1 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:35,359 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:35,679 --> 00:00:39,200 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:43,000 going to bring you this week's episode of Broadways My Beat. 4 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,679 But first, I do want to encourage you. If you're 5 00:00:45,799 --> 00:00:50,840 enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. 6 00:00:51,359 --> 00:00:56,000 Our listener support and appreciation campaign continues. You can become 7 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:00,079 one of our ongoing Patreon supporters for as little as 8 00:01:00,119 --> 00:01:04,560 two dollars per month at Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. 9 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:10,239 But now, from October twentieth, nineteen fifty one, here is 10 00:01:10,359 --> 00:01:12,359 the Kurt Bauer's Murder. 11 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:29,359 Speaker 2: Case Broadway's My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle. 12 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:35,640 The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. 13 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:44,799 Speaker 3: Broadway is My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. 14 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 2: In the sunlight of an October morning, Broadway stands on 15 00:01:57,719 --> 00:02:01,159 its street corner and breathe deep the autumn filtered air 16 00:02:01,439 --> 00:02:04,079 presses out of its lungs. The taste of the night passed. 17 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:07,000 This is the time of day when neon is silent, 18 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,400 spectacular's doze. The shadows have not yet found their final shapes, 19 00:02:11,439 --> 00:02:14,240 and the pavement is flecked with glints of sun fragments. 20 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:17,319 Doorways are opened on the October day, and the night 21 00:02:17,439 --> 00:02:20,680 dreams are swept into the gutters. It's the time of 22 00:02:20,719 --> 00:02:23,280 the coffee and cakes and break from the starting gate, 23 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:33,039 and the odds even up. You never come in where 24 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,719 I was. The sunlight filtered through Italian damask, swiftly caressed 25 00:02:36,759 --> 00:02:40,719 Grecian fragments, a torso and black marble ahead in stone, 26 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,719 parked with antiquity, a glass case with golden coins, hermetically 27 00:02:44,719 --> 00:02:48,800 sealed against corrosion and desire, and impervious to it all. 28 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,280 The man who leaned fastidiously against a Grecian column then 29 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:56,360 lifted his glass of champagne silently toasted the bust of Plato, 30 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:59,520 then let the realization flow over him that a policeman 31 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:04,240 was there among his treasures. You respond, value people quickly, bravo. 32 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,120 At headquarters they said your call sounded urgent? Did they 33 00:03:07,159 --> 00:03:09,080 say that? How perceptive of you people? 34 00:03:09,319 --> 00:03:14,879 Speaker 4: The extraordinary qualities one finds the most unimaginative of delicious. 35 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 2: That's right, mister Hanson, no imagination. That's why you will 36 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,800 have to tell me the reason I'm here it's exquisite. 37 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:20,919 You'll be ravished by it. 38 00:03:21,439 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 4: Shall we set it off with champagne? Look and reject 39 00:03:24,599 --> 00:03:26,759 the bubbly. It's going to be such a grizzly da, 40 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:28,560 miss Clover, I promise you it's. 41 00:03:28,439 --> 00:03:30,439 Speaker 2: After a good start. Goodbye, mister Hanson. 42 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 4: Come back, idiot man, come back in this room full 43 00:03:33,599 --> 00:03:37,439 of dead antiquity. There is so much vibrant death, pulsating death, 44 00:03:38,159 --> 00:03:42,199 and you turn your back on it. Idiot man, Someone's dead, 45 00:03:42,319 --> 00:03:45,120 there will be Does the statement chafe up an emotion 46 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:49,879 in your Oh no love, my wife once of such beauty, 47 00:03:50,439 --> 00:03:53,759 such beauty that would put all these my Grecian delicacies 48 00:03:53,759 --> 00:03:57,240 to shame. That Torso, for instance, it would blush to 49 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,000 its tippy toes at the beauty that once was Nola's. 50 00:04:00,639 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 2: But no more. 51 00:04:02,159 --> 00:04:04,759 Speaker 4: And she's going to die because there will be violence 52 00:04:04,759 --> 00:04:08,080 of one or another death. It is almost too much 53 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,000 to hope for, is it not? Though Nola deserves it, 54 00:04:11,479 --> 00:04:16,480 How that old girl deserves it. She's done something. Mm hmmm, yes, 55 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,279 m m. She convinced the boy to come here all 56 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:23,879 the way from Europe. Not Dana's of a boy. Kurt 57 00:04:23,959 --> 00:04:26,879 could turn on the old girl young gods turn on 58 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,560 old beauty, sometimes destroy it because it offends their sense. 