Your local Kaiser Fraser dealer, the man who brings you America's outstanding cars, the
beautiful Kaiser and the thrifty new Henry J. present the Adventures of Ellery Queen.
The Adventures of Ellery Queen.
Good evening everyone, this is Rex Marshall welcoming you on behalf of the nearly 3,000
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And now for tonight's adventure of Ellery Queen.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Perhaps you recognize the bronze piano concerto.
You may be interested in knowing that it once caused a murder.
It all began at a birthday party given by the conductor, Anton Rousseau, for his wife.
His attractive protege was playing when we arrived.
Bravo!
Good evening, Tony.
Well, doctor, we thought you weren't coming.
Sorry I'm late.
I hope you don't mind, Tony.
I brought a friend with me.
Fine.
Mrs. Ellery Queen, Anton Rousseau.
How do you do, Mr. Soll.
And Mrs. Rousseau.
How do you do, Mrs. Soll.
Happy birthday, my dear.
Well, it was nice of you to come.
May I introduce to you Miss Grove and Mr. Fairchild?
Fairchild, I'm sorry we missed your playing, Miss Grove.
Thank you.
Won't you help yourself to a drink, Miss Queen?
Oh, thank you.
May I?
Yes, indeed.
How did you like it, Henry?
Miss Grove plays very well.
Well, we were to do the Brahms next week, but since Sir Whitson's ill, I want you to let
Anita play it.
It'll be her debut.
Henry is a businessman.
Why don't you ask me what I...
Oh, yes, Mrs. Rousseau, was I all right?
I hope you'll forgive me, my dear, but you're not ready to appear in concert.
Well, that's not quite true, Martha.
But I can play so much better than I did just now.
We'll let Henry cast the deciding vote.
Henry will vote the way you tell him to.
You've already made up your mind to let her play.
Now, Martha.
Why not be honest, Anton?
You only gave this party for me to catch up to today and audition with him.
As if a board chairman could pick a soloist.
Martha, don't excite yourself.
You know about your heart.
She's not ready and you know it.
You think anyone believes that it's her talent you care about?
Martha, Artie has tired her out, Tony.
She needs rest.
Rest?
How can I rest when I know what's going on behind my back?
Let me take you to your room, Martha.
I'm awfully sorry.
She's just not well.
I do hope you'll forgive her.
Please, you mustn't blame her.
She's in constant pain.
It isn't her fault.
I understand.
Now, if you'll excuse me.
I'm sorry, Your Honor.
Don't be upset, Miss Grove.
It's not me.
I don't care what happens to me.
It's what she does to him.
To whom?
Her husband.
Mr. Queen, promise you won't let him know I told you.
He wouldn't even let me tell the doctor, but I've got to talk to somebody.
What is it?
She's not sane.
Someday she's going to kill him.
Aren't you being a little melodramatic?
You haven't seen her.
The spell of rage.
Last week she threw this at him.
Might have killed him.
Very easily.
I know it's not her fault.
Ten years of constant pain could unhinder her mind, but now it's a question of his safety.
Mr. Queen has got to help.
What can I do?
I heard your father's with the police.
Can't they have a committee?
Not without her husband's consent.
He never admits to it, and she was violent.
Suppose the next time it's worse.
I tell you his life is in danger.
Don't cry, Miss Grove.
I said before, I don't think I can help.
But at least you should try.
I feel so much better about it.
Will you tell Dr. Fleming I didn't wait?
Good night, Miss Grove.
This is my first vacation in five years, Martha.
So behave yourself till I get back.
Here's my address on the cape, Tony, if you need me.
I'll be back in ten days.
Fine, thank you.
Have a nice time.
I will.
Goodbye.
Bye.
There you are, my dear.
Evening, Senator.
To keep me quiet.
Next time I'll beat you.
I suppose I should be used to you bringing good-looking girls here.
Secretaries and nurses.
This one's different, Anton.
She frightens me.
What do you mean?
She has no heart.
You can hear it in her music.
She'll claw her way to the top just the same.
She'll use you and the hundred men after you to get there.
Well, my dear, if you feel that strongly about it, we'll cancel the concerto.
I'll go and tell her.
No, no.
Not just the theater.
Send her away for good, Anton.
Get her out of our lives.
All right.
All right.
All right.
How is he?
Our fight is just horribly painful, Anita.
We'll have to forgive her.
He looks so worn out.
Poor Tony.
