The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for February 1, 2021
Feature:
Charlie Chan in London
Extra:
Steamship Laconia Mystery – Murder in Cabin 15
Participants:
DanVenture
Dona
Fredsmom
Godwinshelley3
hounder
Len Freeman
Louise
marcycloud
mat
Matt1
Mike n Rach in DC
PaulM
Phil & Mrs Phil
Rush
Sarabell2
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Rush:
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Matt1: Hello Rush and Mat
Rush: Good evening, Mat…amd…Matt!
Rush: WELCOME!
mat: thanks
Rush: Mat, how are you this evening?
Rush: I believe that this is your first time here with us, Mat?
Matt1: Hope everyone is well
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mat: ok not much on line here to watch
Matt1: Hello GS!
Rush: Doing well, TYSM, Matt! And you?
Rush: Hello, GS!
Rush: WELCOME!
Godwinshelley3: Hello from snowy Indiana
Matt1: All good, but a bit chilly here in FL
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Rush: Well, Mat, we have a film you can share with us in a little while, through the link above.
Matt1: Hello MC!
marcycloud: Hiya All!
Rush: MC!
Godwinshelley3: Just a quick drop in – can’t stay
Rush: Good evening!
Rush: GS, how are your parents doing?
Rush: Understood, GS!
Godwinshelley3: Probably going to be missing for a few weeks to a couple months
Godwinshelley3: Dad passed on last week – Funeral was today
Rush: Well, just do the best you can. I understand how things can be.
Rush: Oh…I am so sorry, GS…
Matt1: So very sorry, GS
Rush: Were you there in time to be with him and family?
marcycloud: So sorry for your loss,GS.
Godwinshelley3: And Mom is having medical issues – we are starting hospice
Rush: I see…
Matt1: I’ll be keeping you in my thoughts and prayers, GS
Rush: Hospice is a great help, I found, for my father years ago.
Rush: As will I, GS.
marcycloud: and for my mom
Godwinshelley3: My sisters and I will take turns being here for her
Rush: I suspect that we ALL will be praying for you and your family.
Rush: How old was your dad, GS?
Godwinshelley3: Dad was 91 almost 92. Mom is 87
Rush: It is never easy, but we can be comforted in that he had a nice long life.
Godwinshelley3: Anyways the year is starting out rocky for us – and our focus is Moms comfort
marcycloud: take care GS you’ll be in my prayers.
Rush: Yes, GS.
Rush: Now is the time to care for your mom, and for family to come closer together to that end.
Godwinshelley3: Night all – I’ll drop in as I can over the next weeks
Rush: Good night, GS…God bless you and your family…
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Matt1: Take care, GS
Rush: Sad news…
Matt1: Very
Rush: As we have done in similar moments throught our history, we will dedicate tonight’s Chat to the memory of GS’s father.
Rush: (throughout)
Rush: As for our radio drama, we can begin that in 8 minutes…
Matt1: I’m cued
Rush: I just cued mine, too.
marcycloud: i get covid test tomorrow..third time..i’ve had flu twice now even after flu shot. called for my vaccine but they’re out,on list.
marcycloud: yes cued.
Rush: If you are still with us, Mat, you may access the radio drama at the link above our Chat Room board that reads “Steamship Laconia Mystery – Murder in Cabin 15.”
Rush: Or…here is the link: https://oldradioprograms.us/My%20Old%20Radio%20Shows/C/Charlie%20Chan/Charlie%20Chan%20-%2036-11-12%20Steamship%20Lacronia%20Mystery%20-%20Murder%20In%20Cabin%2015.mp3
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Rush: Matt has left the room…
Matt1: Hello Len!
Rush: Len!
Matt1: One “t”
Len Freeman: Hello…in time for the radio?
Rush: GOOD EVENING and WELCOME!
Len Freeman: Smile
Rush: How are you this evening?
Len Freeman: pretty good.
Rush: I like the smile! That’s always welcomed!
Len Freeman: Got my first vaccine shot last week
Rush: Well…hopefully in short order you can be REALLY good!
marcycloud: good for you!
Rush: 🙂
Matt1: Great, Len!
Rush: That’s GOOD, Len!
Len Freeman: Thanks… and how are you all?
marcycloud: waiting on mine.
Rush: Well, thank you.
marcycloud: getting better.
Len Freeman: having you been feeling sick Marcy?
Rush: MC…pardon my weak memory, but you were ill?
marcycloud: had stomach flu.i think..
Rush: AH!
marcycloud: even after flu shot
Rush: Yes…there is still the flu!
Rush: That happens, yes.
Len Freeman: yes.. the flu flu
Rush: 2 minutes…
Rush: Till our radio drama.
marcycloud: going to get tested for 3rd time tomorrow. neg. so far.
Rush: If you need it, it is located above as a link!
Len Freeman: I don’t recall hearing this radio show before…a new find?
Rush: Or, here’s the link: https://oldradioprograms.us/My%20Old%20Radio%20Shows/C/Charlie%20Chan/Charlie%20Chan%20-%2036-11-12%20Steamship%20Lacronia%20Mystery%20-%20Murder%20In%20Cabin%2015.mp3
Rush: 60 seconds…
Rush: 50 seconds…
Rush: 40 seconds…
marcycloud: i have all the new adventures,but this is new to me also.
Rush: 30 seconds…
Rush: 25…
Rush: 20…
Rush: 15…
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Len Freeman: going
Rush: The radio show intro…
Rush: Annoucer…
marcycloud: weeeeee.
Rush: Now this is where commercial announcements wer placed at local stations…
marcycloud: ahhhhh
Rush: That’s why it lasts so long.
Len Freeman: a good amount of music to allow time
marcycloud: lol
Rush: Yes.