59 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 2: Of the esthetic. 60 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 4: Kurt Kurt Bama a young thing with a pair of skis. 61 00:04:36,519 --> 00:04:39,199 I fear Nola is playing with her own demise in 62 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:42,399 that boy, and she's not aware of it, no more 63 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:47,639 than she's aware that that what that. My daughter, Connie, 64 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,160 by a former less colorful marriage, also has no love 65 00:04:51,199 --> 00:04:52,040 for Nola. 66 00:04:52,399 --> 00:04:53,759 Speaker 2: You must talk to Connie at. 67 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 4: Her place on Sutton, ask her why she loves Nola 68 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:57,279 so helplessly. 69 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,399 Speaker 2: It'll amuse you. And you, mister Hansen, what about you? 70 00:05:01,879 --> 00:05:06,600 Why I too, am a creature of violence? Delicious, isn't it. 71 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 4: I don't know one day to the next how I'll 72 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,000 react when something's taken away from me. I fear for Nola, 73 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:18,120 mister Globb, such an exquisite fear. That's why you called us. 74 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,720 But exactly, Nola's a lovely old girl. I'd fret if 75 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:23,759 there was so much as a scratch on her. You'll 76 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:28,800 prevent that, you people, won't you if you can, if 77 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:29,600 you can? 78 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,399 Speaker 2: And saying that, mister Hanson poured himself a drink, moved 79 00:05:37,399 --> 00:05:40,160 over to the slender Grecian column, faced me, and took 80 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:43,879 his stance next to Plato. He fingered his mustache, cocked 81 00:05:43,879 --> 00:05:46,040 his head, and used a half of his mouth for 82 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:56,040 a smile. That's the way I left, Mister Hanson. Then 83 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,519 call his daughter, be told that miss Hanson was not 84 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:02,000 at home momentarily momently she had an appointment elsewhere at 85 00:06:02,079 --> 00:06:06,040 Rocke full of Plaza, the ice skating rink. So go there, 86 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:12,600 have her paged that Hans, and watch the skaters briefly, 87 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,759 the young thing who catches your eye and pirouettes and swiftly, 88 00:06:16,879 --> 00:06:19,839 the rapid boy on racing blades, and the lady who 89 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:23,199 gets up again, brave and intent and skates close to 90 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,639 the rail, and the very tall young woman who skims 91 00:06:26,639 --> 00:06:30,120 out of the crowd and talks to the announcer that. 92 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,399 Speaker 5: Man, do you want to see me? 93 00:06:32,879 --> 00:06:36,759 Speaker 2: Yes, my name's Clover. Can we sit down? Sure if 94 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:42,519 you want. I'm from the police, Miss Hanson, go on, 95 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,720 go on, I'm not panicky. I had a talk with 96 00:06:44,759 --> 00:06:46,040 your father a little while ago. 97 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:47,959 Speaker 6: What's his current burden? 98 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,319 Speaker 2: I'm not sure, Miss Hanson. He seems to be worried 99 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:52,360 about your stepmother. 100 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 6: You should have started to worry about her fifteen years 101 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,279 ago they he married her. Why were here, I'd give 102 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,680 up by now, you know, come philosophical about her. What 103 00:07:03,759 --> 00:07:05,759 do you say about stepmother Nola? 104 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 2: He said something would happen to her somebody. You mentioned 105 00:07:10,079 --> 00:07:12,759 a name, Kurt Bauer, Kirk Power. 