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But now, from October twentieth, nineteen fifty one, here is
the Kurt Bauer's Murder.
Speaker 2: Case Broadway's My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle.
The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
Speaker 3: Broadway is My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
Speaker 2: In the sunlight of an October morning, Broadway stands on
its street corner and breathe deep the autumn filtered air
presses out of its lungs. The taste of the night passed.
This is the time of day when neon is silent,
spectacular's doze. The shadows have not yet found their final shapes,
and the pavement is flecked with glints of sun fragments.
Doorways are opened on the October day, and the night
dreams are swept into the gutters. It's the time of
the coffee and cakes and break from the starting gate,
and the odds even up. You never come in where
I was. The sunlight filtered through Italian damask, swiftly caressed
Grecian fragments, a torso and black marble ahead in stone,
parked with antiquity, a glass case with golden coins, hermetically
sealed against corrosion and desire, and impervious to it all.
The man who leaned fastidiously against a Grecian column then
lifted his glass of champagne silently toasted the bust of Plato,
then let the realization flow over him that a policeman
was there among his treasures. You respond, value people quickly, bravo.
At headquarters they said your call sounded urgent? Did they
say that? How perceptive of you people?
Speaker 4: The extraordinary qualities one finds the most unimaginative of delicious.
Speaker 2: That's right, mister Hanson, no imagination. That's why you will
have to tell me the reason I'm here it's exquisite.
You'll be ravished by it.
Speaker 4: Shall we set it off with champagne? Look and reject
the bubbly. It's going to be such a grizzly da,
miss Clover, I promise you it's.
Speaker 2: After a good start. Goodbye, mister Hanson.
Speaker 4: Come back, idiot man, come back in this room full
of dead antiquity. There is so much vibrant death, pulsating death,
and you turn your back on it. Idiot man, Someone's dead,
there will be Does the statement chafe up an emotion
in your Oh no love, my wife once of such beauty,
such beauty that would put all these my Grecian delicacies
to shame. That Torso, for instance, it would blush to
its tippy toes at the beauty that once was Nola's.
Speaker 2: But no more.
Speaker 4: And she's going to die because there will be violence
of one or another death. It is almost too much
to hope for, is it not? Though Nola deserves it,
How that old girl deserves it. She's done something. Mm hmmm, yes,
m m. She convinced the boy to come here all
the way from Europe. Not Dana's of a boy. Kurt
could turn on the old girl young gods turn on
old beauty, sometimes destroy it because it offends their sense.
Speaker 2: Of the esthetic.
Speaker 4: Kurt Kurt Bama a young thing with a pair of skis.
I fear Nola is playing with her own demise in
that boy, and she's not aware of it, no more
than she's aware that that what that. My daughter, Connie,
by a former less colorful marriage, also has no love
for Nola.
Speaker 2: You must talk to Connie at.
Speaker 4: Her place on Sutton, ask her why she loves Nola
so helplessly.
Speaker 2: It'll amuse you. And you, mister Hansen, what about you?
Why I too, am a creature of violence? Delicious, isn't it.
Speaker 4: I don't know one day to the next how I'll
react when something's taken away from me. I fear for Nola,
mister Globb, such an exquisite fear. That's why you called us.
But exactly, Nola's a lovely old girl. I'd fret if
there was so much as a scratch on her. You'll
prevent that, you people, won't you if you can, if
you can?
Speaker 2: And saying that, mister Hanson poured himself a drink, moved
over to the slender Grecian column, faced me, and took
his stance next to Plato. He fingered his mustache, cocked
his head, and used a half of his mouth for
a smile. That's the way I left, Mister Hanson. Then
call his daughter, be told that miss Hanson was not
at home momentarily momently she had an appointment elsewhere at
Rocke full of Plaza, the ice skating rink. So go there,
have her paged that Hans, and watch the skaters briefly,
the young thing who catches your eye and pirouettes and swiftly,
the rapid boy on racing blades, and the lady who
gets up again, brave and intent and skates close to
the rail, and the very tall young woman who skims
out of the crowd and talks to the announcer that.
