WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:21.080 Roma wines present, Suspense. 00:21.080 --> 00:25.760 Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:25.760 --> 00:26.760 Salud. 00:26.760 --> 00:28.880 Your health, Signor. 00:28.880 --> 00:30.880 Roma wines toast the world. 00:30.880 --> 00:36.520 The wine for your table is Roma wine, made in California for enjoyment throughout the 00:36.520 --> 00:37.520 world. 00:37.520 --> 00:43.480 This is the man in black here for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California, to introduce 00:43.480 --> 00:46.720 this weekly half hour of Suspense. 00:46.720 --> 00:52.920 Tonight from Hollywood, Roma wines bring you a star, Mr. Ed Gardner, better known to you 00:52.920 --> 00:58.920 perhaps as Archie, the proprietor of Duffy's Tavern, where the elite are won to meet to 00:58.920 --> 00:59.920 eat. 00:59.920 --> 01:03.080 Mr. Gardner tonight makes his debut as a dramatic actor. 01:03.080 --> 01:08.120 He will not appear tonight as Archie, but in a role entirely different from any he has 01:08.120 --> 01:09.120 ever played before. 01:09.120 --> 01:14.880 And so with a Suspense play called The Palmer Method, and with the performance of Ed Gardner 01:14.880 --> 01:19.960 as a pen pushing gentleman named Joe Palmer, we again hope to keep you in Suspense. 01:19.960 --> 01:26.520 Then I will be back at eight o'clock. 01:26.520 --> 01:28.360 Okay, that'll be okay. 01:28.360 --> 01:29.360 You will be waiting for me? 01:29.360 --> 01:30.360 Oh, don't worry, babe. 01:30.360 --> 01:31.360 I'll be here. 01:31.360 --> 01:38.360 Oh, will I be here? 01:38.360 --> 01:49.080 Dear friend Harry. 01:49.080 --> 01:54.400 I'm sitting here the last 10 minutes knocking myself out laughing and wishing for somebody 01:54.400 --> 01:55.840 to tell it to. 01:55.840 --> 01:57.600 And then I get to thinking of you. 01:57.600 --> 02:00.040 So I'm going to write you the whole story. 02:00.040 --> 02:03.880 Harry, you got to admit that yours truly is one smart guy. 02:03.880 --> 02:07.480 Because in about an hour, they're going to bring me so much dough, they got to bring 02:07.480 --> 02:08.480 it in in a suitcase. 02:08.480 --> 02:09.480 No kidding. 02:09.480 --> 02:14.640 Of course, it's the Spanish mula, but even in the United States, it comes to about 10 02:14.640 --> 02:15.640 grand. 02:15.640 --> 02:18.600 But I better start from the beginning so you can get the whole play. 02:18.600 --> 02:24.920 And if you don't say that your old pal is one smart guy, I am a monkey's uncle. 02:24.920 --> 02:29.680 It all begins about four months ago in New York when I'm on a lamb and expecting any 02:29.680 --> 02:33.640 minute that heavy hand is going to fall on my shoulders and I'm trying to think of something 02:33.640 --> 02:35.840 to do about it, you know. 02:35.840 --> 02:40.200 Happens I'm down to about three bucks, which makes the thinking a very tough proposition, 02:40.200 --> 02:42.520 even for a bright guy like me. 02:42.520 --> 02:47.760 Anyways, things being what they are, I naturally only go out at night. 02:47.760 --> 02:52.640 So one night I'm walking through the park in Union Square, but still thinking, not getting 02:52.640 --> 02:53.640 very far. 02:53.640 --> 02:54.640 Election entry here. 02:54.640 --> 02:55.640 FDR, a landslide. 02:55.640 --> 02:56.640 Landon Swarthin, 46th stage. 02:56.640 --> 02:57.640 Election extra paper, mister. 02:57.640 --> 02:58.640 Huh? 02:58.640 --> 02:59.640 Yeah, what a paper? 02:59.640 --> 03:00.640 Latest election returns. 03:00.640 --> 03:01.640 What election? 03:01.640 --> 03:02.640 Are you kidding? 03:02.640 --> 03:03.640 The election for president. 03:03.640 --> 03:04.640 Roosevelt and Landon. 03:04.640 --> 03:05.640 Here, get a paper and wise up. 03:05.640 --> 03:06.640 For a punk like you, I should do it. 03:06.640 --> 03:07.640 I'm not going to do it. 03:07.640 --> 03:08.640 I'm going to do it. 03:08.640 --> 03:09.640 I'm going to do it. 03:09.640 --> 03:10.640 I'm going to do it. 03:10.640 --> 03:11.640 I'm going to do it. 03:11.640 --> 03:12.640 I'm going to do it. 03:12.640 --> 03:13.640 I'm going to do it. 03:13.640 --> 03:14.640 I'm going to do it. 03:14.640 --> 03:15.640 I'm going to do it. 03:15.640 --> 03:16.640 I'm going to do it. 03:16.640 --> 03:19.960 For a punk like you, I should go all excited every time they have an election. 03:19.960 --> 03:21.280 That wouldn't strain your mind, none. 03:21.280 --> 03:23.280 They only happen once every four years. 