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to Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Now. From June thirtieth,
nineteen fifty one, here is the Pablo Mallory murder case.
Speaker 2: Broadways My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle. The gaudiest,
the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
Speaker 3: Of Broadway is My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective
Danny Clover.
Speaker 2: In the time before Dawn. Broadway is an island of silence,
torn from the blazing neon the midnight sun of the spectaculars,
the river mists mingle with the vapors rising from manhole covers.
Through them move the rejects, the stragglers, the wanderers, the
men without sleep. One detaches himself scavengers in a trash bin,
choked with the remnants of night finds. Nothing moves on
to the next. It's the time of the endless search,
the restlessness of an anguish you can't understand. On the
street built for the purpose, you walk it, and a
shadow whimpers, and you hurry on, close your heart to it,
because the whimper was yours. And finally you must put
aside whatever it was you were looking for, because on
a side street a man waits for you to give
you the night times departing gift. The boy lying dead
against the iron gate of the tenement's.
Speaker 4: Basement, Pablo Malari Danny from uptown West one hundred and
ninth Street, carried one of those handwritten identification card.
Speaker 2: You find anything else on him.
Speaker 4: Not much, five dollar bill in his wallet, his saints
man Daddi, and he's wearing on a chain around his neck.
Speaker 2: That's about all you're question the people, and yeah, Danny.
Speaker 4: Every door, no one ever heard of the kid, had
nothing to do with him, didn't want to talk about him.
Speaker 5: You know most of them were trying to sleep, the heat,
the kids squalling, you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, eating jaw broken. This bruise on his throat must.
Speaker 4: Be the one that killed him. Come down here, Danny,
huh what? Take a look at the sign on this door.
Hudson Club Johnny Hammett President. I guess it's one of
those street clubs the kids make up for themselves.
Speaker 5: His neighborhood's loaded with him.
Speaker 2: You think what happened to this kid is.
Speaker 6: Part of it? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think, what do you think?
Speaker 2: Maybe check it back and I'll get back to you.
And wait now for the decent. Give to someone a
few more hours of sleep before breaking the news about
the death of a young man, and at eight thirty
to an address on West hundred and ninth Street. Climb
four flights and be careful of the rotting steps and
the three year olds at play. The door opens to
your knock, and the woman who pinches her shawl close
to her throat doesn't understand what you're saying and calls
a neighbor who understands, who explains to the woman. The
mother of a murdered young man explains what must be done.
Accept the fact of death, identify the body, bury her son,
then walk away from all of it. You have started
a new day. Call headquarters. Detective Mugguman gives you an
address looked for and found and checked by the night shift.
Johnny Hammet, president of the Hudson Club, a tenement on
West forty third near the docks. Johnny's glad for the company.
Speaker 5: I dislike having my coffee alone, mister Clover.
Speaker 7: You work, Johnny, here and there, mostly on Broadway, Sir,
people always want things done.
Speaker 2: You mean you run errands?
Speaker 7: No, if you think all it is is running down
to the corner drug store. No Broadway, mister Clover, it's
full of tourists.
Speaker 2: Anybody else live here with you?
Speaker 5: Yeah? My father, I think he still does. I hardly
ever see him.
Speaker 2: How's the Hudson Club coming along?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: Fine, fine, thank you.
Speaker 2: What kind of club is it?
Speaker 7: Oh? A little bit of everything, sports, dances, beach parties.
The girls do most of the arranging.
Speaker 2: Girls.
Speaker 5: Isn't that funny?
Speaker 7: About a month ago I mentioned girls to my father.
He had the same expression on his face as you do. Heah, girls,
I'm nineteen. I don't chalk walls anymore.
Speaker 2: Johnny, A member of your club was murdered last night,
a boy by the name of Pablo Malari.
Speaker 5: Ohs he did h He wasn't a member of the club, sir,
he just hung around.
Speaker 2: What about him? Johnny? Who killed him?
