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Today we celebrate 3,800 episodes, and we're taking a trip to the Campbell's Playhouse in Orson Wells. The original air date is March 10, 1939, and the title is The Glass Key.

The makers of Campbell's Soups presents the Campbell Playhouse, Orson Wells produces.

Good evening, this is Orson Wells. Tonight, under the guidance of an expert, we're going to take an excursion and to the underworld of the prohibition period. Our story is The Glass Key.

By an author who was best known as the creator of The Thin Man, as the Dashel Hammett. The Glass Key is, to my way of thinking, one of Dash Hammett's very best.

So sit back and let the Campbell Playhouse demonstrate that Mr. Hammett knows far more about Underworld Plot's political skulled duggeray and crimes of violence than any other respectable author 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 Dashel Hammett.

Warden Law is no less of syncing, of course, until we'll speak to us at the end of this broadcast. And now first a word from Ernest 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 simmered broth.

Chicken in the eating of this soup, too, deep down, slow simmered chicken flavor and tender pieces of chicken meat along with a fluffy white rice.

I want to make a bold statement when you might have doubted five years ago and that perhaps some of you will doubt today.

If you will eat a plate of Campbell's chicken soup tomorrow, I'm absolutely sure you'll say it's as fine as the finest chicken soup you ever tasted anywhere.

Do you doubt that statement? Well, if you do, I'm sure it's because you haven't tasted Campbell's chicken soup recently.

And in that case, I ask you to try it because I'm sure one taste will convince you and that you want to have Campbell's chicken soup often.

And now the glass key, starting Austin Wells as Paul Madvik.

My name is Net Beaumont and I guess I am out of a job for a while. Well, I did the best I could for Paul Madvik, but there it is.

A clean sweep for a little farm ticket.

Funny how things change. Six weeks ago, you could have got four to one on a Madvik machine putting over the whole ticket.

When you come to think about it, there wasn't a thing Paul Madvik could have done differently, not with the setup he had.

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