David Armour, a member of an international art committee, wakes in a mission hospital in Fengyang, China, unable to recall the eight years since he was injured in Peiping. Mr. Chen urges him to leave Shanghai, and a woman named Etual claims to be his wife. Kento, a guerrilla leader, questions Armour about the stolen Tang bronzes, and Armour begins to piece together fragments of his past in occupied China. The episode is part of the Escape radio series and was broadcast on March 12, 1949, with Bill Conrad as David Armour and Barry Kroger as General Kinto.
Characters: David Armour, General Kinto, Etual, Mr. Chen, Doctor Feng Yang, Mr. Quinto
The transcript of “059- He Who Rides the Tiger”, an episode of Escape first broadcast March 12, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Escape plays Escape free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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You are lying helpless in a rude hut in the deep interior of China, not knowing how you got there or why. And before you you see the face of a beautiful girl, and the hard ruthless figure of a gorilla chieftain.
And you know that in this room there is danger for you. Perhaps death. We offer you escape. Transcribe to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure. Today we escape to China and the story of a man who lost his memory and almost his life.
As James Norman told it in his fascinating story, he who rides the tiger. The figures and faces would come and go. Sometimes I seem to be floating along with them through endless space, but more often I I could feel myself lying on a hard bed and watching, not moving with sick and fevered
eyes. There was a big man with brown skin and close cropped hair and an older man with a white coat. But best of all was the girl, a beautiful girl. Usually, her face would dissolve into a great lotus flower that would hang for a moment in the air and then float slowly beyond reach of my thoughts and disappear.
Part of this was a dream, of course, and part of reality, but I was unable to separate one from the other. Along it went on, it's impossible for me to say I had no sense of the passage of time.
One morning, though, I opened my eyes and looked at the bare walls of the room, the white-haired The man sitting by my cart, the other man sitting a few feet away, smoking a cigarette. And then I knew that the dreams had gone away and would not come back.
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Adrian too was a very beautiful woman. Escape is produced and directed by Norman Mcdonald. Today we have presented Transcribe, He Who Rides the Tiger by James Norman, Adapted for Radio by Les Crutchfield, With Editorial Supervision by John Dunkel.
Start as David Armor with Bill Conrad, With Barry Kroger as General Kinto. Featured in the cast where Maria Palmer, Jack Crucian, Ben Wright, and Edgar Barrier. Escape has come to you through the worldwide facilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
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