Speaker 7: I didn't, and no one's come up to me last
night and said he did it either.
Speaker 2: Where were you last night?
Speaker 7: We had a meeting at the club, a special one
initiations plans for the summer.
Speaker 5: Broke up about two. I came right home.
Speaker 2: I want a list of your members, Johnny, names addresses?
Speaker 5: Sure before you go.
Speaker 2: Look where was Pablo found outside your club? In the vestibule?
Speaker 5: Nelson?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 2: No, Nelson, Toby Nelson.
Speaker 5: We had him in front of the door last night
to keep away undesirables.
Speaker 2: Where can I find him?
Speaker 7: Works at a cigar in magazine Connor in the Flick
building lobby.
Speaker 5: I wish there was more I could tell you, I
really do, sir.
Speaker 8: Hey, Sis, don't forget you change? Hey, I baby, look
at the track? What's yours? Busted?
Speaker 2: Your name? Toby Nelson?
Speaker 8: Someone send you to ask an important question.
Speaker 2: Police.
Speaker 8: That buzzer could stand a little metal polish mystery.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about it.
Speaker 8: Oh sure not tell me what I should worry.
Speaker 2: About about a boy named Pablo Malari.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I've been reading them the newspapers. What's it to me?
Speaker 2: He was found beaten to death in front of.
Speaker 8: H's in the club. I know, I know, it says
show in the papers.
Speaker 2: What about on there last night?
Speaker 8: I'll have to read the minutes at the meeting, I
was outside making these two big muscles, the tots who
wanted it and couldn't get it.
Speaker 2: What happens at these initiations?
Speaker 8: To me, kid stuff you swear to do this and
that and be a nice Hudson To tell you the truth,
I was embarrassed for the kid.
Speaker 2: Who are you talking about?
Speaker 8: Paula. Paula got taken into us last night. Johnny hamnont
wanted it, so I arranged it. Paula Chopek, which makes
us fellow members, which makes me happy happy. This Paula
is your girl. Mania is my pinkies look pretty? Chap
gives me locks of hair. It's me Argiles out in
nice thing. We got tender.
Speaker 2: Paula Chopak. I've got her name on my list.
Speaker 8: She was on top of the grocery store corner eleventh
Avenue and forty six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks a lot, Toby anytime.
Speaker 8: Oh here, take a scratch sheet, mister for free crad
take it, slash mondays.
Speaker 2: And bring to the top of the list. Paula Chopak.
Climb the stairs, knock on a door with the curtain
panels of glass, and hear the furtive scurrying behind it
and the slam of another door inside. Then hear a
woman's steps approaching in an instant of silence, then the
fumbling with the catch, and the door opens. The woman
had not finished making herself presentable to the caller. The
wrinkled cotton house dress needed another smoothing, The graying hair
needed to be pressed back again from the forehead. The
tired voice there was nothing to be done about that.
Yes something, I'm from the police, Danny Clover.
Speaker 9: He's good.
Speaker 10: Your ears when I think, please come so soon, Please
to come in. Please that chair I sit by window
in it by evening. He's comfortable, clean.
Speaker 2: You'll be cool, please, mister, thank you. But I'd like to.
Speaker 10: By my daughter to speak by polar Paula. Is she here, yes,
by room, listening to records. But first, please mister, first.
Speaker 2: You want to tell me something, missus Choppick about polar.
Speaker 10: You you see what I am, mister, but polar by horrors,
great beauty, by the face, by the rich black hair,
miss like crown.
Speaker 9: She wears it, my polar, my baby. I comed for.
Speaker 10: Her, brush wash, put in braids by night for sleep.
Speaker 9: My Paula is good, clean, respectful to me, to such
as you. Never trouble, never bring me tears.
Speaker 2: Will you call her?
Speaker 9: Please go to her? She wait for you.
Speaker 10: She say me, policeman, come this afternoon. I have much
thing to tell him.
