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From March twenty second, nineteen fifty two, here is the
John Mooney murder case.
Speaker 2: Broadways might beat sometimes Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest,
the most violent, the lonesomest, mile.
Speaker 3: In the world.
Speaker 4: Broadways might be with Larry Thor as Detective Daddy Klober.
Speaker 2: Springtime begins to search through Broadway and its gentle winds,
feel out the places to set up shop, the pushcots
of the flower vendors, where the promises are wrapped in
tight by the faint color, a child's ribbon, silken hair
side across the winter pinched face, a woman's shoulders too
soon eager to shed, the raiment of winter's night. In
the spring songs choked out of loudspeakers, in the inviting
sidelong glance, in the barefoot padding through sunwarm corridors. Here
is spring for Broadway. Innocent nostalgic is the music of
organ grinder, to which monkeys stands, to which Broadway size
remembers prize again. And at the edge of the march
evening against the shimmering of dusk, the anger of a man,
the near hysteria, the economy sized fury of innocence malign.
Speaker 5: It's an outrage, a shame of filthy shame, the way
you please have nothing better than do and drag off
a man off the street and push him and beat him,
and people standing around and sniffs the same thing.
Speaker 6: You might as well have. What am I doing here?
What am I doing?
Speaker 7: In a messy room with a detective and a girl
with a sketch pad me? A man with two kids,
an overworked wife nags at me when I'm late for supper,
late for anything?
Speaker 8: Everything I ever got?
Speaker 6: I sweat for you, hear.
Speaker 8: Me, Make it easy, mister Grey, I miss, I'm in.
Speaker 5: The thieves door, see on buying for my lawns, my
rose which siege you know?
Speaker 8: Bigger and a rape?
Speaker 6: And walk out and a man grabs messed me drop
things in the street. He brings me here. Why tell
me what crime I've come in?
Speaker 9: And you can tell me.
Speaker 2: You passed a bill in a bank early this afternoon,
mister Grace, A thousand dollars bill?
Speaker 8: Where'd you get it?
Speaker 4: I got it?
Speaker 6: The bank said it was good, didn't they? Then? Who
are you have to stick your nosey? And I got it.
Speaker 2: We're a man who sweats for everything he gets. How
much sweat for that thousand, mister Grace? A bill the
bank recognized from serial numbers as one from a five
year old payroll robbery where a pay messenger was murdered.
How much sweat for it, mister Gray, you know when.
Speaker 6: You're talking about I bought it.
Speaker 7: I bought it from a man on forty fifteen Broadway.
He said I could have it for two hundred and
fifty dollars.
Speaker 6: I laughed in his face.
Speaker 8: But you bought it and sold well.
Speaker 7: I laughed in his face at first, but when he
said he'd go to the bank with me and proved
to me it was good.
Speaker 8: This man was he Less Chaining.
Speaker 9: I don't know who he was.
Speaker 6: I never saw him before.
Speaker 2: Maybe I can freshen it for you, mister Grace. Cheney
was a man we believed responsible for the robbery and murder.
We couldn't prove it though. We never found the money,
but he was set up for a possession of narcotic
He's out now. Less Cheney tell you that, I don't
know maybe it was him. I told you I never
saw the man before.
Speaker 7: A thousand dollars almost nothing. Wouldn't you about it? Let's
pretend we're friends. Yew it about it, Miss Holland. Here's
an artist, mister Grace. She'll sketch a drawing while they
described the man A sold you the bill.
Speaker 8: Go ahead, mister, but.
Speaker 6: I thought she was doing a drawing of me, I
thought described him well.
Speaker 8: Described well.
Speaker 7: They had kind of a thin, smirky faces, pinched nose,
kind of washed out eyes.
Speaker 9: It was blue.
Speaker 6: I think they bulged out a little bit.
Speaker 9: And you getting.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about her, mister Gray. She'll get if you're
just go on.
Speaker 7: Ye. Well, his hat was kind of slouched down on
his floor, and he distinguishing marks like a scar and anything.
Speaker 6: No, no, there was no scar. I noticed he needed
a shape.
Speaker 7: But then I guess they old you that type kind
of a loose mouth, something like a bird dog.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 8: The sad eyes and they sniffing around. But that's all
I remember. Now, what else do you want? Not to
go on this? Hoellen goodness?
