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The Magic Detective, starring the world's greatest living magician, Blackstone.
It tells you the inside story of the message from nowhere.
And right after the story, Blackstone will explain tricks that you yourself can perform.
Reveal the guarded secrets of the world's greatest living magician.
Now stand by for Blackstone, the Magic Detective.
Tell me, Rhoda, what's that kid's slate doing among all Blackstone's magic equipment?
Looks sort of out of place, somehow.
That's not just a kid's slate, Don.
It has great powers.
Through it, spirits from the outer darkness can converse to us mere mortals.
What are you talking about?
Words from the other worlds come to us by that slate, Don Hancock.
I put it on that easel over there and I'll show you.
Say, hadn't we better wait for Blackstone before we do the trick?
This isn't a trick, Don.
This is the voice of the spirits.
All right.
Here's the slate on the easel.
I bet there's flops.
Lumpo, jumbo, abracadabra, right, right, oh ye spirits.
Now turn the slate over.
Why it says, happy birthday to Don.
Is it your birthday, Don?
Yes, Blackstone, that's the funny part about it.
Well, I see Rhoda has been communing with the spirits.
Well, how on earth would the spirits know that it's my birthday?
The spirits know everything.
Hey, I remember now.
Rhoda, I told you that today was my birthday and somehow you wrote it on the slate.
Why, Don Hancock, you heard me calling to the spirits with your own ears.
Oh, it's all right, Rhoda.
It's a swell trick and I would have been completely baffled.
But I remember telling you about my birthday.
Do you remember the last time you did some special writing on the slate, Rhoda?
Oh, I'll never forget it.
You think there's a story in this?
Me thinks you think right and quite a story.
I was out in Hollywood making a picture when it all started.
Rhoda and I arrived one morning to find everyone on the set to start.
Nobody's doing anything, Blackstone.
Look at all those people huddled together over their talking.
We're supposed to start rehearsing in a few minutes and nobody's working at all.
Yes, I wonder what's the matter?
Blackstone, I'm so glad to see you.
Alicia Wingate, movie star.
Well, well, it's been a long time since you worked with me, Alicia.
Oh, don't tell anyone how long Blackstone.
I'm supposed to be just twenty-three.
Oh, this is Rhoda Brandt, Alicia.
She's taken your place in the act.
How do you do it?
Hello.
When I see your pictures, I just can't imagine that you were the girl that Blackstone cut in half.
Sometimes I find it sort of hard to remember myself.
Alicia, what's the matter this morning?
No one seems to be doing any work.
The set isn't ready for the act.
Haven't you heard?
Heard what?
About baby Lou.
The child star?
Yes.
Stephen Phillips, the producer, got another of those dreadful letters this morning.
What dreadful letters?
A kidnap phrase.
Oh, just some crank, probably.
No, they don't seem to think so.
Baby Lou was sent away last week.
Phillips himself sent her to keep her hidden until I can track this down.
Everyone is prantic.
Oh, here's Stephen now.
Hello, Steve.
Anymore news?
Not since the letter this morning.
Oh, Steve, it's dreadful that poor baby.
I know. She's such a sweet child.
Everybody outdoorser.
Steve, is the studio going to pay?
Hey, you mean she's been kidnapped already?
No, but the letter said that if $50,000
isn't sent to some address by noon today, she would be.
Well, the studio's going to do it, aren't they?
No.
You see, the higher-ups feel that as long as she hasn't been actually kidnapped, there's no need to pay.
How dreadful.
Oh, I've argued and pleaded, but they won't listen.
I can't move them.
But they sent Baby Lou away to keep her safe.
I did that myself on my own initiative.
It's lucky she was between pictures, or they would have been the devil to pay.
I don't know why, but I feel those letters mean business.
So do I, Steve.
Well, I've done everything I can.
If the kid were my own, I couldn't be crazier about it.
We've just got to hope that's all.
I've got her hidden, so no one knows where she is.
That's the best I can do.
Well, we better get to work.
Hey, Bill, get those lights set.
You, Joe, at the camera ready?
Places, everybody.
Wait.
I wish I could get this thing out of my mind.
I won't be able to act for sour apples.
Well, come on, Blackstone.
It's going to be fun having you saw me in half after all these years.
Oh, Rhoda, I forgot the magic slate.
Would you mind running out to the dressing room and getting it for me?
OK, be back in a minute.
I need you.
You take over the rehearsal, will you?
If anything comes up, you can reach me at home.
We're under the sun to the boss.
Leave that slate.
It should be right here.
Oh, there it is, right in the desk.
I'll take it out to Blackstone.
Hello, right?
We've got a snitch, the kid after all.
The company won't pull me up the door just
on those threatening letters.
The kid that I heard.
The kid's out of my place at San Joaquin.
I've told the nurse to bring her into town on the 1143 train.
We'll grab her at the station in Los Angeles.
Oh, who is it?
I can't seem to recognize the voice.
Yeah, I'll be there.
I doubt the nurse would get into a strange car.
Just open the door and see you.
We'll settle with the nurse when we get to the hideout.
Don't worry.
You won't talk after we get through with her.
Mary Day, you killed the nurse and me too if he spots me.
OK.
See you at the station, remember?
How long?
Oh, I don't know, but the door before it gets away.