Len Freeman: 7 murders!
Rush: Busy killer!
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Matt1: Hello Hounder!
Rush: “Malolo” was a real ship, I believe.
Rush: Hello, Hounder!
Rush: Just started the radio drama!
Rush: WELCOME!
hounder: hi everyone
Rush: How are you this evening?
Rush: How’s you mother?
Rush: Complaining passenger.
Rush: This one seems to have been influenced by “Charlie Chan Carries On”!
Rush: The tour leader.
Len Freeman: hi hounder
Rush: Captain threatens to throw him into the brig!
Rush: Cabin numbers changed…resulting in the murder…of the wrong man?
Rush: “The haunted cabin”
Rush: Mr. Seward protests a bit too much…
Len Freeman: Aha …
Len Freeman: the sweet young thing tells all
Rush: Yes!
Rush: Broke the engagement to Seward.
hounder: sorry phone call. Mom’s hanging in there. had a couple good days.
Rush: Seward has a harsh tone to his voice.
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Matt1: Hello SB!
Rush: Good to hear, Hounder.
Rush: Hello, Sarabell!
Rush: WELCOME!
marcycloud: Hi Sara
sarabell2: Hey, sorry to be late. Had company. How are you all?
Len Freeman: glad to hear hounder
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Rush: FM!
Matt1: Hello FM!
Fredsmom: Hello all!
Rush: Good evening to YOU…and WELCOME!
hounder: hi fm and sb
Rush: Welcome back!
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Fredsmom: Missed yall!
hounder: hi dan
Matt1: Hello DV!
sarabell2: Hello Fredsmom, I do not believe we have met.
DanVenture: Okay, I did remember!
Rush: DV!
Rush: WELCOME1
sarabell2: So, I am not the only late one here.
Rush: FM and DV, how are you both tonight?
Rush: Not at all, SB!
Fredsmom: Hi Sarabell2! Im an oldie to the group but unable to attend for a while
DanVenture: Nothing like the Chan Clan to open a new month and a new week!
sarabell2: Where are we in the movie?
DanVenture: Rush: MY doctor says I am looking good.
Rush: This one is now using a part from “Charlie Chan at the Race Track.”
Fredsmom: Doing fine Rush, hope you and yours and everyone here is safe and well
DanVenture: Like Sara, where are we?
Len Freeman: were in radio
Rush: The “winch shoe,” in this case, a wrench.
sarabell2: So, you are Fred’s mother?
Matt1: 3 minutes left in radio
Rush: We are presently lictening to the radio drama.
DanVenture: Len: What time count on radio?
Rush: Commercial break….
Matt1: 2 minute commercial break, lol
Rush: 12:20
Rush: Out of 15 minutes.
Fredsmom: Well, yes and no; Fred was my schnauzer mix I had for 17 years- he passed away in 2013 so you see Ive been with the group long before 2013! now Im Daisys mom-but I keep the same name for the group
Rush: Yes, Matt! remember how a long time ago, TV commercials were typically 60 seconds long?
DanVenture: I wondered what all the music was about…
Rush: And there were two at a time.
Rush: Yes, DV.
Rush: That gave local stations the time to run their commercial sppots.
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Louise: Hey Chan Clan!
Fredsmom: Hi Louise!
Matt1: Hello Louise!
sarabell2: Aw. Fred is a great dog’s name. I had two basset hounds come after me in the dark but I figured out they were not wild animals, their names were Fred and Ethel.
Rush: Hello, Louise!
Rush: WELCOME!!!
Fredsmom: I love that SB!
Rush: The end…
Louise: Fredsmom: I always thought Fred was your son!
Len Freeman: hi louise
Rush: Closing music…
Louise: Good to be going to London with all of you.
DanVenture: Got a taste of the radio Chan voice
DanVenture: At least
Rush: I am not tsure that the next radio drama next week continues this story. The other parts might not exist….
sarabell2: So what kind of dog do you have now?
Fredsmom: He was my furbaby I loved with all my heart. I do have 2 daughters, however! so Im REALLY Lindseysmom and Kourtneysmom! 🙂
Rush: I’ll check into that.
Louise: Not much snow here in NJ at the shore
sarabell2: As you can see I have gotten completely off topic
Len Freeman: Rush, who plays Chan in this? sounds different from some others
Fredsmom: We have a rescue senior shih tzu mix. She has 4 teeth
Louise: here is no off topic in Chan Chats!
sarabell2: Thank you for getting that dog.
Fredsmom: Where do you live SB?
Rush: Not sure, Len.
Fredsmom: It was my blessed honor to rescue her
hounder: hi louise.
sarabell2: Lawrenceville outside of Atlanta. I can assure you it is no warmer than NJ.
Fredsmom: I am in Alabama!
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Fredsmom: Hi Angel!
angel & phox: Hello dear!! Hello all!!
sarabell2: Aw my sister state. I love Alabama. It is a state requirement that you plant azaleas there.
Rush: If you have not yet voted on our JANUARY POLL, located at our ENTRANCE page, please do so, as I will be installing the FEBRUARY POLL perhaps tonight.
Fredsmom: Hi Phox!
hounder: hi a &ph
angel & phox: Lotta DUFFERS here tonight, eh wot?
Fredsmom: haha! yes it is! have had many azaleas
Rush: was unable to install the last poll on January 1, as I was out of town, until I returned hme…about a week later!
Rush: AH!
Rush: Angel…and Phox!
Rush: WELCOME1
Louise: Well angel, can’t go anywhere else with 50mph winds tonight!
sarabell2: OK I was wondering if you were going to show up. I will now shut up so I can enjoy your one liners. Talking to you A & P
Fredsmom: Rush, have yall moved yet?
Rush: Duffers…as in Inspector Duff?