03:23.280 --> 03:25.080 Eh, don't be such a wise kid. 03:25.080 --> 03:26.680 You want a paper or don't you? 03:26.680 --> 03:27.680 Ah, sure. 03:27.680 --> 03:28.680 Give me one. 03:28.680 --> 03:29.680 Here, keep the change. 03:29.680 --> 03:30.680 Ah, gee, thanks. 03:30.680 --> 03:34.880 And let that be a lesson to you, not to get wise with guys that might do you some good 03:34.880 --> 03:35.880 someday. 03:35.880 --> 03:36.880 Well, thanks anyway. 03:36.880 --> 03:37.880 Ficks free FDR, a landslide. 03:37.880 --> 03:38.880 Landon Swarthin, 46th stage. 03:38.880 --> 03:39.880 Landon Swarthin, 46th stage. 03:39.880 --> 03:40.880 Landon Swarthin, 46th stage. 03:40.880 --> 03:41.880 Landon Swarthin, 46th stage. 03:41.880 --> 03:42.880 Landon Swarthin, 46th stage. 03:42.880 --> 03:43.880 Landon Swarthin, 46th stage. 03:43.880 --> 04:00.120 Landon, there are locations at North 04:00.120 --> 04:02.120 Hey, you there. 04:02.120 --> 04:04.120 You thinking of me? 04:04.120 --> 04:06.120 Yeah, yeah. What's that guy all wound up about? 04:06.120 --> 04:10.120 He's asking for volunteers for the Spanish Loyalist Army. 04:10.120 --> 04:12.120 Oh, who are they fighting? 04:12.120 --> 04:14.120 What's the matter? Don't you read the papers? 04:14.120 --> 04:16.120 They're fighting a fascist revolt. 04:16.120 --> 04:19.120 Listen, I got a paper here. You think I'm illiterate? 04:19.120 --> 04:21.120 I just get kind of mixed up once in a while. 04:21.120 --> 04:25.120 Yeah, they put out a lot of propaganda to confuse you. 04:25.120 --> 04:27.120 With Hitler and Mussolini on Franco's side, 04:27.120 --> 04:30.120 anybody can see what the score is now. 04:30.120 --> 04:32.120 Oh, sure, sure. Anybody. 04:32.120 --> 04:34.120 Fascist bomb Madrid. 04:34.120 --> 04:37.120 I just wish sometimes I didn't have a wife and kids. 04:37.120 --> 04:41.120 I'd go over there and get me a couple of licks at those guys. 04:41.120 --> 04:43.120 Over to Spain, huh? Yeah. 04:43.120 --> 04:47.120 They send you over there, buy you a ticket and all like that, don't they? 04:47.120 --> 04:49.120 Sure, they pay for your transportation. 04:49.120 --> 04:51.120 They raise quite a little money for that. 04:51.120 --> 04:56.120 Hmm. You don't happen to know where they sign up for this army, do you? 04:56.120 --> 04:58.120 Well, he'll sign you up right there. 04:58.120 --> 05:00.120 Hey, you want to go? 05:00.120 --> 05:04.120 Could be. Yeah. Why not? 05:04.120 --> 05:06.120 Sure, why not? 05:14.120 --> 05:17.120 You get to play, Harry? Not so dumb, huh? 05:17.120 --> 05:21.120 I not only land out of the country till I cool off, but I get a free ticket. 05:21.120 --> 05:25.120 It's what I always say, Harry, a guy with real brains can always get by. 05:25.120 --> 05:28.120 Of course, I know strictly from nothing about this war, 05:28.120 --> 05:32.120 but I naturally figure it's just one of them tango revolutions, you know, 05:32.120 --> 05:35.120 like you see in the movies with a couple of guys riding around, 05:35.120 --> 05:38.120 shooting off their rods at nothing in particular, 05:38.120 --> 05:40.120 and pretty soon everybody goes home. 05:40.120 --> 05:45.120 But sometimes I wish I had read more of the front pages of the papers a little more, 05:45.120 --> 05:49.120 but when I get off the boat at Spain at a boat by the name of Barcelona, 05:49.120 --> 05:52.120 I find out this ain't such a funny war after all. 05:52.120 --> 05:55.120 This fascist mob is really knocking a joint around. 05:55.120 --> 05:59.120 They're shooting going on and they're dropping bombs from airplanes, 05:59.120 --> 06:02.120 and the next thing you know they got me in a uniform. 06:02.120 --> 06:06.120 So I'm standing there on the railroad station with a bunch of other guys, 06:06.120 --> 06:10.120 a whole mob of us, you know, it looked like the $2 winter at Belmont. 06:10.120 --> 06:13.120 It seems that we're going away somewhere, honey. 06:17.120 --> 06:20.120 Max, step up here, please. Max, your name, please? 06:20.120 --> 06:22.120 Padway, George Padway. 06:22.120 --> 06:26.120 Padway, jar number 336, car 7, compartment 3. Next, please. 06:26.120 --> 06:28.120 Palmer, Joe Palmer. 06:28.120 --> 06:30.120 How did you spell it, please? 06:30.120 --> 06:34.120 P-A-L-M-E-R, like the Palmer method. 06:34.120 --> 06:39.120 Oh, James Palmer, jar 337, car 7, compartment 3, with Padway. 06:39.120 --> 06:41.120 Next, please, step up, please. 