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The Blue Beetle was an old time radio show based on the super hero character that appeared in Fox Features comic books.
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00:00The Blue Beetle
00:12Weeping down upon the underworld of Smash Gangland
00:21Comes the mysterious, all-powerful character
00:24Who is a problem to the police
00:25But a crusader for law
00:27In reality, Dan Garrett
00:29A rookie patrolman
00:30Loved by everyone
00:31But suspected by none of being
00:33The Blue Beetle
00:35As the Blue Beetle
00:37He hides behind a strained mask
00:39And a suit of impenetrable blue chain armor
00:41Flexible as silk
00:42But stronger than steel
00:44Today's transcribed episode of the Fox feature, The Blue Beetle
01:00Is entitled The Dancing Ghosts of Rocky Hills
01:03Perched high on a rocky crag overlooking the ocean
01:06Not many miles from York City
01:08Sits Gray Crag's Manor
01:10Surrounded by high stone walls
01:12The large house dominates an estate of some 300 acres
01:16In Rocky Hills, East Chester County
01:18Residents of Rocky Hills say the place is haunted
01:22Some claim to have seen from a distance on moonlight night
01:25The shadowy figures of dancers in the ballroom
01:28Of the east wind of the manor
01:30As our story opens today
01:32Patrolman Dan Garrett
01:33Who is really the Blue Beetle
01:35Little realizes that his next adventure
01:37Will take him to Gray Crag's Manor
01:39He is talking with his friend Dr. Franz
01:42In the little apothecary shop
01:44Danny, here's a name I picked out of the personal column of the Chronicle this morning
01:48Address to the Blue Beetle
01:50I thought you'd be interested
01:51Somebody's kidding the Blue Beetle
01:54You think so?
01:55Now listen
01:55Attention Blue Beetle
01:57Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
01:59Eating her curds and whey
02:01Along came a spider and sat down beside her
02:04And scared the poor girl away
02:06Why should anyone address nursery rhymes to me?
02:09There's a secret message in cipher concealed in that nursery rhyme
02:12Are you serious, Doc?
02:13Yes
02:13I deciphered it just before you came in
02:15What's the message, Doc?
02:17And how were you able to solve it?
02:18Well, the difference in size of type used throughout the rhyme gave me a clue
02:22The young lady has evidently been reading Francis Bacon
02:25Young lady?
02:26Yes, young lady
02:27Well, this begins to look like a romantic adventure
02:30And what makes you think she's been reading Francis Bacon?
02:33Now, he used to write many of his plays and poems in cipher similar to this
02:36That's very interesting
02:37What message did you borrow from this nursery, dog girl, Doc?
02:40Well, here it is, deciphered
02:42Young heiress in dire distress
02:44Only Blue Beetle can help
02:46Come Alone
02:47Midnight
02:48Grey Crags Manor
02:49Urgent
02:50Grey Crags Manor
02:52That's out at Rocky Hill
02:53Yes
02:53The place is supposed to be haunted
02:55Ah, it sounds like a trap for the Blue Beetle
02:57But it's certainly intriguing
02:59Yes, isn't it?
03:00I think I'll take a run out there now and look the place over by daylight
03:02Oh, why don't you?
03:03But be careful, Danny
03:04That section used to be infested with bootleggers and rumrunners during Prohibition
03:08It's along the seashore
03:10Lots of coals and inlets with rocky cliffs overhanging the sea
03:12Sounds interesting
03:13Are you planning on taking Officer Mannigan with you?
03:15No, poor Mike's laid up with a bad case of poison ivy
03:18That's tough on Mike
03:19Yes, the old war horse is champing at the bit
03:21I'm going to drop by and see him
03:23Well, tell him I hope he'll be back on the job again soon
03:25I will
03:26Goodbye, Doc
03:27See you later
03:27Check the roll, buddy?
03:51No, I have plenty of oil, thanks
03:52What do I owe you?
03:53Up, Buck
03:53There you are
03:54Thanks
03:55By the way, who lives in that old mansion up on the hill overlooking the ocean?
04:00Mostly ghosts, buddy
04:01Don't tell me you believe in ghosts
04:03Well, I don't know
04:04Some folks in the village here claim to avoid music and seen figures dancing in a ballroom as they walked along the road
04:10Hasn't anyone visited the place?
04:12Nobody around here
04:13There's a guy with a club foot on guard at the entrance to the estate
04:16A sort of a caretaker
04:18He don't let nobody in
04:20Doesn't anybody live in the manor house?
04:22Yeah, there's a young girl, Rosalie Greenhall, and her aunt just moved in
04:25She inherited the place to hoard
04:27Is that so?
04:28How, uh, how recently did they move in?
04:30About a week ago
04:31Ever see them?
04:32Sure
04:33They drive by here every day in an old-fashioned carriage drawn by a couple of swallowing horses
04:38Who drives them?