Rush: Not until mid-June, FM.
Rush: We did arrange the moving company this weekend.
hounder: us too i think louise. the temp is plummeting here
Fredsmom: I see. Will you continue to teach when you move?
Louise: Hunker down, hounder
Rush: I will be going back to our new home again in late March to do more work.
angel & phox: Louise, i am staying inside with a can of crushed tomatoes in each pocket for ballast!
Rush: 9 minutes until “Charlie Chan in London.”
angel & phox: Rush, YES! Duff! Duff! Duff!
Rush: If needed, we have a link to it above!
hounder: that’s the plan. 75 to 39 temp
marcycloud: all cued here.
sarabell2: It is 33 here. Awful cold
Rush: Earlier, Godwinshelley gave us the sad news of the passing of her father…
Louise: Dang, A&P, we ate our canned tomoatoes for dinner
Fredsmom: oh no….deepest sympathies
Louise: Sorry to hear that, Rush
hounder: oh my. thanks for repeating that rush. is there a way we can help her?
Rush: So, as we have done for years, we will dedicate this evening’s film viewing to the memory of her father…
sarabell2: Oh that is so sad. I just went to a viewing yesterday. Was he sick?
Louise: I hope she looks at this chat and can see our condolences.
Rush: He seemed to have taken a turn for the worse, and that’s why GS drove again back to Indiana to see him and her mother.
Rush: 6 1/2 minutes to go…
Louise: GS has been doing so much travelling to see them.
hounder: the change will be hard for her mom
sarabell2: Where does GS stay?
Louise: CUED here
Rush: With family.
Rush: She’s with her mother and sisters.
Len Freeman: Cued here
Rush: Getting cued myself!
Matt1: Cued
Rush: Please pause at the OPENING TITLE.
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Fredsmom: cued
Rush: 4 minutes…
Matt1: Hello Paul!
Rush: Paul!
Rush: WELCOME!!!
Fredsmom: Hi Paul
sarabell2: I mean where does she live? Sorry, that is a term for where the person lives here
Louise: We got our first vaccination dose last week!
hounder: hi paul
Rush: 3 1/2 minutes…
angel & phox: paul, hi! hi paul!
PaulM: hello
Rush: Very good, Louise!
Louise: Hi Paul
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Rush: DONA!
Louise: hey dona
Matt1: Hello Dona!
Len Freeman: Yeah Louise.. got mine too, and happy
angel & phox: DONA! Oh Dona!
Rush: Good evening and WELCOME!
Dona: Hello Everyone!
Louise: Len: was it like a weight lifted off your shoulders?
Dona: One of my favorites tonigt
sarabell2: Hello Dona and Paul
Rush: 2 1/2 minutes to go…
Len Freeman: Yes!
Rush: Agreed, Dona!
Len Freeman: Yours too?
Fredsmom: Wish we could get our vaccine here-none to be found
angel & phox: Rush, the BOBBIES may soon have to turn blokes away at the virtual door, eh wot?
Louise: Yes Len. Amazing feeling.
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marcycloud: i’m on the list too.
Rush: I like it a lot, and, it starts us off on three CONNECTED adventures!
Matt1: Hello M/M Phil!
Len Freeman: Had to drive 45 miles for it… but a lovely ride home
Louise: Getting crowded in here…
Rush: 90 seconds to go…
Phil & Mrs Phil: HAHA! I’ve RETURNED!
Fredsmom: Hi Phil & Mrs!
Louise: Len: we had to drive one hour also
Rush: WELCOME Phil and Mrs Phil!
Rush: 75 seconds…
angel & phox: Mr&MRS p!! That makes 15 ALREADY, with you two & me & Fox swelling the gatekeeper’s count!
Phil & Mrs Phil: Aloha to all my Chan friends. I’ve missed you all.
Rush: 60 seconds…
Rush: 50 seconds…
hounder: hi phil and mrs
sarabell2: Aloha
Len Freeman: I think things are looking up vaccine wise.. at least that’s our hope here
Rush: 40 seconds…
Louise: aloha
Rush: 30 seconds…
angel & phox: Hello, Phils, & we want YOU to know too the Chancellor of the Exchequer may be passing by.
Rush: 25…
Rush: 20…
Phil & Mrs Phil: WOW!
Rush: 15…
Rush: 10…
angel & phox: Only the best for the Club!!
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Matt1: <GONG>
Rush: Title….
Rush: Music….
angel & phox: FOX Film!!
Louise: Old fashioned music
Rush: London scene….
Phil & Mrs Phil: GONE BABY!
Rush: TYSM. ..Matt…
angel & phox: Royer makes all my gowns.
Rush: Headlines!
Louise: Me too angel and phox
angel & phox: If you’re gonna have a murder, make it a stable murder.
Rush: Yes, Angel…and PHOX…a FOX Film!
angel & phox: They’re playing exchequers! See??!
angel & phox: You’ve got us now.
Phil & Mrs Phil: At the rate he’s sucking in that cig, he’s gonna’ die of cancer before they hang him.
angel & phox: She got her hat in a pie contest.
Rush: The Prison Matron, whom we will catch a glimpse along the way, was Mrs. McMasters in “The Black camel.”
Dona: lol
angel & phox: Future Eddie Haskell.
Louise: Pie? Did someone say pie?
sarabell2: He is!
Rush: Looks like him, doesn’t he?
Phil & Mrs Phil: He does look like him, doesn’t he?
angel & phox: Everyone should have a Home Secretary.
Dona: yes a & p
Rush: There in the background.
Phil & Mrs Phil: Rush, you’ve got to stop reading my mind.
angel & phox: Doesn’t he? We need to get Broderick Crawford to put out a BOLO.
