BONUS - Five Favorites: Broadway is My Beat

Summary

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Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

BONUS - Five Favorites: Broadway is My Beat
Host: Mean Streets Podcasts
Date: January 24, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this bonus installment, the host revisits a fan-favorite series concept: selecting his five personal top episodes from the golden-age police procedural "Broadway Is My Beat." With apologies for missing a recent regular episode, the host explains his deepening appreciation of this radio drama—particularly its poetic writing, rich characterizations, and emotional depth, which set it apart from more stoic contemporaries like "Dragnet." The spotlighted stories showcase both the show's heart and its noir sensibility, with Detective Danny Clover (voiced by Larry Thor) navigating the gaudy, complex, and often tragic world of Broadway.

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Main Discussion Points and Insights

1. Introduction to "Broadway Is My Beat" (00:58–04:24)

• The host briefly apologizes for missing a regular episode, offers this bonus episode as a stopgap, and outlines the format: five favorite episodes from "Broadway Is My Beat."
• Praises the series' unique "heart-on-its-sleeve" approach: more lyrical, philosophical, and emotionally raw than other police dramas of its era.
  • Quote:
    “Broadway Is My Beat wears its heart on its sleeve. Detective Clover waxes philosophic and romantic about his city and its people, and he encounters colorful characters in his cases from all walks of life.” (01:34)
• Credits Morton Fine and David Friedkin for distinctive writing, Elliot Lewis’s direction, and Larry Thor’s performance as Danny Clover.
• Introduces the five selected episodes and gives each a brief summary:
  1. The Corey Suicide Pact (August 21, 1950)
  2. Thomas Hart (April 14, 1951)
  3. Charles Crandall (May 12, 1951)
  4. Tom Keeler (September 22, 1951)
  5. Grace Cullen (November 22, 1952)

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2. Episode 1: "The Corey Suicide Pact" _(04:48–32:28)**

Plot One-Sentence Summary:
Detective Clover receives a desperate phone call warning of a murder-suicide, but finds only the murder victim—the supposed suicide is missing.

• Opening monologue delivers the usual poetic noir tone describing Broadway:
  • Quote:
    “Broadway. It's the place you drift to because the other promises you made to yourself never happened... It's the best of the thousand and one nights you dreamed of...” (05:20)
• Case kicks off with a frantic call from Mrs. Corey, fearing for her life as her husband tries to force her into a suicide pact.
• Investigation proceeds in a procedural yet character-rich way: the detectives track down a list of possible Coreys, encountering quirky, defensive, and sometimes darkly comic personalities.
• The investigation leads Danny to apartment buildings and a message from a friend of the Coreys, Zella Stanley, who hints at marital discord and introduces a business partner, Henry Fairchild.
• Notable Moment: Clover and Fairchild arrive at the Coreys' Fire Island house and discover Alice Corey dead, but Tom Corey is gone—a subversion of the expected murder-suicide.
  • Quote (Fairchild):
    “He didn’t have to do that. He could have come to me… I'd have helped him. Honestly.” (16:05)
• Subsequent leads reveal Tom Corey alive, wounded but not dead, and responsible for further violence.
• The emotional fallout is handled with Broadway’s trademark fatalism:
  • Quote:
    “A man makes a pact with his wife to commit double suicide. Kills his wife, only wounds himself... harder still to be wounded and disappointed.” (18:41)

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3. Episode 2: "Thomas Hart" (34:43–62:30)

Plot One-Sentence Summary:
A murder in the garment district sends Clover into a web of ambition, jealousy, and an ill-fated romance.

• The body of Thomas Hart, a dress delivery boy with aspirations, is found stabbed with scissors among spilled dresses.
• Investigating in and around the dress manufacturer (Sinclair Stylecraft), Clover meets a colorful set of suspects: the tough designer, Stella Croft; the cold boss, Sinclair; and a bitter co-worker, Ginny Morrow.
• The workers’ dialogues underline the romantic and social tensions lurking just beneath professional surfaces:
  • Quote (Ginny):
    “You can keep looking at me, mister. The view is for free.” (45:46)
• Through interviews, it becomes clear that jealousy and blackmail mingle with heartbreak; Tommy Hart and Stella Croft shared a quick, secret marriage and subsequent annulment in Maryland—a “badger game” (scam).
• Clover himself is stabbed in the back (literally), surviving to unravel the case.
• The murder’s true motive turns out to be blackmail—Stella’s plot to extort the boss is met with deadly force.

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4. Episode 3: "Charles Crandall" (63:40–92:02)

Plot One-Sentence Summary:
A man thought dead turns up alive, and a bitter engagement leads to a jewelry store murder mystery.

• Begins with the discovery of a male body, clutching a “Charles Crandall” traffic ticket; when Clover seeks out Crandall, he’s very much alive.
• The “dead” man’s connections to stolen jewelry, a pawned engagement ring, and a longshoreman’s heartbreak are slowly pieced together.
• The mystery girl, Helen, who facilitated an engagement ring “at half price,” is found strangled; all roads lead back to Scully’s Jewelry Store.
• The emotionally fraught exchanges between ex-fiancés, store owners, and grieving family members bring the city’s loneliness and hopes into view.
  • Quote (Sergeant Tartaglia):
    “You got a big sadness from your office window, Danny. You can see the harbor in the yarn.” (81:00)
• Ultimately, the twist is that the jeweler, Scully, killed to recover his own goods, lost when a petty hoodlum took advantage of his carelessness.

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5. Episode 4: "Tom Keeler" (93:02–120:35)

Plot One-Sentence Summary:
A man is killed with two different guns—each shot fatal—and the investigation reveals layers of desperation and blackmail among socialites and derelicts.

• The morgue scene establishes the doubling theme: Tom Keeler was murdered twice, by two guns, two killers.
• The duality is mirrored in the relationships between Park Avenue attorneys, their wayward family member Peggy, and her boyfriend Ralph Clay who was sabotaged by Peggy’s overbearing brother.
  • Quote (Peggy):
    “It’s going to be a lot simpler now with him gone. I’ll wear a black dress like this one for a month and call it a decent interval of mourning.” (108:10)
• Detective Clover parses lies and motives: Peggy and Ralph each accuse themselves of killing brother George Webber and Tom Keeler, but it turns out Keeler was blackmailing them both, playing them off each other.
• Poignant exploration of the destructive power of secrets, shame, and pride.

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6. Episode 5: "Grace Cullen" (122:30–149:41)

Plot One-Sentence Summary:
A woman is found dead on a college campus; a football star protege is murdered soon after, and motives are tangled in ambition, nostalgia, and love gone sour.

• Grace Cullen, middle-aged friend to generations of football players, is found murdered. The primary suspects: a star athlete Lloyd Keeler and his complicated collegiate network.
• The investigation peels back layers of college-town lives: Maureen Hill (roommate), the removed but knowing Mrs. Davy (old grad’s wife), and Don Davy—a has-been player hanging on to past glories by mentoring new athletes.
• Don's wife Claire is exposed as the murderer of Lloyd, driven by jealousy, fear of losing her husband’s devotion, and her own aging:
  • Quote (Claire Davy):
    “You see, it's been 20 years and I've owned Donnie. And suddenly I didn't own him. That boy. Yes, I shot him.” (145:51)
• Don himself killed Grace Cullen, blaming her for his favorite player's downfall.
• Final stadium scene is bittersweet, caught between the roar of the crowd and the cost of chasing glory and control.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Broadway’s Heart:
  “Even death and violence have to meet Broadway standards.” (18:41, Danny Clover)
• On Investigation Fatigue:
  “Maybe it was a joke, huh, Danny?... a practical joke?” (09:02)
• Jenny Morrow’s Bitterness:
  “You ever had it? The feeling that you’ve been taken someplace just—just so as you could insult people with your presence?...” (46:44)
• Sartorial Sorrow:
  “You got a big sadness from your office window, Danny. You can see the harbor in the yarn.” (81:00, Sergeant Tartaglia)
• Peggy’s Disdain for Mourning:
  “It's going to be a lot simpler now with him gone. I'll wear a black dress like this one for a month and call it a decent interval of mourning.” (108:10)
• Claire Davy’s Confession:
  “It's been 20 years and I've owned Donnie. And suddenly I didn't own him. That boy. Yes, I shot him.” (145:51)

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Important Timestamps

• Host’s Introduction & Show Philosophy: 00:58–04:24
• Episode 1: "Corey Suicide Pact": 04:48–32:28
• Episode 2: "Thomas Hart": 34:43–62:30
• Episode 3: "Charles Crandall": 63:40–92:02
• Episode 4: "Tom Keeler": 93:02–120:35
• Episode 5: "Grace Cullen": 122:30–149:41

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Tone and Style

The overall tone is one of reflective nostalgia, marinated in the show’s own bittersweet noir lyricism. Both the podcast host and the original drama’s dialogue revel in poetic, occasionally hard-boiled turns of phrase, always anchoring the procedural in emotional consequence and the lonely bustle of New York nightlife.

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Final Thoughts

Through this bonus episode, the podcast both celebrates the extraordinary quality of "Broadway Is My Beat" and offers a masterclass in what makes vintage radio mystery so enduring: a blend of tight plotting, complex characterization, moody atmosphere, and social depth. For new listeners and longtime fans, these five episodes provide a compelling sampler of radio crime fiction at its most artful.

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Transcript

[Narrator/Announcer]

Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Gut of the prison of the grave. The story you are about to hear is true.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective the Adventures of the Saint starring Vincent Price.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action packed expense Account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yours truly, Johnny Doll.

[Podcast Host]

Hello and welcome to a bonus episode of down these Mean Streets. And I'm starting off with an apology. Due to some travel and some family obligations, I couldn't get a show out this past Sunday. So before our next regular episode, I wanted to bring back a past bonus series where I share my five favorite episodes of a radio detective show. And for this round, the favorites are from Broadway Is My Beat. It's a show that's grown into one of my all time favorites thanks to its writing, directing and acting. The writing is courtesy of Morton Fine and David Friedkin, the dynamic duo behind great radio shows like Crime Classics, the anthology of historical true crime tales. The show was directed by Elliot Lewis, also of Crime Classics and one of radio's most creative talents. And the acting is anchored by Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Now, Broadway Is My Beat is technically a police procedural, but where shows like Dragnet and Gangbusters are strictly business when it comes to solving crimes, Broadway Is My Beat wears its heart on its sleeve. Detective Clover waxes philosophic and romantic about his city and its people, and he encounters colorful characters in his cases from all walks of life. The dialogue is lyrical with strange turns of phrase and exaggerated characterizations, including Clover's right hand man, Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, played by Charles Calvert. It's a show that isn't afraid of a downbeat ending, and displays of raw emotion aren't uncommon. It's all of those things that elevate Broadway as My Beat above the crowd of radio police dramas and make it something really special. So now here are my five favorite episodes of Broadway Is My Beat, beginning with a show known as the Corey suicide pact from August 21, 1950, Detective Clover receives a frantic phone call that alerts him to a pending murder suicide. But when he arrives on the scene, he finds only the murder victim. The other half of the pact is missing. Next is an episode known as Thomas Hart from April 14, 1951, where a murder brings Clover into the garment district of the Big apple. Then from May 12, 1951, it's a show known as Charles Crandall the titular Mr. Crandall is believed to have been murdered, so you can understand Clover's confusion when he turns up alive and well. Our fourth show is known as Tom Keeler from September 22, 1951, where Clover investigates the death of a man who was murdered twice, shot by two different guns with two different fatal wounds. And finally, we'll hear Grace Cullen from November 22, 1952, a story that takes Danny Clover back to school when a woman is murdered after a date with a college football star. I'll be back on Sunday with our next regular episode, but for now, enjoy my five favorite installments of Broadway is My Beat.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Arthur Godfrey, who usually comes around with his talent scouts at this time on Monday, has just about finished his summer holiday. Godfrey will be back with us one week from tonight on August 28th.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Broadway's My Beat. From Times Square to Columbus Circle. The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Broadway's my beat. With larry thor as detective danny clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Broadway. It's the place you drift to because the other promises you made to yourself never happened. You leave your life behind and stand on a street corner beating down the scream in your throat. It's the best of the thousand and one nights you dreamed of the one place in the world where something happens to you. Outside of the movies, it always happens. Something starts it. The tap on the shoulder. The laughter that floats down to your end of the bar. The smile. The special delivery. The phone call.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Your phone's ringing, Danny.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Thanks, Gino. Danny Clover speaking.

[Various Female Characters]

You gotta help. You gotta come here. You gotta come to my home.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Who is this?

[Various Female Characters]

This is Corey.

[Various Male Characters]

Please.

[Various Female Characters]

Please. My husband.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What is it, Ms. Corey?

[Various Female Characters]

A suicide pact? He's trying to make me. He's trying to force me to kill myself. I don't want to die. He's going to make me.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Hello? Hello? Hello?

[Various Male Characters]

Hello?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Who is this?

[Various Male Characters]

What happened, Mr. Corey? I've just killed my wife. Now it's the time for my dying.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Listen, don't be a fool. Hello? Hello?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Wait a minute, Danny. What'd you say, operator?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Oh.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Huh? Oh, yeah. Party hung up too soon. Couldn't trace it, Danny.

[Detective Danny Clover]

It began that way with a desperate protest against private agonies. The protest that can't face the loneliness of death and must kill the loved one so that the path into darkness will not be walked alone. The man Cory murdered his wife and then himself. And the glittering blood spangled shriek for attention. Final identity set into motion. Only an old a familiar routine. The official collecting of the dead. But first we had to find them. Detective Muggerman brought in the phone book. We sat over it, turned to the seas, found there were 25 quarries. We divided them, went our way. The treasure hunt. Found the dead. The first Corey was very much alive. She told me so.

[Various Female Characters]

Nobody dead here, mister. Everybody much, much alive. Come on in and I'll prove it to you.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You live here alone?

[Various Female Characters]

Uh huh.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'll take a look.

[Various Female Characters]

Love it. Come on in.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

See?

[Various Female Characters]

Alone. Just you and me. Touch me. I ain't.

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah, sure. My name's Corey. Why do you have to know?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Man named Corey killed his wife. Said he was going to kill himself.

[Various Male Characters]

Killed his wife, huh? Guts. That takes guts.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Where's your wife, Mr. Corey?

[Various Male Characters]

She's in the kitchen, washing on my work pants so I can go out and look for work. Come on, I'll show it to you. Look, mister, you. Even if you're a policeman, it doesn't give you a right to ask me a thing like that. I love my wife. We never say a harsh word.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Where is she?

[Various Male Characters]

She's asleep.

[Detective Danny Clover]

This late?

[Various Male Characters]

She sleeps this late every morning. I was just preparing her breakfast.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Call her.

[Various Male Characters]

Look, mister, you don't know what you're asking.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Call her.

[Various Male Characters]

Fanny. Fanny, wake up for a minute. It's a policeman. He wants to know did we have a suicide pact. Fanny.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Fanny.

[Various Female Characters]

Suicide pact. Tell him no, but thank him for the suggestion.

[Various Male Characters]

You finish your list, Danny? Yeah.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Mugman. Find him? No.

[Various Male Characters]

You? No. Maybe it was a joke, huh, Danny? A practical joke?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I don't think so. Did you finish the list?

[Various Male Characters]

No, I. I got two more to go.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'll take them.

[Various Male Characters]

The reason I didn't finish, Danny, I. I had to come back to headquarters to. I just got tired.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Forget it. Give them to me.

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah. Here, Danny.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Maybe Mugavin was right. Maybe it had been a joke. Someone's grisly idea of a joke to play on the gullible police. There are people like that. There are people who make a pact to die. The first Cory on Mugavan's remaining list of two was an invalid. A bedridden woman tended by her middle aged bachelor son. He asked me to stay and chat with them. It was such an interesting thing to have happen to them at the last place. The manager of a plush apartment house just off the park told me. Indeed, yes, indeed. He had a Mr. And Mrs. Corey. Oh, yes indeed.

[Various Male Characters]

They've been with us, let me see.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Five years, I should say.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What apartment are they in?

[Narrator/Announcer]

3A.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You understand, of course, that solicitors and peddlers are not allowed on the premises? No, I'm from the police, see? Police?

[Various Female Characters]

Hmm.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Police.

[Various Male Characters]

What is your interest in Mr. And Mrs. Corey?

[Detective Danny Clover]

You're perfectly right. Which way is 3A? Down this center hall.

[Various Male Characters]

But we'll announce ourselves first, shall we? No answer. Well, they're either not at home or they've overslept.

[Detective Danny Clover]

With Mr. And Mrs. Corey. I should say they are not at home. Let's go find out. And bring the key. But that's. Bring the key.

