Broadcast October 24th 1937 on Mutual 5:30-6:00 p.m. EST sponsored by D.L. & W. Coal Company "Blue Coal"
This episode is included in Radio Spirits CD set The Shadow: Bitter Fruit*
Written by: Edward Hale Bierstadt
Announcer: Arthur L. Whiteside or Ken Roberts
Cast: Orson Welles (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Agnes Moorehead (Margot Lane) Ray Collins (Commissioner Weston); Carl Frank (Jerry Gleason) Jeanette Nolan (Sadi Bel-Adda) Everett Sloane (the waiter and the newsboy and the crewman and the police sergeant) Stefan Schnabel (Alexis) Mark Smith (Andrew Gleason and Captain Mallin)
Music: Elsie Thompson
Synopsis:
Following the movements of Jerry Gleason, the spoiled son of a Wall Street banker and friend of the mayor, Lamont Cranston discovers that a lovely Indian dancer at the new Club Cailif is responsible for the distribution of drugs flooding the streets, victimizing college boys and millionaires, and leading to half a dozen suicides. Sadi-Bel-Adda is not only a successful snake charmer but her uncle was the same Yogi priest who taught Lamont the mesmeric mind tricks he applies against the underworld. In possession of the Temple Bells of Neban, Sadi-Bel-Adda warns Cranston to stop meddling or else she’ll use the ancient bells to break his spell of invisibility. The next evening, Sadi-Bel-Adda mesmerizes young Jerry into visiting a freighter about to sail to the East. While Margot fetches the police, The Shadow boards the freighter to rescue the kidnapped boy and end the narcotics supply. Sadi-Bel-Adda attempts to kill The Shadow with her pet cobra, unaware that he switched her trained snake with one from the city zoo. Instead of following her commands, the snake kills her before she can use the Temple Bells of Neban against The Shadow.
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*This episode is also available on Legends of Radio: The Shadow - Radio's Greatest Man of Mystery
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