Speaker 9: My Paula. Say this to me. What my Paula got
to say to policeman?
Speaker 5: Mister?
Speaker 6: What in that?
Speaker 10: Yes, you see my Paula tell you her thing, Then you, policeman,
go pay from us.
Speaker 9: I'm mister.
Speaker 2: Paula. I'm from the police. I know I heard your
mother said you had something you want to tell me.
Mom's wrong, I don't think, so tell me Paula.
Speaker 11: Mom can hardly speak English. Sometimes she doesn't understand the
things I say to her. I've got nothing for you.
Speaker 8: Besides, I'm busy brushing your hair.
Speaker 2: Let it alone for a while. Paula talked to me.
The boy was murdered last night in front of a
club where you were initiated, Pablo Malarry, Is that what
you wanted to tell me about, mister Matty? Paula scared?
Speaker 12: Look at me?
Speaker 13: You think you could scare me?
Speaker 2: Told me Nelson talked to me.
Speaker 13: He said, he told you I was sweet to him.
Speaker 11: Maybe told you I joined the Hudson's because he asked
me cause I used to jump when he asked that.
Speaker 5: He told you that too.
Speaker 13: Well, next time you see him, explain to him. It's finished.
Threw wiped off my memory book? Was it last night?
Speaker 2: What happened last night?
Speaker 13: I got initiated in the club? What else can happen.
Speaker 12: To a girl?
Speaker 2: Murder? Maybe a murder she saw being committed, Maybe something
she's afraid.
Speaker 11: I said at once, I got nothing to tell you,
So go tell me mom. I got nothing to say
to a policeman, will cheer her up.
Speaker 2: I hope you're right, Paula, for you, for your mother,
I hope you're right.
Speaker 14: Danny.
Speaker 15: I give you the evening's greetings, thanks a lot. You
know you're here so late tonight. Why didn't you go
home after you saw the chowpag?
Speaker 2: Girl had some work to do?
Speaker 14: Huh?
Speaker 8: Danny?
Speaker 15: Would you mind very much if I regaled you with
a tidbit that happened early this evening at the house
of Tartaglia.
Speaker 2: Please do.
Speaker 15: Cousin Stanley from Gay Paris showed up after ten these
many years, not him, oh him it was, and with
arms of kimbo, with goodies, nicks for missus Tartaglia, knacks
for the kiddies and for me a great big bottle.
Speaker 2: Champagne had to call Danny fifty one from Pari.
Speaker 14: Those continentals know how to.
Speaker 2: Live, Gino, did you have that list of the Hudson
Club checked?
Speaker 15: Indeed I did, and each and every member swears on
the pilas of the club that they know nothing of
the murder of Pablo Malarry.
Speaker 2: Danny Clover speaking squad cars downstairs for you, Danny.
Speaker 4: Paula Chopek was washed up on the beach at far
Rockaway a little while ago.
Speaker 2: Maybe an accident, maybe homicide. You going, Danny right away.
The night wind off the sea was soft, warm. Its
sighed against the flames of the beach fire strung along
the coast, riffled the sand across driftwood, across the litter.
It brought close the far off sounds of a summer
beach at night, the laughter from behind screen porches, the
siren call of the ukulele gently strummed, the distant screeching
of gulls and closer the other sounds, the lash and
wash of the surf, the opening and setting up, an
adjusting of the mechanical devices that attend the dead, and
then the trembling voice of the boy who tries to
tell you about the girl lying there, how it was, why.
Speaker 5: It was we were swimming, sir.
Speaker 12: I lost her someplace out there in the dark, and
I heard her kind of scream.
Speaker 2: Just you and Paula, Johnny.
Speaker 5: There was a beach.
Speaker 7: Party like the ones I told you about, you know.
The members left. Paula wanted to stay, asked me to
stay with her.
Speaker 2: You said. She screamed.
Speaker 7: Why she hit her head on one of those rocks
out there, Hi tide covers them up.