106 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:14,399 Speaker 7: You know something. 107 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 6: I've been waiting for Kurt for two hours, just to 108 00:07:17,639 --> 00:07:20,279 cross hands with him and dance a blue Daniub with him. 109 00:07:20,839 --> 00:07:24,000 He won't show up. Would you show up for me, 110 00:07:24,079 --> 00:07:27,079 mister Clover? For a girl who's six feet tall? I 111 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,040 wonder my complexion is not so bad. But look at 112 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,920 this hair? Ever see hair like this hu a girl? 113 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:37,120 I chuckle to myself when I put lipstick on my face. 114 00:07:37,439 --> 00:07:41,079 Tell me about Kurt Bower hmm, see me, gosh, don't 115 00:07:41,079 --> 00:07:44,000 make me do that, mister Clover. I'd titter and poke 116 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:44,879 you with an elbow. 117 00:07:45,279 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 2: Just tell me who he is, young man. 118 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:52,319 Speaker 6: We found him in the Italian elks. We Stepmother Nola 119 00:07:52,439 --> 00:07:55,439 and I we were skiing. Something came out of the 120 00:07:55,439 --> 00:07:58,240 blue and plopped down beside us and made nasty little 121 00:07:58,279 --> 00:07:59,319 slalums in the snow. 122 00:08:00,079 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 2: That was Kurt. What's he doing here? 123 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 6: Stepmother Nolah stopped waxing his skis long enough to tell 124 00:08:05,639 --> 00:08:07,399 him she could get him a job come winter at 125 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:08,120 Lake Placid. 126 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,519 Speaker 2: Why would he want to do anything to harmer my daddy? 127 00:08:11,519 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 5: Tell you we would. 128 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 7: Dad was ribbing. 129 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 6: He's a ribber, great sense of humor. He reads Plato 130 00:08:16,879 --> 00:08:20,199 and hits passers by over the head with folded newspapers. 131 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 2: How about you? You don't like. 132 00:08:22,759 --> 00:08:26,079 Speaker 5: Missus Hampson deal, I don't like any woman who's lovely. 133 00:08:26,399 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 2: You blame me? 134 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,639 Speaker 6: Now, pardon me, mister clover. There's a tall man skating 135 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:34,080 over there. He's alone. I never saw him before, but 136 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:37,080 maybe he's looking for me. I'll give him something to 137 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,320 look at. 138 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 2: And watch. The girls skate away with a surprising brace, 139 00:08:47,519 --> 00:08:49,559 glide to the center of the rink, and begin an 140 00:08:49,639 --> 00:08:53,440 endless swirling, a whirling whose fuel was disappointment and frustration. 141 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,480 The frenetic spinning, turning, cutting of numerals into ice, the 142 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:00,840 magic symbols to draw beauty to her. And it doesn't 143 00:09:00,879 --> 00:09:04,519 happen until the awkward crash against the spectator's railing, the 144 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:07,639 clumsy fall that sparked only a laugh, and no one 145 00:09:07,759 --> 00:09:17,320 helps her to her feet. Ah jacked now with the 146 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:20,720 proper authorities for an address on Kurt Bauer's key instructor 147 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,240 be given it. Go there to an apartment whose orders 148 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:27,960 are of wax of oiled wood and steel, and blended 149 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,879 with it the perfume of the woman who runs her 150 00:09:29,879 --> 00:09:32,039 fingers across the boy's mouth as he speaks. 151 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 8: Please, Nola, please the man frighten you could you've met 152 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:37,799 his type before. Don't be frightened, darling. 153 00:09:38,159 --> 00:09:40,879 Speaker 9: You will understand mister Clover that Missus Hanson. 154 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:43,399 Speaker 8: Noola, Darling, Good Nola. 155 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 9: Please take your hand for me in the presence of 156 00:09:45,399 --> 00:09:46,360 this gentleman. It does not. 157 00:09:46,519 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 8: Realize what you're doing to this boy. Mister Clover, you've 158 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:51,200 frightened him because he's been arrassed by men. 159 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 2: Like you before, by police. 