[Various Male Characters]

Very well. Here it is.

[Narrator/Announcer]

After me, please.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Mr. Corey. Mr. Corey.

[Various Male Characters]

I'm sorry, but there's someone from the police.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Mr. Corey. Mrs. Corey. Open it. But I. Open it.

[Various Male Characters]

See?

[Narrator/Announcer]

There's no one at home.

[Detective Danny Clover]

They've gone out. Where's the bedroom? Through here. But I don't believe you have the.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Right to intrude like this.

[Various Male Characters]

As you can see, everything is in apple pie order.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What are you looking for? Why do you pry so? They're dead, that's why.

[Various Male Characters]

Oh. Oh, well, in that case, you might be interested in something.

[Detective Danny Clover]

In what?

[Various Male Characters]

A woman called me just a while ago. Said she'd been trying to reach Mr. And Mrs. Corey all morning on their private phone. There was no answer, so she left.

[Detective Danny Clover]

The message with me. What message?

[Various Male Characters]

Her name, her phone number.

[Various Female Characters]

They interest you?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Get them for me. Now. Get them. This time it was easier. The message was from one Zealous Stanley with a phone number to match. As easy as investing a nickel in the nearest phone booth and telling zealous Stanley you were the police, asking her if she had been calling the Coreys and would she be home and I wanted to talk with her. Ms. Stanley was in turn, non committal, puzzled, cooperative. Please come up, Mr. Clover. The address is 1520 West 46, apartment 2A.

[Various Female Characters]

Mr. Clover?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yes.

[Various Female Characters]

Please come in. Will you sit down? Let me get these things out of here. I. I was so tired when I came home last night. I undressed. Walking into the bedroom. Now, won't you sit down?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Thank you. About Mr. And Ms. Corey.

[Various Female Characters]

Now, don't put me on the defensive, Mr. Clover. I want to help you with whatever it is, so just let me tell you.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Good. Go ahead.

[Various Female Characters]

I've been calling Alice all morning.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's Alice Corey?

[Various Female Characters]

That's right. There's been no answer at her apartment.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Is that something unusual?

[Various Female Characters]

Not in itself. I've called people before and I suppose you have called them and no one answers.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Was it important that you get in touch with Mrs. Corey?

[Various Female Characters]

Not in itself. I just wanted to talk to her.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I see. Just a kind of. Good morning, Alice. How are you? Is that it?

[Various Female Characters]

Something like that. Just let me tell you. Will that be all right, Mr. Clover?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah, it'll be just fine.

[Various Female Characters]

I was at the Corey's last night for bridge. There was something in that house that had never been there before.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What?

[Various Female Characters]

Please.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Sorry.

[Various Female Characters]

Something was wrong. No laughter between the two. Silence, mostly. And now and then a bitter word. I've known them for years. The Coreys have been the cliche of matrimonial bliss. It embarrassed me. I left early.

[Detective Danny Clover]

May I?

[Various Female Characters]

Of course.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You said you were playing bridge. You, Mr. Corey, Mrs. Corey? Who else?

[Various Female Characters]

And Tom's partner.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Tom Corey's partner?

[Various Female Characters]

His business partner, Henry.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Henry who, Miss Stanley?

[Various Female Characters]

Henry Fairchild. Fairchild? Of Cory and Fairchild? You know.

[Detective Danny Clover]

No, I don't, Miss Stanley.

[Various Female Characters]

A factory. They make small things. Electrical parts or something. I don't know.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Tell me a bit more about last night.

[Various Female Characters]

Well, just that Tom was depressed. Alice looked. Well, frightened. I never seen Alice look frightened, but I think that's what it was. Henry did everything he could to brighten things up, but it didn't work. You go ask him. Ask Henry. Henry Fairchild of Cory and Fairchild? Ask him.

[Various Male Characters]

My secretary tells me you're from the police. I can't tell you how delighted I am to see you. Delighted.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Thank you, Mr. Fairchild.

[Various Male Characters]

Come over here, Mr. Clover. Quick, come over. I want you to see something. I'll draw these drapes back so you can see something. Look down there. What do you think?

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's quite a little factory you have there.

[Various Male Characters]

It's more than that, Mr. Clover. It's ten years of our lives. Ten years of blood, sweat, tears. No other way to say it. Ten years of that. And he walks on it. Squashes it like it was a cockroach we'd built. Oh, we're ruined.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Destroyed.

[Various Male Characters]

Milk dry. All that work sucked dry because he was greedy. Hungry for more money. $50,000 like that. Like he was taking it out of a piggy bank. Arrest him, Mr. Clover.

[Various Female Characters]

Go.

[Various Male Characters]

Arrest him. Who? My partner, Tom Corey. Arrest him for grand larceny. Arrest him for dipping his fingers into our till. Arrest him for being an ungrateful, greedy.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Tom Corey did that.

[Various Male Characters]

Here are the books. Look for yourself. But you wouldn't know about a thing like that. Your experts will, though. They'll see. How? Month after month, he's told five things. Three here, ten here, two here.

[Detective Danny Clover]

When did you see Corey last?

[Various Male Characters]

Last night. We were playing bridge. He was moody, new to his wife, Dallas. I tried to cheer him up because I thought it was dyspepsia or something. This morning I find it Was this When you arrest him, Mr. Clover, tell him I'll make it a point to visit him in jail. Jail? He'll give me kicks to see him there every chance I get.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Cory killed his wife this morning, then himself. Huh?

[Various Male Characters]

He didn't have to do that. He could have come to me.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I would have.

[Various Male Characters]

I'd have helped him.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Honestly. We can't find them. They're not at the apartment.

[Various Male Characters]

How about their place on Fire island? Where they have a house? On Fire Island? You think we should try there, Mr. Kohler?

[Detective Danny Clover]

We did. Mr. Fairchild. Drove me out to the landing dock, hired the power launch that took us to Fire Island. Then the short walk across the bone white sands and a small cottage. The front of it was draped with a yellowed fishing net and life preservers whitewashed for the season. Starfish had been nailed over the door. The top of the door was glass. Porthole. The door was open.

[Various Male Characters]

First time this has ever happened.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What?

[Various Male Characters]

Leaving that door open like this. Come on.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Where's the phone?

[Various Male Characters]

In the other room. Ms. Clover. Uh huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah.

[Various Male Characters]

What?

[Various Female Characters]

Oh.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Dead. Shot through the heart.

[Various Male Characters]

Poor Alice. She had nothing to do with it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What about her husband? What? Where is he? If he shot himself, where is he? That's what I said, Mr. Fairchild. Where is he? Wait a minute. Blood. Here on the floor. See it trailing toward the back door. Here. Now the blood stops.

[Various Male Characters]

But no Tom. Where is he? You said he committed suicide.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I was wrong. He committed murder.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You were listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Next week, along about this time, Arthur Godfrey and his talent scouts will be on hand again to delight and entertain you. You'll find that Godfrey's amateur, but knowing scouting, have dug up some wonderful new discoveries for you. And they'll be here Monday after Monday all season long. By the way, next Monday also marks the return of my friend Irma. The Lux Radio Theater and the Bob Hawk show on most of these same CBS stations. Don't miss next Monday evening with cbs, the network of the stars.

[Detective Danny Clover]

There's this about Broadway. It wants everything neat and in place. A word misspelled on a spectacular can stop traffic. A girl lamenting a run in her nylons likewise, and for longer. The scream of the loudspeakers has to be adjusted just so. And the deep, anguished weeping in a darkened doorway, not too much. Even death and violence have to make Broadway standards. The death of Alice Corey by a bullet through the heart, that would measure up this violence committed upon her by her husband. It would measure up, too. Very poignant. Very class A. We've stood in line for worse, huh, kid? A man makes a pact with his wife to commit double suicide. Kills his wife, only wounds himself. That's hard to do when you're hungry for dying. And harder still to be wounded and disappointed. From an island.

[Various Male Characters]

I'd wanted to kill myself.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Alice.

[Various Male Characters]

Succeeded. How could Tom only have wounded himself, Mr. Clover?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I mean, that's all he intended to do.

[Various Male Characters]

Meant to murder Alice.

[Detective Danny Clover]

A policeman has to consider the possibility, Mr. Fetchild.

[Various Male Characters]

Then how would I ask you before how could he have only wounded himself?

[Detective Danny Clover]

He shot Mrs. Corey in the heart. He must have thought that was the best way. In the heart. When he shot himself, he must have flinched. A reflex against his own death. He flinched. He saw he wasn't dead. He liked it that way. It's been that way before.

[Various Male Characters]

You said he committed murder.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's right. When someone kills someone else like that, we call it murder. Is there anywhere else on the island he might be, Mr. Fairchild?

[Various Male Characters]

Well, we've covered all of it. Places I never knew existed. I don't mind telling you I'm tired, Mr. Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And he must have crossed over to the mainland. You know these people at the landing dock, Mr. Fairchild?

[Various Male Characters]

Most of them.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Call out and ask if anyone took Tom Corey across.

[Various Male Characters]

All right. Did anyone here take Tom Corey across today? Did anyone take.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Oh, Graham did, Mr. Fairchild.

[Various Male Characters]

Where is he?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Just the other side of the landing. See his boat.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Let's go. Fairchild. You Joe Graham?

[Various Male Characters]

Hi there, Mr. Fairchild. Hello, Joe. This is Mr. Clover, Joe. He's a detective. He wants to.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I want to know if you took Tom Cory across today.

[Various Male Characters]

You want to know too, Mr. Fairchild? We do, Joe. Yeah, I took Tom across.

[Detective Danny Clover]

When?

[Various Male Characters]

You say something, Mr. Fairchild. When did you take him across, Joe? Early Today. Around noon. Mr. Fairchild.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Did he say anything to you?

[Various Male Characters]

Tell your friend I'm a very sociable man. A fair child. People talk to me. I talk to people. People I care about. Mr. Clover asked that. Because Tom Corey is a murderer. He killed Mrs. Corey this morning. Guess that's why Tom wasn't very talkative. Had things on his mind. Just kept biting his lip. Just sat huddle her. Didn't think it proper to ask him why? Glad I didn't.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Where'd you take him?

[Various Male Characters]

Well, I always took him, Mr. Fairchild. Like I've taken you and him and Alice many times. So you could go back to your factory over there.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Ask him if he'll take us back.

[Various Male Characters]

Will you take us back, Joe? You and the detective? Yes. It'll cost you more for him. Hop aboard. I'll take you.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Danny.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Come on in, Gino. What's on your mind?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

It came through, Danny. I'm going to miss you.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Why are you going to miss me, Gino? What came through?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

But Captain Julius okayed your vacation request. And so did the inspector, and so did the commissioner. Then back again through the inspector and Captain Julius. So here it is. Where you going, Danny?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I haven't made up my mind.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

I've been mulling over the travel folders. Me and Mrs. Tartaglia, and we feel the place for you is Mexico.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Mexico, huh?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Si. In Ensenada. In Mexico. In the Riviera Pacifico. Imagine you with a serape over your shoulder, huachas on your feet and a la cucaracha on your lips. Mexico, man.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Amigo. Me amigo.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

And we are friends, aren't we, Gino?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Lieutenant Clover? Yes, what is it? I'm Dr. Haskell. They told me to come right in. Of course. What is it, Doctor? They said you'd want to see me, that you were working on something that might have something to do with what I want to see you about. All right. What is it? About 20 minutes ago, a man forced his way into my office. I say forced himself because he had a gun. What did the man look like? Oh, about 40, strongly built.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I wrote it all down here because.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I knew you'd want to know. Here. I knew you'd ask me. About 20 minutes ago, he came to see you about a bullet wound, didn't he?

[Various Male Characters]

Yes. How did you know?

[Detective Danny Clover]

We're looking for this man. How badly is he hurt? He'll die. Unless.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Miracles, then. I'm only a doctor.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I gave him plasma, extracted the bullet.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Shot him to the heart.

[Detective Danny Clover]

He wouldn't let me give him anesthetic.

[Various Male Characters]

He's hurt.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Unless he's found immediately, he'll die. You let him go?

[Various Male Characters]

I told you he had a gun.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Oh, I see. Where do you live, Doctor? Here. Here's my card. Thank you. Is there anything else you want to tell me? No, I believe that's all.

[Various Male Characters]

It just came in, Danny, over the teletype. What did item about a woman you talked to earlier. Zella Stanley.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Off the dime. Muggerman. What about her?

[Various Male Characters]

She was found in her apartment, shot to. Pretty expensive dress she's wearing, Danny. Uh huh. She must have been very pretty once. Zella. New girl in high school. Her name is Zella. Wait. She's lying. He must have shot her the minute she opened the door, huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah. Take the other room. Mugavan. I'll go through this one.

[Various Male Characters]

Okay. Danny. Danny.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah.

[Various Male Characters]

The radio. Radio. Phonograph combo. Also very expensive. The bed also the furnishings. Wonder how she managed. Maybe she was rich, huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Maybe.

[Various Male Characters]

I think I find out how. Danny.

[Detective Danny Clover]

How what?

[Various Male Characters]

How she managed. These men's shirts in the bedroom closet. This rose.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Let's see them.

[Various Male Characters]

Embroidered initials in soap. Wish I could afford things like that. TC Tom Cory. Danny. Huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

TC Tom Corey. So it began to take shape. Tom Curry had killed his wife, turned the gun on himself, had missed his heart. Then he had decided to rid himself of the source of his troubles. Zealous Stanley Committed grand larceny, committed murder. Two murders. Now he was a dying man someplace in the city. Find him. We tried all points bulletins, newspaper releases, calling the hospitals, then back to headquarters and wait. Then nodded. A man who nudged his head through a door listened to his story.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

I run the Diamond Hotel on 37th Street. A little while ago, a man came in my place to register.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Why do you think that's of interest to me?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

The man had no bags. I saw that right away when I.

[Various Male Characters]

Handed him the pen to write.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

And on top of that, he said.

[Various Male Characters]

You write my name for me.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

It's Smith. That's what he said. Write John Smith. I said, why? He said, because I got my hands in my pockets. That's why.

[Various Male Characters]

I said, oh, do you?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Come to the point, will you?

[Various Male Characters]

The point is this. I looked over the desk at these.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Hands in his pockets just to see what went. What went was the side of his coat was blood. Then I got cagey.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Cagey.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Kg. I said, how long you want the room?

[Various Male Characters]

Month, day, week. Then he looked funny and said all he wanted to do is rest a while.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

I said, because I saw trouble.

[Various Male Characters]

He left. I came here.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

I did right, didn't I?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Danny Clover speaking.

[Various Female Characters]

There's a man in my house.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Who is this?

[Various Female Characters]

Mrs. Barry. I live on West 57th Street. 1209. I'm frightened. There's a man.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What man?

[Various Female Characters]

He rang my bell and pointed a gun at me and walked into my house.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Is he still there?

[Various Female Characters]

Yes. He looked tired. He sat in the big chair in the parlor. He fell asleep. He's there now, sleeping.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'll be right.

[Various Female Characters]

Can't you understand? He's gone.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Just 10 minutes ago. You called.

[Various Female Characters]

10 minutes ago. He was sitting in that chair, sleeping. He woke up and left. He had a gun.

[Detective Danny Clover]

All right, all right, all right.

[Various Female Characters]

He says he had a gun pointed at my nose. What did you want me to do, hit him over the Head with a candlestick. Not me. He left. Look. Left blood too. All over my rug.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Back to headquarters again. Then a phone call from a pedestrian who had just seen a man who fitted Tom Corey's description on West 62nd. The man was staggering. Mr. Clover. So Mr. Clover dispatched a squad car to the area. The man was nowhere in sight. Then Mr. Clover sat down and thought about it. Tom Corey left Fire island by boat. Found a doctor on 12th street in the village. Put a thumbtack on the man. Tom Corey has tried to get a room at the diamond hotel on West 37th. Thumbtack. Tom Corey had murdered Zealous Stanley. West 46th. Thumbtack. Tom Corey had been asleep in a parlor on West 57th. Thumbtack. Then a phone man, probably Tom Corey, was seen staggering on West 62nd. Thumbtack. Tom Corey was headed uptown. Tom Cory was crazed with pain. Then a recheck of my notebook. Tom Cory had a partner named Henry Fairchild. Henry Fairchild lived uptown. He lived on West 70th. Maybe I could get there before Tom Corey.

[Various Male Characters]

Who is it?

[Detective Danny Clover]

The police. Danny Clover.

[Various Male Characters]

Come in quickly. Ah, I'm glad it's you.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You're afraid of something, Mr. Fairchild. The door. Bolted. Locked. What are you afraid of?