Louise: The thoroughly horrible coat
Rush: Yes, Phil?
Rush: 🙂
sarabell2: Looks like roadkill
angel & phox: “Merely the mouthpiece of the state”. A bit unsanitary, eh wot?
Dona: i think it’s a dress Angel
Louise: Yes sarabell!
Rush: Agreed!
Dona: you were right Angel
Rush: Fainted.
angel & phox: Dona, you usually hit the nails on the beans. I defer to your expert tease.
sarabell2: She is devastated but her hair looks nice
angel & phox: Leon Trotsky woulda been good here.
Rush: Tasteful hat.
angel & phox: I mean Leon Ames. Actually, Trotsky too.
Dona: When she stood up i could see that it was a coat
Phil & Mrs Phil: Give her another coat, if you want to help
angel & phox: She just had her chin repointed.
Louise: She’s gruesome
Dona: yes
Rush: “They say the head was almost severed from the body…”
sarabell2: You all are so funny
Rush: Just a touch of “silent” acting earlier.
angel & phox: Sarabell, it’s all because of you. You step away, poof!
angel & phox: I want to see the Away Secretary.
Rush: This is our first look at Chan since “The Black camel.”
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sarabell2: I am a fan of your humor. you cannot tell that I am laughing here
Rush: We can see how far Oland has developed the character!
hounder: hi m n r
Rush: Mike and Rachel!
angel & phox: British Lion owes CC L168 and counting.
Mike n Rach in DC: Wafting in via phone…
Rush: WELCOME!!!
Phil & Mrs Phil: Sarabell, I haven’t been here in months. When did you arrive at this forum?
Rush: Happy you were able to make it tonight!
Mike n Rach in DC: We too!
Dona: Hi Mike n Rach
angel & phox: M & R!!! Sit on our ottoman, or ottomen!
Fredsmom: Hi Mike n Rach!
Phil & Mrs Phil: Wash your hands Charlie.
Rush: One of our biggest gatherings in a while, tonight!
hounder: charlie shows off his deduction skills
angel & phox: Are you snow-dusted, M/R?
Len Freeman: How many film between Black Camel and London?
Phil & Mrs Phil: Hi M&R
Rush: Yes, Hounder!
angel & phox: Goodbye.
sarabell2: Because I get whatever that sad thing is in the winter, and CC cheered me up. And I really enjoyed Rush’s site. He makes CC very real.
Mike n Rach in DC: We are movieless at the moment but that can’t deter the Chan clan.
angel & phox: “immediately she returns”. Infuriating manners of speech.
Rush: Len, “The Black Camel ” from 1931…this one, 1934…
Rush: Between “Camel” and “London” there were three films that are now lost.
Mike n Rach in DC: We are slightly ensnowed Angel.
angel & phox: M & R, you shall be on the Queen’s List. When she gets it she’ll send you the Queen’s Movies.
Phil & Mrs Phil: So are we Angel
Len Freeman: So some good time for Oland’s development of CC
Mike n Rach in DC: We bow and curtsy appropriately.
Len Freeman: Can feel the difference between this and Camel
Phil & Mrs Phil: Not for long, Neal
Mike n Rach in DC: Hi FM!
Rush: “Charlie Chan’s Chance” (1932), “Charlie Chan’s Greatest Case” (1933), and “Charlie Chan’s Courage” (1934).
Louise: Camel seems so raw to me, like the beginning of a cake that is not yet baked
Len Freeman: Ray Milland was also making a Bulldog Drummond film about this time
Rush: “Begin at beast place – beginning.”
Rush: (best)
Rush: Oh, those typos!
Mike n Rach in DC: Agreed Len. “London” feels much more like the series is established.
Rush: Nice dragon-patterned silk robe on Chan.
angel & phox: Phil & Mrs.Phil, this seems to be a wide one. I am in Boston & we are a few inches deep in partly cloudy.
Rush: Note the ring Oland wears.
Rush: The jade “Buddha” ring.
angel & phox: Accord here too. The Chan style seems defined here.
Phil & Mrs Phil: We’ve only got a couple of inches. It’s snowing now, making the roads tricky.
angel & phox: Where are you, Phils?
Rush: Note the door sticks soon…
Rush: As it is thrust open.
Phil & Mrs Phil: East of Pittsburgh by about 40 miles.
Louise: No? You bum!
Fredsmom: good eye Rush
angel & phox: Rush, was the sticky door an oversight?
hounder: drama queen much?
Phil & Mrs Phil: Latrobe, PA, actually.
Rush: Yes, always try to stick up for your future in-laws!
sarabell2: A & P we had a weatherman here, he got a call from a woman telling him to come shovel the 6 inches of partly cloudy off her driveway.
Rush: Meanwhile…at the manor…
Dona: lol
angel & phox: I love this kinda music.
hounder: where phill? i grew up outside pgh
Rush: Yes, Angel!
Mike n Rach in DC: It would be so much better if she didn’t snoop on the conversation…
hounder: lol2SB
Rush: Agreed, Mike!
Fredsmom: lol
Louise: Swell and keen are words we don’t use enough
Mike n Rach in DC: I miss “cool.”
Phil & Mrs Phil: Latrobe’s the closest “big” town hounder.
angel & phox: Latrobe!! They still have glass-lined tanks? Before i straightened out, i slipped the Rolling Rockers enough do-re-mi to pay for more than a few of those tanks.
Dona: I like them all
Rush: nappy – (Mainly British) Of a horse that is jumpy or irritable; nervy.
sarabell2: I say Oh swell all the time. It beats 4 letter words
Rush: Boar’s head above the fireplace…
angel & phox: And bully spelt backwards is yllub. In case you try to welsh.
Rush: YESm SB!