04:39An old man in an old-fashioned coachman's uniform
04:42You sure they're not all ghosts?
04:44Well, sure, I'm sure
04:45Well, Joe Digby on the corner there sells them groceries and things
04:48He says the coachman does all the ordering
04:51The girl and her aunt don't talk to nobody
04:53They're kind of snooty, Joe says
04:55Oh, that's very interesting
04:57I've got to get along
04:58Ghosts or no ghosts, a fellow's got to make a living
05:01Yeah, ain't that the truth?
05:03Well, so long, buddy, and stay away from haunted houses
05:23Well, uh, I was wondering if I could drive through the gates there
05:26And up to the manor house
05:27I'm, uh, camera-themed and I'd like to take some shots of the house in the ocean
05:31Ain't no one allowed on the grounds
05:33Owner's orders
05:35Oh
05:35Well, uh, you suppose if I phoned up to the house from your lodge there
05:39The owners would give me permission to take some pictures?
05:42Ain't got no phone
05:43Uh-huh, what are those, uh, wires running up the road there?
05:47Them, uh, why, them's electric light wires
05:50I see
05:51Well, thanks for the information
05:53Oh, excuse me, stranger
05:54My, my alarm clock's going off
05:57Must have said it wrong this morning
05:59Hello
06:12That you, Clubfoot?
06:14This is Blackie
06:15What's that?
06:17Some guy wanted to take pictures of the place
06:19Wasn't a harness wall, was it?
06:20Ah, all right
06:23Now, listen
06:23The girl got a message out to the Blue Beetle somehow
06:25The old man's lawyer saw it in the newspaper
06:28Be on the lookout for the Blue Beetle
06:30But the Spider-wise, too
06:31Okay
06:32Tomorrow, Spider's taking a suitcase of the queer over to Mackett Hastings
06:36When he takes the girl in the ran out for a drive
06:38Right
06:39Take care of things
06:41Goodbye
06:41Midnight
06:44Midnight
07:02I wonder if the Blue Beetle got my
07:04What's that noise?
07:08Oh
07:08Good evening
07:09Or should I say, good morning
07:11The Blue Beetle
07:12Yes, the Blue Beetle
07:13You sent for me
07:14Here I am
07:15Oh, I'm so glad
07:16I'm in such trouble
07:18And so frightened
07:18Will you help me?
07:20The Blue Beetle is always ready to help anyone in distress
07:22I didn't know what to do
07:24You were the only one I felt could help me
07:26I'm watched every minute
07:28This place is
07:29It's so spooky
07:30It terrifies me
07:31Then why do you stay here?
07:33I must
07:33By the terms of my late uncle's will
07:35I have to remain here until I'm 21
07:37In order to inherit the money that goes with this place
07:40Hmm, that's a strange condition to put in a will
07:43Who lives here with you?
07:44My maiden aunt
07:45Uncle Nathaniel's sister Abigail
07:47If you're watched the way you say you are
07:49How did you get the message in the Chronicle?
07:51Well, I wrote a note to the Chronicle
07:52Enclosed some money with it in a stamped envelope
07:54And addressed it
07:56And dropped it outside of Digby's grocery store yesterday
07:58Hoping that someone would find it and mail it
08:00Well, what goes on here?
08:02Why all the secrecy?
08:03Well, I don't know exactly
08:06But I've seen some of the strangest men around here
08:09I've heard the gatekeeper call our coachman Spider
08:12And I heard Spider call the gatekeeper Clubfoot
08:15Mr. Jasper, that's Uncle's lawyer
08:17Says that they're old retainers of Uncle Nathaniel's
08:20The others, he says, are workmen hired to fix the place
08:23But they seem to work only at night
08:25Hmm
08:27What's that?
08:28What's that music?
08:30That's one of the things that frightens me
08:31It's so ghostly
08:33It comes from the other wing of the house
08:35Have you ever been in that part of the house, Miss Greenhold?
08:38No
08:39Well, the door to that wing is locked
08:41And I'm not permitted to go there
08:42Mr. Jasper says that Uncle wanted that wing
08:45Kept sacred to memories of his only love
08:47A girl he met at a dance in the ballroom there
08:50One moonlit night
08:51She died the night they were to be married
08:53Hmm
08:54I'd like to get over there and make a little investigation
08:57Well, I can show you the iron door
08:59That leads to that wing of the house
09:01You'll find it's locked
09:02The Blue Beetle carries master keys to all locks
09:05Let's have a look
09:06Here you are
09:07Right through here
09:09Now down this passageway
09:13Here we are
09:17That's the door to the east wing
09:18Hmm
09:19Now we'll just try these keys
09:21Not that one
09:25Here's one that looks as if it might fit
09:27Uh-huh
09:29There we are
09:30Look
09:32Look there
09:34There are shadows of dancers on the wall
09:36But no sound of voices
09:38It's uncanny
09:41It must be
09:42Ghosts
09:43I've always wanted to meet a ghost
09:45You stay here
09:47I'd better lock this door after me
09:49Oh, no, please take me with you, Blue Beetle
09:50I'm afraid to be left alone here
09:52No, no, no
09:52You'll be safer in your part of the house
09:54I'll be back as soon as I have had a look around
09:57The Blue Beetle walks into the trap
10:03Down you go into the prison pit
10:07With the ghost of the departed pirate captain
10:10So you wanted to meet a ghost
10:13Well, you'll be plenty down there
10:15Blue Beetle
10:16Blue Beetle, what's happened to you?