06:41.120 --> 06:43.120 Hey, you, Padway. 06:43.120 --> 06:45.120 Is someone calling me? 06:45.120 --> 06:47.120 Yeah, come here. Look, my name is Joe Palmer. 06:47.120 --> 06:50.120 You know, we're supposed to ride in the same compartment or something? 06:50.120 --> 06:53.120 Oh, splendid. That's car 7. It's down this way, I imagine. 06:53.120 --> 06:57.120 Well, glad you know. I can't make head in the tail out of these stinky rat lessons. 06:57.120 --> 06:59.120 Of course. You're American, aren't you? 06:59.120 --> 07:00.120 What else? 07:00.120 --> 07:02.120 Here, let me give you a hand with your gear. 07:02.120 --> 07:06.120 Oh, yeah. Thanks. 07:06.120 --> 07:10.120 Hey, these guys over here take this war pretty serious, don't they? 07:10.120 --> 07:12.120 Well, rather. What did you expect? 07:12.120 --> 07:15.120 Yeah, yeah. From what I see around this bar saloon, 07:15.120 --> 07:17.120 they're not supposed to mean like, if they ain't careful, 07:17.120 --> 07:19.120 somebody's apt to labelled to get killed here. 07:19.120 --> 07:21.120 Well, if you think this is bad, what about Madrid? 07:21.120 --> 07:23.120 They're dying up there by the thousands. 07:23.120 --> 07:27.120 Yeah. Hey, wait a minute. Madrid? Ain't that where this train is going? 07:27.120 --> 07:30.120 Of course. They're sending us up to keep them out of University City, if we can. 07:30.120 --> 07:32.120 And you say they're knocking them off up there by the thousands? 07:32.120 --> 07:34.120 I'm afraid so. 07:34.120 --> 07:35.120 That ain't good. 07:35.120 --> 07:37.120 You're not worried, are you, old man? 07:37.120 --> 07:40.120 Well, no, no, but I'm just thinking that... 07:40.120 --> 07:43.120 Papers, please. Padway, 336. 07:43.120 --> 07:45.120 No, no, no. I'm... 07:45.120 --> 07:46.120 All in order. 07:46.120 --> 07:48.120 Hey, wait a minute. You got us mixed up. 07:48.120 --> 07:50.120 Papers! 07:50.120 --> 07:52.120 Well, how do you like that? 07:52.120 --> 07:54.120 It seemed they got us mixed up, what? 07:54.120 --> 07:55.120 Yeah, yeah. 07:55.120 --> 07:57.120 That would be funny, wouldn't it, if they got us mixed up? 07:57.120 --> 07:59.120 You, Padway, and me. 07:59.120 --> 08:02.120 Yeah, yeah, that would be funny, all right. 08:02.120 --> 08:04.120 That would be very funny. 08:04.120 --> 08:06.120 Tonight, for Suspense, 08:06.120 --> 08:08.120 Roma wines bring you as star 08:08.120 --> 08:11.120 radio's famous archie, Ed Gardner, 08:11.120 --> 08:13.120 whom you've heard in the prologue to The Palmer Method 08:13.120 --> 08:16.120 by Ernest Martin and Robert L. 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Makes you write and very pretty. 11:11.120 --> 11:13.120 Aren't you a little old for that sort of thing? 11:13.120 --> 11:15.120 Well, it depends on how you look at it. 11:15.120 --> 11:17.120 With me, it's a business. 11:17.120 --> 11:19.120 You're an instructor in penmanship? 11:19.120 --> 11:22.120 Yeah, yeah, that's it. 11:22.120 --> 11:24.120 Instructor in penmanship. 11:24.120 --> 11:25.120 What's so funny? 11:25.120 --> 11:28.120 Well, look, when I was a punk kid in P.S. 4, you know, 11:28.120 --> 11:31.120 the only subject I can pass is penmanship. 11:31.120 --> 11:33.120 I'm a wizard, you know, so naturally, 11:33.120 --> 11:34.120 my name being Palmer and all, 11:34.120 --> 11:36.120 it's kind of a standard joke in a school, you know, 11:36.120 --> 11:37.120 the kids that holler, 11:37.120 --> 11:40.120 don't permit, he flunks in everything but writing. 11:40.120 --> 11:41.120 That's the Palmer Method. 11:41.120 --> 11:42.120 Oh, I see. 11:42.120 --> 11:43.120 Yeah, that's how it started, 11:43.120 --> 11:46.120 but now I still like to keep in practice, 11:46.120 --> 11:48.120 because, well, like I say, 11:48.120 --> 11:50.120 by this time, with me, it's a business. 11:50.120 --> 11:53.120 But I still don't quite see how it can be much of a business. 11:53.120 --> 11:55.120 You ask a lot of questions, don't you? 11:55.120 --> 11:56.120 I'm terribly sorry, old man. 11:56.120 --> 11:58.120 I don't mean to pry, you know. 11:58.120 --> 11:59.120 Oh, it's all right. 11:59.120 --> 12:00.120 What about you? 12:00.120 --> 12:01.120 Me? 12:01.120 --> 12:03.120 Yeah, how about me asking you a couple of questions? 12:03.120 --> 12:05.120 Why, of course, anything you like. 12:05.120 --> 12:06.120 You're English, eh? 12:06.120 --> 12:07.120 That's right. 