Speaker 5: Man, do you want to see me?
Speaker 2: Yes, my name's Clover. Can we sit down? Sure if
you want. I'm from the police, Miss Hanson, go on,
go on, I'm not panicky. I had a talk with
your father a little while ago.
Speaker 6: What's his current burden?
Speaker 2: I'm not sure, Miss Hanson. He seems to be worried
about your stepmother.
Speaker 6: You should have started to worry about her fifteen years
ago they he married her. Why were here, I'd give
up by now, you know, come philosophical about her. What
do you say about stepmother Nola?
Speaker 2: He said something would happen to her somebody. You mentioned
a name, Kurt Bauer, Kirk Power.
Speaker 7: You know something.
Speaker 6: I've been waiting for Kurt for two hours, just to
cross hands with him and dance a blue Daniub with him.
He won't show up. Would you show up for me,
mister Clover? For a girl who's six feet tall? I
wonder my complexion is not so bad. But look at
this hair? Ever see hair like this hu a girl?
I chuckle to myself when I put lipstick on my face.
Tell me about Kurt Bower hmm, see me, gosh, don't
make me do that, mister Clover. I'd titter and poke
you with an elbow.
Speaker 2: Just tell me who he is, young man.
Speaker 6: We found him in the Italian elks. We Stepmother Nola
and I we were skiing. Something came out of the
blue and plopped down beside us and made nasty little
slalums in the snow.
Speaker 2: That was Kurt. What's he doing here?
Speaker 6: Stepmother Nolah stopped waxing his skis long enough to tell
him she could get him a job come winter at
Lake Placid.
Speaker 2: Why would he want to do anything to harmer my daddy?
Speaker 5: Tell you we would.
Speaker 7: Dad was ribbing.
Speaker 6: He's a ribber, great sense of humor. He reads Plato
and hits passers by over the head with folded newspapers.
Speaker 2: How about you? You don't like.
Speaker 5: Missus Hampson deal, I don't like any woman who's lovely.
Speaker 2: You blame me?
Speaker 6: Now, pardon me, mister clover. There's a tall man skating
over there. He's alone. I never saw him before, but
maybe he's looking for me. I'll give him something to
look at.
Speaker 2: And watch. The girls skate away with a surprising brace,
glide to the center of the rink, and begin an
endless swirling, a whirling whose fuel was disappointment and frustration.
The frenetic spinning, turning, cutting of numerals into ice, the
magic symbols to draw beauty to her. And it doesn't
happen until the awkward crash against the spectator's railing, the
clumsy fall that sparked only a laugh, and no one
helps her to her feet. Ah jacked now with the
proper authorities for an address on Kurt Bauer's key instructor
be given it. Go there to an apartment whose orders
are of wax of oiled wood and steel, and blended
with it the perfume of the woman who runs her
fingers across the boy's mouth as he speaks.
Speaker 8: Please, Nola, please the man frighten you could you've met
his type before. Don't be frightened, darling.
Speaker 9: You will understand mister Clover that Missus Hanson.
Speaker 8: Noola, Darling, Good Nola.
Speaker 9: Please take your hand for me in the presence of
this gentleman. It does not.
Speaker 8: Realize what you're doing to this boy. Mister Clover, you've
frightened him because he's been arrassed by men.
Speaker 2: Like you before, by police.
Speaker 8: You're all alike, whatever they call you. Please authority men
on horseback in a uniform only or not? I you,
mister Clover on horseback, I mean or in uniform. But
good has met you before.
Speaker 9: What missus Hanson is trying to say for me, and
I would wish he did not.
Speaker 2: I was only trying to do.
Speaker 9: What missus Hanson is trying to say is that I
served with the Nazi Alpine Corps against my will, that
I deserted them, that my innocence has been proven by
your occupation forces in my native Germany that my relationship
with missus Hanson is only only.
Speaker 8: That, mister close, I'm a sort of fading employment agency,
a young man who flies beautifully.
Speaker 2: Through the air. Your husband said he was afraid for you,
Missus Hanson, that something was going.
