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Pearls of Bohemia

The Lives of Harry Lime · May 30, 1952 · 28 min · 3,919 words

The transcript of “Pearls of Bohemia”, an episode of The Lives of Harry Lime first broadcast May 30, 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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Third Man, originally created in the story The Third Man, with sither music by Anton Carras. When they got certain mistaken ideas about me, I didn't stay around to put them right, I thought it'd be simpler just to leave town.

So I took the morning train, now the gentleman had lunch at Henry Currie Chartes. The Chartes himself brought me brand after lunch, compliments the house to an old customer. And when we go that our backs turn to fly, lit on the edge of the glass, then it wandered off drunkenly along the tablecloth and I took up a newspaper and the neighboring table folded

it and swapped it. I saw the ad printed the top one of the column on the back of the paper. Wanted it read, wanted multilingual publicist to promote young lady 23. As I translated that into English and meant that they wanted some of you new or few languages what I did, as for promoting a young lady of 23, might be qualified there by information

and by experience. So I topped off the brand-aids, had so long to later to recharge the end, went out to the street, dodged the street card, and started up the hill. The advertisement had given an address. A street happened to be one I knew overlooking General Harbour on the hill above Richard. And Simpson wasn't home when I got to the address on the hill

of her, which I know she was a Dixie Land trombonist or a sheet music company, but turned out she was neither the old Italian land lady let me in and there were photos of Melody all over the house.

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