10:18What's happened to the Blue Beetle?
10:20Oh, look, Blackie
10:33Suppose you let me handle this situation
10:35After all, I'm the attorney for old man Greenhold's estate
10:39And sole executive of the will
10:40But the girl, Jasper
10:41The girl
10:41She'll have the cops on her neck
10:43I can handle her
10:44But something's got to be done to keep her quiet
10:45After all, she got a message through to the Blue Beetle
10:47Oh, and he's lying at the bottom of the pit
10:49Where pirates used to throw their victim
10:51But is he dead?
10:52Oh, the chances are his neck's broken
10:54Thanks to the spider
10:55Suppose he ain't dead, or injured
10:56Well, he's securely locked in
10:58Double locks and an iron door
10:59Well, I'll feel better if I went out
11:01And had a look for myself
11:02Well, that's all right
11:03But do it undercover of darkness
11:05What about the girl?
11:06I'll fake a message from the Blue Beetle
11:08And see that she gets it
11:09She'll think he escaped and is coming back
11:11That'll keep her quiet for a few days
11:13Until you can move your plates and presses
11:15To some other location
11:16They've been there long enough
11:18The place is getting hot
11:19Someone's going to get wise to those phony ghosts
11:21And start investigating
11:22That's right
11:23But by the terms of Nathaniel Greenhold's will
11:26His niece Rosalie must live at the manor
11:28Until she's 21
11:29And if she don't
11:29Then the whole estate
11:30Including a fortune in stocks and bonds
11:32Goes to charity
11:33With you as executor of the estate
11:35It'll be slim pickings for charity
11:37I see we understand each other
11:39You've shared your counterfeiting profits with me
11:42I'll share the estate with you
11:44You get your counterfeiting equipment away from there
11:47And we'll put on a haunted house campaign
11:49That will scare Rosalie Greenhold
11:52And her old maid aunt
11:53Clear out of the estate
11:55Now just one key left to try
12:05None of the others will fit
12:07Ah, there
12:10That's got it
12:11Lucky I landed on my feet in this pit
12:14Now
12:15The Blue Beetle's free of his prison
12:18Hope no one heard me
12:20I'd like to catch whoever's running this show off guard
12:23There's a door
12:25I'll try that
12:26Hmm
12:31A stone stairway
12:33And a light at the top of it
12:35Well
12:36Here goes
12:37I think Black
12:43He's taking an awful chance
12:44Keeping this place's headquarters
12:46Yeah
12:46It was okay for turning out this kind of dough
12:49Until that dame came to live here
12:51Them dancers upstairs
12:52Throwing shatters on the windows
12:53Sure scared folks away from this place
12:55Here
12:57Pile these bills in the suitcase with the others
12:59Okay
13:00Well, I'll take it
13:02It's probably club for down the gate
13:03Hello
13:04Yeah, Spider's here
13:06Just a minute
13:07It's for you, Spider
13:08Yeah
13:09Hello
13:10What?
13:12Blackie says dismantle the press
13:14Yes, yes
13:16What?
13:17Good, yes, yes
13:18Okay
13:19Yes, I got you
13:21Huh?
13:22Deliver the fake do-re-mi
13:24To the laundry in Hastings
13:26When I take the girl and her aunt
13:28For a drive in the morning
13:29So that's how it's done
13:30Goodbye
13:31Well, the Blue Beetle will spoil that little game
13:34But first I'll have a look upstairs
13:37And see what makes the ghost dance
13:39Well, I took your aunt's place on the drive this morning
13:55Because I wanted to have a talk with you, Rosalie
13:57What about
13:58I don't think you'd trust me, my dear
14:01Why should I?
14:02I'm not permitted to have friends at the manor
14:04Nor to visit outside places alone
14:06Those were your uncle's orders, Rosalie
14:08After all, he wanted to protect you from fortune-hunting men
14:12And social parasites
14:13Who might take advantage of your trusting nature
14:16When you came into your fortune
14:18But what about all those strange goings-on at the manor?
14:22Wait, last night something terrible happened
14:24What about last night?