Who's there?
Who's there?
I'm out from behind that door.
Well, if you won't talk, I'll break your ass.
Sprint.
Hello.
What are you doing here?
Nothing.
Well, that is Blackstone asked me the equipment for the act.
I mean, I was just walking by and...
Man, you overheard that phone conversation.
Me?
Oh, no.
I'm just a little deaf.
That is very deaf.
I mean...
You mean you heard everywhere I said?
Come on.
I'm taking you with me.
I'll get moving.
You can't do that.
Blackstone will expect me to be here.
And if I don't show up...
You're right, Mr. Blackstone.
A little note saying you had a headache and went home.
I won't write it.
I think you will.
I won't write the note, all right.
I'll come on back in the Blackstone's dressing room.
That's it.
I'll sit down at that desk and write what I tell you.
Dear Mr. Blackstone, I have a bad headache, so I am going.
I am going back to the hotel.
See you tonight in Silveroda.
That's funny.
She seemed all right this morning.
Ready, Mr. Blackstone?
As soon as I get to sleep.
Oh, there comes the boy with it now.
Thank you, son.
And now I'm ready.
Pleasure, everybody.
Light, camera, action.
You will now see the spirits writing on the slate.
Will you pick a card?
I have one.
Look at it without letting me see it.
Now, when I say the word, look at that slate over there
on the easel.
The name of the card you've chosen will be written there.
Look at the slate.
But there's nothing written here.
Turn the slate over.
What does it say?
Does it give the name of your card?
No.
No, it doesn't.
The trick didn't work, Blackstone.
Huh?
What's going on there?
What's the idea?
Well, look.
The message here says kidnappers, Los Angeles Station 1143.
It's road is writing.
Quick call the police.
Have them eat that train.
Hurry.
There they are.
There's Baby Lou getting into that car.
Stop them.
They have them, the police are here.
The road is in that car.
And Steve Phillips.
They've got them.
The baby's safe.
And so is Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
Roda.
You mean that Steve and Phillips, the producer, was the kidnapper?
That's right, Don.
He cooked up this plan to raise a great deal of money that he needed badly.
He figured that no one would suspect him.
And he had the baby all the time.
He knew where she was.
He never really thought he'd have to actually kidnapper.
He thought the movie company would pay off on the threats.
Rotor hadn't overheard him.
Or if you hadn't been in magician, so I could leave a message for you.
How did you leave that message, Rotor?
I scratched it on the magic plate with a fingernail of my left hand
while I was writing the note to Blackstone with my right.
And so another mystery was solved by magic.
And now for a trick with some cigarettes, Don.
Do you have those pecs, handy, Rotor?
Yeah. Here they are. Five of them.
How many cigarettes do you want?
One from each pack.
Or by the way, Don, is your favorite brand among them?
Oh, yes, there it is. Seven stars.
What a name for a cigarette.
Well, anyway, we'll use it.
Now, watch exactly what I do.
I'm watching.
Well, I pick up one cigarette, show it, and drop it in this hat.
OK, that's fair enough.
And then another? And then another?
There goes the seven stars.
Just like the rest of them.
A fourth and a fifth.
Well, they're all in the hat. Is the trick over?
No, it's just beginning.
We let Rotor shake the hat to mix the cigarettes.
All right, Don. If you know your own brand so well,
you ought to be able to reach the hat and pick it right up.
You mean without a chance to smoke it?
That's right.
By magnetism, nothing more.
All that's impossible.
All the cigarettes for the same size, none have quirk tips.
And Rotor shaking them in the hat.
Well, it's enough, Rotor.
Just hold the hat high so I can't see into it.
Want me to pick out your favorite brand, Don?
What would be real magic if you could?
What do you mean, cool?
Look, I reach into the hat and feel your cigarette.
And here it is.
Don't tell me that's a seven star.
We'll have a look at the name on it, Don.
You'll see I'm right.
Say, it is a seven star.
Then smoke it after you finish your next announcement.
Ah, wait a moment. You don't get all that easy.
How did you happen to pick my brand?
If you can't guess how it done, blackstone
will tell you after you finish the announcement.
Oh, blackstone, what about the cigarette drink?
Finding the brand?
It was easy.
Look, I'll show you.
Oh, here's five fresh cigarettes for the drink.
All right.
I pick up the first cigarette and show it.
And I drop it into the hat.
You notice anything?
I know.
While I was showing the cigarette, I held it in the center.
Yes, I noticed that much.
And I rolled it back and forth between my thumb and fingers like this.
You didn't notice that quite, did you, Don?
Well, no.
So natural.
When I came to your brand, Don, I pressed hard when I rolled it.
I'll do it slowly.
Like this.
Say, you're practically flattening the middle of that cigarette.
Not quite, Don.
It's just softening it.
And that's enough.
And I'll handle the rest of them more gently.
Now compare them, Don.
Why, the cigarette you pressed is all spongy in the middle.
And the others are firm.
Fighters are rough, almost.
Well, that's the answer, Don.
When you reach in the hat, just find the one you saw.
And it'll be the brand you want.
And that's how it's done.
I hope you like that trick, ladies and gentlemen.
And until next time, this is blackstone saying good magic and goodbye.
They were this next time when the world's greatest living magician, blackstone, tells us the
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