Speaker 2: Call your wife, mister Grace, tell her you'll be real late.
We're holding you on suspicion.
Speaker 6: You do that, You do that after the way I cooperated?
Speaker 9: Oh you shut me in?
Speaker 6: And then you do who were you?
Speaker 10: Caned?
Speaker 9: Who cared?
Speaker 2: And watch the protest dian his throw, the shoulders, slump,
his face fall apart, and reassemble in the shock. Myron
Dray citizen, family man, provider of wife and children and
a lawn and rose bushes. Suddenly a new identification, a
name on a police blotter beheld for further questioning and
connection with the murder. So turn him over to the
sergeant and the artist and leave.
Speaker 8: Routine. Now another reading of.
Speaker 2: The records which concerned a year old crime records still
on the active file, and the name which dominates them
is the name of Less Chaney.
Speaker 8: More records.
Speaker 2: Less Cheney have been released a month ago from prison,
having served five years of a seven year sentence, Less
Changing out on parole.
Speaker 8: So legwork. Now, get the.
Speaker 2: Completed sketch and find an address and call on less Changing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, mister cheneyan who are you? Danny Klobran from the police.
Speaker 3: Let him alone, will you?
Speaker 9: Less?
Speaker 11: He's out now, he's behaving, he's trying to get him
a job.
Speaker 3: To let him alone.
Speaker 8: Mind if I come in, I'm.
Speaker 11: Not going to say no to a cop. Come in
if you want drop dead on the still, if you want,
I see you made it.
Speaker 9: You want to go back?
Speaker 11: Where's I told you? My husband's out? Job? Honey, that's right.
Stip around the place, pull down the wall, bed, look
in the closet. You're a cop.
Speaker 8: Work at it makes you so better. Missus Jenny.
Speaker 11: Guys like you, cops like you, to five years out
of my husband's life. I got a thing about being married.
I like to take care of my husband. I hum
when I scramble an egg, and no less it's gonna
eat it now. I'm a woman who likes when the
day is over. And I got a husband near me.
I missed it for five years.
Speaker 2: Your husband was in possession of narcotics when he was
picked up.
Speaker 11: You're lying through your teeth. Guys like you, cops like
you planted that stuff on lest it? Ain't you how
you couldn't pin a murder on him?
Speaker 9: So you fixed him?
Speaker 8: Good to me, I want you to look at something.
Speaker 11: Listen to me. Whatever your name is, I want you
to hear it. I've been practicing it for five years.
Worth a knight, hands behind the head, the position of
the lonely people.
Speaker 3: This is what I want to say to you.
Speaker 11: Die ron, don't walk and tell your friends to do likewise.
Speaker 3: Tell them are you here?
Speaker 2: Take a look at this picture, A sketch of a
man who passed a thousand dollars bill. Have you ever
seen this man?
Speaker 11: I never saw. I'm going to save you a trip
back Less never saw less.
Speaker 8: The police were around, an they'll be back.
Speaker 11: The cops on the bat too. Whatever your name is,
don't forget to tell them to get out.
Speaker 12: It's just what your mom hopes. You'll send it from
the big city. Sold you little pillow, a nice poet.
You want to soldier, Emma's for the always for the
peg for the h get last soldier.
Speaker 9: This man's head?
Speaker 8: Are you right? Son?
Speaker 2: You a better take off. I'm a policeman, Benny, and
I have a little business.
Speaker 8: Take care of hi, Benny down proud of me?
Speaker 12: Huh jitimatetlant of trade selling sentimental pools for homesick soldiers.
Speaker 8: I'm I'm doing my part, Donny been Benny mm and
use anything can help me out?
Speaker 12: Gee, I wish I could, Benny, But I sure off
in a store.
Speaker 6: Pigeon, Denny, I don't hold to me.
Speaker 12: Mom just last week and told her how nice I'm doing,
pus and tolder that I'm not going.
Speaker 8: Yeah, look at this sketch, Benny. Did you ever see
this man before?
Speaker 6: I haven't got my glasses.
Speaker 8: Then hold it up close, m you ever see him? Never?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 3: Help me?
Speaker 6: Don't look like that, Danny. I don't lie to you.
Speaker 2: Man's been passing hop money uh huh from a messenger
hold up and shooting murder this time. Never see him.
Speaker 3: I just told you, Denny.