Poor everybody.
We won't talk about it anymore.
Tell me about Mr. Chertchard.
Was he pleased?
You look like a frightened spaniel.
Tell me, Anita, how old are you?
Heifetz made his debut at 10.
Heifetz was ready.
You're not going to let me play?
Oh, now don't look so stricken.
You have years of concerts ahead of you.
It's all right.
Now, darling.
I'm sorry.
Oh, Tony, don't look so unhappy.
It makes me want to take your head in my arms and just...
Anita, you mustn't come here again.
I can't even see you.
You mean I'll never see you?
Martha has so little.
Tony.
I see.
Will you kiss me goodbye?
Anton?
Anton, where are you?
I have to go into it.
Goodbye, my dear.
Excuse me, Miss Grove.
Well, that's settled.
You're not going to fight tonight with that cold.
It's not a regular cold.
It's just a tickle.
Just what?
You wouldn't think I looked after my own cold while he was in rompers, now would you, Miss Grove?
I know how he feels.
I know what it means to worry about someone you love.
Oh, yes.
I'm sorry I can't help you about Mrs. Roselle.
As I told Ellery, there's nothing the police can do.
I wasn't going to show you this.
But promise me you won't tell Mr. Roselle.
He doesn't know about it.
What is it?
An antique dagger.
Used to hang on the living room wall.
The other night after you left, I went in to say goodnight to Mrs. Roselle.
She was asleep.
I saw that sticking out from under a pillow.
Bad business.
You better leave it here, Miss Grove.
When Dr. Fleming returns, I'll warn him to keep things like this away from her.
You mean you still can't do anything about it?
No, I can't.
But do come and visit us again.
We're always happy to see you, pretty girl.
I won't be here.
I'm going back home tonight to Chicago.
Oh, what about your music?
I have to get away.
If she killed him on my account, I...
I think you're needlessly alarmed, Miss Grove.
And good luck on your trip home.
I'm going over now to say goodbye to him.
Please promise you won't let him know I was here.
And thank you both for seeing me.
Good night.
It was a pleasure.
Okay, now take your choice.
Either you're going to go into bed peaceably or so help me, I'll carry you.
But it's not a regular cold, it's just a tickle.
What are you doing here?
The maid was going to the store when she let me in.
She'll be right back.
My husband's not here. He's rehearsing.
I know.
I came to say goodbye to you.
I'm going home tonight.
Back to Chicago?
Yes.
I want to thank you for telling me the truth.
I'm not good enough for the concert stage.
I'm sorry I was so cruel, but I can't lie about music.
And I'd rather be hurt a little now than spend the rest of my life finding out I couldn't make the grade.
You're being very sensible.
Would you say goodbye to me?
You're so selfish.
Anything the matter?
I'm feeling a bit lightheaded.
Sit down a moment.
I wonder if I might have some brandy.
Why, of course.
Over there in the bar.
Thank you.
Do you see where it is?
Yes, thanks.
I'm afraid giving up my work has been a bit of a blow to me.
I know what you feel.
I'm sure you do.
Let's drink to whoever does play that duketta next week.
After your trip, my dear.
I feel all right now.
I won't keep you.
Oh, what's the celebration?
Hello, dear.
Hello, my dear.
You're early.
How are you?
Miss Groves stopped in to say goodbye.
She's going back to Chicago tonight.
Oh.
We'll miss her.
My husband knows that sick people get nervous and sometimes twisted inside.
I'm sorry about the other evening.
Please, I understand.
I feel a little tired.
I think I'll go and rest.
Oh, no, please don't, Father Anton.
I know you'll want to say goodbye to Miss Groves.
You're really going?
There's nothing to stay for.
Without you.
Anita, you're young.
You'll forget it.
Do you know what I'll be doing next week on the night we thought I'd be playing the Browns with you?
No, what?
Playing it.
The same theme I played at the auditions the day I met you.
That throat is red as a lobster.
He'll stay in the house the rest of the week, you understand?
I was gone ten minutes and came back and found a note saying he'd gone to the fight.
What brought you back to town four days early?
Mrs. Roussel only wired me when she died.
Oh, yes, we read about it this morning.
What was it?
Her heart.
I warned her, but it sometimes happens with that type of arthritis.
Just when you're on the verge of a cure, the heart gives out.
On the verge of a cure?
But it had already affected her mind.
Thanks.
We gave you that idea.
Her mind was as good as yours.