Mike n Rach in DC: Unless you spell it swel
Phil & Mrs Phil: I’ve got a moosehead in the basement.
Rush: I usually go for “DRAT” a la WC Fields!
angel & phox: Those buttons came from the Santa suit in Seasonal.
Phil & Mrs Phil: Sideboob there. Sorry, couldn’t resist.
angel & phox: DRAT is good.
Rush: Angel: 🙂
Dona: lol
Dona: better coat than before
Rush: Note the butler?
angel & phox: Punch her ticket. Cancel her. Give her the cracked claw.
Rush: “Mr. Smith” from “The Black Camel.”
sarabell2: Love WC Fields. He hated Philly, grew up there. Learned to juggle so he would not starve to death, he was 9.
Rush: Murray Kinnell.
Phil & Mrs Phil: Yeah Rush, he had a brother who was a beachcomber. Got shot.
angel & phox: TYSM!
Rush: Yes, SB!
Phil & Mrs Phil: They were identical twins.
hounder: i know where latrobe is. i grew up in plum and worked with several guys who lived in latrobe
Louise: The butler!
sarabell2: Yes, I have noticed MK, his brother was the cutest thing. Had a wild Hawaiian sweetheart
angel & phox: SB, i was just talking Fields with a Young Person today! Described The Bank Dick, extolled its ending (“A hearty handshake”)!
Phil & Mrs Phil: I thought your accent sounded familiar hounder.
angel & phox: How much do you require, Mum, 500? A thousand?
Mike n Rach in DC: The butler did it! (Sort of)
Rush: Very tragically, the child of an actress who is in “Charlie Chan at the Olympics” drown in a pond at WC Fields’ home. Katherine Demille.
Louise: nice entrance, Charlie
sarabell2: WC was fascinating. Handsome when young.
Rush: Yes, Louise.
Fredsmom: did not know that Rush
hounder: pifflesnort is also a good substitute
angel & phox: Rush, i never knew the name, or perhaps forgot it. Was she any “relation”—?
angel & phox: All over the ‘ouse!
Mike n Rach in DC: Does Hounder say yin’s?
Rush: I think that I saw it when looking at information for Kathering Demille.
hounder: used to say youse guys
angel & phox: “Richmond” gives him The Look.
hounder: lol then i graduated to y’all
Phil & Mrs Phil: I really mangled it – used to say “younz guys.”
Louise: Bunny
sarabell2: We even say youse down here. But we do not say PEOPLE!
Mike n Rach in DC: My family is from Hazleton…more east but still many fun expressions.
Rush: “DeMille married actor Anthony Quinn on October 2, 1937 at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills.[15] They had five children: Christopher (1939-1941), Christina (born December 1, 1941), Catalina (born November 21, 1942), Duncan (born August 4, 1945), and Valentina (born December 26, 1952).[16] Their first child, Christopher, was found drowned in the lily pond of W.C. Fields at age two.” (From Wikipedia)
Louise: Back in the days when people knew how to dance
Rush: forgot that her husband was Anthony Quinn!
Fredsmom: Very interesting Rush
angel & phox: How many English manors had how many antlers per manor?
Rush: 57 hours…
sarabell2: Thank you Rush
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Rush: Angel, probably as many as the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin…
Mike n Rach in DC: However many, Angel, it was tough on the antlered population…
Rush: Yes!
Rush: The movie “Godford Park” (from around the year 2000), has a connection with this movie!
sarabell2: We had a neighbor who was anti gun. I asked her how that deer head got up there above their mantle. I was not asked back.
Rush: (GOSFORD)
Rush: Another typo…
angel & phox: M & R, i don’t doubt Rudolph himself kept an Airborne Sombrero (J.Peterman, $95 in grey or buff).
Rush: 🙂
hounder: lol@sb
Mike n Rach in DC: Oh dear. A mouse appeared from under our stove.
Phil & Mrs Phil: Some people just can’t handle the truth sarabell.
Dona: I love that movie Rush. What is the connection?
Rush: Understood, Mike.
Phil & Mrs Phil: I know I know!!
Mike n Rach in DC: SB…sometimes they die of old age on our very doorstep.
Rush: We have some of the same uninvited guests appearing in our new home, as well…
angel & phox: Sarabell, i would ask your hand if my boyfriend was not jealous & licensed.
angel & phox: It
Mike n Rach in DC: Rachel. Broom… Mouse flees.
angel & phox: (sings) It’s a long way, to Tucumcari…
Phil & Mrs Phil: Did you move Rush?
Rush: Butler not too pleased wuth Chan.
sarabell2: I own guns but do not care if you do not want one, but her lack of logic got me
hounder: lol@angel
Rush: Not yet, Phil…we move in mid-June…after school is done.
Mike n Rach in DC: A d logic is useful when operating firearms…
Phil & Mrs Phil: Illonois right?
Louise: To the stables!
Phil & Mrs Phil: Illinois…or however you spell it.
angel & phox: Thank you both, H and SB. I value good humor & bonhomie above all, liberty next, & i despise self-serving inconsistency.
Mike n Rach in DC: Time to ‘op in me loose box.
Rush: Iowa.
angel & phox: M n R, i’m going to REPORT that remark!!
Rush: Actually Illinois is just across the river from us.
angel & phox: I BEG YOUR PARDON!
angel & phox: “Head Lad”—this is just getting WORSE!
Rush: “What the DEUCE!!!”
hounder: laughter is good medicine
Louise: Tonight our conversation is like a swirling tornado!
Mike n Rach in DC: That sounds like a Rodgers and Hammerstein song, Rush
angel & phox: Ummmmmm…
Rush: Yes and yes!