Speaker 8: I just said to you. You know I don't tell
them gents.
Speaker 12: I'll come closing time class, not a closing time.
Speaker 6: Good night it is.
Speaker 8: I'm sick of customer.
Speaker 11: I'm a customer.
Speaker 8: Yeah, to pay your check and lead, I'm going home.
Come on, come on, come on, don't starve.
Speaker 2: The only reason they've served you in the first place
was your flash to twenty you four dollars and sixty
cents I brought.
Speaker 8: To the chairs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where'd you get a twenty dollar bill?
Speaker 8: Benny?
Speaker 12: Oh, Danny, Danny, Look, it's nine o'clock. In it today
at nine o'clock Tenny fan is turning over. No, leave
clear my conscience and leave the old Benny Fame behind
stores together.
Speaker 3: I'm glad for the opportunity.
Speaker 8: To tell you, Danny, I read about a.
Speaker 9: Guy he was shelling.
Speaker 12: The old Benny Faint got his address and bought a
twenty dollar bill for Finn. The old Benny Feint thought
it was a counterfeit, not murdered, though.
Speaker 8: Where'd you buy the twenty dollar bill Benny.
Speaker 12: On the fourteenth Street, sixth oh cheven, first floor, all
the way back, well tonight all.
Speaker 10: If you're looking for Sylvia, mister, she's not here and
I've searched everywhere, under the bed, under the liquor bottle.
Or are you just a lonely redhead looking for an
old girlfriend? I lost somewhere in a bar one dim
day long ago.
Speaker 11: In far words.
Speaker 10: All of a sudden, lonely me remembered Sylvia.
Speaker 9: Remember she told me she lives here.
Speaker 8: Let's go inside.
Speaker 9: Huh, I tell you the girl's not here.
Speaker 10: I guess you can come on in. Sylvia won't mind?
Well you're in, do something, Say the kind word.
Speaker 8: I'm from the police. Who are you?
Speaker 9: John Carson?
Speaker 10: Will make a faithful and obedient servants have references.
Speaker 9: Say the kind word.
Speaker 2: No, Sylvia lives here, Miss Carson. This room belongs to
a man of selling hot money. You heard about it
and came to buy from him. You're greedy for easy money,
miss Carson.
Speaker 10: It's a proverb for the red head's money comes easy,
goes easy.
Speaker 9: Who needs to.
Speaker 10: Walk the length of a grimy hall for it? Wait
in an empty room for it?
Speaker 8: No one was here? Who let you?
Speaker 9: In a graceful movement of my staff, dainty hand I
not no anty? I thenaw the turn the ovill wasn't here.
Speaker 8: I thought to wait, how long you've been waiting?
Speaker 10: A half minute, a whole minute? Maybe before you knock?
As the teenage boys in the front siol they all
noticed my entry commented too, when.
Speaker 9: The time is best.
Speaker 8: You don't know anything about the man who lives here?
Speaker 10: Do I want to look?
Speaker 9: Could that be him? That walking down in the doorway?
Could that be him?
Speaker 2: He fell before I could get to him, fell in
a limp, loose way of men who were already dead.
His hands were wet with the flow of his blood
where it held the bullet wound.
Speaker 8: His mouth shaped a word.
Speaker 2: Then it two was gone, the death wound, the silence.
This was what was left of a man whose picture
I carried, who sold blood, money to rose fancy years,
to pillow salesmen, who died for it, been murdered for it.
Speaker 4: You are listening to Broadways My Beat, written by Morton
Fine and David Freakin and starring Larry Thor as Detective
Danny Klober. Every day of the year, the Red Cross
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Speaker 2: When the trade winds blow into the Hudson in springtime
comes to Broadway, it's a season of rare enchantment. March
is on its way out, and a few more exes
in the calendar, and it's April. It's a time, kid
for weather talk, for baseball scores from sunny Florida, and
bite your lip against the knowledge of Joda Madge. Won't
see out there in center field anymore, But it's the
good time. The man of the orange juice stand whistles
while he puts the yearly coat of shellac and the coconut.
The fella next to you the coffee counter gives you
half his newspaper. The blonde you met last night calls
you at the office and tells you not to be angry.
