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The Glass Key

The Campbell Playhouse · March 10, 1939 · 59 min · 8,869 words

The transcript of “The Glass Key”, an episode of The Campbell Playhouse first broadcast March 10, 1939. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Orson Welles on the Air plays The Campbell Playhouse free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The makers of Campbell's Sups presents the Campbell Playhouse, Orson Wells, producer. The guidance of an expert were going to take an excursion into the underworld of the prohibition period, the glass key. By an author who was best known as the creator of the thin man, is the Dachal Hamet.

The glass key is to my way of thinking, one of Dach Hamet's very best. So sit back and let the Campbell play out, demonstrate that Mr. Hammett knows far more about underworld parts political skullduckery and crimes of violence than any other respectable authors should.

And then when our story is over we'll have a chance to check on Dash Hammett because we have with us in the studio tonight a man who knows more about this sort of thing than even Dashal Hammett.

Warden laws know less of Sing Sing of course and who will speak to us at the end of his broadcast. And I'll press the word for my next chapel. There are different dishes that are special favorites with different families.

But there's one dish that makes a big hit with most everyone. And that is chicken. People by and large like chicken so much that it's become the customary main dish for nearly any special party meal.

I believe this enthusiastic taste for chicken accounts for the widespread liking for Campbell's Chicken Soup. Because as sure as you like chicken, you'll like this soup. There's chicken in the savory aroma from your plate, and chicken in the tempting golden glisten of the slowly-simured broth.

Chicken in the eating of this soup too, deep down, slow-simured chicken flavor, and tender pieces of chicken meat, along with a fluffy white rice. I want to make a bold statement, one you might have doubted five years ago, and that perhaps some of you will doubt today.

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