12:07.120 --> 12:08.120 Yeah, I could tell that right away. 12:08.120 --> 12:09.120 Really? 12:09.120 --> 12:12.120 Yeah, I could also tell that you're not exactly a stumble bum. 12:12.120 --> 12:14.120 I bet your old man is in the chips, eh? 12:14.120 --> 12:16.120 You mean wealthy? 12:16.120 --> 12:17.120 Matter of fact, he is, rather. 12:17.120 --> 12:19.120 Hmm, maybe even a lord or something? 12:19.120 --> 12:21.120 Oh, no, nothing like that, really. 12:21.120 --> 12:23.120 Lesser nobility, you know. 12:23.120 --> 12:24.120 Hmm, I thought so. 12:24.120 --> 12:25.120 Big shot, huh? 12:25.120 --> 12:27.120 You ever been to this Madrid before? 12:27.120 --> 12:28.120 No, never have. 12:28.120 --> 12:29.120 You know anybody there? 12:29.120 --> 12:31.120 Not a soul, as a matter of fact. 12:31.120 --> 12:32.120 Hmm. 12:32.120 --> 12:34.120 At it again, I see. 12:34.120 --> 12:37.120 I say, you know, you never did tell me about that Palmer business. 12:37.120 --> 12:39.120 You mean, how come it's a business with me? 12:39.120 --> 12:40.120 Mm-hmm. 12:40.120 --> 12:42.120 I write checks. 12:42.120 --> 12:43.120 Write checks? 12:43.120 --> 12:45.120 Yeah, with other people's names on them. 12:45.120 --> 12:48.120 I might add that I'm about the top man in the profession, too. 12:48.120 --> 12:50.120 Oh, you're a... 12:50.120 --> 12:53.120 Yeah, I guess they call it the same thing in England, don't they? 12:53.120 --> 13:02.120 Forgery? 13:02.120 --> 13:04.120 Oh, sure, I told him, so what? 13:04.120 --> 13:06.120 He don't know anybody in this Madrid, 13:06.120 --> 13:09.120 and I figure he ain't gonna know much about me, 13:09.120 --> 13:11.120 and he ain't gonna say much, anyhow. 13:11.120 --> 13:14.120 Although I still don't know quite how I'm gonna do it. 13:14.120 --> 13:16.120 But then I get one of them breaks, Harry, 13:16.120 --> 13:18.120 that even a smart guy needs sometimes. 13:18.120 --> 13:20.120 By this time, it's night, 13:20.120 --> 13:22.120 and we're rattling along with the lights out, 13:22.120 --> 13:24.120 blackening the inside of a nickel cigar, 13:24.120 --> 13:28.120 and I wait to see if maybe Padway will go to sleep or something. 13:28.120 --> 13:32.120 Well, the next thing I know, I must have dozed off myself. 13:32.120 --> 13:35.120 As I hear a noise and as I look out, 13:35.120 --> 13:38.120 I see it's daylight already, and we're coming to a big burg. 13:38.120 --> 13:42.120 Padway's awake too, and he's looking over at me. 13:42.120 --> 13:44.120 You... you dropped something, Palmer? 13:44.120 --> 13:46.120 No, I thought you did. 13:46.120 --> 13:48.120 No? Well, oh, hello. 13:48.120 --> 13:50.120 We must be getting into Madrid. 13:50.120 --> 13:52.120 Sure enough, pulling into the station now. 13:52.120 --> 13:54.120 Oh, that's great. That's fine. 13:54.120 --> 13:56.120 I say, old boy, you look a bit peagas. 13:56.120 --> 13:59.120 Anything wrong? No, no, no, I'm fine. 14:00.120 --> 14:02.120 Hey, what was that? 14:02.120 --> 14:04.120 A bomb, most likely. A bomb? 14:04.120 --> 14:06.120 Yep. That's it, all right. 14:06.120 --> 14:08.120 They're bombing the city, I suppose. 14:08.120 --> 14:11.120 Yeah, hey, hey, hey, hey, they ain't gonna bomb us, are they? 14:11.120 --> 14:13.120 Why, Joe, I think they are. 14:13.120 --> 14:15.120 What do we do, Padway? What do we do now? 14:15.120 --> 14:17.120 Keep down on the floor and hope for the best. 14:17.120 --> 14:19.120 The best better be awful good. 14:19.120 --> 14:21.120 Oh, I must say. 14:21.120 --> 14:23.120 Uh-oh, watch out for this one. 14:28.120 --> 14:30.120 We do it. 14:30.120 --> 14:32.120 Padway! Padway! 14:41.120 --> 14:44.120 Honest, Harry, what happens to that train 14:44.120 --> 14:46.120 should happen to Sing Sing present. 14:46.120 --> 14:49.120 I look around and there's Padway over by the door, 14:49.120 --> 14:51.120 out like a light. 14:51.120 --> 14:54.120 I can see that he ain't long for this world, the poor guy. 14:54.120 --> 14:57.120 Me, I'm lucky I don't have a scratch. 14:57.120 --> 14:59.120 So naturally, now is when I go to work. 14:59.120 --> 15:02.120 I go through his pockets and take out his papers. 15:02.120 --> 15:04.120 There's a passport, some letters, and a wallet 15:04.120 --> 15:06.120 with quite a bit of dough in it. 15:06.120 --> 15:09.120 So I take a couple of things out of my own pocket 15:09.120 --> 15:11.120 and I put them in his. 15:11.120 --> 15:14.120 Only just then, Padway starts coming out of it. 15:14.120 --> 15:17.120 Well, Harry, what would you do if you were me? 15:17.120 --> 15:21.120 Like I say, I am opposed to violence as much as anybody. 