Arthritis attacks the joints, not the brain cells.
I told you she was dramatizing that situation, Dad.
Who?
Miss Groves, Roussel's protege.
She came to us and said that Mrs. Roussel was insane.
Said that she once threw a paperweight at her husband.
Martha?
She couldn't throw a feather.
For the past three years, she hasn't been able to lift her arm above the elbow.
What?
Doc, are you sure it was her heart?
Yes, she did have a heart condition.
Do you recognize this?
Looks like Tony Roussel's Italian dagger.
Yeah, it is.
Do you remember where he kept it?
On the wall in the living room.
Why?
Well, Mrs. Roussel took it down and had it under her pillow.
Are you crazy?
That's what I thought.
You mean she couldn't have a dagger high up on a wall?
Ridiculous.
Well, Miss Groves said she found it under Mrs. Roussel's pillow.
Said that she meant to kill her husband.
She even talked to us about having the woman committed.
This girl sounds like a psychotic.
One of our poisons which could give the appearance of heart failure.
There are a couple.
Then I suggest, Doctor, you perform an autopsy.
Perhaps that's better.
I'll check with you later.
Good night, Doctor.
Good night.
So long, Doc.
You know, it's hard to believe, Ellery.
She looked so sweet and pleasant.
She's sort of Lucretia Borgia.
Can't stay, Tony.
I've got to break clean.
Just give it up.
You mean your music?
Yes.
Your wife is right.
I have no talent.
That's not true.
I wanted you to play it.
Yet you can't do the just thing.
Don't lie to me, Tony.
I'll prove to you I'm not lying.
You play the Brahms next week.
No, you don't mean that.
Next week is official.
Oh, Tony.
My dear, you have lots of work to do between now and then.
I will, darling.
Excuse me.
The maid told me to come in.
How do you do, Mr. Queen?
Mr. Rousseau, I'm awfully sorry to hear about your wife.
And I'm afraid I have some upsetting news.
What is it?
Do you know if your wife had anything to eat or drink just
before she died?
Well, I don't think so.
I had just come in.
Yes.
Oh, she and I were having a drink together.
Oh, yes.
I remember.
I felt a bit lightheaded.
She gave me some brandy.
She wanted to drink with me to my trip.
Yes.
Why do you ask?
The brandy was poisoned.
What?
Dr. Fleming performed an autopsy.
Your wife died from an overdose of morphine.
No.
You mean she killed herself?
Oh, no.
Oh, I could have stopped her.
I know I could if you'd given any signs.
Dr. Fleming was sure he could cure her.
She wouldn't believe him.
I should have made her believe it.
Oh, darling, you've got to blame yourself.
It was my fault.
No, no, my dear.
Your wife was a very strong-minded woman, Mr. Roosevelt.
She wasn't the kind who would commit suicide.
Was she?
I believe I've been afraid of her for years.
Mr. Queen, would you mind leaving us now?
Alone.
Oh, darling, you won't be alone.
I'll never leave you now.
Hi, Rex Marshall again.
You know, I think I'd kind of rather be alone
than spend any time without Anita.
Nice young lady to avoid.
But right now, I'd like to introduce you
to a couple of young ladies I know you'd like to meet.
Doesn't that make a pretty picture, though?
The only trouble is, there's something missing from that picture.
Say, I know what it is.
It's me.
Excuse me, Jones.
I invited these two beautiful young ladies down here
this evening to help me show you something special
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Nice, isn't it?
You see, there's plenty of room to spare
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Say, speaking of extra value, I want to remind you
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So don't wait, will you?
Visit your Kaiser-Fraser dealer tomorrow for sure.
And now, back to Ellery Queen.
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What are you doing, Mr. Queen?
Oh, I'm waiting for Mr. Roussel.
I read in the papers that you're making your debut this evening.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
I've been trying to work out a problem.
Maybe, uh, maybe you can help me.
I'd love to.
It's about that brandy that you and Mrs. Roussel drank
the day she died.
You said she got it for you.
She gave it to me, yes.
Did she go to the bar and get it?
Oh, I see what you mean.
She couldn't have, could she?
Yes, you see, it seems Mrs. Roussel didn't kill herself.
She couldn't have.
You mean she was...
Murdered.
But who would do such a thing?
Well, who was in the room with her?
Who got the brandy?
I don't know.
There wasn't anyone here, except the three of us.
The three of you?
Mr. and Mrs. Roussel and me.