[Various Male Characters]

I read it in the newspapers. Tom still loose.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You still haven't answered my question. What are you afraid of?

[Various Male Characters]

Isn't it obvious? Tom has killed his wife. Killed Zella. Now he's. That's why you're here, Mr. Clover. You know Tom is on his way. Uh huh.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I figure he is. I'm just wondering why you figure he.

[Various Male Characters]

Just said it's obvious. Tom is out of his mind. He killed Zella, didn't he? You know why too, don't you?

[Detective Danny Clover]

No. No. Tell me why.

[Various Male Characters]

You found his shirts there, didn't you? And zealous.

[Detective Danny Clover]

How did you know that Mr. Fairchild wasn't in the newspapers?

[Various Male Characters]

Why, no, it wasn't. It's simply that Tom told me all about it. About Tom and Zella. How expensive she was. That's why he stole all that money.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I see.

[Various Male Characters]

Mr. Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Put down that gun. Give it to me. Said give it to me. Now stand right where you are. I'll take care of it. Come in, tom.

[Various Male Characters]

Shoot him.

[Various Female Characters]

Shoot him.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

He'll kill me.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'll take that gun, Corey. Come on, I'll help you. Sit down over here. There.

[Various Male Characters]

Don't believe him, Mr. Clover. Don't believe anything Corey says. He's going to tell you I killed his wife. That I shot him, that I stole the money. Ridiculous things. Crazy things. Because he's crazy.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Now, Tom.

[Various Male Characters]

Of course, Tom. He's crazy. He's going to say that Zella and I arranged the whole thing to make it look like a suicide pact. That I kill Zella. Tom.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Tom. That's right. Tom's dead. He just confessed to a dead man. Broadway stretches out in front of you. Livid scar, slashed into the night. It's a cruel and fantastic carousel palace of fun, a hall of mirrors. You pay your way and you take your choice. Me, I get in on a pass on Broadway. The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway. My Beat.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. With Charles Calvert as Tartaglia. The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. Included in tonight's cast were Herb Butterfield, Janet Logan, Ann Stone, Junius Matthews, Byron Cain and Jack Crucian. Ladies and gentlemen, tonight's program concludes the present series of Broadway's My Beat. We thank you for listening and hope to return in the near future when Danny Clover will bring you more adventures along the Great White Way. Meanwhile, listen to Arthur Godfrey, who returns at the same time next Monday with his talent scouts. There's always plenty of fun on hand when you hear Columbia's Monday night program Too Many the hilarious misadventures of a father, mother and 10 children. Stay tuned now for Too Many Cooks, which follows immediately over most of these Columbia stations. Bob Stevenson speaking. This is cbs, where you live life with Luigi. On Tuesday night, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Broadway's My Beat. From Times Square to Columbus Circle. The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway is my beat.

[Narrator/Announcer]

With larry thor as detective danny clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

The day without color is only six hours old and the restlessness begins to eat at Broadway. The waiting, the longing for the nighttime begins to gnaw like hunger, like thirst. Because Broadway's night is. Is a banquet loaded with delicacies. The scarlet wine of neon, the forbidden fruit of a trumpet scream, the lukewarm stew offered on a tin plate through an alley doorway. But Broadway's day, that's the drab time, kid. The empty time. The time of leaning against sun warmed stone and waiting. And you wait with the rest of Broadway because it'll come. Something will come. And it does. You know that. Because Broadway nudges you with an elbow. Winks, says, follow me, kid. The day has turned bright and it's not far away where the day is bright on 39th street just off 7th Avenue in the Garment Center. The crowd is already there ahead of you, toothpicking its last bite of lunch, digesting the spectacle of a man sprawled on the pavement. The dress rack he'd been pushing lay beneath him. There was a scissors in his back. His blood sketched a new pattern on the bright flowered silk prints. And the man, heavy in the shoulders, pushing his face into the crowd so you can be close to it, so he can fill you in on it.

[Various Male Characters]

Got here fast, Danny.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I was shown the way. Who is he? Mugavan.

[Various Male Characters]

His wallet says he's Thomas Hart. Social Security card, YMCA membership. It all says he was Thomas Hart. These people know him? Been calling him by name. You don't answer for 20 minutes now, I'd say.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Any of them see it happen?

[Various Male Characters]

No. I asked around. They were all busy with shop talk, with wife and kid talk, with union talk. First thing they noticed was Sinclair Stylecraft's new sample spring line was spilled in the gutter. They kept the cabs and trucks from running over the dresses.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Sinclair what?

[Various Male Characters]

Sinclair Stylecraft. See on address labels? Huh? A dress manufacturing place up the street. He worked there. They all told me that. And I didn't even ask.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Keep them back, Muggerman. They're waiting for us to act something out. Just keep them back. After a while, one of the onlookers glanced at his watch, hurried away. Lunch hour was over and he'd be the big man around the water cooler. This afternoon. Something big just happened to him. He'd seen a man with a scissors in his back and a girl looked up from the pavement, smiled across the crowd to a boy in a sports shirt and walked away slowly. The woman in a youthful hat took her place. In a few minutes, it was all over. Two men threw a blanket over the face of Thomas Hart and carried him away. Then work to do. Thomas Hart worked for Sinclair stylecraft. Ladies and Mrs. Dresses down the street. Go there. Four flights up on a freight elevator, nod to the gray haired man holding the wheel in a comic book and get no answer. And through the rows of sewing machines where 100 women spend eight hours a day with a dress pattern and a bobbin, then finally ushered into the office of the man of destiny for the fourth floor, Mr. Justin Sinclair.

[Various Male Characters]

Sit down, Mr. Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Danny Clover. Police.

[Various Male Characters]

About what happened downstairs?

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's right.

[Various Male Characters]

You want a cigar?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Tell me about Thomas Hart.

[Various Male Characters]

Sure, I'll tell you. You don't mind that I'm smoking, do you? Oh, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What's that supposed to tell me?

[Various Male Characters]

Look, I've been in business for a long time. A man gets hard driving for a dollar. Takes a time like this to make me know what kind of a man I've gotten to be.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'm asking you to weep for the boy, Mr. Sinclair.

[Various Male Characters]

I wish I could weep. That's just what I mean. I've forgotten how. Tommy was a bright youngster. So what if he was pushing dress racks around? I did it once. Tommy was interested. Tommy asked questions about the business. I'm sad, Mr. Clover. Don't laugh at me. I'm more than Sad. I'm horrified.

[Various Female Characters]

Mr. Sinclair.

[Various Male Characters]

Oh, come in. Come in. Stella. Ms. Crawford, Mr. Clover. Mr. Clover is from the police.

[Various Female Characters]

Yes, they told me in the shop a policeman was here.

[Various Male Characters]

That's why I'm glad you did. He wants to know all about Tommy.

[Various Female Characters]

What do you Want to know, Mr. Clover?

[Detective Danny Clover]

As much as you can tell me. Mostly why somebody murdered him.

[Various Female Characters]

Tommy was an errand boy and pushed dress racks. I'm sorry he's dead, but frankly, he annoyed me.

[Detective Danny Clover]

How.

[Various Male Characters]

Mr. Clover? Come now, look at Miss Croft, will you? Just look at her.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Now I'm looking. Does it annoy you, Miss Croft?

[Various Female Characters]

Not yet. If you came into my office and stared at me sitting at my drawing board, then if you grinned, then if.

[Various Male Characters]

You winked, you really couldn't blame Tommy, Miss Croft. Natural normal.

[Various Female Characters]

Don't you do it, Mr. Sinclair.

[Various Male Characters]

Quite a girl, huh? Quite a young lady.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What else about Tommy?

[Various Female Characters]

Nothing. Not a thing.

[Various Male Characters]

Me either.

[Detective Danny Clover]

All right, where does he live?

[Various Female Characters]

I can tell you that. Follow me out. I'll get the address for you from our personnel man.

[Various Male Characters]

Yes. You'll find Sinclair Stylecraft Cooperative, Mr. Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Anything.

[Various Male Characters]

Anything at all.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Next time, knock soft, mister. You want something from Jonesy, the keeper of the garbage pails, the collective wrench, you'll knock soft.

[Detective Danny Clover]

They told me Thomas Hart lived here. Show me his room.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Tommy. Tommy's dead. It's been the topic of the day for the tenants.

[Various Male Characters]

How?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Tommy's dead.

[Various Female Characters]

He don't need nobody in his room.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Now he's dead, can't use him.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Look closely, Jonesy. This is how a policeman looks who wants something.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

I don't care what your sickness is. Next time, knock soft. Come on.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You knew Tommy. No.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Sure I know him. He never wrapped his leavings in the newspaper. Not even a greasy brown paper bag. What else do you need to know about a man?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Sometimes you'd open your door and peep at his callers.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Sure I peep. You don't peep when you get the chance.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Back off, Jones. Who'd you see who Once it was.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

A guy with a dirty white apron and a sack of beer cans. Up these stairs he went whistling. Give me a minute. I'll tell you what he was whistling.

[Detective Danny Clover]

No one else?

[Various Male Characters]

Sure, sure.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Someone else with silk stockings and high strapped shoes. But living as I live in a basement apartment, it got away from me before I could see the face. That never took a moment's happiness away from me.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Not seeing the face.

[Various Male Characters]

What do I care?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Tommy's room.

[Various Male Characters]

Phew.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Crummy tenant, wasn't it? Crumbs. Bring exterminators. Exterminators cost the management money.

[Various Male Characters]

Take your hands off Tommy's suitcase.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Something in this shirt pocket.

[Various Male Characters]

What? Nose tissues.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Tommy was always with nose tissues. I forgot to tell you.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Money, 20s, tens, $500.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

All's in there is a wash basin. That calendar you're looking at, I got piled downstairs. You can take your choice. Don't rob a dead man's dream.

[Detective Danny Clover]

There's an address scribbled under the picture. Directions.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Let me see. Let me see.

[Various Male Characters]

Out of the way.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

It's addressed. All right. You think?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Knock soft, Jonesy. You want something? Knock soft.

[Various Female Characters]

Yes.

[Detective Danny Clover]

The name plate on the door says this is the residence of Justin and Elizabeth Sinclair. Is that right?

[Various Female Characters]

No, I'm Mrs. Sinclair. What is it you want?

[Detective Danny Clover]

My name's Danny Clover. I'm from the.

[Various Female Characters]

The police. You're from the police? Well, come in, please. My husband phoned and said a policeman might be around. Oh, my. Girls. Girls, we're raided. Oh, I was just fooling. Now, Mr. Clover didn't come here to break up our canasta game, did you, Mr. Clover? We're only playing for a 20th. This is Mrs. Westfall, Mrs. Meston and Ms. Natalie. Now, Ms. Natalie does our hair after the game she wins us.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Can we talk someplace, Mrs. Sinclair?

[Various Female Characters]

Of course we can. Deal me out. Girls, in here. We'll close the door so we won't be disturbed. Now, now, tell me all about it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

All right. I came from Tommy Hart's room a little while ago. He had some directions penciled on a calendar. The directions brought me here.

[Various Female Characters]

But I don't understand. Tommy's dead.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Maybe Tommy scribbled those directions before he was murdered.

[Various Female Characters]

Huh? Oh, of course. Surely.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Then Tommy must have been here on some occasion or another.

[Various Female Characters]

Well, of course he was.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What was the occasion?

[Various Female Characters]

Dinner. You'd think I'd get someone in to cook dinner, wouldn't you? But I didn't. I never do now. I still cook, Mr. Clover, like I did before all this happened.

[Detective Danny Clover]

All this.

[Various Female Characters]

You Know the French provincial furniture and the set of books and sending my son to private school.

[Detective Danny Clover]

When was the last time Tommy was here?

[Various Female Characters]

Did my husband tell you why? It was last night. Just last night. Tommy was sitting in that chair you're sitting in now with that girl draped over him, lighting his cigars and waiting on him hand and foot.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What girl did that?

[Various Female Characters]

The girl Tommy brought with him to dinner. That bleach blonde from the shipping department in my house. Imagine why my husband tolerates.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What was the girl's name?

[Various Female Characters]

Ginny. Ginny Morrow.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I think she works for your husband.

[Various Female Characters]

I told you she did. In the shipping department. Checker or something, I don't know. He invited Tommy over because Tommy's right. And maybe someday he could learn the business. But. But why the girl? I don't know.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What else can you tell me about Tommy?

[Various Female Characters]

He ate everything that was put on the plate in front of him.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What else?

[Various Female Characters]

What else? Mr. Clover, I'm a married woman. I've got a son taller than me.

[Detective Danny Clover]

She took me by the hand to prove it. Back to the canasta table. The son was doing fine, Wasn't he, girls? Wasn't he? And her life with Mr. Sinclair was all a girl could ask for, wasn't it, girls? What right had a policeman to come nosing around, spoiling everything? The card game, the hairdos, making the canapes grow cold, letting the ginger ale turn flat just because someone stuck a pair of scissors in her husband's errand boy? So I explained the rights of the dead. The girls cried, scooped up the cards, shuffled, redelt, and I got out. At Sinclair Stylecraft, Ladies and misses Dresses. A woman finished a seam, took the rimless glasses off her nose, rubbed her eyes, told me Jenny Morrow Shipping was on the loading platform having a smoke.

[Various Female Characters]

You can keep looking at me, mister. The view is for free. Teeth, courtesy Dr. West. Miracle tough toothbrush. Hair, courtesy peroxide. 10%. Eyes. Cheeks. Figure courtesy, careful planning.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You're Jenny Morrow For Eugenia.

[Various Female Characters]

Mom called me. Eugenia. Found the name in a book someone threw in the trash can. Dramatic, ain't it?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Some questions I want to ask you, Jenny. Questions about?

[Various Female Characters]

You're a policeman, ain't you?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah. Tell me about Tommy Hart.

[Various Female Characters]

Mine. Hostess of last night. Blabbed to you, huh? Okay.

[Detective Danny Clover]

How long did you know Tommy?

[Various Female Characters]

Long enough to slap him a couple of times. Slap his mouth. Then he says he'll make up to me. He'll take me to the boss's house for dinner. Big deal.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You didn't enjoy it.

[Various Female Characters]

Here I am practically spilling My life's blood on you and I don't even know your name.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Danny Clover.

[Various Female Characters]

It suits you. No, I didn't. Enjoy the supper, Danny. I got the feeling I'm crazy. I'm making it up out of my own head.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What feeling, Jim?

[Various Female Characters]

You ever had it? The feeling that you've been taken someplace just. Just so as you could insult people with your presence? Just by being in a place you don't belong? It's an insult just by being what you are.

[Detective Danny Clover]

But Mr. And Mrs. Sinclair invited you, Jenny.

[Various Female Characters]

Tommy twisted an arm. That's how come I'm invited. Big deal.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Tommy did that to you and he's your steady boyfriend.

[Various Female Characters]

Oh, steady. What's steady? That Daisy. Go pin on Stella the designer. Me? I was the last name on the list.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Stella Croft.

[Various Female Characters]

Stella the designer of designs.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Where is she?

[Various Female Characters]

By the Pantages Theatre on 42nd street in the third row on the aisle. An arrangement we got with the management so Stella can steal the latest Paris creations from the Parisian actors. Stella has a life. Maybe it'll come to me someday. I'll work on.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Was a five minute walk to 42nd street in the Pantages Theater. On the stage, a man in a plaid dinner jacket was having a little trouble hoisting a girl to his shoulders. But when he did, they were fine together, circling faultlessly to the music. By the time I got down front, the man was holding his partner over his head, spinning, smiling and turning red. Stella, crop is there, all right. Pad and pencil poised, staring at the actual. The dancers bowed, everybody applauded. Everybody was happy. Not Stella. Stella with a scissor stuck in her side, lifeless Stella dead. Stella.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You are listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Every Sunday evening, CBS brings you two of its top comedy stars, Jack Benny and Eve Arden. It makes no difference where you live, whom you know, what your job is. Everyone immediately feels at home with Eve Arden's romantic Harris schoolteacher and with Jack's careful spending, perennially youthful portrait of himself. CBS cordially invites you to join them this Sunday again, when Eve arden plays our Ms. Brooks on most of these same stations and Jack Benny and his gang are heard on them all. Now the second act of Elliot Lewis production of Broadway's My Beat.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Of an evening. In springtime, Broadway stands on a street corner, sips its penny plane and counts its blessings. The yanks, the giants, the bums. Only a 10 cent subway ride's distance and usually worth it. There's Bottled orange juice from sun kissed California to be tasted for a nickel. And the rides are getting painted at Coney. And the moon that rocks down over Manhattan in April is a special kind of moon. And the music that lilts from doorways is a special music. The girls are golden. There's more too. It blinks around the Translux and demands your attention for 10 seconds. Girl stabbed at the Pantages Theater. Police seek early arrest. Especially me.

