5 seconds sound clip from the Bullets or Ballots (1939) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:41:04 in the radio play.
Quote context
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- You sure you want me to go through with it?
- Yes, of course I do.
- We really don't have to.
- Backing out, are you?
- Okay, you asked for it.
- I took your coat and last night beat out all the dust. Here's what it told me.
- Yesterday morning you took a walk with a brunette between the ages of 20 and 25. An actress... probably a star.
- You stopped at Chester's flower shop, bought an orchid, had lunch at the Brown Derby and ate, among other things, a shrimp cocktail. Later, you went from there..
- No, thank you. That's plenty.
- But... don't try to tell me you learned that from my coat. You probably followed me.
- Sorry, you're wrong. Here's how it was done.
- A few black hairs on the coat told me the lady's age. And a preparation on the hair revealed she had something to do with acting under powerful lights.
- I guessed she was a star instead of an extra because the face powder, also found on the coat, was very expensive.
- You were walking, because if you had been riding the powder would have been differently placed.
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