Phil & Mrs Phil: Yes Louise, as usual I’m paying more attention to what we’re writing than the movie.
angel & phox: Gotta love The DEUCE! Hate The Drake.
angel & phox: AVALANCHE!!
hounder: normal when there are so many of us louise
Rush: Here comes Lake.
Louise: Sounds like gunshots
Phil & Mrs Phil: IT’S A HORSE NOT A COW!
Rush: An “old friend” of ours.
Rush: We saw him in “Behind That Curtain.”
Louise: Crazy guy in several movies?
Rush: We will see him in “Charlie Chan at the Race Track.”
angel & phox: “He can do anything with her”—Does this film have a SUBTEXT we should have a script for?
Mike n Rach in DC: But it’s an ‘orse
Rush: As the Ship’s Steward.
Fredsmom: tomfoolery akin to “shenanagans”?
Rush: Bunny’s turn to spak up!
Rush: Speak.
Phil & Mrs Phil: Yeah but that guy’s head is still mostly attached.
Rush: Mostly, yes!
Mike n Rach in DC: There is vast potential there Angel.
Louise: I talk like that all the time
Rush: Don’t light a cigarette next to Bunny!
Phil & Mrs Phil: I’m sure we don’t want to get into all the possible scenarios M&R
angel & phox: M n R: That’s what we prudes are afraid of.
Fredsmom: Ha!
Mike n Rach in DC: Woosh
Rush: Tonight we have a “Number One Horse Boy.”
Rush: Next week, we have a “Number One Son.”
Fredsmom: I just realized no Chan son in this movie…..
Mike n Rach in DC: I mean..like “Wicked” a la Chan
Phil & Mrs Phil: Nice, isn’t it.
Rush: Mike: 🙂
angel & phox: I don’t wonder that #1 Horse Boy did not continue as ensemble cast member.
angel & phox: ‘orse is rahthah quiet, even for a noble animal.
Phil & Mrs Phil: I wonder if they realize the horse is listening to everything they say.
Rush: 🙂
Mike n Rach in DC: How about the story for all of the characters that DIDNT make the grade?
Fredsmom: Haha Phil n Mrs!
Rush: Lake is nervous…
Phil & Mrs Phil: Mrs Phil wants to know “where’s the knife?”
angel & phox: Wonder if she chops her own firewood.
angel & phox: THIRD ref to “noble animal”!
Rush: The knife was probably returned to its original location.
Mike n Rach in DC: Clue!
Louise: Noble animla 5
Rush: Yes!
angel & phox: FOUR! —“Cat of hell”. ANOTHER DUPLICATE HORSE DEAL??
Rush: “Noble Animal” count!
Louise: noble animal 6
angel & phox: No. I am really the—
Mike n Rach in DC: Horses are noble?
Rush: I would be mostly in agreement with CC in that regard….
Louise: Ya think she has a thing against men???
Rush: Noble: possessing outstanding qualities. I think it fits!
Mike n Rach in DC: The maid, Louise?
angel & phox: But FOUR TIMES, Rush??
Fredsmom: love the shape of the doors in this movie
Mike n Rach in DC: Or CB perhaps the King always was on a horse?
angel & phox: FDR was a noble animal. I think the 4x bit should be reserved for him. Cap at three.
Rush: Would he have thought he’d be in a movie called “Hot Rods to Hell” in about 30 years?
Rush: Thacker.
Phil & Mrs Phil: CUE THE CAN!
angel & phox: MORE antlers!
sarabell2: I notice doors too, Fredsmom
Rush: Matt?
Rush: I think we can say it’s official.
angel & phox: Players Club card.
Phil & Mrs Phil: Matt must be living WAAAYY in the past.
Mike n Rach in DC: stealth can perhaps
Rush: “Mr. Chang…”
Rush: “Money talks.”
Mike n Rach in DC: Doesn’t show up on radar either.
angel & phox: “Conclusions jump at me”
angel & phox: Let’s try anyway. Let me get my boyfriend’s piece.
hounder: ..
Rush: Or…he could’ve held the gun upside-down to shoot himself!
angel & phox: Do you polish your shoes with that mouth, Constable?
angel & phox: Up to now.
Phil & Mrs Phil: Hey Charlie, you’re a little late not letting the murderer know.
angel & phox: TYSM!
Rush: “Thank you so much.”
angel & phox: No salt on his tails.
sarabell2: How bad was the countryside that this guy is the Constable?
angel & phox: I gotta hire her.
Rush: 🙂
Mike n Rach in DC: I wonder what the search process is like to hire a constable.
Fredsmom: ha to Angel n Phox!
Rush: Yes, SB. We can see Thacker’s lack of experience.
angel & phox: Sarabell, they’d had a crime wave so bad they got Ethel Merman to sing its theme. The Constable was persuaded to leave Miss Merman’s employ. By Miss Merman.
Rush: Probably not too much happens in the countryside beyond an occasional poacher.
angel & phox: RAD plaid!
angel & phox: Poached or fried, them rabbits is delish!
Rush: 🙂
Mike n Rach in DC: It ain’t over until Ethel sings.
Rush: Hush money.
angel & phox: I want some hush money.
Louise: HUSH money? He was too noisy for that.
Rush: Exactly, Mike!
Rush: In the case of the Flyers, it didn’t START until she would sing!
Phil & Mrs Phil: DanVenture you haven’t said anything all night.
angel & phox: You could burn a manor down tossing those things.
Rush: Or…was that someone else!
Dona: Angel my grandmother used to make rabbit. I wouldn’t touch it. No way I was eating a bunny.
Rush: Dona…I would agree.
angel & phox: What the deuce—?
Rush: We have a pet bunny.
angel & phox: TYSM!
angel & phox: THEY have a pet Bunny!
Rush: She gave us a big health scare a week ago.