Speaker 10: To happen to you, something bad, by whose.
Speaker 2: Hand your stepdaughters may be Kurts, maybe your husband's. Maybe.
Shall I give you my reaction, Missus Hanson.
Speaker 8: I'll give it to you my reaction. Honey, my stepdaughter
pathetic Kurt. She's so in love with she might hurt
me even rather to kill me. Yes, she might, And
I can understand he believe me. I could my husband.
Speaker 2: You've met him. He's vicious.
Speaker 8: No, but if he stooped to soil his hands that much,
it would astonish me.
Speaker 2: Could my good? Could you hurt me? Why?
Speaker 9: I want you to go away from here, Nola, someplace
where you will be safe.
Speaker 8: Where you're frightened for me. Kurd you don't want anything
to happen to me. You're a nice American friend.
Speaker 9: That inn in Vermont there is snow there. Now, you
will enjoy it, Nola.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about it.
Speaker 8: Okay, when this gentleman leaves, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 9: I wish to assure you soon.
Speaker 8: See I'm helping him with his coat, and then we'll
discuss it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I dug on your jacket, mister Clover, and you're ready
for this cheek goodbye.
Speaker 2: Mister.
Speaker 11: Danny.
Speaker 2: Come on in my what's on your mind?
Speaker 11: Nothing?
Speaker 2: Just going home, Danny?
Speaker 11: How about you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, a few minutes you're bowling to night. Yeah, yeah,
I guess.
Speaker 11: Don't do me any favorites. You don't feel like bowling,
Say you don't feel like bowling, Yeah, it's matter with you.
Speaker 2: I'm bewildered, michaelvon You ever get bewildered.
Speaker 11: That's why I bowled so much. It takes my mind
off the many times I'm bewildered.
Speaker 2: I can't figure those people, each one of them, Dale Hansen,
his wife, his daughter, that Kurt Bauer went about him.
I don't know. If I said they were strange, would
you know what I meant? H h me either. There's
something shrill about all of them, like they were waiting
for something to happen, Like each was waiting for the
other to make a move, one of them moving. Danny
Clover speaking Yeah, that's what is it? Mister Hanson. Have
you been inside Kurt's apartment recently, about three hours ago? Why?
I suggs a revisit? I strongly Who was it?
Speaker 12: Danny?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you on the way.
Speaker 11: Come on, doors wide open there.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for the information, Magovin, go on
in right, all right?
Speaker 11: What's supposed to be here in Kurt's apartment?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Look in that that room, Danny, Look, look, Danny.
He stood there in the doorway, Muggovn did, pointing, pointing
at Kurt Bauer, lying there on the bed, arms outstretched
like the beginning of an embrace, like the end of one.
And beneath the white silk scarf around his throat was
the shaft of a ski pole, steel tipped in paling him.
It was the thing that killed him, the thing that
had murdered Kurt Bauer.
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Speaker 2: It's the time that was saved up for night on Broadway,
the time when the great explosion flings itself out over
the city and the lights climb in columns against the
wall of night, like licking serpents. Crowd gathers to give
it voice. The hawkers, the gawkers, the hurry up boys
that take it easy girls, the laughers, the weepers, the footsteps,
the sigh of silk, the whispers, and inside a thin
sheet of glass, away the cocktails on the varnished bar,
and the piano and the secret sounds from a corner table.
This is it, Kid Broadway in the blaze of the moon,
Saturday night time, and the night had an hour in
it to find a man murdered, to consider him, to
watch the police technical department attend him, talk to the
medical examiner. The hour to officiate, then to leave and
to make a call to Dale Hansen summon him to headquarters.
Speaker 4: The first time in my life is Glover. I feel well, municipal,
like a citizen. It has the shade of a sensation
about it.
Speaker 2: You knew we'd find Kurt Bauer dead, didn't you. Of
course I called you from the phone next to his deathbed.
I've been complimented before on my presence of mind, so
he didn't bother.
Speaker 11: Did you kill him? Mister Hanson?
