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unearths some literary gems.
From Sam Spade: The Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail Caper:
[I stumbled on a late-1940s radio incarnation of Sam Spade that's played for laughs. Here are some highlights from the first episode I checked out. (Transcript and audio links at bottom.)]***"Have you heard of pulling a rabbit out of a hat?""Yes.""Well, I pulled one out of a pickle."***Then he played all four of the Marx Brothers arguing with the Andrews Sisters.***"I don’t expect any trouble, but it is so valuable, I can’t take any chances. My husband picked it up in Iran. He’s in pickles, you know.""Well, you know best."***[At a costume party, where Spade is dressed as a bunny.]I brushed elbows with pirates, Northwest Mounted Police (un-mounted), a gorilla, an Arabian princess, four Pocahontas’s and assorted but historic characters from Julius Caesar to Mike Romanoff, and I was dipping a carrot into the punch bowl when a girl made her way over to me.***"When I came to this town, it was just an ordinary new pickle. Sometimes I come as Dill, sometimes I come as a Gherkin.""How jolly.""Once I came as a sweet-sour mixture.""Yeah.""And I got very confused.""Well, that’s up to you."***When I finally caught up with him ten minutes later, he was waltzing with Anne of Austria who was hanging on his every word and that was a lot of hanging.***https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Z4j0m0ZF4http://www.radioplayerswest.org/Scripts/Sam_Spade_FMC_Caper.pdf
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