14:26What happened?
14:28I shouldn't have said anything
14:30Now, is there something you've been keeping from me, Rosalie?
14:33After all, your uncle trusted me
14:35Why shouldn't you?
14:37Well, last night
14:39The Blue Beetle
14:40The Blue Beetle?
14:41Why, now, that's very interesting
14:43Because I clipped this out of the paper this morning
14:46You may be the Rosalie this was addressed to
14:49Now, here, read it
14:50Rosalie
14:52Had strange experience last night with ghosts
14:55But am safe now
14:57Advise you leave manor as soon as possible
15:00Signed, The Blue Beetle
15:01Oh, I knew I was right
15:03That terrible place
15:05I won't stay there another night
15:06Oh
15:06Well, here we are at the laundry, Mr. Jasper
15:10Shall I take the bag of wash in, sir?
15:13Yes, I'll take it in
15:14But be sure to get a receipt, Spider
15:16Yes, sir
15:17Just a moment, sir
15:18I'd like to have a look at that bag
15:21Now, what's the idea of this?
15:22Who are you?
15:22I'm the sheriff of Eastchester County
15:24I've had a telephone call to be on the lookout for you folks
15:27Why, this is an outrage
15:28We're respectable citizens
15:30This young lady is the owner of Gray Craig's Manor
15:33And I'm, I'm her attorney
15:34Oh, well then you won't mind my looking into this suitcase
15:37To make sure it's full of dirty clothes and nothing
15:40Spider, spider, drive on
15:41We will not stand for this outrage
15:43Touch those horses and I'll touch this trigger
15:45Now, have a look in that suitcase
15:48Hmm, money
15:50Counterfeit
15:52The Blue Beetle was right
15:53The Blue Beetle?
15:54Yes, the Blue Beetle
15:55He phoned me an hour ago
15:57Mr. Jasper, what does this mean?
15:59Well, uh, why, somebody must have switched suitcases on himself
16:02This is a frame-up
16:03Oh, is that so?
16:05Well, I'd say you two are in a tough spot
16:07Oh, I, I demand to see a warrant, Sheriff
16:09I stand on my constitutional rights
16:12As a practicing attorney, my advice to you is
16:15As a practicing sheriff, my advice to you, Mr. Attorney, is
16:21Get a good lawyer
16:23Clubfoot's on the phone, Blackie
16:34Okay
16:34Hello?
16:37What?
16:38The ghosts are dancing up at Gray Craig's
16:40But it's only midday
16:41Where's Spider?
16:43All right, phone up to Slim and tell him to stop the dancers
16:45What?
16:47What's that?
16:48Slim doesn't answer
16:49Something's gone haywire
16:50You lock the gate and stand guard
16:52I'll be out there pronto
16:53Goodbye
16:53I wonder where Slim is
17:11I don't know
17:12Ain't nobody around
17:13Well, somebody shut off the mechanism of the dancing ghosts
17:15Yeah
17:16We better have our guests ready
17:17You follow me in, keep your eyes open
17:18Nobody here
17:30I don't see no one
17:31Something about this business don't smell right to me
17:34Look at that closet there
17:35Someone in behind him
17:37Easy now
17:37Look!
17:41Slim
17:42Bound and gagged
17:43I wonder who done this, Blackie
17:44The Blue Beetle
17:46The Blue Beetle
17:47Yes, the Blue Beetle
17:48Save your foot
17:50I'll take that gun, Blackie
17:52Oh, no, you won't, Blue Beetle
17:54Oh, yes, I will
17:55That takes care of Mr. Blackie
17:57Now, Mr. Clubfoot
17:59I hate to stalk a cripple
18:00But drop that gun or I'll
18:02Okay, Blue Beetle
18:03You win
18:04Now, that's better
18:05I'll just tie you up for safekeeping
18:08The police will need you
18:10What's wrong?
18:11The cops ain't got nothing on me
18:12Perhaps not
18:13But I'm sure they'll want you to demonstrate
18:15Those mechanical dancing dolls upstairs
18:17That threw ghostly shadows
18:19On the windows of the old ballroom
18:21Sorry I can't stay for the final curtain
18:25But I'll read about it in tomorrow's papers
18:27The Blue Beetle's job is done
18:29The dancing ghosts of Rocky Hills
18:32Will dance no more at Gray Craig's Manor
18:35And so another gang of criminals
18:50Was rounded up
18:51And brought to justice by the Blue Beetle
18:53But Officer Mannigan couldn't make the arrest
18:56Because of being laid up with poison ivy
18:58The moral of this story is
19:01Deception can never win for long
19:04Truth will always triumph in the end
19:06Also, as Officer Mannigan would say
19:09Stay away from poison ivy
19:11What new adventures await the Blue Beetle
19:14In his unceasing crusade against crime?
19:17This question will be answered
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