Speaker 8: To have a smile, kid. It's that time of the year.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't smile time where I was it's the
sodden room to be found at the end of all
the sodden corridors in the world, the sand colored walls
enclosing the death of a man, and standing beside him
a girl, and beside him another man. Detective Muggavan names
John Mooney Danny. Let me have it to look around right,
all right, young lady, you said your name is John Carson.
You came here looking for a long lost friend.
Speaker 10: Just don't make any difference. A man comes home to
die and.
Speaker 9: I happen to be here where he lived. I came
here looking for a friend. What difference does it make?
What's Sylvia?
Speaker 10: I don't even remember last night? Know how you forget
some time? You passed by and you say, I think
Sylvia used to live here. Why don't I go in
and find out how she is?
Speaker 8: You know, sure a friend of yours used to live here.
Speaker 9: No, I'm not sure she looks something like this.
Speaker 11: Huh ask if.
Speaker 8: She's sure Sylvia lived in New York. Don't worry about it, Mugglement.
Just take a look. How much was taken in that robbery?
Denny fifty thousand? Let me accnscious to see how much
is missing?
Speaker 2: No, miss Carson, come here matter, take a look at
the money. Detective Muglin found this drawer. Specify found dollars.
You can go on his cousin nuggle uh huh, follow her,
then walk away from them, walk the tired night streets
of early spring. Here and there a window opened to it,
the soiled curtain floating and floating in.
Speaker 8: The darkness, swaying to the dance.
Speaker 2: The night disc jockey calls in the unlighted room, brush
shoulders with a straggler who was angered because for an
instant you made him lose his hurried way to know where,
then smiles his forgiveness, because there at the end of
the corner where the street lamp dims, he sees it.
He'll find it again. And then the quiet street where
your room is, where if your lucky Sleep waits to
welcome you. When the first you must rid yourself of
the image of a murdered man who sold money, engraved
with death, of a girl with redhair, who walked or
slapped or laughed, and the shadow that mocked her was
not her own, and sleep is diluted to these things.
Speaker 8: Finally Sleep runs.
Speaker 2: Out, and at headquarters the next day make a phone
call to less Chainey for routine questioning. He told by
his wife that he'd gone out to an interview for
a job. Tell her that when he came back to
stay home. You might be stopping by later on. Then
it's noon. Your lunch hour is short because Danny Clover speaking,
And Danny.
Speaker 13: Get down here that Charles Hotel West twelve.
Speaker 8: You got some.
Speaker 13: Yeah dead ready a dead jone cars real dead.
Speaker 8: Let me through here, me through please, I'm from the police.
But hey, Danny, medical examiners. Take what happened?
Speaker 2: Maga And I thought I told you to follow her?
I thought, like, why do you think I'm here? Danny,
tell me what happened. Followed the girl home. That's where
she went when she left that flea bag last night.
She went to her apartment, right to her apartment.
Speaker 13: If she hadn't gone straight to her apartment, this wouldn't
be the story. I'm telling you whatld it?
Speaker 8: Go on straight to her apartment at two in the morning.
I got Florio to relieve me. I went home straight home.
Speaker 13: At nine this morning, just as the girl was leaving.
Speaker 8: Her apartment, I relieved Florio.
Speaker 13: She went out to breakfast shop, made no phone calls
and came back here about an hour ago for lunch.
She came down here to the lady's lounge. I waited
outside the door. About ten minutes later there was a scream.
The attendant found the girl at a dressing table with
a knife in her back. That's it, people coming in
and going out, you know. Okay, Oh, it's just this, Danny.
This key found it in her bag six oh seven.
It's John Mooney's room, isn't it, Danny?
Speaker 8: Yeah, let me have her see around, Detective my girl.
Speaker 7: I hope I have chosen the correct moment, Danny.
Speaker 8: Huh, what are you talking about? You know, the moment of.
Speaker 7: Please disturb or the moment of please do not disturb.
I took a flyer and chose the former. I hope
I have not overstepped the bounds of a twelve year
old Sergeancy, So as you're a better dage, you know
a lot of a sergeant, Danny. All propaganda to the contrary,
notwithstanding a lot of said sergeant. After twelve years, a
faithful and obedient service is not a merry one. Twelve
years is a long way to go to the delicatessent
for sandwiches for the boys twelve years is sticking the
nose in the dusty files, and you'll get your promotions,
you know, ha promotion hack hack, this same stale crumb.
Speaker 9: Are you off?