Speaker 2: You are mister Clover's I suppose you. People would say sidekick.
Speaker 11: Did you kill him?
Speaker 2: Certainly not. I went to give him his fee for
making my dear ones proficient on ice. Let's see that
medical examiner's report, Mugren. Thanks. Kurt Bomer died at about
seven o'clock, according to this.
Speaker 4: And I called you at nine. From six to eight thirty,
I was being sweated massaged. You may check my club,
the Hermitage Club. Check it, Muglin, Gramercy five one one
one oh.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you something, mister Hanson. Certainly you tried
to throw us off the track, didn't You told me
your wife was in danger while it was Believe me,
this whole turn of events is merely a pleasant who
killed him? Mister Hanson.
Speaker 4: I suppose someone who's forty. Here's pleasant surprises. I called
you to frown forgive.
Speaker 2: Did you know your daughter was in love with him?
She'll grieve and your wife, My wife is a foolish
woman and harmless. Her attempts to recapture a lost youth
is suddening, but I bear with it.
Speaker 11: I just spoke to my surname Bill Danny. Yeah. Yeah,
he baked him and massaged him from six to eight.
Give my half hour to get dressed.
Speaker 2: You're in the clear, mister Hanson. You can get out
of here. Then the phone call to the Hansoon apartment
be plugged into the chauffeur's quarters, be told in a
crescendo of yawns that missus Nola Hanson had been taken
to Grand Central at about four o'clock for a jaunt
to Vermont. That she packed three custom made bags, stopped
off at Brooks Brothers for an undersuit of woollies. Then
to your room to watch the October night die out
of your reach. Then the morning in the quick searing
coffee again, he's the call to be made. The call
on Connie Hanson, stepdaughter of Nola, hate her of Nola,
unloved by Kurt mis Hanson? Please? Who are you? Police? Now?
Speaker 10: You mustn't trouble miss Constance with why she tried to
do away with herself?
Speaker 2: She tried to commit suicide when last night? Can I
see her?
Speaker 10: Doctor left things like you to my discretion?
Speaker 2: Can I see her? Well?
Speaker 10: I don't see what harm it'll do? Come along, Miss Constance.
Speaker 11: It didn't make.
Speaker 5: Me any more attractive, did it?
Speaker 7: I thought?
Speaker 2: Maybe? Why miss Hanson?
Speaker 5: Why Hurd's dead? Haven't you heard I ever tell you
about Kurt? Beautiful Kurt, Handsome Kurt. You're not a woman,
so you don't know what it was when he touched you,
even by mistake. He never drew his hand away from
him the minute he did.
Speaker 2: I good, gosh, like this forever you could have killed him,
tried suicide knowing it wouldn't work to make us think
you're a ray of sunshine.
Speaker 7: Mister Cole, you really are a big hell. You're thinking
I could kill Kurt? That makes me something? Doesn't it really?
Speaker 8: Something?
Speaker 7: A girl a man could watch, a man could want
a girl like that?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Handsome, don't you think he oh, hello, do
you know?
Speaker 13: Happy holiday?
Speaker 2: Well? Thanks gino holiday? What holiday?
Speaker 13: You kidding?
Speaker 2: No? No, not what holiday?
Speaker 11: Why?
Speaker 2: Danny?
Speaker 13: On this date in seventeen seventy four, Samuel Adams did
call together the Continental Congress.
Speaker 2: Oh, I guess that slipped my mind.
Speaker 13: Don't let her body you. Last year I forgot too,
and Danny. To celebrate this auspicious occasion, I gave my
oldest Emilio a new Columbia bicycle.
Speaker 2: Why.
Speaker 13: What a happy, laughing lad he was upon receiving it.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he was.
Speaker 13: Well, Danny, let us not quaddle to work if you insist,
as indeed I do. However, the news I have to
give you is pause. It's why pause, not much of it.
I put in a phone call to Vermont and Ian,
where Missus Hanson is stained. She was out walking the hill,
so I left the message to get down.
Speaker 2: Here post haste. Now what else do you know?