But Mr. Roussel said that you and his wife were drinking
when he came in.
What are you trying to say?
It's not true.
I won't listen to you.
What is true, Miss Crowe?
He loved her.
He couldn't do such a thing.
Well, now, wait a minute.
She was his wife.
No matter how sick she was or how much he was in love with me,
he couldn't have done it.
Are you trying to say Roussel killed her?
No.
Nobody killed her.
She committed suicide.
She put the poison in her own drink after it was handed to her,
and you can't prove she didn't.
I don't feel too sure of that, Miss Crowe.
Mr. Queen, I have a concert to give in an hour.
Will you tell me, please, why I was called here
and where all this conversation is leading?
Yes, leading to the fact that your wife didn't kill herself.
She was murdered.
Who would want to kill my wife?
How dare you say such a thing?
If she didn't pour that brandy, she couldn't have.
I don't care who poured it.
I wasn't even in the room.
Well, Miss Crowe said you were.
She even suggested that you hand it to your wife by glass.
Why, I don't believe it.
She couldn't have said that.
Well, you'll see her in a little while at the concert.
Ask her.
I certainly intend to.
Excuse me.
Well, looks as if your plan is working, son.
Well, I think Roussel will deliver.
The only way we can handle it is by suppression.
Well, Dad, did you call Sergeant Doyle?
Yes, his men are over there now setting up the equipment.
Good.
You know you're doing a dangerous thing, Ellery.
You're playing with people's lives.
Dad, there may be another murder.
I'm trying to save a life before it's too late.
Better hurry, Miss Crowe.
We open the house in a few minutes.
I'll be through testing in a moment.
Oh, Mr. Saget.
I wanted to see you.
I wanted to thank you.
You don't know what this chance means to me.
Oh, not at all, my dear.
Have you seen Tony?
No, I went to his dressing room to put my raft there,
but he hadn't come in yet.
Well, if you've seen him, tell him Ellery Queen
is waiting in his dressing room.
Ellery Queen in his dressing room?
Will you excuse me?
Thank you again for my chance.
What is it?
Already, Mr. Roussel?
No, no, not for five minutes.
Is Mr. Queen here?
Henry said he was here.
Yes.
Come in, Anita.
Close the door, please.
You think you ought to do that?
My hands are like ice.
I've never been so nervous.
Anita, the day my wife died, did you pour the brandy for her?
I don't know.
It was such an awful day.
Everything's all mixed up in my mind.
I saw Mr. Queen earlier today.
Why did you tell him that I was there?
That you, that I poured it?
Answer me.
I don't remember who was there.
What difference does it make?
They claim my wife could not have killed herself.
She was murdered.
Are you accusing me, Tony?
I have to know the truth.
Yes, Tony.
I killed her for our sake, yours and mine.
Do you know what you're saying?
I freed her from pain and set us free, too.
We have a whole life together.
No.
Oh, but we have.
They can't prove anything.
If we both tell them it was suicide,
they'll have to drop the whole thing.
You're mad.
You need a doctor, Anita.
You're sick.
Terribly sick.
How is it?
We're late for the room, sir.
All right, just a minute, please.
No use, Anita.
I'm going to the police.
It means the end of my life.
You know that.
Can't you let me have this one half hour out there?
So that's all that matters.
That's all that ever matters.
All right, go ahead.
Play.
And just at the moment of your applause,
you lose the one thing you love most.
Miss Rose, on stage, please.
Miss Rose, on stage, please.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
She'll come around in a minute.
They announced a change of program.
They say they're waiting for you, Mr. Roussel.
Tell them I'm ill.
Tell them anything.
Well, there are 2,000 people out there, Mr. Roussel,
who have come to hear your orchestra.
Very well.
I'm getting out of it.
Well, oh, doctor, I've been poisoned.
Morphine and metronid.
Tony did it.
He killed his wife, and I found out.
He poisoned me to keep me from telling.
And brought the morphine here in your handbag?
What?
You haven't been poisoned.
You collapsed in fright and shock.
I came in here and substituted a harmless powder for the morphine.
You can't prove anything.
I'll swear Tony killed his wife.
Any jury will believe me.
Not when they hear your recorded confession.
Come on, now.
You're a sick girl.
Nobody's going to hurt you.
Come on.
I can't leave now.
My debut.
I'm playing the Brahms.
I'm sorry, my dear, but your debut is over.
Come on.
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Good night.
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