[Various Female Characters]

Oh, it's you. I was expecting the Mestons.

[Detective Danny Clover]

More canasta, Mrs. Sinclair?

[Various Female Characters]

More people dead. The Mestons were coming to console us. They're good at it, make it enjoyable. I don't suppose that's why you came.

[Detective Danny Clover]

No.

[Various Female Characters]

But you want to come into my house and ask your ugly questions?

[Various Male Characters]

Uh huh.

[Various Female Characters]

Just stand right where you are. Justin is that cop I told you about. The one who. Does he have a right to come in?

[Various Male Characters]

Of course, Elizabeth, of course. The man has all the rights in the world.

[Various Female Characters]

Yes, dear. Justin says you may come in.

[Various Male Characters]

Sit down, Mr. Clover. Take the world off your back. Sit down and talk to Elizabeth and me. Cigars there at your fingertip. Anything you need, ask Elizabeth.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Bob, maybe Mrs. Sinclair would like to make you some coffee or a sandwich.

[Various Male Characters]

Anything that'll take her out of here, huh, Mr. Clover, don't be embarrassed. You can talk in front of Elizabeth. She knows more about the man Sinclair than I know. Correct, baby doll?

[Various Female Characters]

You want to know about Justin's friendship with Stella. Is that it, Mr. Clover? Before the scissors episode, I mean.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's it, huh? I didn't think we'd get around to it so easy, but that's it.

[Various Female Characters]

You won't mind if I tell him, Justin?

[Various Male Characters]

Not a bit of it, baby doll. Just hand me a cigar first. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Elizabeth.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Anytime. Anytime, Mrs. Sinclair.

[Various Female Characters]

This friendship, as you called it, it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Was you, Mrs. Sinclair. I remember because it surprised me. The name you gave me.

[Various Female Characters]

You thought it. There was nothing between Stella Croft and my husband, Justin, except the normal relationship of an employer to his employee.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Consultation over dress designs during working hours. Approval, disapproval, the putting into production a counter signing of the weekly paycheck. Nothing more, Mr. Sinclair.

[Various Male Characters]

There was more, she'll tell you.

[Various Female Characters]

There were the times my husband Justin took her to fashion shows, to dinners for the buyers at expensive places. There was the time of a manufacturers convention in Atlantic City. Justin called me every morning, every night. Stella was pretty. Some people thought lovely. She brought us customers, made us richer. That was what was between Stella and my husband. Nothing more.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You don't know why she's dead?

[Various Male Characters]

No. We don't know. But it saddens us. Mr. Clover.

[Various Female Characters]

Send him home, Justin. I'm tired. I want to sleep. If the Mestons come, tell them I'm sick. They'll understand.

[Detective Danny Clover]

More legwork now. The pinching up of the bits and scraps that people leave behind. Get as many as you can and arrange them chronologically. By emotion, by habit, by appetite. Draw a line, one from the other, and peep at a life now newly dead. For instance. Go now to the apartment of Stella Croft. Walk the corridor that once brought Stella home. Turn the knob of her door. The girl in the room was wearing slacks. She watched me close the door. Blew a smoke ring from her cigarette. Watched it die. Then she smiled at me.

[Various Female Characters]

Hi, Danny.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What are you doing here, Ginny?

[Various Female Characters]

Taking the tour. Seeing how a girl lives when she works in the front office of Sinclair Stylecraft. Gosh. Quilted blue satin.

[Detective Danny Clover]

How did you get in here?

[Various Female Characters]

Did you see the superintendent downstairs? Yeah. Did his eyes light up when he saw you? Uh huh.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Jenny, how well did you know Stella Croft?

[Various Female Characters]

Who gets to know a dame like that if you're another dame? Look, Danny, I'm not the type to be a Pollyanna. My mother told me. Jenny, never be a Pollyanna. Stand on your own two feet. You don't like somebody, don't like them. And that's how I felt about Stella.

[Detective Danny Clover]

To a T. Because she had all this because she was going out with Mr. Sinclair.

[Various Female Characters]

So I was jealous. But this apartment is something to get jealous about.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You going to try your luck with Sinclair.

[Various Female Characters]

He's already noticed, Danny. The day that I wore that black velveteen with the peasant blouse, he spent practically the whole morning in the shipping department giving me a personal supervise. You want me for anything more, Danny?

[Detective Danny Clover]

No. Just be around where I can find you, Jenny.

[Various Female Characters]

Oh, sure, Danny. I really would. Danny. I'd drop all my appointments.

[Detective Danny Clover]

The apartment looked like Jenny hadn't turned. The place was impeccable. Slick like Stella Croft had been. Lacquered furniture, highly waxed and full length mirrors. I walked back into her bedroom, around it, fingering this and that. The small, intimate souvenirs a girl like Stella collects. Then over to a Pullman closet, opened it. Wondered for an instant why a woman needed so many shoes. Wondered. Wondered why it hurt so much. The brightness of it, the pain, the sharpness slipping so easily into my back. Then gave it up because I couldn't hold onto it.

[Various Male Characters]

And now the finishing touch, Danny. The claim to fame of Dr. Sinski in medical school. It was Always commented upon how Dr. Sinski finished off his handiwork.

[Detective Danny Clover]

It's the bedside manner. I don't need it.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

That's right. You don't need it, Danny.

[Various Male Characters]

Hold on to something, Danny. It'll hide.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Yeah, hold on to something to me. It's gonna hurt. He held onto something to me and it still hurt him. What is it with you, Dr. Sinski? Maybe you need a refresher course in adult medical education.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Unruffle your feathers, Mother. I'm all right.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Listen to him, doctor. Last night he got a hole in his back from unsharpened scissors. And this morning he tells me he's all right.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Okay if I go back to my office, Dr. Sinski?

[Various Male Characters]

You'll need rest, Danny.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'll bear it in mind.

[Various Male Characters]

Check me in the morning, you hear, Danny? You hear?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah. Debt piles up, doesn't it, Doctor?

[Various Male Characters]

What debt? What are you talking about?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'll count out the times you've eased the pain. I'll let you know.

[Various Male Characters]

Get him out of here, Gino.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Yeah, yeah. Come on, let's go, Danny. I'll go get permission from the captain to give us sick leave. And then I'll conjure up a squad car and we'll surprise the Mrs. Sergeant Artaglia in the middle of a mozzarella and. And then we'll salve our wound together.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And then what made two people die like that, you know, Tommy Hart, Stella Croft.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Danny. Danny, you disappoint me. You are thinking on your sick leave time.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What ties it together, Gino?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Danny, if I tell you, you promise to let me manage your sickness, huh? What ties it is Tommy Hart and Estella Croft were once married in that place in Maryland, you know, on that quick marriage plan. I ain't making it up, Danny. Mugavin dug it out of the records.

[Detective Danny Clover]

It was a secret between you two.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Oh, Danny, it don't mean nothing. They got in a node the next day. That unties it. Danny, you're jeopardizing your good house.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Danny.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Good morning.

[Various Female Characters]

Yes, sir, Can I help you? Hi, Danny. Hey, look at me.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah, look at you. Since when they move you out of the shipping department into the reception desk?

[Various Female Characters]

Since this a.m. i told you, I got supervised into it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Tell Mr. Sinclair I want to see him.

[Various Female Characters]

Sure, Danny. Watch me. See?

[Various Male Characters]

What is it?

[Various Female Characters]

Ms. Morrow, there is out here at this moment a gentleman of the Police Department, a Mr. Danny Clover.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Show him in.

[Various Male Characters]

Show him in.

[Various Female Characters]

Very good. To that door, Danny.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Thanks. Hello, Mr. Sinclair.

[Various Male Characters]

I'm a busy man, Mr. Clover, but I always have time to talk to you, Mr. Sinclair.

[Detective Danny Clover]

How much of your affairs can you get in order in the next 15 minutes?

[Various Male Characters]

My business. We never talk in riddles.

[Detective Danny Clover]

It's how much.

[Various Male Characters]

Why when things a man can answer. What's on your mind?

[Detective Danny Clover]

You, Tommy, Hart, Stella?

[Various Male Characters]

They worked for me, Mr. Clover, and they died. I'm going to pay for their funerals. And I'm going to find out if they had families. They'll be taken care of. We have a fund toward that.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Tell the people at headquarters that might make an impression. Honestly.

[Various Male Characters]

Honestly. Now, I don't know what you're talking about.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Let's stop kidding each other, Sinclair. You're a man with tastes. The lines of women's dresses to a lacquered apartment to a little employee who's now your receptionist. From Stella Croft to Ginny Morrow. Better find out if Ginny had a husband.

[Various Male Characters]

I still don't follow him.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Then I'll tell you. It's called the badger game.

[Various Male Characters]

Listen to me, mister.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You listen to me. Tommy and Stella weren't married, did you? You didn't know it, huh?

[Various Male Characters]

I thought I saw the certificate of marriage. The justice of the peace, who married to my.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I thought marriage annulled the next morning. Badger game. Stella invited you to make a play for her. You bit Tommy walks in waves. A certificate of marriage. You pay him money, invitations to your home. He gets greedier and greedier. So you kill him.

[Various Male Characters]

I didn't have to. You don't know what it was. Clove that boy. Grinning into my face, taking over my house, making me.

[Various Female Characters]

What is it, Justin? What's the matter? What happened?

[Various Male Characters]

Make him understand. Make him understand.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Mrs. Sinclair, your husband just confessed to killing Tommy Hart.

[Various Female Characters]

Wouldn't you. Wouldn't you kill him? It's all right, Justin. I'm here now. It's all right.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You got Tommy out of the way. Sinclair. Why did you kill Stella?

[Various Female Characters]

I said it was all right, Justin.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'll tell you why. Stella knew you killed Tommy. It didn't worry her very much. She just upped the blackmail. Auntie St. Clair. That's why you killed Stella.

[Various Female Characters]

He didn't. He didn't. He didn't.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You did.

[Various Female Characters]

For what she was doing. Doing to my home, to my husband, to my boy. To my boy's name. Yes, and I stabbed you, too, for what you were doing to us. I killed. I'd kill again.

[Various Male Characters]

What'll we do about the boy?

[Various Female Characters]

You didn't think, did you, Justin? You just didn't think when you started it. When you saw that Stella, you didn't think.

[Various Male Characters]

Please.

[Various Female Characters]

Please. The boy will be all right. We have money. More than you had when you started. He'll be all right, Justin. He's going to be.

[Detective Danny Clover]

In the April night, Broadway echoes with sounds heard only in darkness. The whispers that speckle places where there's no sun. There's a touch on your coat. You turn, there's no one, nothing. Only the trail of dust on your shoulder. It's Broadway. The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway. My beat.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Broadway's My Beat Stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. With Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack Crucian as Mugavan. The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's cast, Irene Tedro was heard as Elizabeth Sinclair, Herb Butterfield as Justin Sinclair, Sylvia Sims as Ginny Morrow, Mary Shipp as Stella Croft and Sydney Miller as Jones. If you're in the mood for mysteries, you can try CBS almost any old evening. And there's a top notch thriller on hand.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Poison.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Tomorrow and every Sunday it's Charlie Wilde. Monday nights, the top Hollywood stars appear in original thrillers on the Hollywood Star Playhouse. Thursdays, there's a swell night for mystery and thrills on CBS. Suspense, Mr. Keen and the FBI and Peace and War are heard on most of these same stations. Stay tuned now for Sing It Again, which follows immediately on most of these same CBS stations. Joe Walter speaking. This is cbs, where you laugh at Jack Benny every Sunday night. The Columbia Broadcasting System.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Broadway's my beat. From Times Square to Columbus Circle. The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Broadway's my beat. With Larry Thor as detective Danny Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

In the mid afternoon light of May time, Broadway shimmers and languor walks the street. The dream walk rhythm to the pulse of the sleeping neon, to the sun warmed blues yawned out of loudspeakers to the slow erratic dance of the litter of night held close, thrown away by a gutter wind. And with the rest of Broadway, you stand and watch or follow the crowd and lend your heart to the whispered cry that this day, this time, will not get away from you. But it does. It always does. The web of blood in the alley was already dust heavy, its threads leading you to the man huddled in a forgotten anguish against the flaking brick of an alley wall. His hand still clutched to the bullet wound as if he tried to claw out the pain and never made it. And the other man leaning over him, being gentle and polite as he searched the Dead man's pockets. Then finding something and looking at it. Then making the only observation left to him.

[Various Male Characters]

It's a nice day, wasn't it, Danny?

[Detective Danny Clover]

What did you find, Magavan?

[Various Male Characters]

Found him like that, all broken up about the bullet in his chest. Tried to tell me why it was there. The word never got out.

[Detective Danny Clover]

It was phoned in.

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah, from the back room of a bar down the alley. A friendly chap wandered out for a breath of fresh air. Saw this, ran back to the bar, made his phone call, bought drinks for the house. He's still celebrating if you want to talk to him.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You talked to him?

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah. Friendly lush. Invited me to a cold beer. I didn't take it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

He knew this man.

[Various Male Characters]

Never had the pleasure. He told me all the citizens of the alley never had the pleasure. I checked. Uh huh.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What's that in your hand?

[Various Male Characters]

This? Oh, I almost forgot. It's a ticket for Park. He made out to a Charles Crandall over parked in the loading zone. He can snap his fingers at it now, huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

This your witty day, Mugavan?

[Various Male Characters]

I try, Danny. Days like this, I guess I don't make it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Anything else, huh?

[Various Male Characters]

Not a thing. Nothing except that expensive watch on his wrist. You have to listen awful close to even hear it ticking. Very expensive. It's running. But in this alley, you can't hear it ticking.

[Detective Danny Clover]

No wallet, no identification. Just the parking ticket, is it?

[Various Male Characters]

That's all. A wristwatch and a parking ticket. Not much for a grown man to leave behind him, is it, Danny?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Then the alley formerly known only to the char, the garbage collectors and the shortcut homers. Then the alley became cluttered with new faces, mostly scrubbed. The girl in the picture, hat on the Pekingese, a maid in the baby carriage. The dad and his son. Mostly these, interspersed with enough men from the police department so that I could leave. I did. Back to headquarters briefly with a traffic ticket. Enter the traffic department long enough to check an automobile license number against a name and be given an address. Charles Crandall. Rooming house on West 17th Street. And go there. Wait a few seconds until the woman at the front door had finished shaking out her mop.

[Various Female Characters]

Good morning. Guess I should say good afternoon. House cleaning. You sure lose track of the time.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'm looking for Charles Crandall. I'm from the police.

[Various Female Characters]

Oh, my. Charlie hasn't done anything, has he?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Is he home?

[Various Female Characters]

I wish you'd answer me. I'm his landlady and I never had a better roomer than Charlie. What's Charlie done?

[Detective Danny Clover]

We found a man with A traffic ticket in his pocket.

[Various Female Characters]

Charlie told me. Parked illegally.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Is he home?

[Various Female Characters]

Why, no. Charlie hasn't been home for the last couple of days.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I see. Yeah.

[Various Female Characters]

Charlie's engaged, you know.

[Detective Danny Clover]

No, I didn't.

[Various Female Characters]

He brought his young lady over just last week. Introduced us. Rosemary. Such a nice girl. Help me with the dishes, Rosemary.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What?

[Various Female Characters]

I don't remember quite. Nielsen is something. Rosemary's such a nice name for a girl gonna be married.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Can you tell me why Charlie hasn't been home?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Of course.

[Various Female Characters]

Sometimes she stays at Rosemary's house. Her parents love him like he was their own. Like I feel about him.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Was Charlie about 5ft 11? Blond hair, heavily built, but not fat, you understand?

[Various Female Characters]

Charlie takes exercise every morning when the chandelier shakes in the parlor. I know. Charlie's taking his exercises and the chandelier shakes every morning before he goes to work.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Do you know where Charlie works?

[Various Female Characters]

Surely. Charlie's a longshoreman. That's another reason why he's not fat. Works the Peerless Steamship Line unloads. That's an idea. If you want to talk to Charlie, why don't you go there? You're a policeman. They'll let you talk to him.

[Detective Danny Clover]

The foreman said your name was Charlie Crandall.

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah, that's right.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'm from the police.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Oh.

[Various Male Characters]

Oh, the parking ticket, huh? I'm not surprised.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I am. I didn't think you were alive, Charlie. Come on.

[Various Male Characters]

If I'm not being too previous. Where you taking me, Mr. Clover?

[Detective Danny Clover]

You'll see.

[Various Male Characters]

I had parking tickets before. Nobody ever took me by the arm and let me down a cold, damp hallway.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That so? Nobody ever.