Speaker 12: I didn't know why I hit the beach. She was dead.
I tried to.
Speaker 6: Dead.
Speaker 5: She is, isn't she.
Speaker 12: Look at me? I killed Paula.
Speaker 3: You were listening to Broadways My Beat, written by Morton
Fine and David Friedkin, with Larry Thora as Detective Danny
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Speaker 2: On an early summer's night, Broadway stands in a corner,
leans against the orange, just stand and sums up the day.
Some days are better than others. Some days you'll break eepen.
You only had one end of the daily double. But
the new blonde in the office looked over his shoulder
atch and smiled. And later when she dabbed on her
lipstick with a finger, she smiled again. It was quite
a day to day. The Dodgers passed a miracle. You
forgot to pay the check at the cafeteria, who got
away with it? And a girl, a song of a
girl was washed up on the beach at far Rockaway.
Here is maybe a tragic day, but here is a day.
It was eleven thirty toward the end of it when
we got Johnny Hammett back to headquarters.
Speaker 5: Sit down there, Johnny cigarette kid no, no, thank you.
Maybe you'd rather have one of Danny's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here, here have one, Johnny.
Speaker 5: I don't want one. I guess Johnny doesn't like the
brands we smoked. Danny. I just don't want to smoke,
that's all count man, not want to smoke. Take sure sure, relax, kid,
Am I under arrest.
Speaker 2: You said you killed Paula?
Speaker 5: It was my fault. I shouldn't let her swim out
that far? Did you kill her? Didn't you kill her?
It was my fault? Who killed Pablo Malari? You think
I did?
Speaker 8: Did you?
Speaker 2: Johnny?
Speaker 5: You think I killed him, don't you? Mister Clover?
Speaker 4: There you go again, Johnny. Look, look, kid, A couple
of friends were killed. Were police were asking?
Speaker 5: I didn't kill anybody.
Speaker 2: I don't have to explain to Johnny Mauvern. He knows
why he's here. He knows we need his help.
Speaker 5: Help, Johnny, That's that's what we want. We're not asking
for a confession. Who's kidding?
Speaker 2: Who were you in love with Paula?
Speaker 5: She wasn't around long enough?
Speaker 2: She was around tonight? What happened tonight?
Speaker 5: You know what happened? What's the matter with you?
Speaker 4: Look, Johnny, I'm going to tell you something. You're not
talking to your little hoodlum friends. You're talking to a policeman.
Nobody's trying to intimidate you. Nobody's trying to make you
say things you don't want to say. You're talking to
a policeman that's trying to do his job. What happened tonight?
Speaker 2: They had a beach party the Hudson's.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, that's better, Johnny.
Speaker 12: Paula and I came late.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this were already there, Toby Nelson.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
Speaker 12: Toby wanted to take Paula home. Paula wanted to stay,
so we stayed. Paula and I. We were the last
ones there.
Speaker 2: What made Paula want to stay?
Speaker 5: She'd never been swimming at night.
Speaker 2: And she swam out past the breakers and a wave
washed against a rock. Is that what happened?
Speaker 5: Yes, sir?
Speaker 2: All right, Johnny?
Speaker 5: Can I go now?
Speaker 2: Good night? Johnny? Thanks? What do you think you believe him?
I don't know. I'm going to check. I'm going to
talk to Toby. Toby. Toby, you've got a long nose, mister.
Your landlady told me you're up here on the roof.
Speaker 8: Hers is even longer than yours. What does the guy
have to do to get a square foot of bear
to himself? Your girl's dead, Toby, Paula is dead. You're stale, mister.
The smooth voices on the radiom been telling me paul
is dead for a now, and now.
Speaker 6: Appear.
Speaker 8: I thought I couldn't hear him.
Speaker 2: Johnny Hammett says, it was an accident.
Speaker 8: That makes it an accident.
Speaker 2: You were at the beach, hardy, Toby.
