Broadcast May 6th 1951 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by the U.S. Army & the U.S. Air Force Recruiting Service
This is a lost episode and no recreation of it has yet been made. If you have a copy of the script please let me know.
Written by: Gail Ingram
Announcer: Carl Caruso
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane) Eileen Heckert (Belle) James McCallion (Val Madison and Happy) Santos Ortega (Commissioner Weston) Carole Sten (Lenore).
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
Singer Val Madison has been murdered at Belle Carter’s waterfront dive, The Gilded Cage, where he worked. Blond hair was found under Madison’s fingernails, but none of the probable suspects have blond hair. At the suggestion of Weston, Lamont assumes the identity of Monty, a replacement singer. Suspecting the cigarette girl may have changed her hair color because of a blond streak, Lamont and Margot take a look at her hairbrush but she catches them. Before she can tell what she just discovered, she dies from a gun — shot from a window. Lamont eventually figures out that the ventriloquist, Happy, wears a toupee and knowing that all wigs are made from women’s hair, pays him a visit as The Shadow. Tricking the ventriloquist into believing his wooden dummy is alive, The Shadow forces a confession from Happy. Happy killed his wife and for years has been in hiding under an assumed identity. He was being blackmailed by Madison, and when the cigarette girl caught him without his hair piece, he silenced her, too.
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