Speaker 7: Tossed to the patient stranger at the breaking point, missus Tartaglia,
it is her comment, I just quoted promotion.
Speaker 8: It'll go through one of these days, you know.
Speaker 6: Must not to flip the lid while waiting.
Speaker 7: To work on any if you wish my burden my refuge,
I yeah, And that less Chaney wants suspect the chief
and murder in that payroll robbery of some years former.
He has still not come home. He is still at large,
violating his parole. No doubt you think he's mixed up
in this.
Speaker 8: You know, it.
Speaker 7: Matters to anyone what a twelve year old sergeant thinks.
Speaker 6: Let's proceed, shall we?
Speaker 8: Whatever you want?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 6: And then John Mooney deceized by murder.
Speaker 7: That he was a pickpocket whose name was inscribed as
such in our archives practically from the moment of the
laying of the cornerstone.
Speaker 8: The key to his room is in Johan Carson's purse.
Were mugg and found?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 8: Oh, just tell me what you got? On John Carson.
Speaker 7: I was coming to her, Dernie. Sorry, it's one of
the wounds that leave no apparent scars. How you hire
ups never I said.
Speaker 8: I was sorry, you know, accepted, and then.
Speaker 7: Joan Carson Murder of Mooney, a girl also with a
record of possession of narcotics in the month of October
the year nineteen forty three, picked up in her apartment
together with one less Cheney by the narcotics Boys. Sentence
third the year on the island with less Cheney, the
same chair, very same. I am the Smiss Lieutenant Geno.
I hope I have been of some service. Good day, Lieutenant,
and good.
Speaker 8: Hunting, Danny. I didn't need it, not you. It's the
other You did good, Gina, real good. This is start.
Tagli will be proud of you. Go home. Tell her,
Oh he's Danny Clover. Hun's not right. Let's channing. I've
been waiting for you almost all day. Come I here
he is, Ruthie.
Speaker 11: I told us to wait for you, so get it
over with quick. Ruth doesn't mean bless your parole.
Speaker 3: Papers say you have to be polite to cops.
Speaker 11: Jell me where it says about the hat and the
hands and the bowing, Ruthie, I waited five years for
a man to come back.
Speaker 3: Look what came back. What's the matter with you? Less?
Speaker 11: You know who he is? One of the brave boys
who planted an envelope.
Speaker 3: Of narcotics on you, Ruthie.
Speaker 8: They didn't do that. I told you they didn't do it.
I violated a law and I was caught.
Speaker 11: You had to memorize that, Speechless, you always had a
poor memory.
Speaker 3: What made it stick? Brass knuckles?
Speaker 8: Don't mind how, mister Clover? What can I do for you?
Speaker 2: You read the papers to see how we finally found
that money that was stolen, that hold up you were
involved in five years ago.
Speaker 14: I can't go along with you on that, misteric Clove.
I was never involved in a hold on my error.
Speaker 8: The one we picked you up for, the one you
couldn't make stick. Sure.
Speaker 14: I admitted my car was used as a getaway care
but it had been stolen.
Speaker 11: From him and you couldn't prove otherwise, so you planted
the narcotics on him.
Speaker 3: Why are you talking to him last?
Speaker 8: Because I have to ut.
Speaker 2: That's right. Let's get back to that money Less. I
don't understand why we have to get back down in
the humor. Me huh, yes, I have to do that
to it.
Speaker 8: We found it in the man's room. The man's name
was John Mooney, and he had a record as being
a pickpocket. And I were discussing while ago.
Speaker 11: Let's read it to me out of the paper, and
I clucked.
Speaker 8: I was wondering how he got that money. Less, I
wouldn't know.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you how I figure he got the money.
He was a pickpocket, so he picked somebody's pocket.
Speaker 8: All that done. He had a day, not really, he.
Speaker 11: Got killed for it, so we didn't have a good day.
Speaker 3: Go argue with a cop.
Speaker 2: We know who killed John Mooney, I said, r Oh,
girl named Joan Carson. She killed him someplace near his hotel.
So because Key went to the room to look for
the money, I found her there.
Speaker 14: Clover, Ruthie has missed me for five years and I
only been out of money.
Speaker 8: Like we were married all over again. Let me spend
my evenings, said Ruthie. Let's lonely take a little while.
