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The Painted Smile

The Lives of Harry Lime · April 18, 1952 · 28 min · 2,739 words

The transcript of “The Painted Smile”, an episode of The Lives of Harry Lime first broadcast April 18, 1952. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Orson Welles on the Air plays The Lives of Harry Lime free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The third man. The fabulous stories of the immortal character originally created in the stories.

The third man was The Fermusic by Anton Carrot. The story for you. Tinsel World. Captain and Tamina, which is insisily. I know what happened because I saw it. The man, in today's story, the painted smile.

To the exception that breaks the rule. Maybe because I like the break rule with myself. Take a smile for it. one of the intangible of life, so everyone says. But what about that smile of the Cheshire cat?

That grin hung around long after Puss had vanished. You call that intangible? Like the smile I'm going to tell you about. The hottage humor of that paint, it smiled lingered long after the man awarded was quite dead.

As I come to Tomina for a holiday, the circumstances were ideal. I had some extra cash in my pocket, the climate was fine, and the local police were completely disinterested in me. But I know sooner ended my room at the Santa Monica Hotel, or testing the mattresses of Madervay, when a long-bladed Sicilian knife whispered past my wickedly winked at me from

the back post. I was naturally somewhat curious, I turned on the quickly and standing there in the doorway. For monkey eyes. Why Tony, you old clown. Howdy, you old devil. What bring you to tell me now?

Money, money, all friends. The climate, the certain weariness, and this happens to be one of the last places in the world where Harry Lyme is welcome. You same old reason the circus is playing here a circus and sister And I bringing calls to new careful not everyone is laughing and happy in Sicily and clowning is my business

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