Speaker 13: I already told you, Danny that the news were hell
on mygavn.
Speaker 2: Danny, Yeah, I've been over the Immigration Department most of
the morning.
Speaker 11: Checking on Kurt Barr.
Speaker 2: What'd you find?
Speaker 9: Not?
Speaker 2: Oh, not much, we don't know already he was in
the German army deserted.
Speaker 11: You know what Kurt told you.
Speaker 2: Just one thing though.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Bauer came over here with his mother, set her
up in a little house out and flushing.
Speaker 2: Here's he address, Thanks Margavon.
Speaker 14: Court was something fine, her clover, something beyond your understanding.
Speaker 2: I met him, Missus Bauer talked to him. He told
me he was a deserter.
Speaker 14: My Court was a man of intelligence. When promises, dreams
were not what they pretended to be. Court fled from them,
as he fled from your authorities in our country.
Speaker 2: He said he'd been an unwilling Nazi, but he was
clear he was.
Speaker 14: But it was still flight. Because missus Hanson beckoned she
loved him. Nenne have loved courtne is Hansen's younger, richer,
less greedy for you, and many husbands have wished my
Court dead for this.
Speaker 2: Dale Hansen a curious man.
Speaker 14: This house. It was his gift to Court. Court's close
his apartment, money to spend.
Speaker 2: You mean there were a gift through missus Hanson.
Speaker 14: Oh, No, from him, from him personally, because my Court
went to him when we came to your country. Explained
to him his interest in missus Hanson was only professional.
She had talent for skiing, explained to him his gratitude
for the opportunities of your country. My Court was an
intelligent man, you could call it that. Was it not
intelligent of him to call to mister Hanson immediately when
you found him with Missus Hanson, when you told him
of her husband's fear for her.
Speaker 2: Kurt did that.
Speaker 14: Immediately to ask of mister Hanson's in favor of money
for our return to our home. Courd no wish to
be present.
Speaker 2: What did Hanson do?
Speaker 14: He promised Court the money. He told Court to come
here to me, he would bring the money to us.
You wish more from me, mister Clover.
Speaker 2: No nothing, And leave there and get back to Manhattan
and back to headquarters. Check in and make another phone call.
Call Vermont and talk to a desk clerk and be
given answers. Then to a Park Avenue apartment where you'd
been once before. Cloma, come in and watch mister Hanson
as he took up his post again next to plate
hole and then noticed that the room another treasure had
been added. His wife, Nola Hanson. This is a delight.
I'm glad you're back in town, Missus Hanson. We're all
glad you've heard about Kurt, haven't you?
Speaker 8: I cried for I'm on the train all the way
to Boston.
Speaker 2: When she met her Harvard professor, he took a clinical
interest in her. How'd you find out about Kurt while
you were in Vermont, missus Hanson?
Speaker 8: Your sergeant left word about what happened. Desk clerk at
the end gave me quite a detailed report.
Speaker 4: I've got to tell you something, nolam. What I saw
Kurt a little before the police. I went to his
chambers to speak.
Speaker 2: With him about you. There he was that tool of
his trade, right through his chest. I cried, I really
did have you the one? Have you heard about your daughter?
About Connie? Yes, she tried to commit suicide, but she
does that frequently, mister Clover.
Speaker 8: However, she's very careful not to succeed by now she
knows precisely to the pill her limits.
Speaker 2: She never exceeds it. Poor desperate girl. I wish I
could feel more fatherly about her. How could you?
Speaker 11: Dear?
Speaker 8: Connie is so tall, and you.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you something, missus Hanson. When I first
met you, you were with Kurt Bauer. You were a
different person. Nola has that talent.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 2: When I first met you, missus Hanson, you seem so concerned,
and the butt Kurt so warm, Tartan he was alive,
then that's your talent, precisely alive.
Speaker 8: Kurt was something shining, vibrant dead he did he sure?
Speaker 2: Sure is?
Speaker 4: Well, No, mister Hanson, don't be embarrassed to Nola, and
I will say, argabie right in front of your.