[Various Male Characters]

Never. So help me. I've been missing out on things. Life has passed me by. Huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

In here, Charles.

[Various Male Characters]

Don't tell me. Let me guess. It's a morgue.

Uh huh.

I keep looking at such things in the papers whenever you boys put on a safety campaign. Look, the paper says drive carefully or this on the slab is you. Because I got a lousy parking ticket, you're making me live it. This the new up to date method? There's a chill in the air here. How come I'm sweating?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Take a good look, Charles.

[Various Male Characters]

I'm looking. I make your promise. I will drive carefully, observing all the traffic signals. And I will never over park in a loading zone again. Promise? Cross my heart. Gypsy blood oath. If you want.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You know him?

[Various Male Characters]

Cover him up, put him back.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

I've had him.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I said something, Charles. You know him?

[Various Male Characters]

Who knows people who ask for this kind of thing? A shelf for a grave. I'm grateful to you, though, Mr. Clover. You've introduced me to a new experience. You've given me a memory I never had before.

[Detective Danny Clover]

We found this parking ticket on him, Charles. Yours. Look at it. Yours. Why do things like this happen to a man like you?

[Various Male Characters]

It's very complicated.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'll listen.

[Various Male Characters]

You sure you got the time? You got nothing better to do down here?

[Detective Danny Clover]

There's all the time you'll ever need.

[Various Male Characters]

Fortunate me.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's right, Charles. Count your blessings.

[Various Male Characters]

What I'm building up to if you give me the chance. Last night was a blessing. Maybe this, what you're showing me, was a part of it. I wouldn't know.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Well, the mood hits you, the part you know. I'll wait.

[Various Male Characters]

Well, last night was my night in Solly's Bar on Third Avenue.

Oh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

This man was found in an alley near Solly's Bar.

[Various Male Characters]

I wouldn't know about that. All I know is Solly's a man with an open ear. I cried into it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You'd had a tough day.

[Various Male Characters]

That too. I'm a longshoreman. Remember? That too.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Zoe cried a glass full of tears into Solly's ear.

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah. About the engagement ring I needed for my girl or my betrothed, I call her about the engagement ring I couldn't afford to buy for her. Because a man like me don't lay away for things like that.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Must have been very dramatic.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Yeah.

[Various Male Characters]

I put it on. Maybe more than it needed. Cause a girl walks over to me, runs her fingers across the beard on my cheek, tells me she has heard the whole thing. The big trouble I'm in with my betrothed.

[Detective Danny Clover]

She stopped your weeping?

[Various Male Characters]

You could say that. She told me there was a jewelry store, Scully's Jewelry Store, down the street. To come with her to pick out any ring in the window I wanted.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Like a fairy tale.

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah, you could say that. So I went with her. Pointed to the fattest ring in the window with the fattest numbers. A star sapphire. She says, meet me again tomorrow. Get it for your half price.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Good girl to meet in a bar.

[Various Male Characters]

You'll never dream how good. After that, she takes me back to Solly's. Lets me exchange my other sorrows with her.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You had more?

[Various Male Characters]

Only one more I could call to mind at the time. The parking ticket. She says, give it to me. I know where to fix it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You believed her?

[Various Male Characters]

I hear it's been done.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And that's the last you saw of the ticket?

[Various Male Characters]

The gypsy blood oath. If you still want it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Who is the girl, Helen?

[Various Male Characters]

Address Solly's Bar on third. Go to him, Mr. Clover. A girl like that can ease many sorrows. Just ask for Helen. They'll know.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Don't thumb through any travel folders, huh, Charles?

[Various Male Characters]

Why should I? I found a home. Here. Cover him up, huh? Mr. Clover, it's chilly in here.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Solly's Bar on Third Avenue, the boy had said. Go there and ask about a girl named Helen. Because Charlie had given her a traffic ticket and the ticket had turned up on one John Doe, dead on arrival. Third Avenue is a tenement, five stories high and miles long. At nine o' clock the night is going full blast. The open air. Card games for juveniles only. The doorstep trysting places, and every seven minutes, the elevated scream. Somewhere between com choose Hong Kong Hand Laundry. Special attention paid to pleated dress shirts and the Blue Star Delicatessen. Cream soda and hot corned beef, two bits. Somewhere between there was Solly's Bar. I walked in.

[Various Male Characters]

What's yours, friend?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Beer. Make a draft.

[Various Male Characters]

One dime. Thanks.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Your name's Solly? You own this place?

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah.

[Detective Danny Clover]

So you work here every night?

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Why? Skip any nights this week?

[Various Male Characters]

Hey, what's with you, buster? You spent a dime. Drink your beer, listen to the music.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'm looking for Helen. Oh, Helen. Tall, blond, you know. Look, buster, you're here every night, aren't you? You ought to know Helen.

[Various Male Characters]

I want to show you something, friend. See this? A ball. Bet I bought it from a kid who swiped it from the Yanks dugout. I sawed it off. You want to hear how it goes? That's the way it goes. When I slap it on a bar, you want to hear how it sounds. Otherwise, you want to cop, huh? Why didn't you show me the badge before?

[Detective Danny Clover]

What about Helen?

[Various Male Characters]

I get it. Don't be a cop. You figure I'd tell you about Helen, huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

What about her?

[Various Male Characters]

I told her to stay out of here. What do you want me to do, hit her over the head with the bat?

[Detective Danny Clover]

The other night she was in here talking to a longshoreman named Charlie Crandall. You know anything about that?

[Various Male Characters]

Who's in trouble? She. It is Charlie.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Charlie Crandall was talking to you about an engagement ring. Do you remember that?

[Various Male Characters]

Who remembers? For what reason? My ear gets bent.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Helen.

[Various Male Characters]

I know you want her, huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Where do I find her?

[Various Male Characters]

You wait on that bar stool. She'll be in whispering at you for a drink. Well, you can't wait. Try the second floor, back at the corner house at the end of the block. This side of the street. Can't wait, huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Walk down to the corner house which the sign at the head of the steps said, allowed no visitors after 10 o'.

[Various Male Characters]

Clock.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And the other sign at the end of the corridor, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Wash out the bathtub. And the door that was swinging open briefly, then closing open. Helen. Helen. Get no answer. The tenement draft swings the door open and presents a room. A torn apart room. Nothing was in its place. Nothing was undisturbed except the girl on the bed. The strangled girl with the tumbled blond hair. The dead girl. The murdered girl.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You are listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Anyone interested in an auto ride from Hollywood all the way to New York? A fella in Hollywood named Jack Benny has to make the trip. He's got a fine Maxwell automobile and he's looking for someone who loves sharing the scenery and the expenses for full details and fascinating highlights. Be listening to CBS's Jack Benny show this Sunday evening. And remember, Eve Arden as our Miss Brooks will be on hand too.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Springtime on Broadway is like springtime on a thousand other main drags, except for one thing. Mother Nature doesn't function on Broadway. Nothing grows. It gets constructed, but nobody bothers. There's the salary to be earned, baseball scores to be considered, and the weather to be discussed. However, as in all times and places, there are the crackpots, some even delirious enough to give you odds that Broadway's liable to get blown off the face of the earth. You waste a shrug on that one and flip the newspaper over another page. Scan the quarter column on the right hand side. Girl murdered in Tenement House. Police seek link with death of unidentified man. Which was straight reporting. I know because I was the policeman directly concerned. Next morning, open the notebook and scan the personal brand of shorthand. See? Now an item. Charlie Crandall had been taken by the hand and led to the window of Scully's Jewelry Shop to pick out an engagement ring. Go there, look in the same window and walk into the store.

[Various Female Characters]

Good morning.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Oh, good morning. I'm Danny Clover from the police.

[Various Female Characters]

Yes?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'd like to see the manager.

[Various Female Characters]

Well. Well, I guess I am until Mr. Scully comes in. What did you want to see him about? I'm his wife.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Take a look at this picture. Mrs. Scully, have you ever seen this man before?

[Various Female Characters]

I might have, but I don't know him personally, if that's what you mean. Maybe I've seen him someplace. Who is he?

[Detective Danny Clover]

A man we've got in the morgue. Now, take a look at this picture. Young girl, also in the morgue.

[Various Female Characters]

How terrible.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Do you know her?

[Various Female Characters]

She could be anybody. Somebody's sister or sweetheart. In the morgue? In a police mark. Oh, what happens to people, Mr. Clover?

[Podcast Host]

What?

[Various Female Characters]

My, my. Look at him.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Hello, honey.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Like it?

[Various Female Characters]

Blue coat and brown pants. Well, that's different, George.

[Various Male Characters]

I took my brown coat to the cleaners on the way to work. It got soiled. Oh, sorry, dear. This gentleman.

[Various Female Characters]

Oh, this is Mr. Clover, George, from the police. And this is my husband, Mr. Scully.

[Various Male Characters]

Oh, Mr. Oh.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Something I can do for you, Mr. Clover?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Just take a look at a couple of pictures here. This one. Never saw him. Take a look at this.

[Various Male Characters]

No her either. Dangerous characters, huh, George?

[Various Female Characters]

They're dead. They're in a police morgue.

[Various Male Characters]

No, I don't know either of them, Mr. Clover. I'm talking to the gentleman, Louise.

[Various Female Characters]

But I'll forget if I don't tell you now.

[Various Male Characters]

My wife is forgetful, Mr. Clover. That's a good kind of wife to have. What is it?

[Detective Danny Clover]

There.

[Various Female Characters]

Mrs. Reed was in here for her diamond brooch. I couldn't find it.

[Various Male Characters]

Why not? Why couldn't you find it?

[Various Female Characters]

Mrs. Reed was furious. You promised her you'd have the catch repaired by this morning.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Well, it's ready. Why couldn't you find it, Louise?

[Various Female Characters]

I looked. It's not there on the repair rack. I looked all right, but I couldn't find it.

[Various Male Characters]

Call up Mrs. Reed and tell her your husband's here, Louise.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Tell her to stop in for a brooch.

[Various Male Characters]

Well, do it, Louise.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You're not missing anything from this shop, are you, Mr. Scully?

[Various Male Characters]

Missing what?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I don't know.

[Various Male Characters]

I don't understand what you're talking about.

[Detective Danny Clover]

A robbery, anything like that.

[Various Male Characters]

You're joking.

[Narrator/Announcer]

If I had a robbery, I'd know I'd been robbed, wouldn't I?

[Various Male Characters]

You want anything else, Mr. Clover? No. Then you'll pardon me, won't you? Sure you will.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Gino. What's the matter, Tartaglia?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

You got a big sadness from your office window, Danny. You can see the harbor in the yarn.

[Detective Danny Clover]

It makes you unhappy, huh?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Lady Jane Pugh, the ne' er do well. Girl detective from London town. She has pushed off from our fair shores, Danny. The paper said she grew lonesome. To each an English kipper in the fog.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Happens to a girl sometimes.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

You're fighting me, Danny. Don't do that at a time like this.

[Detective Danny Clover]

There's only one thing to do with a grief like yours, Gino.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Tell me, Danny. Don't tease me. With it. Tell me.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Bury it and work, you mean.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

I tried, Danny. It don't help. There it is, on your desk.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You buried your grief in this envelope.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

A part of it. The rest. What's in the envelope is news from the FBI concerning the fingerprints of the man now in the morgue whom you found bullet holed in the alley. They matched them to a minor hoodlum, name of Johnny Malloy, used to work our fair city. Crossed a few sweaty palms with silver. Address unknown. I informed them his new address finally.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Caught up with him. Don't you know? Yes, Danny Clover speaking.

[Various Female Characters]

This is Rosemary Nelson, Mr. Clover. Can you come to our house right away, please?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Who did you say?

[Various Female Characters]

Rosemary Nelson. I'm Charles Crandall's fiance. He told you about me? He says it's about the ring he gave me. The engagement ring. I don't want it, nor him anymore. Please come.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What's your address, Rosemary?

[Various Female Characters]

The brownstone with the marble stoop. 1827 West 58th.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You'll be here right away.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

You going out, Danny?

[Detective Danny Clover]

You mind?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

If you want to leave me alone with a memory, it's all right. Go ahead, Donnie. I'll be all right. I've been alone before. Bye, Danny.

[Various Male Characters]

Don't pay any attention to her, Mr. Clover. She's upset. A lover's quarrel upsets a girl like Rosemary. I know. We've had them before.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's all it is, Rosemary. Just a quarrel that needs a policeman to referee it.

[Various Female Characters]

Look at this ring, Mr. Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Beautiful star sapphire.

[Various Female Characters]

Take it. I don't want it. Give it back to whoever Charlie got it from.

[Various Male Characters]

You know where I got it from, who I got it from, how I got it. Don't make a tear stained production out of it.

[Various Female Characters]

I'm not crying, Charlie. Not anymore. That's one thing I used to like about you. You never gave me a reason to cry.

[Various Male Characters]

You got a star sapphire, didn't you? Is that what eats you? Because you never had a thing like that before? Because the star shoots pains through your head?

[Various Female Characters]

Leave me alone. Just you leave me alone, you hear?

[Various Male Characters]

Rose.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Rose.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Honey. Where'd you get the ring? Charles?

[Various Male Characters]

Honey. Rose, baby, listen to me. I told you I'd tell the police.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I dropped into Scully's Jewelry Store a little while ago and noticed a little square, clean place in the window like where a ring box had been. This the ring, Charles?

[Various Female Characters]

Yeah.

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah. You need an engagement ring, lonely man. Take it. Looks like I don't need it anymore.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Ellen Griffith get it for you like she said she would. Half price and everything?

[Various Male Characters]

Half price and Everything. You could go ask her, except I read in the papers she's dead. So you'll have to take my word for it, huh?

[Various Female Characters]

You were with her. You were with her and she sold you the ring. And now she's dead and you want me to wear it. Get him out of here. Get him out.

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah, why don't you do that, Mr. Clover? It ain't the same between Rosemary and me anymore. So why don't you do like the pretty girl asks?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Let's go, Charles. I'm sorry, Rosemarie. Leave me alone.

[Various Female Characters]

Just you leave me alone, you hear?

[Various Male Characters]

What are you waiting for, copper? What is.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Come on.

[Various Male Characters]

What are you gonna hold me on suspicion of murder until they come up.

[Detective Danny Clover]

With a new one?

[Various Male Characters]

Danny. Danny. Over here in a squad car. Woman down at headquarters. Danny turning the air blue with complaints about Scully the jeweler.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Says he tell us about it on the way down. A.m. i'll pass the time for all of us. You, me and our boy Charlie.

[Various Female Characters]

Well, finally.

[Various Male Characters]

This is Danny Clover, Ms. Christie.

[Various Female Characters]

What am I supposed to do? Put two fingers in my mouth and whistle?

[Detective Danny Clover]

You made a complaint about a jeweler named Scully. What's the complaint?

[Various Female Characters]

Don't talk to me like that.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What is this, my man?

[Various Male Characters]

I'll handle it for you, Danny. Now, look, Ms. Christa, you told me something about a watch and about Scully's jewelry store. I want you to tell Mr. Clark Clover.

[Various Female Characters]

What's the matter? You got amnesia? Sonny, please tell him it's about my layaway plan. Whirl that around for a while.

[Various Male Characters]

Danny, this is a mad dream.

[Detective Danny Clover]

We lost that one, mugman.

[Various Male Characters]

Try another move, Ms. Christie.

[Various Female Characters]

I told you it was my layaway plan. My layaway plan.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You mean you bought something for Mr. Scully on a layaway plan? You're dumb, don't you, boy? What did you lay away, Miss Christie?

[Various Female Characters]

A watch for man's wrist. I'm cartin'. Figured a bull of it'd make him happy.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You still haven't told us what the complaint is.

[Various Female Characters]

That's Scully. For 11 months now, I've been paying down on the watch, see? Come in with the last payment in my hot little fist. No watch. Scully tries to sell me another one.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That watch have a gold face, gold.

[Various Female Characters]

Wristband, and if you flip open its backside, there's 17 jewels visible to the. If you'll pardon the expression, naked eye.

[Various Male Characters]

Hey, Danny, that sounds like the watch we found on that guy in the alley.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah. Entertainer. Mugavan.

[Various Female Characters]

Yeah, the man said sonny. Entertainer.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Then a squad car and on the way to Scully's jewelry shop. The gathering together of the after images of two peoples dying. Item, Ms. Christie. The fact that her wristwatch had disappeared from Scully's store had turned up on a murdered man's wrist. Item, Helen. The fact that she had gotten a star sapphire from Scully at a big saving. The fact that she'd been murdered. Conclusion? Mr. Scully had been robbed or he'd been giving away merchandise. Anyway, it was a conclusion that needed. Mr. Scully.

