me remove some of this ridiculous disguise? Watson. Holmes, is that you? Quite so, my dear fellow, quite so. Holmes. Watson. Watson. Only get out that window. Look out the blind. What do you want me to do? Nothing. Already been done by Mrs. Larrabee here. Look out, Holmes. She can get out that way. I don't think so, Watson. Foreman. I've got her, sir. Good work, foreman. I take this lady in charge. Yes, sir, very good. Foreman. Wait for me outside. Yes. Ah, Watson, my dear fellow. I regret to say that up to the present time Professor Moriarty himself has not risen to the bait. Where do you think he is? In the open streets under some clever disguise, watching for a chance to get at me. And was this woman sent in here? Quite so, quite so. A spy. To let them know by some signal if she found me in the house. Now they know. Pull down that blind, Watson. I don't care to be shot at from the street. I imagine we shall hear from Professor Moyarti very soon now. Mr. Holmes. Mr. Holmes. What did I tell you? He's come, sir, from Where? The house across the street. He was in there watching these windows. He must have seen something, for he's just come out. There was a cab waiting in front of this house, sir, and he's climbed up and changed places with the driver. Get out again quick, Billy, and keep your eye on him. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Watson, you let me have a rather heavy portmanteau for a few moments. I won't do it any harm. Parsons, my large Gladstone, over there in the corner. Bring it here, please. There you are, sir. Here's the portmanteau. Thank you, Parsons. Put it down there. Thank you so much. Parsons. You wanted to camp for the doctor a short time ago. It's been waiting, I believe. Yes, sir. I think it has, sir. Be so good as to tell the driver to come in here and get a valise when he comes. Tell him that's the one. Very good, sir. My dear Watson, times like these you should tell your man never to take the first cab that comes on call, nor yet the second. The third may be safe. But Holmes, I. All right. I'm cabby. I'm cabby. This is cabby. Right in this way. Ah, this bag. I want to take him down. Aren't you our cabinet? Right. All right. Goodbye, Watson. Bye, Watson. Fella. Wait a minute, driver. Pretty heavy, I'm afraid. Let me help you. The Watson. I write to you from Budapest. Yes, yes. Here, driver, let me tighten up these straps a bit. Here we are. That's right. I'll hold it, driver. You pull the strap. Few little things in this bag that I wouldn't like to lose. And it's just as well to make quite sure, is it not, Professor Moriarty? By means of a simple pair of handcuffs. Blaspheme. Holmes. You imagine, Sherlock Holmes, that this is the end. I ventured to dream that it might be. Are you quite sure the police will be able to hold me, Professor Moyarti? I'm quite sure of nothing. Take him away, foreman. And so, my dear Watson, ends the strange case of Miss Alice Faulkner. Well, what about the letters? Oh, the letters. They were returned to their rightful owner over an hour ago. I suspected from the start that Ms. Faulkner was really a nice girl at heart. Ah, dear. What is it, Holmes? I was just reflecting, my dear Watson. With Moriarty out of the way, London from the point of view of the criminal expert, it's likely to become a singularly uninteresting city. One's morning paper. Veritable wilderness of boredom. Mr. Holmes. Mr. Holmes. Yes, Millet? There's a lady here. Been waiting for an hour. Says she's got to see us, sir. Case of murder. She says she's got a face veil from which I deduce that she is a lady of over 41 and less than 45, of a strange dark beauty and considerable social eminence. That she has lived for some years in the near east. That she is now wearing a large blood ruby on the second finger of her left hand. Holmes, how do you know these things? It's amazing. Elementary, my dear Watson. Elementary. The child's play of deduction. Again tonight, the Columbia Broadcasting System, through its affiliated stations coast to coast, has brought you Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air. The 12th production in this unique series featuring Broadway is on radio's most celebrated theatrical producing company. This evening the play was Orson Welles own adaptation of William Gillette. Sherlock Holmes in the cast, Dr. Watson played by Ray Collins, Alice Faulkner by Mary Taylor, Mads Larrabee by Brenda Forbes, James Larabee by Edgar Barrier, Respect of Foreman by Morgan Farley, Craigen by Richard Wilson, Brassic by Alfred Shirley, Larry by William Allen, Billy by Arthur Anderson, Professor Moriarty by Eustace Wyatt and Sherlock Holmes by Orson Welles. The orchestra was conducted by Bernard Herman and the production was supervised for CBS by Davidson Taylor. Your announcer is Frank Gall. Next Sunday evening at the same time, another classic narrative dramatized by Orson Wellesley. Join us then for Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist brought to life by the Mercury Theater on the air. This is cbs, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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Adam Graham
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Adam Graham
Welcome back. Well, I loved Orson Welles opening commentary on William Gillette, and I think Gillette definitely gets shortchanged in understanding the role he played in the development of Sherlock Holmes because the plays that Gillette wrote and Gillette performed really formed as much a basis for people's understanding as the stories themselves, which was a perfectly legitimate way to go because these were plays that were authorized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Now, since the last time we played this, I listened to the Hollywood Theater of the Ears presentation of Sherlock Holmes Theater in particular, they went ahead and they actually adapted the original William Gillette version of this play. I don't know if adapted well, they did it for radio, but essentially it was almost word for word what Gillette wrote. And it was an interesting experience to actually hear this whole Victorian play of Sherlock Holmes and how the original audience would have heard it. But that said, it did leave me with a greater appreciation of Orson Welles work on adapting this play because the actual Gillette play, you know, it had all this good stuff in it, but it also was very, very talky. And there's a lot of stuff I think we would look at as modern listeners or viewers, and we'd say this kind of feels like filler where we're kind of getting things, you know, stretched out, but it's not really communicating things in an efficient or even all that entertaining way. Obviously it works fine if you want to experience it how the Victorians experienced it, and certainly it worked for the Victorians. But I think Wells did a very good job trimming the script down for radio and really just leaving all the best parts. He made something that was very, very pacey, but it still does have that feel of something that's performed on stage. It's very pacy, but it still has, you know, a very theatrical feel to it. One thing that he did play down from the play Wells did is the romantic angle, where in the radio version it's kind of implied that there's some romantic entrance. The original play made it pretty clear that that was the case. And there's this very romantic ending, which is not the type of thing, I think, that modern Sherlock Holmes fans appreciate. Particularly something as stereotypical as the romance in the original Gillette play. You know, one thing that does stand out to me as well is just the degree to which Holmes has all of this great dialogue. You know, just some really fun to say lines and comebacks that just roll off the tongue. And I wonder if that was part of the secret of Gillette's success and how he was able to continue performing his Holmes plays so long because he wrote a part that the right actor can just have a lot of fun in. And I think Wells definitely had a good time with it. Speaking of Welles, if this particular episode wet your whistle for more performances by one of radio's greatest actors, then you can listen to more Orson Welles over on the Amazing World of Radio. Where for for our final two episodes of our Summer of Summer replacement series, we'll be bringing you episodes of the Mercury Summer Theater from 1946 and you can listen to that over at amazing.greatdetectives.net alright, well now I do want to go ahead and thank our Patreon Supporter of the Day. Thank you to Robert, patreon supporter since September 2016, currently support the show at the shamus level of $4 or more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Robert. And that will do it for today. If you are enjoying this podcast, be sure and rate and review it wherever you download your podcast from. Join us back here tomorrow for Casey Crom, photographer. And coming up this Saturday, listen for Top Secrets of the FBI and then a week from Saturday Squad Room. In the meantime, send your comments to box Thirteenreatdetectives.net Follow us on Twitter at radiodetectives and become one of our friends on Facebook. Facebook.com Radiodetectives from Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham, signing off.