Speaker 8: Never missing gives me a chance to show off my
muscles to the members.
Speaker 2: You did that, then what happened?
Speaker 8: Let me think now? Uh yeah? After that, I rose
to the hot dogs for the group. We all ate hearty.
Then it broke up. I came home.
Speaker 2: I left Paula alone. Johnny.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's the.
Speaker 2: Other thing I did. Paula was your girl. How come
Johnny took her to the party.
Speaker 8: If she was alive, you could ask her. I wouldn't know.
Speaker 2: Johnny says. You wanted to take her home? Why didn't you?
Speaker 8: Because she slapped me across the mouth when I asked her.
They all laughed Johnny too. Then she laughed hotter than anybody.
That's how I got the message. She didn't want me
to take her home. She wanted Johnny up to the
night of the initiation at the Hudson Club. She was
your girl. What happened there to make her turn on you?
Speaker 2: Toby?
Speaker 8: She's dead. Paula is dead. What else do you want
from me? What else do I have to give you?
How much can you She's dead, mister, That's all I got.
Speaker 2: All right, Toby, And leave the boy alone. Give him
the time and place of his grieving and the quality
of it that's bled out of a tenement rooftop in
a city stretching into the hours after midnight. Go away,
resign yourself that another day is over the next morning,
and the legwork going out to a corner of the
city where the sign says eleventh Avenue and forty sixth
Climb the steps and stop at the door. Intrude upon
two rooms newly filled with grieving.
Speaker 9: Please please come in, have my daughter.
Speaker 2: Missus Chopak. The police are not satisfied that Paula my daughter, Paula.
There's a possibility that it wasn't an accident.
Speaker 10: Paula is another room. The others neighbors by me. We
have only boxes to sit on.
Speaker 2: I want you to try to understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 10: Nothing, nothing, I understand only up to yesterday. Yesterday when
Paula said to me, Mamma, I'm going to swim with
this boy, this Johnny.
Speaker 2: Johnny hammered Johnny. He called for her.
Speaker 10: At first, my Paula, she said she would want to
stay home rather. Then the boy said something to her.
Then down low over her ear. Paula took her suit
for swimming, her cap not to get her hair with.
Speaker 9: Then she said what I said to you.
Speaker 2: I see just one more thing, missus chopack. The night
before last your daughter went out. Do you know where
she went to?
Speaker 9: Some place to party? My club has party.
Speaker 2: What time did she come home late?
Speaker 9: I dun't know what time?
Speaker 2: Did you talk to her when she came home?
Speaker 9: Only when I.
Speaker 10: Try to give her help help, white like ghost sick.
I hear this. I get out of my bed. I
come to her. I say, hollow, you're sick. Mamma gets something.
She tell me go away like I'm someone she never
see before.
Speaker 2: Was she drunk.
Speaker 8: Sick?
Speaker 10: That's no whiskey. I smell sick, white sick like ghost.
I see she's dead now, Hollie is and the neighbors
by me. They're in next room, they said, they cry,
they touched my shoulder. They don't talk, they don't know
what words to say to me.
Speaker 2: Then walk the tenement street and have your passage greeted
by the sudden silences of the yelling kids, the turning
of backs after the furtive gesture of insult, because somehow
you were guilty of that anguish over the corner grocery store.
Once you had been welcomed by a mother, and for
that you had left her a dead child. And on
that street the guilt was yours. So I got away
from it. At headquarters, read reread the file on Mallory
dead of a beating, on Paula Chopac dead of a
head wound while swimming at Rockaway, and finally read away
the daylight and sit in darkness till a man comes in,
looks at you for a moment, turns on a light.
Speaker 14: You don't mind the light, huh, Anny.
Speaker 2: It's all right, Geno. Thanks.
Speaker 15: I agree with you that this killing is dying of
kids makes one wish to sit alone in the dark.
Speaker 2: However, got something for me, Geno.
Speaker 14: All I can.