Speaker 2: The thing that bothered us less was who Joan Carson
was and how she knew where to find the money.
Speaker 9: You know who she was?
Speaker 8: You tell me missus Jenney.
Speaker 3: You tell him, lest tell him.
Speaker 8: Sure.
Speaker 14: I once know him, mister Clover a long time ago.
I know a lot of addicts a long time.
Speaker 2: It still bothers us less. How she knew where the
money was?
Speaker 8: We couldn't find it for five years? How do I
know what she knew?
Speaker 2: You're in jail for five years. We never saw a
dollar of that fifty thousand were stolen. You get out
and starts circulating.
Speaker 3: We still want to pin it on him.
Speaker 9: Huh.
Speaker 2: Let me tell both of you how it all ties together.
You did commit that robbery and murder. Less some where
the money was hidden. You get out, get the money,
take it someplace to get rid of it at a discount.
Wise boy like you got his pocket pick. Then the
money starts showing. I don't think you're going to prove
it this time either, glue. That's what held me up
so long. Less a bright boy like you gets his
pocket pick. I couldn't believe it, but I had to
come back to it.
Speaker 8: Like I said, you still need proof.
Speaker 2: Maybe all right, We've still got another problem problem. How
are we going to get your wife to admit she
killed Joan Carson?
Speaker 8: How are we going to do that later, you kidding?
Speaker 3: Get him out of your life.
Speaker 14: Wait a minute, Clover, how do you figure Ruthie kills you?
Speaker 8: Ou'd you figure it less? You figured Ruth? Do you
need help less? Yeah? Yeah, help me.
Speaker 2: Your wife kept that fifty thousand for you while you
were in jail. Didn't she hit it someplace?
Speaker 8: Tay, get in there. See what happened?
Speaker 3: You crazy?
Speaker 8: Shut up? Well Glover take it from there.
Speaker 2: You got out, You gave your wife that money, then
you lost it. What did you tell your wife when
you lost it?
Speaker 3: I told her I lost it, lost it, lost it
to that redhead children, didn't you? Didn't you listen to
me later?
Speaker 8: To me what I told you? That money was stolen.
Speaker 14: The pickpocket recognized me, call me and try to sell
us back to me.
Speaker 8: I didn't have any money to buy it.
Speaker 11: And you sent that redhead for it.
Speaker 9: Why didn't she send me?
Speaker 11: Because I'm not beautiful anymore after waiting for you, because
I don't dip my head in, Hannah, because I don't
on a slip, that's not fraid.
Speaker 9: Look what she did to you.
Speaker 11: She crossed your killed and was going to keep that
money for her.
Speaker 3: Step was going to come back to her. Oh no, oh.
Speaker 11: No, that's not her, not Miss Joan carp I took
care of that, sure, killed her, less followed her and
killed her for you for the past five years, for
the years you were going to make up to me,
For the years I lie there with my hands behind
my head, just to me laugh and no one else.
Speaker 3: It's the Clover. Yeah, take us away together.
Speaker 2: Twilight lies against Broadway like gray speckled gauze, ripples off
into another world. The street of the hurry up steps,
the fast questions, dances, the seekers after the special smile
and you walk it because once Broadway touched you, you.
Speaker 8: Can't rub it off.
Speaker 2: It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lone almost
mile in the world.
Speaker 8: Broadway My Beat.
Speaker 4: Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover,
with Charles Calvert Astataglia and Jack Krushian as Mugavan. The
program was produced and directed by Elliott Lewis. Musical score
was composed by Alexander Courage and conducted by Modern Skyles.
In Tonight's story, Jannett Lawrence was Hurt as Ruth and
Anthony Barrett as Less. Featured in the cast were Georgia, Ellis,
Howard mcneer and Leo Cleary. Yes, so's you old man, Yes,
so's your old man, and most everyone else in his
generation that Amos and Andy fan.
Speaker 8: And the beauty of their comedy is.
Speaker 2: That it's just as funny, just as fabulous, just as
fresh as when Amos and Andy first stole America's heart twenty
three years ago. Tomorrow night, on most of these same
CBS radio stations, listen and laugh with Amos Sinnami by
Lander's speaking, and.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Honestly, this is one of those cases where
I feel like there might be some sort of Mandela
effect going on, because I remember a lot of old
time references to Sylvia, and I could swear that there
was some sort of ad campaign around where Sylvia or
Sylvia specifically, but I couldn't find any during this era.