Rush: Better now.
sarabell2: Did it have any more seizures?
Rush: Yes, Angel!
Rush: They do.
angel & phox: Al Cowlings?
Louise: She is being eaten by that fur
Mike n Rach in DC: I have a great recip for Hasenpfepper…if both my e era becomes annoying.
Rush: No more seizures.
Rush: Thankfully.
angel & phox: Louise, it DOES seem to grow on her. A fuzzy goiter.
Phil & Mrs Phil: That’s the BIGGEST caterpillar I’ve ever seen.
angel & phox: Remember Fuzzy Zoeller?
Mike n Rach in DC: Oh yes
Rush: “Do you really think I should go?”
Phil & Mrs Phil: Being high strung seems to run in that family.
hounder: that’s a monster fur collar
Louise: P&MP: yep
Fredsmom: Poor bunny…sorry to hear it was sick
Dona: YES
angel & phox: TWO Drama Queens where NONE are needed!!
Rush: TYSM, FM.
angel & phox: How much would you like? 500? A thousand?
Phil & Mrs Phil: Get lost Neal
Rush: She’s doing very well now. back to her old self!
Rush: Hopefully that will continue!
angel & phox: You could roast a radio in that fireplace.
Fredsmom: yes!
Rush: “Frequent state of mind for detective.”
Mike n Rach in DC: Fingers crossed Rush.
Rush: TYSM, Mike!
angel & phox: He’s wearing that collare turned-up just to show off that his bowtie isn’t a clip-on.
Rush: Definitely a member of the family!
Dona: More fur
angel & phox: (Chan sings) “Tutti-fruti! Oh, rootie…”
Rush: She talks a lot of sense.
Louise: Yes, we have started the season of the furs
sarabell2: A & P you made me cry laughing with that one
Mike n Rach in DC: You can make Hasenpfeffer with chicken instead of rabbit. No one will know. (Except for bunny). 🙂
Rush: True, louise.
angel & phox: I would have piled empty cans at the door.
Rush: Right between CC’s thumb and forefinger!
Mike n Rach in DC: White phlox phur?
Rush: Looked like a top-hatted attacker!
angel & phox: EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE please!!
Rush: VERY cureous missile, indeed!
angel & phox: An early Tetragene-delivery system.
Rush: The “Buck Rogers” design!
angel & phox: Maybe ’twas Noble Animal.
Phil & Mrs Phil: How could he have shot at Charlie then have enough time to get into his smoking jacket?
angel & phox: Rush: Buck was showing up everywhere then, huh?
Rush: At least Thacker didn’t ruin the fingerprints.
Louise: I have been reading old Buck Rogers comics!
Mike n Rach in DC: Is there a tactful way to say, “Wow. You have a big missile?”
Rush: Yes, Angel, he was known to “pass” from place to place…
angel & phox: ‘e can’t write a-tall.
Dona: lol
angel & phox: Wilma D-ring anywhere around?
angel & phox: Constable got a wit like a steel trap.
Rush: A bit rusty, perhaps…
angel & phox: Wild bird, you make my heart—what’s a rhyme for “bird”—?
Rush: He favors that notebook.
Mike n Rach in DC: Once it snaps shut it won’t reopen…
Phil & Mrs Phil: Not the last time we’ll hear that.
angel & phox: Fox turns head in this part.
angel & phox: I’da gone away in The Rolls-Royce meself.
Mike n Rach in DC: Bird …nerd
Rush: Someone’s listening…
Phil & Mrs Phil: It’s the horse.
angel & phox: Picture the manure.
Rush: 🙂
Rush: There is an intersting scene change coming.
Mike n Rach in DC: Manicure?
Fredsmom: 🙂
angel & phox: And good in the sack.
Rush: The two scenes are connected by the sound of a plane flying over.
angel & phox: Manicure most delicate when noble animal in chair!
angel & phox: NOoooooooo!
Louise: Hamilton? Those tickets were so expensive…
angel & phox: Louise:
angel & phox: “a queer chap”?
Mike n Rach in DC: It was a device to make horses fly silently.
Phil & Mrs Phil: Don’t go there Angel
Rush: Yes, Angel…in the original meaning…
angel & phox: I don’t know we want to hear, here, how far he went with it.
angel & phox: I’m there already.
angel & phox: Drift caught me.
Phil & Mrs Phil: The stupidest explanation I’ve ever heard.
Rush: Intersting faces sitting on the mantel.
angel & phox: Two heavy bookends could simplify matters wonderfully here.
Rush: The one looks a bit Rondoesque.
hounder: are those initials on her sweater?
angel & phox: Ain’t got time to take a fast train.
Rush: Okay, Angel…the FOX CHASE!
angel & phox: I watch alone!
Mike n Rach in DC: Go fox, go!
Rush: They never learn…if you have information…give it QUICKLY!!!!
angel & phox: Those could be initials of ALL her beaux.
Rush: 120…coming up!
Rush: Shot in Thousand Oaks area, Dona?
Louise: Is fox hunting now banned?
Rush: I think it is, Louise.
Dona: Oh, I know that area
sarabell2: They need to switch to coyote hunting here
Mike n Rach in DC: Mr. Chan I have the most vital information to communicate. Unfortunately I must allow the villain enough time to assassinate me…
Rush: Didn’t it look like it could be that area?
hounder: lol@m n r
angel & phox: Somebody call the fox! Tell him we turned around!
Rush: Exactly, Mike!
Rush: Bed pan.
angel & phox: Good job Gloomy Gwendolyn wasn’t Attending this time.
Phil & Mrs Phil: Where did the studio get all the actors with British accents I wonder.
Dona: Yes, now that you say it, it defenitly does.
Mike n Rach in DC: Is that the kind of camera technique used here Rush?