Speaker 15: Give you is a comment upon the children of today,
the clubs they must make for themselves the things they do,
and said clubs, the hurt they bring upon themselves for
so doing.
Speaker 1: Go on.
Speaker 14: You know it's in all the papers.
Speaker 15: Danny, how they go out of the way for new thrills,
new sensations, new emotions. Only this morning, while shaving, I
was bending an ear to the comment from the radio.
I called him to Totag, going.
Speaker 4: I don't know, Danny, maybe yes, maybe no. What Gordon
and technical gave it to me to give to you
see if the big man configure it, He says to me,
I got news about Gordon.
Speaker 5: I actively disliked.
Speaker 4: He's been studying the bathing cap Paula chopak water at
the beach party.
Speaker 5: He says.
Speaker 4: It's curious why he says, the girl didn't have the
cap arm when she went.
Speaker 5: Into the water.
Speaker 2: Paula was proud of her hair. She'd have won the cap.
Why does he say she wasn't wearing.
Speaker 4: It because there was no blood staining inside it. Gordon says,
if she was wearing a cap when she hit the
rocket would have held some of the blood, which means
he says that the cap was put on her after
she was carried to the beach.
Speaker 2: It means another thing, my one. What Paula was murdered?
Give me a squad car?
Speaker 8: Oh way, we're not open.
Speaker 2: It's the police.
Speaker 8: What do you want?
Speaker 2: Let's go inside. I'll tell you inside. Toby, are you
the only Hudson here?
Speaker 8: Hey, Johnny, Look what's here? We gotta call it? Johnny,
good evening, mister Clover.
Speaker 2: Nice clubhouse you've got here?
Speaker 5: Can I show you around?
Speaker 2: Where's everybody? I thought you had quite an organization.
Speaker 8: They'll be around when you leave. People have started swarming
in you. I'm glad you came, mister Clover.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 5: Hey, what's with you?
Speaker 8: Johnny? I buy a cop for a friend.
Speaker 7: Don't pay any attention to him, sir. He doesn't know
about policemen. He doesn't know they have a job to do.
Speaker 2: You understand all about that, don't you?
Speaker 8: Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 5: Too bad about you, Toby?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 5: I said?
Speaker 7: Too bad about you? Your muscles, your temper, the mad
you had on the other night.
Speaker 8: Hey, Johnny, what's see?
Speaker 5: You never saw Toby work over a guy, did you,
mister Clover?
Speaker 2: No, tell me about it.
Speaker 7: Once a boy tried to get in here, tried real hard.
Toby was in front of the door.
Speaker 5: The boy never made.
Speaker 7: It, Pablo Molari, Johnny, it wasn't premeditated, mister Clover.
Speaker 5: Toby didn't mean it. He was just angry about something.
Speaker 2: You're under arrest, Toby, put out your hands.
Speaker 8: Cut it, do something, fist me.
Speaker 16: Take them off.
Speaker 5: Thanks, thanks, mister Clover.
Speaker 17: That's just the way he went after that boy. He
would have killed me, Toby all the rest of a while.
What are you doing, mister Clover fresting him?
Speaker 2: Nice cigarette case cigarette, Johnny, are you kidding? I don't
smoke those. I don't blame you. Marijuana brings your grief,
that's what it brought. Paula Paula, Uh huh. Paula was
a sick girl after she got home from her initiation.
You have to smoke this stuff to become a member
of your club. Now, look you look, Johnny. Paula was
Toby's girl. You wanted her, that's why you insisted she
become a member. Put her on this stuff, she'd lose
her sense of values.
Speaker 5: You think I'd do anything like that?
Speaker 2: Yes, I do.
Speaker 5: You know me better than that.
Speaker 2: I know you killed her.
Speaker 5: I told you what happened out there on the beach.
Speaker 2: She forgot to tell me why she went there with you?