There is actually a famous gong by Shakespeare called who
is Sylvia that was in the play To Gentlemen of Verona,
and I guess that's probably where the old time radio
Sylvia references come from. But if anyone is aware of
another explanation for the Sylvia references, I would love to
hear it, as it was, it did end up part
of Joan Carson's story. Speaking of Joan, this is one
of those cases where Danny follows the tact that if
you can't prove anything, see if you can bluff. Going
into the final confrontation UH with the Cheneys, Danny had nothing.
Less had been the prime suspect, and Joan corson unless
got arrested together an unrelated narcotics wrap. That was the
whole thing, and somehow Danny walks out of that with
Rue under arrest for the murder of Joan and Less
under arrest for the original payroll robbery plus the murder.
This is one of those cases where it only worked
out because they were willing to talk. Less required to
by the terms of his parole, and Danny questioned them together.
And we also have to note the appearance of our
favorite sergeant who was feeling a bit down. And it's
a good humanizing thing because even though he's cheerful, not
everybody feels cheerful all the time unless they're being performative.
And Gino is a real one and he's got a
real problem with career frustration and his wife kind of
heckling him about. And while Danny can sometimes be a
bit surely and maybe insensitive, it's a bit of a
reversal here, as he's encouraging and reflects the nature of
their relationship. Tortaglia feels free talking about this to Danny,
and that Danny doesn't take it in any way as
an offense against him. Yeah, he can't fix the system,
but he does have faith in Geno as an officer
and that he'll eventually have things work out. But I
don't think it happens while Broadways My Beat is on
the air now listener comments and feedback, and we start
with this comment on Instagram from Brain's Benton who rites,
regarding the Raymond Grant murder case. I really liked the
longer version of the theme song at the end. It
really is a great piece of music to listen to.
Alexander Courage definitely knew his stuff, and I wouldn't say
that all old time radio themes are like this. For example,
the first theme to Yours Truly Johnny Dollar during the
Charles Russell era is not bad. It's a nice little
relaxing tune, but I could take it or leave it.
This one really captures just there's something about New York
City and this show in particular that that tune just
compliments perfectly. Well, now it's time to thank our Patreon
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Speaker 15: Russell Preston, that was the last name he used.
Speaker 8: I see. He usually starts by putting a want add
in the papers that.
Speaker 15: Well, he rents himself an office first, usually pretty expensive
when well furnished. Then he hires a good looking secretary,
has her put a want ad in the daily paper's form.
Speaker 8: And he's in business. How do the ads?
Speaker 15: He's the usual, yeah, typical thing you see in the
daily paper. Business opportunity for people with vision, good investment,
high profits applying now, you know, and then he gives
his address and phone numbers. There's nothing clever about it,
but people still go for it.
Speaker 8: He give Memny replies, you know, well, we.
Speaker 15: Figured he got between twenty and thirty on that last
daily pulled. Seems all he has to do is land
one victim out of the bunch with enough money, and
he's got it made. Took his first victim here for
five thousand, second one for thirty two hundred. Both elderly
women took him for their last dollar.
Speaker 2: About the way he sets up the deal with these
different businessmen, Joe, I don't think I got it quite straight.
Speaker 8: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Well, I'll say the owner that manufacturing plant, this Russell
Preston lined up, you know. You say Preston went to
the plant, introduced himself as a business advisor, told the
owner of the plant he had some people with money
to invest. He convinced the owner who's legitimate. The other
time and Preston had his two victims shown through the
plant and convinced him they out to invest their money
in the business.
Speaker 8: You know that's it?
Speaker 2: Do you mean to say, the plant owners were acting
in good faith.
Speaker 15: Well, we're all checked out. Bill everything about them. They
all have good business reputation. They didn't know any more
about the deal and the victims. They needed more capital
for their business and they figured this was in.
Speaker 8: Miss Preston or whatever his name is. Sure must have
a line, I won't stop.
Speaker 15: It's got everything that goes with it. Nice clothes, well mannered,
good looking. He doesn't try to high pressure anybody tells
them if they have confidence in him, he'll be glad
to invest their money.
Speaker 8: If they hedge it all he shows them right through
the office pretty good pitch. Once they're sold on him,
he's got to move.
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