Episode #5: President’s Day Special!
In this episode of “Dimestore Revelations,” we discuss the impending Pledge Drive, some more details about “The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen,” and then a little bit about “Dimension X,” too.
| Artist | Track | Album | Label |
| Box 13 | “Extra, Extra” | 19 September 1948 | Mayfair Productions |
| Dan Holiday is struggling to finish a story again, when Suzy returns with mail from Box 13, along with the author of this week’s postcard, Johnny Moran, who sells newspapers on the corner. Johnny takes Dan to the malt shop, where Johnny explains that his father, John Moran, has been held because they think he is involved in a jewelry robbery, after going to the Jeweler on behalf of his Neighbor Mrs. Grace Fuller, where police found half the loot from the robbery in his apartment. The DA says that the case is solid against John, and suggests both Dan and Johnny give up on the case. That night, Johnny calls Dan to explain that someone had broken into Johnny’s apartment, then hung up. Dan shows up to find Johnny gone. Dan talks to a neighbor, Grace Fuller, and accepts coffee from her. While they talk, and the coffee is drugged, which knocks Dan unconscious.
Dan wakes up in an alley, after which the DA believes that Grace Fuller is now a suspect. Dan is about to go and talk to Johnny, only to discover that he’s been injured in a hit and run, and is now in the hospital. Dan visits him, but Johnny isn’t very helpful in his condition. Dan visits the woman who manages the rooms that the Morans and Grace Fuller lived in, to discover another person rented a room from her: Joe Cokley. Dan finds a ticket for a dance club in Joe’s old room, and visits the club, and finds Joe and Grace Fuller leaving the club, so he follows them to their hideout. Joe and Grace spill the beans after Dan gets them to fight, and the DA is outside, listening to the whole thing. They release John Moran, and Johnny comes to pay Dan and offer to take him out for another drink, but Suzy makes Dan stay and write instead. |
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| Earl Hines | Boogie Woogie On St. Louis Blues [Excerpt] | ||
| The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen | “Lily in the Chimoipo Bar” | 31 July 1947 | Mutual |
| The Scarlet Queen requires some minor repairs that they couldn’t finish in Kobe, so they enter the Jinsen Harbor in Korea, unscheduled, hoping to avoid the usual drama of Kang and Constantino. Phil decides to go into the city, and finds The Chimoipo Bar, where he is charmed by the proprietor, Lily Swain. She tried to talk Phil into carrying a cargo of Ginseng to Tientsin, China, where it could be sold for an incredible profit. Lily introduces her beautiful daughter, Alice, who immediately starts trying to seduce Phil. Alice explains that she’s not really Lily’s daughter, and that the Ginseng is stolen, and there are people in town trying to recover the Ginseng. Alice suggests Phil should hold out for an extra $1000, and remember it was Alice that gave him the help. Alice says she’ll meet up with Phil later, and leaves when Lily returns with Ray, her partner, and paperwork for Phil to sign, outlining the contract for selling the Ginseng. Phil follows Alice’s advice, and Lily admits that she is desperate, and will offer more if that’s what it’ll take. Phil takes the job, and loads the cargo.
When the cargo is loaded, Alice arrives and explains that someone game and murdered Lily and another employee. It turns out Ray is alive, but drunk. Phil brings Ray to the Queen. As they are getting ready to leave, and local swims up on the boat, as if they were about to board. Gallagher kills him, and set sail. After they are quite a way away from Jinsen, Alice begins to seduce Phil again. The next day, as they are sailing, they ship’s sails fall to the deck, and the rudder breaks. The local who swam up to the boat must have done more sabotage than anyone thought. Alice reveals that Lily had planned to double cross Phil: by taking out insurance on the shipment, and loading Phil with any old root and left rudderless at sea, Lily could collect insurance and still the Ginseng again, making more money. Alice says she was able to get the real Ginseng on board, but couldn’t stop the Pirates who were on the way. The pirates arrive, and says that they are coming aboard. Gallagher shoots, and they get into a firefight. The currents are in favor of the pirates, so Phil starts the motor, hoping that it would give them the edge to get out of range of this other ship, and it does. Alice claims that Ray died in the firefight, but Phil deduces that Alice killed him, and Lily, and was hoping Phil would still join her. Phil gets his crew to get the ship together enough to sail to Tientsin, where they would need some serious repairs. Gallagher and Phil try to decide what to do with Alice, the body of Ray, and the Ginseng, and come up with two options that both make them money and ditch Alice. They decide to flip a coin over drinks until they like the outcome of the flips, or until the get to the next destination. |
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| Music behind DJ:
Earl Hines |
Boogie Woogie On St. Louis Blues | ||
| Chandu The Magician | “The Rug Shop” | 2 July 1948 | Mutual–Don Lee Network |
| Dot, Betty & Bob find themselves in a room above a rug shop, and when they turn to talk to the new shopkeeper, they find that Chandu has followed them up the stairs. As they are discussing things, someone comes in who is on Chandu’s side, a man named Joseph, who was the man following Chandu. Joseph reveals a secret way out, and tells Chandu that The Princess is in Cairo, and that the shop keeper has killed Ben Ali, Chandu’s contact in Alexandria. Joseph suggests that everyone should dress in local clothes, so they are not easily found. Joseph leaves, and Chandu, Dot, Betty and Bob leave via the secret door to the street. Betty sees two men following them, and alerts Dot and Chandu to this. They hide and in an alley and split up the group so they can hide from the men better, and get to the mosque to meet up with Joseph again. But when they arrive at the mosque, Dot is missing. | |||
| Dimension X | “Knock” | 6 May 1950 | NBC Radio |
| Walter Falen wakes up to find itself alone in a room, when an alien – a Zan – knocks, then enters the room. The Zans have conquered Earth, and have murdered most other people and animals, to make the planet habitable for Zans. There are now samples of most of the animals, all living in a zoo, exhibiting examples of the local life on the planet the Zans now manage. The Zans are confused by the animals in the zoo die of old age. Walter explains that animals and people on Earth have to deal with the Grim Reaper, and The Zans – who live thousands and thousands of years – only deal with death when someone is killed.
Walter is moved to the room of Grace Evans, the only two humans in the zoo. Walter is sort of fatalistic, since he lost his wife two years ago. The Zan suddenly decide, after careful consideration, that Walter must be killing them, and not the Grim Reaper. The Zan threaten Walter if he doesn’t stop killing the animals. Grace wants Walter to fight against the Zan, somehow, by pretending that maybe Walter does know how the animals are dying, but won’t give up the secret. The Zan torture Walter, and when the Zan threaten to torture Grace, Walter has a new idea for how to trick the Zan, and suggests he should show the Zan how to take care of the animals better. When Walter is returned to Grace, he looks visibly hurt. But the Zan come in, explaining that a Zan is now dead, and that they must leave, because the Grim Reaper will come for the Zan if hey don’t. Walter explains that he told the Zan that to keep the animals from dying you must pet them. Then he suggested that the Zan should pet the poisonous snakes. Once the Zan have left, Walther and Grace are left alone to do whatever they want. Grace gets mad and leaves, then comes back later to knock on the door, and live with Walter in his room. |
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