What were you going to do, Johnny? Tell her mother
she was smoking marijuana? Is that why she went with
the estate at the beach after the others left.
Speaker 7: I don't know what to say to you, mister Clover.
You're wrong, and I think you ought to take care
of Toby here.
Speaker 2: Paula had beautiful hair, Johnny, I go along with that.
She'd have worn her cap into the water. You killed
her before she went into the water. How Johnny, the rock,
mister Clover, and you threw her in the surf so
or as suit to be wet, pulled her back, remembered
about the cap, put it on her. Why did you murder?
Speaker 5: She was so beautiful? She was so beautiful, mister Clover.
Speaker 2: She refused more of your cigarettes. Funny worked before Let's go, Johnny.
It always worked, do you know it?
Speaker 6: God?
Speaker 7: So they'd come around her begging for the stuff. A
young man like me, connection it's like a king. I'll
tell you another funny thing. I wouldn't touch this stuff.
Speaker 2: Come on, yes, sir, Broadway looks clean. The winds of
the evening have swept away the litter. Everything looks sharp, sharp,
like a knife at your heart. You walk against it,
and it plunges deeper, deeper, until there's no pain at all.
It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile
in the world. Broadway My Beat.
Speaker 3: Broadway Is My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover,
with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack Kruscian as Muggavan.
The program was produced and directed by Elliott Lewis, with
musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story,
Dick Krenna was heard as Johnny Hammett, Bill Tracy as
Toby Nelson, Peggy Weber as Missus Chopat, and Michael Ann
Barrett as Paula Chopak.
Speaker 8: On July eighth.
Speaker 3: Next week, Broadway's My Beat will be heard on a
New Day Sunday beginning a week from tomorrow, be sure
to listen to Broadways My Beat and the Adventures of
Danny Clover, starring Larry Thor.
Speaker 2: Bill Anders Speaking.
Speaker 3: This is CBS where Phil Reagan brings you the Serviceman's
Own Show every Sunday on the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. A good episode, and I appreciated Richard Krenna,
who I didn't recognize in this, which is often the
case for his sort of non sitcom, non comedy roles,
and I have to give him credit. Of course, he
is best known in old time radio circles as the
voice of Walter Denton on Armis Brooks. And there are
some actors whose take on this character in this episode
would be like the evil Walter Dentton, and there are
some similarities in terms of the character being young and
the character kissing up to authority. But Krinna had such
great range and could really make the characters all sound distinct.
And of course Krenna's career had so many turns in it,
and of course his biggest role. If you don't even
think about old time radio, you think about Colonel Trautman
in the Rambo films. I don't know how you could
get two characters who were further apart than that, although
it is worth noting that Qrenna played a parody of
his character in the film Hot Shots Part du and
the name of his character was Denton Walters. Now we
turned to listener comments and feedback, and we we have
some comments We're going to start out over on Spotify
regarding the Frank Dunn murder case. Doctor who done it
sums it up well, So Frank Dunn was done in
for doing something Frank Dunn didn't do. Dang, And then
another lesson er, Mechanics sixty six, detected something fishy in
that bar seed. I lived on Maui for sixteen years.
When I first moved there, I worked on tour boats.
One of the things I learned was the state fish
for the spiel we'd give the tourists. Therefore, I can
tell you that not only did Milt and Danny pronounce
it wrong, it's not authentic cuisine. It's not it's not
considered edible, let alone served in restaurants, especially on the mainland,
and he topped out the correct pronunciation. If I tried
to read it, though, I would be sounding it out phonetically.
It would sound worse and probably more inaccurate. But I
appreciate this sort of local knowledge. I guess I can
see two possibilities for how it would have worked in
the episode. First is that the writers are having some
private joke that themselves and maybe a limited number of
other people might get or just writing an obscure joke like, Hey,
we're going to have this club owner boast about serving
a fish that's not edible, and it's funny because you
can't serve the fish. Well, it's not funny if you
don't know it. The other option, though, is that the
writers wrote something and didn't get their facts right. So
those are the two or three possibilities I see, and
I'll leave it to the discretion and imagination of listeners
to decide which they would believe. Over on YouTube on
the Earl Loss and Murder case, have a comment from
a listener who writes, six hour developing that was amazing,
especially back then, of course, when and I appreciate the comment.