[Various Male Characters]

What can I. Oh, hello, Mr. Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Is your wife here? Scully?

[Various Male Characters]

In the back sort and stock.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Get her.

[Various Male Characters]

Well, if it's important, Mr. Clover, but she's busy. Get her, Mr. Clover. Well, all right. Louise. Louise, come here for a minute.

[Various Female Characters]

I haven't finished the stock, George.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Leave it and come here.

[Various Male Characters]

Mr. Clover wants.

Who?

Mr. Clover. You remember the policeman?

[Various Female Characters]

Well, tell him to come back. George, if you stop me in the middle of the stock, I'll forget what I've done.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Don't Worry about it, Mrs. Scully. It won't take long.

[Various Female Characters]

What do you want? I told you I couldn't recognize those people.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I know. Your husband couldn't either.

[Narrator/Announcer]

What's the matter?

[Various Male Characters]

Don't you believe us?

[Various Female Characters]

Yeah, don't you believe us?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Tell me something, Mrs. Scully. Did your husband ever locate Mrs. Reed's diamond brooch? The one that needed the catch fixed?

[Various Male Characters]

Why? Ask her. Ask me?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah, I found it.

[Various Female Characters]

You mean I found it, George. You remember we laughing when I found it in the repair case? After looking there a dozen times, I just couldn't understand it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Because when you looked a dozen times, it wasn't there. Tell her where it was, Scully.

[Narrator/Announcer]

What are you trying to do to us, Clover?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Tell her where the brooch was, Scully. And the wristwatch and the star sapphire ring.

[Various Female Characters]

Oh, my.

[Various Male Characters]

He's crazy, Louise. I don't know what he's trying to do.

[Various Female Characters]

Oh, my, George. Well, George, I'm not gonna lie for you. You might as well know that after all, you've done something wrong. I know I'm a plain woman, George. And I'm in my 40s and I make myself forget a lot of things, but not this. George.

[Various Male Characters]

She doesn't know what she's talking about.

[Various Female Characters]

You lied to me, George. Scully, you said you took your coat to the cleaners and you never did. When I was in there today, the cleaning man asked me about you. Said you hadn't been in for such a long time.

[Various Male Characters]

I told you a little white lie, Louise. I lost my coat.

[Various Female Characters]

Must have lost the keys to the store, too. Is that why we've been using mine?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Is that how that hoodlum Johnny Malloy looted your shop, Scully? Walked in and took your coat when you had it off?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Well, when it's hot, a man takes off his coat.

[Detective Danny Clover]

But your keys were in the pockets. Why didn't you report it to the police?

[Various Female Characters]

Because you were with that woman again, weren't you, George? That's why you couldn't report it.

[Various Male Characters]

But I was only drinking with her. In a bottle.

[Various Female Characters]

I don't care what you were doing. After all, you promised me. Louise, I, I, I lied for you about the pictures. But I'm not gonna lie anymore. Not about her. Even if she is dead.

[Various Male Characters]

Louise, what do you want me to say?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

I don't know.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Tell her you killed Johnny Malloy. Only he didn't have the loot. He'd already given it to Helen. So you had to strangle her to get it. And you got it.

[Various Male Characters]

Hey.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I don't know what got into me, Louise.

[Various Male Characters]

I didn't want you to know it such a beautiful night. I was walking along. I stopped to light my pipe. It was in front of the bar.

[Narrator/Announcer]

And I heard a tap on the window.

[Various Male Characters]

It was Helen. She waved me in and I. I just didn't want you to know.

[Various Female Characters]

But you promised you wouldn't. And now look at you, George. Scully, you're a murderer.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I think we better go, Scully.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Louise, you gotta help me.

[Various Male Characters]

We'll get a lawyer.

[Detective Danny Clover]

He'll tell you what to say.

[Various Female Characters]

I won't lie, George. I just am not going to lie anymore.

[Detective Danny Clover]

In May, the night sighs down on Broadway like a rosy promise and someone smiles and takes your hand, whispers and for an instant the lights are brighter, the noise louder and your scream mixes well with the scream of the night. It's Broadway. The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway. My Beat.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack Crucian as Mugavan. The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story, Lou Merrill was heard as George Scully, Jeanette Nolan as Louise Scully, and and Adam Williams as Charles Crandall. Others in the cast were Peggy Weber and Joy Terry. Say there Sing It Again's current Phantom voice is really a phantom. For the past two Saturdays, she's mystified everyone. Jan Murray's called in his coast to Coast Sing it again phone tonight. Jan may call you if you can name the Phantom. She's worth $3,000 in cold hard cash. So stay tuned now for Sing It Again, which follows immediately on most of the these same CBS stations. Joe Walters speaking. This is cbs, where you laugh at Jack Benny every Sunday night. The Columbia Broadcasting System.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Broadway's My Beat. From Times Square to Columbus Circle. The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Broadway's my Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

In autumn sunlight, the September day trots out its promises for Broadway's considering. Displays them in doorways, in push cars, in gutters. Decorates them with price tags. Invites you to browse. Don't touch, buy, don't squeeze. And at cut rates are the secondhand delights. The tears slash down to any man's purse. The bolt end of dreams. The vendors simper, the hawkers wink. Buy, kid. That's a winter sun on your shoulder. And the day is short, so buy. And that's what you do, kid. Because on Broadway there's no other choice. And at police headquarters, the September's day has arranged its wares of violence on your desk. Stacked as to category degree grade. Because the day is still fresh. You put off the reaching for them, the touching of them. But it screams close to your ears.

[Various Male Characters]

In the morgue, Danny, Come down. I got something of interest to you.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And walk the corridor to the room of the dead. Through the swinging doors into a place without season. Where all nights, all days are of equal length. Where temperature is constant. Where the wind is conditioned. Before it's let flow over death. Walk up to the man who waits for you.

[Various Male Characters]

A nervous twitch, Danny. To juggle things in my right hand. Maybe I'll be remembered for it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What have you got, Dr. Sinski?

[Various Male Characters]

The man lying there, they found him in his bed last night. Murdered. These that murdered him. Two bullets.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Look.22 and a.32. Wouldn't you say so, doctor?

[Various Male Characters]

That I wouldn't know. What I know is only one of these was needed to kill him.

Either one.

The man was wanted dead twice, Danny. He was killed twice. Two bullets, different size. Twice dead.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You know who he was?

[Various Male Characters]

When they brought him to me last night, there was a tag on him. A name. Tom Keeler. An address to Nixon Hotel. Nothing else. No other word to the living about why such things happened?

[Detective Danny Clover]

You're sure, doctor?

[Various Male Characters]

You're sure that each wound was a mortal wound? Danny, Each wound could. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure. You'll want these, huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah. Take them. And that's the way my day began. And the ingredients of it were a medical examiner, a murdered man and two bullets in a room of no value except to the dead. Except to those whose business is with death. Consider that briefly. Then push it away. Leave. Go. Get out and hurry. And in the corridor, find what you're looking for. The breath of air not controlled by a thermostat. Then the walk down the hall, turn over the two bullets to Technical, then outside and the squad car. The ride to West 25th street and to the Nixon Hotel to the five story brownstone that seemed to list from pressure of the insurance housing project next door to it. Go in, ring a bell, wait. Be greeted by the man in gray suspenders and no shirt.

[Various Male Characters]

Morning.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Good morning. I'm Danny Clover, police.

[Various Male Characters]

Randy Quantrill.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Hi.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You had a little trouble here last night, didn't you?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, just a mess of it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Did you know the man who was killed?

[Various Male Characters]

You mean Tom, huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's right. Tom Keeler.

[Various Male Characters]

What do you mean? Know him?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Talk to him, Have a beer with him.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Said hi it to him. That's about the extent of my deduction.

[Detective Danny Clover]

How about visitors? Did he have any?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Look at the sign over My shoulder, Mr. Clover.

[Various Male Characters]

Mr. Clover. You know some Clovers down in Selma, Alabama. You any kind? Look at the sign over my shoulder.

[Narrator/Announcer]

No visitors. No visitors.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And you think just because the sign is there, Tom Keeler didn't have any visitors?

[Various Male Characters]

No. No, I don't, mister.

[Narrator/Announcer]

We got a sign and each and.

[Various Male Characters]

Every room says no smoking in bed.

[Narrator/Announcer]

In the last year we had three mattress fires. So what I'm saying is I never.

[Various Male Characters]

Saw anybody sneak past this desk.

[Narrator/Announcer]

That I said to myself, there's a Tom Keeler visitor.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What else about Keeler?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, he got mail this morning. Maybe I ought to tell you that.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah, maybe you should.

[Various Male Characters]

I'm going to fresh mail that come this morning. Here, the letter.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Oh, thanks.

[Various Male Characters]

From the Great Northern National Bank.

[Detective Danny Clover]

So I see.

[Various Male Characters]

Please come in and talk to us with regards to your commercial account at your earliest convenience.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You read upside down, Mr. Quantrill.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I've lived in Baltimore.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Oh, thank you, Mr. Quantrill. Thanks a lot. And for that, Randy Quantrill winked at me, laughed noiselessly at me, leaned against the mail rack, scratched his back with it. It wasn't the moment to intrude any longer on such private pleasures. So I left him. At the Great Northern National Bank. A guard, uniformed in tattletale gray, took my name, my business, walked down a marble aisle with them and identical desks, identical faces behind them. Unerringly, the guard chose one. The right one. This was a shrewd guard. He muted his voice to the extracurricular business I had brought to the Great Northern. Offered it to the man. The man considered it, digested it, and when he had it all in order, motioned me to the chair the guard had placed discreetly close to him.

[Various Male Characters]

I'm told we can help you, Mr. Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Man named Tom Keiller had a checking account here.

[Various Male Characters]

They're aware of it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Then you know that he was murdered last night in a cheap hotel.

[Various Male Characters]

Aware of many things, Mr. Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'm sorry, I can't hear you. What'd you say?

[Various Male Characters]

I say that our research department makes a point of informing each of us here on many diverse matters. Matters that could even most remotely concern.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Thank you.

[Various Male Characters]

Beg pardon?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I said thank you because you let me hear what you had to say. Hmm.

[Various Male Characters]

I was appointed, Mr. Clover. Should any questions arise about the late Thomas Keeler. Should any questions arise, I was to answer the question. Your interrogation is what, Mr. Glover?

[Detective Danny Clover]

We down at headquarters think it's strange Tom Keeler slept in a flop house when he had a checking account with us.

[Various Male Characters]

Uh huh. Philosophical question, Mr. Clover. Someone out of my province.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Pardon me.

[Various Male Characters]

What? I say that all we know of Thomas Keeler is that we were asked to transfer $50 weekly to his account, which we have done religiously until.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Who asked you to do that? Counselor at law.

[Various Male Characters]

General George Weber. If you want his address, we shall give it to you.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Thanks. You were saying you did this until. Until what?

[Various Male Characters]

Until two weeks ago, possibly. Two weeks in the fraction of a day when Mr. Weber asked us to discontinue his generosity.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Why?

[Various Male Characters]

I suggest it is a personal matter concerning Mr. Weber. Don't mind troubling you with it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What?

[Various Male Characters]

What?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I. I'm sorry, I. I said that I. Never mind. Probably wasn't important. And go to the Park Avenue apartments of George Weber. Be told by the person at the desk that Mr. Webber is not at home. Perhaps at his office. The person suggested. And be handed a slip of paper with the office address in a handwriting with the I's dotted with small circles. Weber and Marley. Slip said attorneys. Finance building, suite 12. Go there. Go through a door and past the beam of an electric eye, wade through a carpet to a desk and an olive skinned girl with tight black hair. Offer your name, show your credentials and be told Mr. Webber is out. Would you see his partner, Mr. Paul Marley? You would. You nodded past another door and another beam and to a slender young man who is waiting for you in front of a wall lined with every law book ever written. Be chaperoned by him through yet another door. There he was. Paul Marley. Partner to George Webber. Impeccable. In morning coat, striped pants and an army discharge button in his lapel.

[Various Male Characters]

That'll be all, Robertson. Now, sit down, please, Mr. Clover. Clover, please sit down.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Thank you.

[Various Male Characters]

The information you gave out there says you're a policeman.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's right.

[Various Male Characters]

And. And this is about what, sir? What can I do for you?

[Detective Danny Clover]

It's about a man named Tom Keeler.

[Various Male Characters]

Keeler? Keeler.

[Detective Danny Clover]

A man found murdered last night?

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Shot twice with different caliber bullets. Either one fatal.

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah. Is all this a matter of legal advice for the police department? You want to know if a man was shot by two people and each shot.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's not it at all. Tom Keeler, it seems, was supported by your partner.

[Various Male Characters]

By Mr. Webber.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's right. Each week, $50 was drawn on Mr. Webber's account and deposited in favor of Tom Keeler.

[Various Male Characters]

Surely there's no mistake.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's the way it was.

[Various Male Characters]

But I know Mr. Webber so well. His affairs, everything.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Where is he?

[Various Male Characters]

On Fire Island. Since the day before yesterday. He has a place there. I'm pretty sure he went there.

[Detective Danny Clover]

A lot of season for Fire island, isn't it?

[Various Male Characters]

Oh, I don't think so.

[Detective Danny Clover]

The end of September.

[Various Male Characters]

Mr. Webber goes there all year round. Whenever.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Whenever what?

[Various Male Characters]

Whenever he's disturbed. He has the idea of the sea, the Strand. The loneliness of it. Personally, I.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Was Mr. Weber disturbed about?

[Various Male Characters]

He has a sister, Peggy. She's just 20. So you can imagine.

[Detective Danny Clover]

No, I can't.

[Various Male Characters]

Beautiful girl of 20, rich, and you can't imagine? Look, Mr. Marley, my partner was constantly arguing with her. We're a conservative firm, Mr. Clover. Individually, both Mr. Webber and my sister.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What's that got to do with Peggy?

[Various Male Characters]

Peggy Webber is headstrong.

[Detective Danny Clover]

How?

[Various Male Characters]

I take my partner's word for it that she's headstrong.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Therefore. And they argued, Peggy and her brother. What about?

[Various Male Characters]

I have no idea.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And he went to Fire island to recuperate.

[Various Male Characters]

One way of saying it. Anything else, Mr. Clover? No. Then, please, These documents here, if you don't.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And get in touch with the authorities at Fire Island. Check on the whereabouts of Mr. George Webber and wait. And an hour later, a phone call. Mr. Webber is not on Fire Island. Mr. Webber's place there is deserted from the looks of it. Hasn't been inhabited for over a month. So come up with a conclusion. Mr. George Weber was missing. Put out an all points bulletin on him and go back to his Park Avenue apartment. Make a request of the management.

[Various Male Characters]

We're always glad to accommodate the police.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Then let's go, shall we?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Of course. Mr. Webber's apartment, right this way, down the hall.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yes, sir.

[Various Male Characters]

Although I'd like to know why we should intrude.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Don't worry about it.

[Various Male Characters]

Yes, sir.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Open the door.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Of course.

[Various Male Characters]

And here we are.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah, we are, aren't we?

[Various Male Characters]

What?

[Detective Danny Clover]

What did you say?

[Various Male Characters]

What did you say, Mr. Clover? I didn't.

[Various Female Characters]

Oh.

[Detective Danny Clover]

It stopped both of us. The management, myself. It was a sight that needed only one glance and the details were there forever. The free shaped coffee table and the grotesquery of the man spread beside it, the tracery of blood that stopped abruptly.

[Various Male Characters]

Mr. Webber. That's Mr. Webber.

[Detective Danny Clover]

The pen knife bone handled and cheap in his heart to be remembered details in the death of George Webber.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You are listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. There will be a slight pause while we think of an adjective to describe Mario Lanza.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Sorry.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Guess there just isn't one adjective to describe a guy who sings just as well in the popular range as in the classics. But here's a suggestion. On CBS Radio tomorrow night over most of these same stations, don't miss Mario Lanza's All Request show and more of the same By Lovely Giselle McKenzie and Ray Sinatra's music.

[Detective Danny Clover]

When the night slips out of Broadway's fingers and the false dawn blurs the shadows, Broadway stands bewildered. The carnival is run down, Only the stragglers walk it with their step without pattern like their dreams and the color of their loneliness is the dark darkened neon, the last sparks of a cigarette butt and pavement gray. And they walk it. They never know Broadway's closed for the night. And somehow or another, whether it deserves it or not, the world gets to be 9 o' clock in the morning. Then there's a place for everybody. It's daytime. Breakfast time, work time, make a dollar time. Or as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia said, Lend.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Me a dollar, Danny.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Oh, sure, Gino. Here.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Thank you. The reason for this transaction, Danny, is.