Speaker 2: You planned it all, didn't you, mister Hanson, exceedingly well?
Don't you take letter good in on it? Will you? Boys?
What are you two talking about about? Something? Experty? No love?
I had a man murdered and mister Clover can't touch me.
You murdered Kurt. I didn't say that, my dear times.
You catch the train for Vermont, missus Hanson.
Speaker 8: Oh, let me see now that chauffeur drove me to
the station a little before four, and the train.
Speaker 2: Left soon after that. The train left, but you didn't.
What do you mean there was a train at four
and another one at eight. You took the one at eight.
I called the inn at Vermont. You arrived too late
to have taken the four o'clock train. Do you mean?
Speaker 8: I stated around that dismal station all that time.
Speaker 2: Pay attention, Nola. He didn't say that either. That's right,
I didn't. You didn't stay at the station. You used
that time to murder Kurt Bauer me.
Speaker 4: This is very important, Nola. You really should make an
effort to concentrate. He said you.
Speaker 2: Your husband said he had a murder committed. He was right.
He had you commit the murder. Missus Hanson, did you.
Speaker 8: Expect me to listen to that?
Speaker 2: I do? Indeed I do. Your husband's a clever man.
He understands people. He knows how people close to him
will react. Right right. He set something in motion, missus Hanson.
Threw me. He used me to frighten Kurt away from you.
I told Kurt that something might happen to you. Kurt
didn't want to be mixed up in it, so he ran,
like he always ran from everything whenever there was trouble.
Speaker 14: Ker didn't run.
Speaker 6: I ran.
Speaker 2: Kurt told you to go while you were away, he
planned to leave the country. I found that out too.
Speaker 4: I do a diagram about what was going to happen.
It has so congratulate.
Speaker 2: Me, Nola. They'll help me. That's more.
Speaker 4: And you've shown to me for years. Truly, Novah, I've
missed it. That's why I did what I did. I
grew bored about being embarrassed among my friends about you.
Speaker 2: Dale helped me. So you killed Kurt missus Hanson because
he was walking out on you. He told you that
when you were waiting for the train, when you went
to see him.
Speaker 14: To me, Dail, you've got to help me.
Speaker 2: I was foolish.
Speaker 8: I was foolish before you stopped me before, oh you
had to do this time was to.
Speaker 2: Tell me to stop. And it was innocent, Dail. You
know that, Listen, Deale.
Speaker 8: I was doing it for Connie, for your daughter.
Speaker 2: She's so unattractive.
Speaker 8: I was trying to convince her to be kind to her,
a lover, don't you see?
Speaker 2: Don't you see? Dale?
Speaker 4: And when you do have an emotion for me, my dear,
it's so distasteful. Goodbye, Nola.
Speaker 2: Nighttime blares down Broadway. The canyon streets gather it in
like some passion, and the night is a backdrop for
a million fragments, neon and roar and melting shapes and
shock and clots of crowd. It's a fury that sweeps
you up and holds you close. And throws you into
the gutter of your choice. It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the
most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world, Broadway, My.
Speaker 3: Beat, Broadways My Beat stars Leerry Thor as Detective Danny Clover,
with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack Krusian as Muggavin.
The program was produced and directed by Elliott Lewis, with
musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story,
Betty lou Gerson was sarved as Nola Hanson and Ted
Osborne as Dale Hanson. Featured in the cast were Mary
ship Irene, Teddrow and Robert Boone. When Squire Jack Benny
invites the whole gang to a swank Hollywood nightclub, the
natural question arises in everybody's mind. Who's picking up the check?
They'll find out and so will you Tomorrow night when
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. One point I do want to acknowledge here
is that Danny seems to have moved forward a little
bit in his conclusion that people can be prosecuted for
manipulating others into committee murder even they had nothing to
do with it. Here it's kind of acknowledged that husband
manipulated events but can't be held legally liable. Which that's
legally correct, but different than what they've done before. It'll
be interesting to see if we have other cases where
they try to have Danny arrest someone for manipulation. Now
that's not to say that it's not wrong and immoral,
but not everything immoral is illegal, which can often be
a dilemma for fictional detectives. In fact, one fictional detective
and I won't reveal who for those who have not
read the book, actually committed murder in order to stop
someone who manipulated others into committing murder to prevent more
murders from occurring. But Danny faces no such dilemma here.