Of course, when I was growing up, the big thing
was one hour developing. And I remember, I think we
were I was about six, and we met a lady
who ended up becoming a big friend of the family,
and she had a polaroid camera and took a picture
and it came out instantly, and I was utterly amazed. Now,
one of these days I'm going to have to talk
to my son and explain that pictures did always just
become available immediately as soon as you take him definitely
some changes in photographic technology over the years. Eric writes,
I'm lukewarm on broadways my beat as a whole, but
Tartaglia has become one of my favorite secondary slash sidekick
characters that has been featured on your show. After listening
to your discussion about advertising during the Casey Crime Photographer
thanks Giving special, I started to think maybe a little
too much about his segment's placement in the show. We
don't have the ad breaks in these recordings, but it
seems clear to me that the Tartaglia segments must come
after the major commercial break. Tartaglia's voice is different than
anyone else's on the show, nasal sharply accented upbeat with
a slightly running esque speace pattern. This distinct voice would
be an audio clue to people to start paying attention
to the radio. The themes themselves offer a little dialogue
that is disconnected with the action and some important parts
of the story, giving people a chance to settle back in.
They then point Danny towards the second half action. He's
more than a great character, He's a useful structural device. Well, Eric,
I appreciate those thoughts on Tartaglia. Now, I will say
that the network recordings we have aren't missing commercial breaks.
I do believe we've had a couple that have been sponsored,
but for the most part these were aired as sustaining
episodes on CBS, with the only commercials being CBS promos
and PSAs. But I do think that there is something
to what you said. Now, I don't think they had
some sort of inflexible rule, because I believe you'll find episodes.
You'll certainly find episodes where Tartaglia appears in the first
half and there may be somewhere just something extraordinary in
the plot he doesn't lead off the second half. But
I do think that a lot of episodes that certainly
the case, and it does work well, which would make
it a very odd thing if nobody actually gave any
thought to it. So there's probably something to that.
Speaker 8: Eric.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your comment. Now it's time to thank our
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Speaker 6: What statue of the child Jesus? Do you have what
we could look at? Sure?
Speaker 16: No, you're a larger one. You don't want a larger
one unless it's pret a church. That's why you want
a larger one.
Speaker 6: Could we see it? Please?
Speaker 16: Not my due to butt in. Unless you're live in
a big place. This will make your living room all
the counter. Yes, most of the people who go to
the Mission Church trade here, good, many of them, specially
to kids. White kids more religious. Check on yourself, see
if kids are on more religious than you might be.
So that's what's wrong in the world. Oh, I don't
mean you're wrong with it? And everybody?
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, What if we could take to the point,
mister Flavan.
Speaker 16: Sure a lot of people from the Mission Church come
in here.
Speaker 6: Do people ever come in and sell back a religious
article like a prayer?
Speaker 16: Book or rosaries, Yes, sir, second hand you mean, yes, sir,
not since I ever been around. It's silly why people
don't have religious articles so they can get rid of them.
They have them so they can happen.
Speaker 3: But if a man had a statue and wanted to
sell it, he'd come to a place like.
Speaker 6: This, sure, but he wouldn't want to sell it. He
would if it was stolen.
Speaker 16: No, sir, if a man wanted to steal a statue,
he'd be crazy or something like that. The only place
he'd want to go is where crazy people are.
Speaker 6: You may be right, mister Flant.
Speaker 16: I don't know what you fellas are looking for. But
if it's somebody who stole the statue, he's crazy and
you won't find him. You won't find him as long.
Speaker 6: As you live or in a million years. That should
cover it.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,
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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off