[Detective Danny Clover]

No, you don't have to explain it.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

I want to. I want to.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Go right ahead.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Thank you. Mrs. Tartaglia forgot to tuck my dollar into my lunchbox today, as is her won't for the little things a man needs during the day. She just phoned me and confessed her deliction of duty in this matter.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Gino.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

It she said, ask Danny for it and tomorrow she will tuck in $2 so that you will not go hungry.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Tell Mrs. T not to worry, Roger.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Wilco. And now, Danny, to the chores of the day. Knife. Which did George Webber in was of the variety which can be purchased at our leading hardware stores for the nominal sum of 198 practically untraceable prints wiped clean.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Go on.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Well, that's about the sum and substance of the intelligence which has been shunted from the downstairs to the here. Then, as of now, however.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

A young lady is in the ante room and wants to see you.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Who is she?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

A Miss Peggy Webber, sister of the most latterly deceased.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Get her.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

This way to see Danny Clover now.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Sit down, Miss Weber. That'll be all, Gino. I'm glad you came, Ms. Weber. Your name's right here on my calendar to see today.

[Various Female Characters]

I knew you'd want to question me about George.

[Detective Danny Clover]

How did you hear about his death?

[Various Female Characters]

I was home. The late news on the radio. You see, I didn't live with my brother. We didn't get along. Oh, it's going to be a lot simpler now with him gone. I'll wear a black dress like this one for a month and call it a decent interval of mourning.

[Detective Danny Clover]

It's not any concern of mine, Ms. Weber.

[Various Female Characters]

It's entirely your concern, Mr. Clover. Your position demands that you locate people who would have motives for murdering my brother. I would.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Did you kill him?

[Various Female Characters]

A few of my friends and I got together some time ago for kicks. We were going to try things together. You know, just for kicks. Black magic. Well, I spent the first 10 days of my membership sticking pins into my brother's picture. All that happened is that he got a stye on his eye. Outside of that, I never harmed a hair on his head.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Why all this hate, Miss Weather?

[Various Female Characters]

Simply this. I love a boy. I told George about him. George got red, then blue. Red again and then a lovely color I never saw before. He found out who the boy was, ruined him.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Who is the boy?

[Various Female Characters]

Ralph Clay now runs a bowling alley on Third.

[Detective Danny Clover]

One more thing. Do you know a man named Tom Keeler?

[Various Female Characters]

Not offhand. Why?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Oh, never mind. Leave your address with Sergeant Ottaglia, Ms. Weber. And Sergeant, thank you very much.

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah, yeah.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You Ralph Clay? Huh?

[Various Male Characters]

Oh, hello. Yeah, it's me. To my dying day, you walked into an empty hall, mister. Feel real sorry about it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Don't be. This way. We can have a long talk, shall we?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Don't let it get away, Miss.

[Various Male Characters]

Mister, I want to take care of this thing. Coming up. Kingpin. Seven pin challenge. What do you think?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Go ahead.

[Various Male Characters]

Watch me.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Yeah.

[Various Male Characters]

Never say go ahead to me in that tone, mister. Not on that shot. My quirk each day. I live for it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'll remember, Mr. Clay, look. Police.

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah, yeah. Stick your thumb in a ball, mister. Please. Have fun. I'll write it off under entertainment. Joint's bad. No one will know.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Something Peggy Weber said it sent me to you. Peggy?

[Various Male Characters]

A girl of class. She tell you I kill her?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Brenner, I. I got the impression she was in love with you. Pity the girl.

[Various Male Characters]

She lives in ancient history in a time where she loved and I loved back. But ancient history under the breach.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Peggy did something to you.

[Various Male Characters]

She had a brother, now dead. I read it. Stopped me for breath on the way to the sports page.

[Detective Danny Clover]

George Webber did something to you?

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm a man who likes to talk about it. My daily nourishment. Share it with me, huh? Georgie Porgy Weber didn't like how his sister used to put her hand in mine. So he marked me lousy.

[Detective Danny Clover]

How?

[Various Male Characters]

Standing before you, Mr. Police, is a boy who once thought he was a lawyer. Cap in hand, he went to Georgie, a soon to be brother in law. Asked for a job. Keep it in the family. Georgie smiled, shook his head no. And with words and music, he told me he'd spoil from me any job I took from anyone he knew.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Because you loved his sister?

[Various Male Characters]

I was second in my class in law school. You want to invent other reasons why.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Hate Peggy for it?

[Various Male Characters]

Things like that run in the blood. I don't stick around till it comes out in Peggy and slaps me in the head.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Then that gives you a motive for having killed Webber.

[Various Male Characters]

Ain't that a lucky one?

[Detective Danny Clover]

And Tom Keeler? What did you have for him?

[Various Male Characters]

Keeler?

[Detective Danny Clover]

A man who got killed in a fleabag. A man Weber supported and typical.

[Various Male Characters]

Typical? They're supporting him. I mean, good old Uncle Tom was an old friend of Georgie's and Peggy's father. After the father died, Uncle Tom still hung around.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Why is he called Uncle?

[Various Male Characters]

Peggy calls him uncle because he was her confessor, her hero. Everything that ached Peggy she brought to good old Uncle Tom.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Not to her brother.

[Various Male Characters]

Who goes to a man like that except to kill him? Give you Something to ponder, Mr. Police.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah, you did.

[Various Male Characters]

I'm glad. Makes me want to live through another day.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Watch the bitter boy make his strike.

[Various Female Characters]

Yeah, yeah.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And consider the lie he'd flipped to you. The girl's lie. That she didn't know Tom Keeler and wonder over it. Jotted down in memory as a future conversation piece with Peggy Weber. And then remember a man who said he knew all about George Webber. Everything. Everything but the mention of Keiller share in his partner's life. Go to him. Wait for him to finish his preening. To taste to the full the decorations bestowed upon men of know how.

[Various Male Characters]

Got this little time machine for being on my toes, Mr. Clover. Handsome tidbit, isn't it?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah. Yeah, it is.

[Various Male Characters]

Seventeen jewels, Hamilton. All because I proved in court the chap's wife had been unfriendly to said chap. Look what the grateful devil had engraved in the gold. To chum. Paul Marley, for setting me free. To chum.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What was there about Tom Keeler that Shut your mouth about him.

[Various Male Characters]

Why? Why? My compliments, Mr. Clover. Brilliant strategy. Attack while the enemy celebrates minor victories in tactics.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Clover. You tell me about Webber. Personal things. About him, his sister. Why not about Tom Keeler?

[Various Male Characters]

It pained me. For George's sake, My deceased partner's sake, it pained me.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You'll show me where it hurts.

[Various Male Characters]

You think you'll be able to understand? Don't answer. It doesn't matter. Hilo was a derelict, a bum. A hungry shadow in George's closet. That's why George opened that account for him. To keep him from coming here to bed. George and I had a large investment here. The presence of Keela was.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Webber cut off the account.

[Various Male Characters]

At my insistence. My counsel. It made quite a row the other day between Tom and George. I had to shoo people back to their desks.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You killed George Webber. Attack.

[Various Male Characters]

Attack. I Admire your method, Mr. Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

For the investment. The plush carpets, the perfumed secretaries, the junior partners. All yours. Now. You kill Webber for that.

[Various Male Characters]

The death of my partner was a great loss to me, Mr. Clover. A personal loss. Were it in my humble power to hunt out his assassins, I would dedicate my knowledge, my life, my. Yes, Danny? Something I can do for you, Dr. Sinski?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I have an idea about something. I want you to check it for me.

[Various Male Characters]

Gladly.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Get out the medical examiner's report on Tom Keeler.

[Various Male Characters]

Gladly. Give me a sec.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Here.

[Various Male Characters]

What do you want it for?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I want to put it side by side with this one I've got on George Webber.

[Various Male Characters]

So?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Here.

[Various Male Characters]

It says Weber died day before yesterday at approximately 6pm uh huh.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And it says on this report that Keeler died about midnight on the same day. You know what that means, Doctor? No. What? There's a pencil on your desk. Figure it out.

[Various Female Characters]

Well, Mr. Clover, you used my address after all.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Mind if I Come in, Ms. Weber, this evening?

[Various Female Characters]

You can go as far as calling me Peggy. But you can't come in.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'm afraid I'll have to.

[Various Female Characters]

You'll have to force your way in. I could Relish that, Peggy. But a friend's visiting with me.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Ralph. Clay.

[Various Female Characters]

You said the password. If you know that, you might as well come in. Ralph. Come out, come out, wherever you are. Say hello to Mr. Clover, Ralph.

[Various Male Characters]

I told you a big fib, didn't I, Mr. Clover? Well, now you know.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I didn't know whether you'd broken off with Peggy or not. Doesn't matter anymore.

[Various Male Characters]

You want to ask Peggy questions, huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

You too, Goody Goody? You lied to me too, Peggy.

[Various Female Characters]

Because I'm a liar. I give her off a lot of trouble that way, don't I, Ralph?

[Various Male Characters]

Let's just listen to what the man has to say.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Your lie about Keeler, Peggy. You said you didn't know who he was.

[Various Female Characters]

I explained it to you. I'm a liar.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I found out who killed your brother, Peggy. I said I. We heard you. There were a lot of motives floating around, Peggy. Yours.

[Various Male Characters]

Leave her alone. She didn't kill her brother. I did.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Oh, cut it out, Peggy.

[Various Female Characters]

Ralph had nothing to do with it. I did it.

[Various Male Characters]

What's the matter with you, Peggy?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

You're crazy.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You're a liar.

[Various Male Characters]

You lie.

That's why you're saying you kill your brother.

[Various Female Characters]

Ralph.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Ralph. Neither one of you killed him. You thought Ralph did. Peggy and Ralph.

[Various Male Characters]

What are you trying to do to us, Clover?

[Detective Danny Clover]

What are you doing? Police methods. Trying to get us to play against each other. Take it easy, Ralph.

[Various Male Characters]

Come on.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Take it easy, Ralph.

[Various Male Characters]

Take it easy.

[Various Female Characters]

Ralph.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What are you trying to say?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Talk. Talk.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Tom Keeler killed Peggy's brother, Clover, so help me out. Listen to me, both of you. Clover, let him talk. Ralph Keeler killed him because his source of income was cut off. A man like Keela could kill desperate man. A man without livelihood. A tramp who made a habit of living off someone else's generosity.

[Various Female Characters]

Ralph. Ralph. It was all my fault.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You found your brother dead, didn't you, baby?

[Various Female Characters]

Yes, and I.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You thought Ralph did it.

[Various Female Characters]

Yes, I thought.

[Various Male Characters]

Ralph. It's gonna be all right, baby.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Peggy went to her Uncle Tom like she always did when she was in trouble. Told him Ralph had killed her brother. What did Tom Keeler say to you, Peggy?

[Various Male Characters]

He said.

[Various Female Characters]

He said not to worry. Just not to worry.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Then he got in touch with you, huh, Ralph? Yeah.

[Various Male Characters]

Yeah, he did. You know what he told me?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I think so.

[Various Male Characters]

He told me Peggy killed her brother. He was a killer all the time.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'm supposed to be a bright boy. So I had each of you believing the other had killed George Weber. How much money did he want from each of you to protect the other.

[Various Male Characters]

Oh, what difference does it make? Doesn't matter anymore.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Blackmail. That's why Tom Keeler's dead too. Murdered. Yeah.

[Various Male Characters]

You slap the cuffs on me for that one, Clark.

[Various Female Characters]

No, Ralph. No more. You don't have to anymore, Mr. Clover. My uncle said he wanted everything I had to keep quiet about Ralph. So I went up to his hotel room while he was sleeping and shot him.

[Various Male Characters]

No.

[Detective Danny Clover]

No, Peggy.

[Various Male Characters]

That's what I did.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's what you both did. To protect the other. You both shot Tom ke.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Stop her.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Stop her.

[Detective Danny Clover]

There's a time on Broadway when the crowd gives up, goes home, the lights buzz fitfully, die. Then it's a street of dim moonlight and dark whispers and the wind of the autumn night. The wind that scatters everything. Yesterday. Yesterday's headline. Yesterday's dreams, yesterday's people. It's Broadway. The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway. My beat.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Broadway's my Beat. Stars Larry Thor as detective Danny Clover. With Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack Crucian as Mugavan. The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story, Lilian Byeffee, wizard as Peggy Weber, Anthony Barrett as Ralph Clay, Paul Freeze as Randy Quantrill, Bob Bruce as Mr. Chase and Edgar Barrier as Paul. Here are two Sunday features that have captured America's fancy year in and year out. On Sunday afternoon, the distinguished music of the Symphonet, directed by Michelle Piastro. On Sunday evening, the outstanding vocals of the Coraliers. Listen for both these musical treats every Sunday on most of these same CBS radio stations. The Symphoniet in the afternoon. In the evening, the chorales. Stay tuned now for songs for sale which follows immediately over most of these same stations. Bill Anders speaking. And remember this Monday night, Lux radio theater features 13 Hollywood stars in the gala salute on the CBS radio network.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Broadway's my beat. From Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway is my beat.

[Narrator/Announcer]

With Larry Thor as detective Danny Clover.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

The night that begins to curtain, Broadway in late November is a thing of gauze gray stuff that touches autumn to December. And the moon pocks the shadows with a frosty light. The time of the three coffee dinner of the sweater and the vest under the coat. But the plucked birds hang high and there stalks of corn and wheat and in shop windows, tableau of settlers and friendly redskins biting dusty pumpkins. Holiday time everywhere. Everybody will Be eating turkey, it says. And uptown, far uptown, where I was only night wind and the near pattern of campus lights in back of the Student union building. And Detective Mugavan. And the woman? Dead. My watchman was making his rounds, caught her in his flash, phoned it in. Identification? Yeah. Handbag here.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Grace Cullen, 19. This is it. Says.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Thank you very much. 1903 West 160th. That check with your observations, Muggin. Okay. Okay. Shot from up close. She looks a little oldish, huh? Oldish for what? Well, college campus. Nighttime. Still kind of pretty. About 37 or 40, I'd say. Well, yeah. You stick around for technical megamin. See you later, Sam.

[Various Female Characters]

Who is it?

[Detective Danny Clover]

What do you want?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Police. Open up.

[Various Female Characters]

The length of the latch chain and the tip of my nose through the slit. As far as I get with late dates. Show me you're a policeman.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah.

[Various Female Characters]

See, you're dealing with a sleepy child. And I'd better turn the porch light on so I'll know it's not just a recurrent dream. True, Badge. And you've wakened me. And you've proven your point. What next, policeman?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

It's about Mrs. Grace Cullen. She normally.

[Various Female Characters]

Other nights, Grace would have opened the door to you. But as Grace is not at home and she's heaven knows where.

[Detective Danny Clover]

She's dead. Murdered.

[Various Female Characters]

That did it. I'm awake now. You can come in. I'll turn the lights on in the.

Parlor.

Where Grace and I receive our dates. You're going to come in and tell me about it or are you just going to stand there in the hall?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You're related too, Mrs. Cullen?

[Various Female Characters]

Oh, that's it. You thought I was her daughter. Something like that.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

No.

[Various Female Characters]

No tie of blood between Grace and me. Then Grace ran an ad in the college paper. Room and board for girl student in return for light housekeeping. Look how nice I keep it. You can try for dust anywhere you choose. Maureen Hill, sophomore and Light Housekeeping. Now, what's this about Grace?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

We found her in the campus a little while ago.

[Various Female Characters]

Grace is a widow. She's 41. Widow, 12 years. She told me she was 37. I scouted around. I found out she was 41. Look, anyway you look at it, she's a widow.

[Various Male Characters]

I know.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You told me.

[Various Female Characters]

And there was a rapport between her and football players. She understood their sorrows and problems. Observe the footballs lining the mantle.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

She have a date with one of them tonight?

[Various Female Characters]

Boy was here earlier tonight. Left end type boy. His eyes were glazy and his manner was hazy. Big game today. And we lost and the boy was drunk and came call. Who was boy left in weight 1976 3. Like a swift dream on the playing field and in the headlines. His name was Lloyd Keeler. He was here for a while and he went away.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

And after that?