I did have to kind of question the idea of
making quitting the Nazi army as part of the case
that Bower quit. Everything perseverance is important, don't get me wrong,
but there's a limit. I mean, what Bear is going
to say to the kid, you know, if you're going
to quit on a genocidal lunatic destroying his own country.
Can you really be expected to follow through on anything?
I mean, that's an absurd situation to set up, and
there had to be a better way to make the point.
And the thing is that they made this guy German
and gave him this background just to make that point,
rather than having this point that Kurt left the German
Army because he couldn't stick with anything. Well, listener comments
and feedback now, and we go to Spotify where Adriana
comments regarding the Mariolovakia murder case deeply moving. The more
episodes I hear, the more I preferred Danny's character to
Philip Marlow. Well, that's high praise and need I guess
that if there's a difference that might work in Danny's
favor and that sort of comparison, it's the way in
which he and Marlowe relate to the world. It's not
just a matter of Marlow being a private detective and
Danny being a call with Marlow particularly in the radio version.
The characters that inhabit his world are all in their
own little private space, separate from one another and disconnected
from the rest of the world and from marlow and
he comes into their situation as the ultimate outsider. With Danny,
he approaches crimes as someone who belongs to the same
overall world. He is part of Broadway, and he is
connected to this community in many ways, and in many
cases he is maybe one or two degrees of separation
removed from the murder victim. So while Marlowe solves crimes
and comes into situations as the night in tarnished Armor,
Danny does so as someone who is part of this
community and feels the weight of the deaths of his
fellow New Yorkers. And in some ways that reflects some
of the differences between New York City and Los Angeles
of the era. Los Angeles was this growing city that
was changing and reinventing itself all the time, with so
many people coming into LA from other places around the country,
while New York was much more established, many more people
having been in places for multiple generations, with deeper roots
and deeper connections. Now, certainly both cities have evolved over time,
but I think the rootedness of Danny is a bit
of a strength in this comparison. All Right, well, now
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Speaker 15: The newspapers went too specific? How did he manage to
escape the way he did? I always thought state penitentiaries
were well guarded.
Speaker 16: Apparently Blair was one of the trusted prisoners. It's a
minimum security prisoner to begin with, father.
Speaker 12: I see.
Speaker 15: I suppose Blair and the man he escaped with thought
about it a good deal according to the paper as
well planned.
Speaker 12: When did they get away last night?
Speaker 16: It was this morning, prison official figure about two am
slugged the guard and went over the wall some other
Two of them got hold of a gun, held up
a motors on the high wind store his car as
last report be hand terrible.
Speaker 12: Did the police consider them dangerous?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 17: Their arm father. Both of them were doing time for robbery.
They both used guns before. How about possible contacts he
might have out hound, father, Can you help us there
at all?
Speaker 15: I'm afraid not, Sergeant. I think stan knew some people
in San Francisco. I don't know their names or addresses, though,
I haven't any idea.
Speaker 17: And there's no special person or place that you know
of that he'd be likely to go if he heads
back for Los Angeles.
Speaker 12: No, no, I can think of. You imagine he'd be
likely to come back here.
Speaker 2: We're not sure.
Speaker 16: Last report we had seemed to indicate Blairin's partner. We're
heading this way. Prison's only about forty miles away. Could
be there in the city.
Speaker 15: Now, I don't understand. I mean, with all the police
looking for them, why would they come back here?
Speaker 17: They probably figured they can find cover a lot easier
than they could in some of the small towns.
Speaker 15: Sagean, Yeah, father, do you think they'll have trouble taking stand?
I mean, can they take him a line?
Speaker 17: Well, we'll try our best to make it that way.
It's like I told you, father, he's got a gun.
If he's cornered, there's a good chance he might try
to shoot his way out.
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