15:21.120 --> 15:23.120 But there he is, looking at me. 15:23.120 --> 15:26.120 And the guy ain't gonna live long anyway. 15:26.120 --> 15:31.120 So I grab me rifle and I tap him on the noggin. 15:31.120 --> 15:35.120 Sure enough, he's gone again, but for good this time. 15:35.120 --> 15:37.120 And not too soon because there's some guys 15:37.120 --> 15:39.120 coming down to the rescue. 15:39.120 --> 15:41.120 One of the guys pokes his head in the McDoor. 15:41.120 --> 15:43.120 Come again? 15:43.120 --> 15:45.120 You all right in here? 15:45.120 --> 15:47.120 Yeah, I guess so. What happened? 15:47.120 --> 15:49.120 Don't you know? You're lucky to be alive. 15:49.120 --> 15:51.120 Oh, yeah, yeah, I know, but this guy here, 15:51.120 --> 15:53.120 he wasn't so lucky. 15:53.120 --> 15:56.120 Huh? Oh. Dead, all right. 15:56.120 --> 15:58.120 Do you know him? 15:58.120 --> 16:01.120 Yeah, yeah, but I forget what name he told me. 16:01.120 --> 16:03.120 He's got his papers on him, I think. 16:03.120 --> 16:05.120 Oh, let me see here. 16:05.120 --> 16:08.120 Oh, yes, Joseph Aloisius Palmer. 16:08.120 --> 16:10.120 Oh, yeah, that was it, Palmer, yeah. 16:10.120 --> 16:13.120 Poor fellow. Why? 16:13.120 --> 16:15.120 He died in a good cause. 16:15.120 --> 16:18.120 You're right there, brother. He certainly died in a good cause. 16:26.120 --> 16:28.120 You get it, Harry? 16:28.120 --> 16:31.120 Joe Palmer, who was wanted by the New York cops, is dead. 16:31.120 --> 16:35.120 And George Padway, the big shot Englishman, is me. 16:35.120 --> 16:39.120 So I duck out quick to a hotel, I get me a change of clothes, 16:39.120 --> 16:43.120 and I figure maybe I better take a look through the rest of Padway stuff 16:43.120 --> 16:45.120 to see if maybe I can get an angle. 16:45.120 --> 16:50.120 Well, I find this letter on him from some guy named E. Valencos. 16:50.120 --> 16:53.120 This letter says Valencos looks forward to meeting Padway 16:53.120 --> 16:55.120 and names a time and a place. 16:55.120 --> 16:59.120 Now, anybody else, Harry, this letter might have true for quite a loss, 16:59.120 --> 17:04.120 but not yours truly, because I know that Valencos has never seen Padway. 17:04.120 --> 17:07.120 The letter practically says that, and Padway himself has told me 17:07.120 --> 17:10.120 he don't know nobody in Madrid. You catch on? 17:10.120 --> 17:14.120 And I figure this Valencos is probably just a guy to get me out of this army. 17:14.120 --> 17:16.120 So what do I do? 17:16.120 --> 17:19.120 I simply take me pen and hand and I write a letter, 17:19.120 --> 17:23.120 very nice and neat, in George Padway's handwriting. 17:23.120 --> 17:27.120 Dear Valencos, I says, I will likewise look forward to meeting you 17:27.120 --> 17:32.120 at the time and place you say. Signed, George Padway. 17:32.120 --> 17:35.120 So the next night I go to keep the date. 17:35.120 --> 17:38.120 No fooling, Harry, this Madrid is really in tough shape 17:38.120 --> 17:40.120 since this fascist mob has been giving it the business. 17:40.120 --> 17:44.120 People is all poor and hungry, especially the women and kids, 17:44.120 --> 17:48.120 so naturally I feel sorry for them as I brush them off 17:48.120 --> 17:50.120 and walk into this hot spot. 17:50.120 --> 17:54.120 Well, I take a corner table and I tell the waiter 17:54.120 --> 17:56.120 I'm expecting a Mr. Valencos. 17:56.120 --> 17:59.120 So I'm sitting there practicing with me pencil and pencil 17:59.120 --> 18:02.120 and paper, making me lines and circles, 18:02.120 --> 18:05.120 and the next thing you know I ain't alone. 18:06.120 --> 18:07.120 Hello. 18:07.120 --> 18:10.120 Oh, hello, Toots, what's cooking? 18:11.120 --> 18:12.120 What are you doing? 18:12.120 --> 18:14.120 Just practicing. 18:14.120 --> 18:18.120 Ah, what is it? A secret code? 18:18.120 --> 18:21.120 Yeah, yeah, that's right, the palma code. 18:21.120 --> 18:24.120 I like it. It's pretty. 18:24.120 --> 18:27.120 Yeah, you ain't so unpretty yourself, do you? 18:27.120 --> 18:30.120 You ain't so unpretty yourself, babe. 18:30.120 --> 18:32.120 Only I got some business tonight. 18:32.120 --> 18:36.120 Oh, aren't you going to ask me to have a drink? 18:36.120 --> 18:41.120 Yeah, yeah, but look, how about getting out of here 18:41.120 --> 18:43.120 and going someplace else for it, though, huh? 18:43.120 --> 18:46.120 What about your business? 