[Various Female Characters]

After that I wouldn't know. I said good night to Grace. It curled up in my downy. Reminds me it's where I should be now. Nighty night, policeman.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

So leave there and outside the streets have given up to midnight. Stone facades against darkness. Bolted doors and only here and there the pencil line of light beneath drawn shades. Section of city asleep properly respectively. So home now not your own 2 key. Type 1 key for the front door, the other for the rented room and bath and kitchenette and sleep. The rented sleep.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And morning new day.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

So get ready for it. Then call headquarters and give you a route for the day. Ride uptown the college, inquire at the registrar, get the name and address of the fraternity house of Lloyd Keeler.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Go there.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

The boy who answers the door for you is disappointed you're not an old Grant or something. Thus leaving empty his handshake of curled little finger and vertical thumb. But his answers are broad. Lloyd Keeler is not there. Wasn't in last night. Haven't seen him. Don't know where he is. Tried the gym he offers coach Red Price. Old Red, I don't know. Anytime at all. He leaves you with fellow. So across the campus the sad sunny paths of branch shadows and young people and into the coach's office. And old Red looks just like his pictures in the paper. Except no hair. That was neat. Thanks. No, no, thanks. You know, I think the Cougars are too deep down the center of the line for us. But reigns we're dead. What with our Stella tailback Pribbick temporarily on the sideline with a fracture. I'm a policeman, not a reporter. Oh. Trying to locate Lloyd Keeler. He'd do something with a bucket of red paint. In town for questioning about murder. Where do I find him?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Murder?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Well.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Well, I wouldn't know offhand where the lad is. Practice at three maybe. Then tell me something about him. Caught two TD passes last week. And what else about Lloyd Shifty? In the clear 197 and shifty. Word of scampers. Good day for the college when he entered our ranks. Scholarship sponsored. Which means what? Being paid for. Remember Don Davey? Nope. Don Davey. Brick House Don. Also an end. Played here in 32. Blocked Tex Field goal try for the league championship. Smothered it. You remember?

[Various Female Characters]

Sure.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You Do Don Davey, huh? Local? Sure. Park Avenue. Look him up. Hey, that phone deliver? No, thanks. Thanks a lot.

[Various Female Characters]

It's a brutish thing. Rather a mess, isn't it? At least that's how I feel about it. That woman. Woman of middle age found like that on a college campus. And a boy of 20. Sordid. Not pretty.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

That's how it happens, Mrs. Davy.

[Various Female Characters]

Doesn't it, though? One thing I'll never understand. I've read of such things in newspapers. I. I buy sordid little paperback books. Read myself to sleep with such things. But I never thought I would walk into my home and breathe so close.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

That boy mixed up in it. Lloyd Keeler. I was told your husband is sending him through college.

[Various Female Characters]

Is that our guilt, Mr. Clover? That we were nice to an athlete?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Where is your husband?

[Various Female Characters]

In his study. It's where he retreats after lunch. Charts football plays. I hardly think it worthwhile disturbing him.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I do disturb him, Mrs. Davy.

[Various Female Characters]

And then you'll be nice and go away and we can write this thing off.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Get him.

[Various Female Characters]

Don. Donnie.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

How many times, Sir?

[Various Female Characters]

How many times did it take to get scold, dear? I have a terrific reason. There's a policeman in our home. I can't do that, dear. Because he's brought us a murder. Coming, dear? My husband, Mr. Clover. And he's irritated and angry because you've intruded on. On what play this time, dear? 54. Play 54.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Claire said murder. You must have read about it. She. She was found on the campus of your college. The woman was Mrs. Grace Cullen. Twenty years ago, when I was big on the college team, I knew of Grace Cullen. Don't tell me this is the same one. I'll get sad. Real sad. How the year stands. Still. Maybe she's the same one, but this year she's been going out with a boy named Lloyd Keeler. Year? Sure. Stand still, Aunt Fella. You know where Lloyd is?

[Various Female Characters]

Well, Don had him pledged to Don's fraternity. Why don't you try there, mister?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

He's not there. Do you have any other ideas? All we do is sponsor him. That doesn't make Claire's mother, doesn't make me his father. And you don't know. Is that it? When I was a lad, I sometimes broke training and nobody could ever find me either. Sometimes for days. That's the way it was, fella. Sorry. And leave there on the four o'. Clock.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Lunch.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Blue plate special of free holiday drumstick and paper cup of coleslaw. Smaller one of cranberries and coffee. That looks Yellow under the overhead light. Ride through afternoon streets festooned with plaid mufflers and red mittens. Turn left where the Doberman in a hip length knitted overcoat breathe steam up at a maiden in coat to match. Crowd dwindles, then a right turn. Headquarters down the court are lined with bulletin boards and tips on courtesy. You don't quite make your office. Hey, Danny. I tried to get in touch with you. The Davies you just left. What's the matter?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Where you been?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I got hungry, mug, and I ate.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You mind?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Well, just listen, will you? Sure. What's the. That kid that end on the college football team, Lloyd Keeler. What about him?

[Various Male Characters]

In the morgue.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

What? Found him in an alley, shot to death.

[Various Male Characters]

Murdered.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Danny, you're lucky you had time to eat.

[Various Male Characters]

I haven't.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You are listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Early afternoon and late November touches Broadway's cheek. Softly now whispers the traceries of winter. One chrome will be veiled with frost. Also windows, also the lips of women and the autumn memories barren, leafless, stripped. But there are minutes left in the autumn twilight. So breathe them deep, walk them slow. There's still time before neon and the long night. There's sunset, the flame of autumn color on the concrete slabs. There's the twilight passage of the twilight women and fury is not yet only this, the dying of November. And at headquarters the awe and the wonder of the man. Sergeant Gino Tortaglia. Danny, you haven't been listening. I'm sorry, Gino. I was just. Wool gathering is the phrase that comes willy nilly to my mind. I'm sorry, what were you saying? I was merely relating to you the far flung exploits of one Mike Shrek who just happens. Just happens to be the miracle detective from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When your attention walked out on me. Pittsburgh? Last time you told me about him. He lived in Philadelphia, cleaned up. Philly now graces the avenues and citadels of Pittsburgh, Penn. A good thing too. It was in the smog there that he fell upon plastic memory. Huh? What was that?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Gino?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I'll explain to you. The weapon that did in Daphne Fenster backstage at Carnegie hall, which was found lying beside her, was thought at first to be merely a bloody shoehorn. After dusting the fingerprints on the murder weapon, Mike, with his customary genius, plunged the shoehorn into a pot of boiling water which never leaves his side. He did what? And in a few minutes there, clutched in his blistered fist instead of a shoehorn A plastic dagger. Plastic memory, Danny. I'll explain to you. It is the custom of plastic to.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Return to its original shape.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You through genome? Oh, I wished only to clarify for you. Yeah, I'm through, Danny. And that's all you have for me, huh? No, I have other items. You'll tell me, huh? Goes without saying. From the medical examiner, Dr. Sinski. This report which states that Lloyd Keeler, lay of college football was shot and wounded fatally perhaps an hour after the death of Mrs. Grace Cullen. I place it on your desk. That other paper in your hand, Gino, appears to the report from Detective Mugavin stating that the murdered boy was found in the alley back of the home of the College with old Mrs. Grace Colin. I place it on your desk. And these elderly college girls, Danny. All right, you know, you. You can go now, if such is your pleasure, Lieutenant. You must admit one thing though, Danny.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

What?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

That in the case of Daphne Fenstood.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Mike Shrek merits an orchid.

[Various Female Characters]

Good evening, Danny.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

So consider now the elements. Set them down on paper. Neat crisscross lines from names to events. Switch the swivel chair look out the window. Attitude for thinking. But somehow the swift curve of newspaper page. Wind trap blowing down the street intrudes. And the race between pedestrian and taxi. And the winner's gesture. And the first dart of light through beginning evening's dark. Believe it. Turn back to the desk. Items to be thought about. A woman murdered. Woman friend of the college for 20 years. A football player murdered in back of her house. Football player. A boy whose talents were subsidized by an old grad.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Old grad?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Erstwhile hero. Old grad man who should be talked to some more. Squad car again. And ride through evening streets. Park Avenue. Park the car.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Evening.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Hello. What is it? Well, you remember me, don't you, Mr. Davey? I. I remember you. What is it? More questions. Mind if I come in? Want to talk to my wife again? Your wife too. She's not in. She's being fit. I'm happy for her. Now, you want to talk inside your place or inside mine? Fella.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Fella.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Come in, come in, by all means. Thanks. Now, in here, my Dan. Please have a seat. Thanks, I'd rather. A lot of trophies, yes. Yeah, quite a few. Were you an All American, Mr. Davy? Don. Who are you, Don? One sports editor in Baltimore. Two more in the Middle west named me. Mostly second string. All American. See you've got your old jersey. Yeah, And I'm wearing this watch. You could. Here, I'll take it off. No, no, no trouble. Here, look at the back. To the greatest kick blocker of them all. Fellas gave me that after the last game with Tech. You must have heard of the time.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Don.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I said to myself, it's up to you, Don boy. We got to win this game. We gotta block this kick. And I did. I tore through the secondary. Let's talk about Lloyd Keeler, huh? Gladly, fella. I scouted him myself. He was playing for City High. I called at his house, offered to send him to college. He accepted. Great boy. Lots of promise. When he loses that habit of his of rubbing his hands together sometimes before and in around feel dead. Didn't you know that? Didn't you see the papers? No. No, I didn't.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Murdered?

[Various Male Characters]

Why?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

That's what I'm trying to do. Who murdered you, fella? Where were you last night, Don? Boozing, huh? You got a law that says no, fella to sit with a friend and remember to drink to it. What friend? Played with me three years. First string, just like I was. Right beside me tackle. I know that is, don't you? No. Johnny Harris, fella. Who else? Ask him. Old Johnny's got a business now, so he's easy to find. Appliance store in Lexington. Ask him. Why don't you, fell? I'm just about to close up, mister. But you're welcome to browse around, find any item that hits you. Just yell out, you, Johnny Harris.

[Various Female Characters]

That's it.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

So you don't have to worry about a salesman's commission. I'm all there is. You find what hits you. I'm always willing to talk business. Fine stock. Electric floor waxes by Hoover. Be glad to demonstrate. Also, I'm from the police and I'm an electric appliances. So we too have got what to hold up our heads about, huh, mister? Nothing to hide, huh?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

You.

[Various Male Characters]

Me?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I just left Don Davey. He show you his gold watch from after the Tech game, huh? Was me got the boys to buy it for him. I didn't have fat on me then like I got now. You've stayed friends with him since college? Yeah. Yeah, let's call it that. Don was a likable boy. Never quite made man. But then you could say he was up against tough opposition.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Like what?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You meet his wife, you get to meet Claire Davy. What about her? You said you were with Don a little while ago. Don. Second string. All American boy preserved in wax, that's what. About his wife, Claire. Davey, I don't understand. I don't blame you. It's hard to. The way I figured, it's like this. Claire's a rich girl. She bought herself a one play hero. A second stringer who once won a Saturday afternoon. She'll never let him go. That's why she indulges him. Yeah, he sponsored. He's got a marriage scholarship. She pays the bills. He works out, football plays. Funny thing about him. Whenever things get rough, he tucks the pigskin under his arm and runs up and down the football field. Funny. Tell me why I should spill like this to you. Two killings. Grace Cullen, Lloyd Keiller and you Came right from Donnie to me. That's right. Read in the paper about him. About Mrs. Cullen. I haven't gathered any feeling yet about the kid. About Lloyd? What about him? Sorry for him. Sorry for Don. Why for Don? I'm not big with words, mister. All I can tell you is lately Don's whole life was wrapped around that football kid. All he ever talks about. Now don't even boo so much anymore. I don't know what it is. The kid meant something real deep to Don. Maybe in the boy he saw himself when he was a kid. Maybe he thought he could make a man out of the kid. The kind of man Don never was.

[Various Female Characters]

I don't know.

I ain't that deep.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Like that, Huh? I told you, I don't know. I ain't that deep. Don said he was with you last night. He did? He said he sat with you and drank and remembered. He said all of them. Well, excuse me. Mr. Johnny Harris speaking. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'll pay attention. No play, kid. Yeah, I remember. Yeah, it was very glorious how we trimmed tech. But that was 20 years ago. Now you listen to me. But before, when you called, I was ready to run along with a gag. Because we're college chums. Because I feel sorry for you sometimes because it happens to a guy. Not now, kid. No play. You heard, huh? That was Donny boy. About last night, mister. What? I didn't sit with Don. I didn't drink with him. I didn't remember with him. I was to a movie with my wife. I paid for the tickets. Thanks, Mr. Harris. Bad for Don. Well, you know where to find him. 63, 47, 34D.

[Various Female Characters]

Danny.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah. Guy's nuts, huh? Must have been kicked in the head. Look. Look there. Mug of him over there in the stands. Oh, yeah.

[Various Female Characters]

Good evening.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

This is Detective McAvan. Mrs. Davy. You cold sitting up here? Mrs. Davy?

[Various Female Characters]

Gentlemen, care for a drink? There's still some in the thermos bottle.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yes.

[Various Female Characters]

Why, yes. Help yourself.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

No, thanks.

[Various Female Characters]

See, don't care for any please sit down.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

1972.

[Various Female Characters]

Mrs. Davies, first I want to tell you this. When Don comes off the field, tell him he was very good. Tell him better than ever.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You kidding? I'm sure we will.

[Various Female Characters]

You were about to ask me, Mr.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Clover, about all that's happened.

[Various Female Characters]

Wave. Wave to him. He's looking. Thank you.

21.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

30,000.

[Various Male Characters]

14.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

96. About all that's happened, Mrs. Davey.

[Various Female Characters]

I.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Lieutenant means. About a couple murders, Mrs. Davey. A woman named Grace Cullen, a kid named Lloyd Keeler.

[Various Female Characters]

I know.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Well. An explanation, you mean, or a confession, Mrs. Davy. One or the other. Or both would be nice. You see.

[Various Female Characters]

It'S so difficult to tell you.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Let me help you.

[Various Female Characters]

You?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

About Don. What you did to him.

[Various Female Characters]

I suppose you could say it that way. It's brutal, but it's true. I suppose it's over now, isn't it?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

All of it.

[Various Female Characters]

Yes.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

What you did to him, Mrs. Davy. Bought yourself a second string husband and wrapped him up and never let him go. 37, 93.

[Various Female Characters]

Look at him. He's gotten old and fat and slow.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

The only way out he knew. Football plays mapped out in his study. And this. What he's doing now. The old times when he was almost somebody. And then that kid came along. The football kid. Lloyd Keeler.

[Various Male Characters]

Yes.

[Various Female Characters]

Then I lost my husband.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Everything your husband knew, he wasn't, he saw fulfilled in that boy. The old college try. The old try. The time when he most nearly became a man.

[Various Female Characters]

You're so right.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

So you killed the boy.

[Various Female Characters]

You see, it's been 20 years and I've owned Donnie. And suddenly I didn't own him. That boy. Yes, I shot him.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Grace Cullen. No. 86. 92.

[Various Female Characters]

No.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

14, 27.

[Various Female Characters]

I tell you that because if it's over for me, then it's over for Don. He got away for a little while. Now we'll both suffer for it.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Then. Here's what. You shot Lloyd after he'd seen Grace.

[Various Female Characters]

Ask him.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Leave him alone. I don't think we need to ask him anything.

[Various Female Characters]

Not now.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Don came to see Grace. Saw Lloyd walk out of there drunk. Dawn went for a walk with her. Then he killed her.

[Various Female Characters]

Why?

Can you tell me that?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Dawn must have figured Lloyd lost the game on account of Grace. Hi. Hello, Don. Give me a drink, dear.

[Various Female Characters]

Breaking training. You want a drink, dear?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You ready to go with us? Don't. I'll tell you something first. What? When I saw you come here, I knew you were. When you waved, I knew Claire told you to. I was gonna run, but I'm old and fat. I stopped being a hero 20 years ago.

[Various Female Characters]

Claire. Yes.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Turned out the way you wanted. That'll happen to me.

[Various Male Characters]

Will happen to you.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Happy day. It's the happy time on Broadway after the movie's time and nobody wants to go home. It's a place strung against the night like a phosphorescent alley and they're heaped there. Golden girl, bright eyed kid, the man with the promises the guy who believes him. It's Broadway. The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway. My Beat. Broadway's My Beat. Stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover with Charles Calford as Tartaglia and Jack Crucian as Mug. The program is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story, Paula Winslow was heard as Claire and Lou Merrill as Don Davey. Featured in the cast were Joyce McClusky, Eddie Fields and Tom Tully. Bill Anders speaking. Sam. Now here is our star, Vincent Price.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Ladies and gentlemen.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

In a prejudice filled America, no one would be secure in his job, his business, his church or his home. Yet racial and religious antagonisms are exploited daily by quacks and adventurers whose followers.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Make up the irrespons lunatic fringe of American life. Refuse to listen to or spread rumors against any race or religion.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Help to stamp out prejudice in our country. Let's judge our neighbors by the character of their lives alone and not on.

[Narrator/Announcer]

The basis of their religion or origin.