Rush: Sadly, probably an actual dead horse was used here.
Phil & Mrs Phil: It could have been hypnotized.
Dona: We used to ride motorcyles out there.
angel & phox: Phil, Mrs. Phil, let’s ask Rush: was Hwood not rife with expatriate Brit actors in the ’30s?
Rush: Yes, Dona?
angel & phox: Hamilton had a Burr under his saddle.
Mike n Rach in DC: This scene and Race Track are the low points.
Rush: Tricky proposition, Mike!
Rush: 🙂
angel & phox: UH-OH.
Louise: All you guys…
Rush: Each suspect glances at the next one!
Louise: in this room are guilty
angel & phox: Softly softly catchee Aristocratic monkey!
Phil & Mrs Phil has left this room
angel & phox: Hit him again.
Rush: They must be on suicide watch.
angel & phox: Mr/Mrs Phil phall away?
Rush: Dropped I think.
angel & phox: (enter left, BEAVER): Hey, Eddie!
Mike n Rach in DC: Suspense!
Rush: 5 AM….
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Phil & Mrs Phil: If I was the murderer and I knew Chan was so close to discovering me, I think I’d split.
hounder: makes sense rush
Rush: WB, Phil.
Phil & Mrs Phil: Hey, where’d I go?
Dona: I agree phil
angel & phox: Smoke smoke smoke that zigarette.
Rush: MC will likewise return, I believe!
angel & phox: Phils! We missed youse!
Rush: Chan enters quietly…
angel & phox: Marcy yet missing!
Phil & Mrs Phil: yinz
angel & phox: That he
angel & phox: That he’s wearing a bad toupee?
Mike n Rach in DC: Recalling his silent appearance at the beginning…
DanVenture: Phil: We could add to the list to quit when they start detecting: Chan, Wolfe, Holmes, etc.
angel & phox: FIVE—SIX—“noble animal”!!
Rush: Are we up to 10 “Noble Animal” statements?
angel & phox: PEPPAH!
angel & phox: Rush, it’s at LEAST 6. Will send print to Forensics.
Phil & Mrs Phil: It’s 7 noble animals.
angel & phox: Go jump on the Lake.
angel & phox: Yes, Phils? 7? Excellent.
Rush: Did the butler do it…?
angel & phox: aHA!
angel & phox: aHO!
Louise: My last NA count was 7
angel & phox: WHY YOU LITTLE—!
Rush: Chan “recovers”!
Rush: Paul Frank.
angel & phox: Louise, you & the Phils both show 7. I believe you survey well.
Louise: Real name: Not a butler
Rush: Right!
angel & phox: The jig is up. Get my Jag.
Mike n Rach in DC: Chan. Too smart for you…
Rush: Indeed!
Phil & Mrs Phil: The same scenario showed up in a Holmes story.
hounder: call the govener
Rush: Now, we move toward a happy ending…
Rush: And the full conclusion of the case.
hounder: there’s that bat on her shirt
Dona: I would drink to that
angel & phox: Suppose Eddie sneaked some of that great prison food out on his release?
Rush: A blackbird!
Dona: yes houder
Phil & Mrs Phil: She’s bat shirt crazy!
Louise: Awwwww
Rush: “Case now complete.”
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Mike n Rach in DC: Bat shirt?
hounder: lol@phill
Rush: WB, MC!
marcycloud: yayyyy!
Fredsmom: clapclapclapclap!
Rush: in time for….
hounder: wb mary.
angel & phox: hounder, good gawd, you’re right! How did i never notice that before??
Rush: THE END….
Rush: Closing credits…
Rush: And…
angel & phox: MARCY!! You made it back!! Have some prison food!!
Mike n Rach in DC: Kids Yeah
Rush: if you are watching the DVD….
Rush: EXIT MUSIC here!
Rush: (applause…)
Dona: (YAY)
angel & phox: This was CAPITAL! I say!! See us all in ‘alf a fortnight, eh wot?
DanVenture: Yea!
Louise: Good to be back to the Chan timeline
Fredsmom: Goodnite all! Have a great week! Stay safe and well!
hounder: thanks for the fun. see you next week
Dona: still one of my favorites
angel & phox: Gnite FM!!
DanVenture: Stay safe and healthy, everyone!
Rush: How about just ONE week, Angel?
Louise: Nite all, Stay warm.
Phil & Mrs Phil: Don’t forget to wash your hands.
Mike n Rach in DC: Good to see everyone again!
Rush: GREAT gathering tonight!
marcycloud: see you all next time.have a good one!
DanVenture: Rush: It is just one week, right?
Phil & Mrs Phil: Alooohhaaa from the Phils.
Rush: TYSM…everyone!
sarabell2: Thank you all for the great commentary. You are all so funny.
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Rush: The time flew by!
Dona: it did Rush
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Rush: Have a wonderful week, everyone!
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Rush: Take care….
Rush: Be HAPPY…
Rush: Be SAFE!
sarabell2: thank you once again, rush. You are very good at this.
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DanVenture: Nite, Chan Clan!
Rush: Next weeek…
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Mike n Rach in DC: Cheers!
Rush: “Charlie Chan in Paris”
Rush: as we cross the Channel.
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Mike n Rach in DC: Hope to see you in Paree!
Dona: we will see bunny again
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Rush: Not this one.
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Dona: Another great evening Rush. Thank you!
Rush: Paul Englan was Bunny.
Rush: His only Chan movie.
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Rush: (England)
Rush: Take care, again…
Dona: mmmmmmm
Dona: See everyone next week.
Rush: Good night, Dona and Paul….
Dona: night all!
Rush: And you!
Rush: Good night…
Rush: Enjoy the good weather, Dona!
Rush: Good night….
Rush: 🙂
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