18:46.120 --> 18:48.120 Well, with a babe like you around, 18:48.120 --> 18:50.120 I'm afraid the business will have to wait a little. 18:50.120 --> 18:53.120 Well, where shall we go? 18:53.120 --> 18:56.120 How about going up to my hotel room? 18:56.120 --> 19:00.120 You mean room 359? 19:00.120 --> 19:03.120 Yeah. Hey, wait a minute. How did you know? 19:03.120 --> 19:04.120 What is your name, senor? 19:04.120 --> 19:06.120 George Padway. So what? 19:06.120 --> 19:09.120 You are well known, senor. 19:09.120 --> 19:11.120 Well, sure, but... 19:11.120 --> 19:12.120 My name is Elena. 19:12.120 --> 19:15.120 That's fine, Elena, but now about... 19:15.120 --> 19:17.120 My last name is Villancos. 19:17.120 --> 19:20.120 Villancos? Well, I'll be your monkey's uncle. 19:20.120 --> 19:23.120 Oh, no, I do not think so. 19:23.120 --> 19:26.120 So you're the Villancos I'm supposed to meet here. 19:26.120 --> 19:30.120 Well, in that case, Elena, just call me George. 19:30.120 --> 19:33.120 Of course, George. 19:33.120 --> 19:36.120 But now, George, I think perhaps we had better go 19:36.120 --> 19:38.120 to that hotel room of yours after all, huh? 19:38.120 --> 19:41.120 Oh, sure, sure. It'd be a good idea. 19:41.120 --> 19:43.120 But only for business, George. 19:43.120 --> 19:45.120 Of course, naturally. 19:45.120 --> 19:47.120 But there is one thing I cannot wait to do. 19:47.120 --> 19:48.120 What's that? 19:48.120 --> 19:50.120 Congratulate you. 19:50.120 --> 19:53.120 Oh, thanks. For what? 19:53.120 --> 19:56.120 For that troop train job, of course. 19:56.120 --> 19:59.120 Oh, well, it wasn't nothing, really. 19:59.120 --> 20:04.120 But there is still something I do not understand. 20:04.120 --> 20:05.120 What's that, baby? 20:05.120 --> 20:07.120 How did you manage to blow it up 20:07.120 --> 20:09.120 while you yourself were on it? 20:09.120 --> 20:11.120 Uh, uh... 20:11.120 --> 20:15.120 Well, uh, look, let's go up to the room. 20:15.120 --> 20:20.120 We'll talk it all over, huh? 20:23.120 --> 20:25.120 George, you still have not told me 20:25.120 --> 20:28.120 how you blew up the train and did not get killed yourself. 20:28.120 --> 20:30.120 Well, do I have to tell you everything? 20:30.120 --> 20:33.120 Oh, perhaps that is why you are so successful, huh? 20:33.120 --> 20:35.120 You have your little secrets. 20:35.120 --> 20:37.120 Hmm, trade secrets. 20:37.120 --> 20:39.120 There's secrets in every trade, you know. 20:39.120 --> 20:41.120 But of course I forget. 20:41.120 --> 20:44.120 You got your training with the Gestapo in Berlin. 20:44.120 --> 20:46.120 They, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. 20:46.120 --> 20:48.120 They taught me a couple of things. 20:48.120 --> 20:51.120 Tell me, were you in contact 20:51.120 --> 20:54.120 with the firm of Krupp when you were in Berlin? 20:54.120 --> 20:57.120 Well, I saw something of them, naturally. 20:57.120 --> 20:59.120 And what about Deutsche Farbenindustrie? 20:59.120 --> 21:02.120 Uh, very fine firm. 21:02.120 --> 21:05.120 I guess there's a lot of dough on our side, huh? 21:05.120 --> 21:09.120 Oh, but of course we have the money. 21:09.120 --> 21:11.120 The others, uh, the scum. 21:11.120 --> 21:13.120 They have the rags on their backs. 21:13.120 --> 21:16.120 And a few rifles they get from the Bolsheviks. 21:16.120 --> 21:18.120 Yeah, sure, but about this money. 21:18.120 --> 21:20.120 Yes, George? 21:20.120 --> 21:23.120 You see, the fact is I'm a little short myself. 21:23.120 --> 21:26.120 Well, we always have more work for you to do. 21:26.120 --> 21:29.120 Oh, sure, but first, don't you think that... 21:29.120 --> 21:33.120 Ah, so that is why you are so suspicious with me. 21:33.120 --> 21:35.120 You want first the money. 21:35.120 --> 21:37.120 Well, that's the usual way, ain't it? 21:37.120 --> 21:39.120 But of course I can arrange that. 21:39.120 --> 21:41.120 How much do you want? 21:41.120 --> 21:43.120 I figure this job is worth. 21:43.120 --> 21:47.120 Well, perhaps as much as 50,000 pesetas. 21:47.120 --> 21:49.120 How much is that in United States dollars? 21:49.120 --> 21:51.120 I mean pounds. 21:51.120 --> 21:53.120 About a thousand pounds? 21:53.120 --> 21:54.120 A thousand. 21:54.120 --> 21:57.120 I don't think I can do for that kind of dough. 21:57.120 --> 21:59.120 A thousand pounds is a lot of money, George. 21:59.120 --> 22:01.120 Yeah, but think of the expenses. 22:01.120 --> 22:02.120 What expenses? 22:02.120 --> 22:06.120 Well, things like, well, this dynamite, for instance. 22:06.120 --> 22:08.120 You know, you don't get that stuff for peanuts. 22:08.120 --> 22:11.120 Oh, George, you are teasing me. 22:11.120 --> 22:14.120 I will get you all the dynamite you want for nothing. 22:14.120 --> 22:17.120 Well, how about the element of personal risk? 22:17.120 --> 22:21.120 This racket ain't exactly the healthiest in the world, neither, you know. 22:21.120 --> 22:23.120 There you are right, George. 22:23.120 --> 22:27.120 It is a risky profession to be a fascist saboteur. 22:27.120 --> 22:29.120 That's what I'm telling you. 22:29.120 --> 22:31.120 How much do you want? 22:31.120 --> 22:37.120 Well, I don't see how I can play ball for less than 100,000 of them pesetas. 22:37.120 --> 22:39.120 Very well, we will pay it. 22:39.120 --> 22:41.120 Well, that's well, you toots. 22:41.120 --> 22:43.120 How soon can I have the dough? 22:43.120 --> 22:44.120 I will have it here within an hour. 22:44.120 --> 22:45.120 Okay, it's a deal. 22:45.120 --> 22:49.120 And then maybe you and me will still have time to go out on a little bender, huh? 22:49.120 --> 22:54.120 Yes, perhaps we will. 22:54.120 --> 22:56.120 And look, make it small bills, will you? 22:56.120 --> 22:57.120 They're easier to handle. 22:57.120 --> 23:02.120 It's a lot of money, but my friends and I will bring it in a suitcase. 23:02.120 --> 23:09.120 Well, and one thing, Alina, for this next job, you might have to help me get out of the country for a little while. 23:09.120 --> 23:11.120 You know, I got certain arrangements that I got to make. 23:11.120 --> 23:14.120 There will be no trouble there, I can assure you. 23:14.120 --> 23:17.120 Well, that's a real pal, Alina. I won't forget it, neither. 23:17.120 --> 23:19.120 I know you won't, George. 23:19.120 --> 23:20.120 Oh, George, there is one thing. 23:20.120 --> 23:23.120 Just a little formality so I can be sure to get the money. 23:23.120 --> 23:25.120 Oh, sure, babe, anything you say. 23:25.120 --> 23:30.120 Will you write a little note for me so they will know I contacted you, you see? 23:30.120 --> 23:33.120 A note? What does the note say? 23:33.120 --> 23:43.120 Oh, just something like, I, Padwee, have contacted Alina Biljankos and we are agreed on future procedure. 23:43.120 --> 23:45.120 Well, I guess that'll be all right. 23:45.120 --> 24:04.120 Okay, I have contacted Alina Biljankos and we are agreed on future procedure. 24:04.120 --> 24:07.120 Sign, George Padwee. 24:07.120 --> 24:09.120 There you are, okay. 24:09.120 --> 24:10.120 Thank you, George. 24:10.120 --> 24:12.120 Well, I think you better run along now, huh? 24:12.120 --> 24:15.120 Then I will be back at eight o'clock. 24:15.120 --> 24:16.120 Okay, that'll be okay. 24:16.120 --> 24:18.120 You will be waiting for me? 24:18.120 --> 24:20.120 Don't worry, babe, I'll be here. 24:20.120 --> 24:31.120 Oh, brother, will I be here? 24:31.120 --> 24:37.120 So now, Harry, you can see why I'm practically killing myself laughing while I'm writing this letter. 24:37.120 --> 24:44.120 Of course, while I'm writing that note and Padwee's handwriting, I can hardly keep my face straight, you know, it's so right up me alley. 24:44.120 --> 24:49.120 Only thing that worries me a little is me conscience, if you can call that what I got a conscience on. 24:49.120 --> 24:54.120 It kind of really makes me sort of where this fascist mob I'm hooked up with is kicking the rest of the people around. 24:54.120 --> 25:00.120 However, I'm in up to me ears now too, so I got to think about yours truly first, right? 25:00.120 --> 25:06.120 But maybe when I get in a clear someday, I'll figure out a way to get a crack at these guys myself when I kind of believe me, Harry. 25:06.120 --> 25:09.120 I think a fascist is really a bunch of no good crumbs. 25:09.120 --> 25:12.120 And I guess that'll even have to go for a leaner. 25:12.120 --> 25:17.120 But now the hour's about up and I think I hear somebody coming down the hall now. 25:17.120 --> 25:20.120 I'll tell you the payoff for all this when I see you in a little old New York. 25:20.120 --> 25:30.120 In the meantime, Harry, keep your shirt on and try not to die from envy of your old friend Joe Palmer. 25:30.120 --> 25:32.120 Okay, babe, I'm coming. 25:32.120 --> 25:34.120 Well, right on time, huh? 25:34.120 --> 25:37.120 Yes, then your pathway. This is in your Martinez, then your frontier. 25:37.120 --> 25:40.120 Oh, hi, you got the old suitcase. 25:40.120 --> 25:42.120 I have any trouble getting a dough. 25:42.120 --> 25:44.120 No, no trouble. 25:44.120 --> 25:46.120 Well, maybe we better open it up and count it. 25:46.120 --> 25:48.120 You know, just in case. 25:48.120 --> 25:50.120 Yes, I think we should go on. 25:50.120 --> 25:51.120 Open it. 25:51.120 --> 25:53.120 Yes, you know, I never would. 25:53.120 --> 25:56.120 Hey, what's that Tommy gun doing in there? 25:56.120 --> 25:57.120 Where's the dough? 25:57.120 --> 25:58.120 What's the matter? 25:58.120 --> 25:59.120 Are you afraid? 25:59.120 --> 26:00.120 My fascist friend? 26:00.120 --> 26:01.120 What? 26:01.120 --> 26:02.120 What about you? 26:02.120 --> 26:03.120 Thank you. 26:03.120 --> 26:08.120 Ah, not quite. I am an agent of the Republic of Spain, Senor Padway. 26:08.120 --> 26:14.120 We have been waiting a long time to trap you, my friend, but now we bring you your reward. 26:14.120 --> 26:17.120 Elena, wait a minute, wait a minute. Tell that guy to put that gun away. 26:17.120 --> 26:21.120 You got to let me explain. I ain't no fascist. My name ain't even Padway. 26:21.120 --> 26:26.120 My name is Joe Palmer. I'm an American guy. I just come over here to fight for your side. 26:26.120 --> 26:29.120 No, no kidding. You can find it out from your friends in New York. 26:29.120 --> 26:31.120 I'm the guy that even killed Padway. 26:31.120 --> 26:40.120 Who wrote the letter to me? Who wrote the note for me tonight in the handwriting that we even compared with all our other correspondents with Padway just to make sure? 26:40.120 --> 26:45.120 Well, I did, sure, but that's me racket, handwriting, forgery. I'm telling you, I'm Joe Palmer. 26:45.120 --> 26:46.120 Can you prove it? 26:46.120 --> 26:47.120 Sure I can. 26:50.120 --> 26:51.120 I guess maybe I can't, huh? 26:51.120 --> 26:53.120 The handwriting. 26:53.120 --> 27:01.120 Yeah, it's like I said to Padway, I'm the best in the business. It's kind of funny now, ain't it? 27:01.120 --> 27:02.120 We're wasting time. 27:02.120 --> 27:09.120 Okay. Guess there's no use talking. Guess I've been a heel. I outsmarted myself. 27:09.120 --> 27:16.120 But I want you to know one thing. I was really kind of on a level in my own way towards the end, but oh, what's the difference? 27:16.120 --> 27:24.120 Just one thing I want you to know for your own information. I'm swearing. The guy you're bumping off is Joe Palmer of the International Big Grade. 27:24.120 --> 27:26.120 Palmer? Like the... 27:26.120 --> 27:27.120 Oh, I'm not finished. 27:29.120 --> 27:31.120 Palmer. 27:39.120 --> 27:42.120 A smart agent. One must say that for him. 27:42.120 --> 27:47.120 Yes, she was very, very smart. 28:01.120 --> 28:06.120 And so closes The Palmer Method starring Ed Gardner, tonight's tale of suspense. 28:06.120 --> 28:16.120 Before Mr. Gardner returns to our microphone, let me give you a suggestion that you will find can add to the success of your next dinner party at home. 28:16.120 --> 28:21.120 At one end of the dining table, place a bottle of Roma wine's hearty full-bodied burgundy. 28:21.120 --> 28:26.120 At the other table end, place a bottle of Roma wine's delicately delicious sauternes. 28:26.120 --> 28:30.120 Then let each of your guests select the Roma wine to his liking. 28:30.120 --> 28:38.120 You will know that whatever the individual choice of a guest, both of these Roma California wines will delight by their superb quality. 28:38.120 --> 28:44.120 The quality that has made Roma wines America's largest selling wines. 28:44.120 --> 28:52.120 In Roma, you have the old world art of winemaking, plus the extra care, constant tasting and testing, which modern knowledge adds. 28:52.120 --> 29:02.120 While the superb quality of these good Roma wines will win your full accord with the judgment of wine experts of many lands that Roma wines are truly magnificent. 29:02.120 --> 29:11.120 Let me repeat the name, R-O-M-A Roma wines, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 29:11.120 --> 29:14.120 Well, this is Ed Gardner, earlier Saatchi speaking again. 29:14.120 --> 29:18.120 It's been a great pleasure to be on suspense on account of it's one of my favorite shows. 29:18.120 --> 29:27.120 Next week, I hope you'll all be listening into the show like the gang of toughies all will be when the star will be Gene Kelly. 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