160 00:09:53,039 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 8: You're all alike, whatever they call you. Please authority men 161 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,000 on horseback in a uniform only or not? I you, 162 00:09:59,039 --> 00:10:02,440 mister Clover on horseback, I mean or in uniform. But 163 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:03,600 good has met you before. 164 00:10:03,639 --> 00:10:06,879 Speaker 9: What missus Hanson is trying to say for me, and 165 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:08,399 I would wish he did not. 166 00:10:08,759 --> 00:10:09,559 Speaker 2: I was only trying to do. 167 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,399 Speaker 9: What missus Hanson is trying to say is that I 168 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:15,799 served with the Nazi Alpine Corps against my will, that 169 00:10:15,879 --> 00:10:18,840 I deserted them, that my innocence has been proven by 170 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:23,440 your occupation forces in my native Germany that my relationship 171 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,559 with missus Hanson is only only. 172 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 8: That, mister close, I'm a sort of fading employment agency, 173 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:32,559 a young man who flies beautifully. 174 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:34,519 Speaker 2: Through the air. Your husband said he was afraid for you, 175 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:36,399 Missus Hanson, that something was going. 176 00:10:36,279 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 10: To happen to you, something bad, by whose. 177 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 2: Hand your stepdaughters may be Kurts, maybe your husband's. Maybe. 178 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:45,639 Shall I give you my reaction, Missus Hanson. 179 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 8: I'll give it to you my reaction. Honey, my stepdaughter 180 00:10:49,519 --> 00:10:52,919 pathetic Kurt. She's so in love with she might hurt 181 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:57,120 me even rather to kill me. Yes, she might, And 182 00:10:57,159 --> 00:11:00,440 I can understand he believe me. I could my husband. 183 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 2: You've met him. He's vicious. 184 00:11:02,759 --> 00:11:05,879 Speaker 8: No, but if he stooped to soil his hands that much, 185 00:11:05,919 --> 00:11:06,879 it would astonish me. 186 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 2: Could my good? Could you hurt me? Why? 187 00:11:11,279 --> 00:11:14,039 Speaker 9: I want you to go away from here, Nola, someplace 188 00:11:14,039 --> 00:11:15,279 where you will be safe. 189 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:18,559 Speaker 8: Where you're frightened for me. Kurd you don't want anything 190 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:20,639 to happen to me. You're a nice American friend. 191 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 9: That inn in Vermont there is snow there. Now, you 192 00:11:24,519 --> 00:11:25,519 will enjoy it, Nola. 193 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 2: We'll talk about it. 194 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:29,799 Speaker 8: Okay, when this gentleman leaves, we'll talk about it. 195 00:11:30,279 --> 00:11:31,799 Speaker 9: I wish to assure you soon. 196 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,440 Speaker 8: See I'm helping him with his coat, and then we'll 197 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:37,039 discuss it. 198 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. 199 00:11:38,159 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 8: I dug on your jacket, mister Clover, and you're ready 200 00:11:40,519 --> 00:11:43,240 for this cheek goodbye. 201 00:11:42,759 --> 00:11:43,159 Speaker 2: Mister. 202 00:11:58,440 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 11: Danny. 203 00:11:59,399 --> 00:12:02,759 Speaker 2: Come on in my what's on your mind? 204 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:03,639 Speaker 11: Nothing? 205 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:05,039 Speaker 2: Just going home, Danny? 206 00:12:05,039 --> 00:12:05,519 Speaker 11: How about you? 207 00:12:05,799 --> 00:12:10,279 Speaker 2: Yeah, a few minutes you're bowling to night. Yeah, yeah, 208 00:12:10,279 --> 00:12:10,559 I guess. 209 00:12:11,159 --> 00:12:13,159 Speaker 11: Don't do me any favorites. You don't feel like bowling, 210 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,759 Say you don't feel like bowling, Yeah, it's matter with you. 211 00:12:17,639 --> 00:12:20,919 Speaker 2: I'm bewildered, michaelvon You ever get bewildered. 212 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 11: That's why I bowled so much. It takes my mind 213 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:24,480 off the many times I'm bewildered. 214 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 2: I can't figure those people, each one of them, Dale Hansen, 215 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:31,879 his wife, his daughter, that Kurt Bauer went about him. 216 00:12:31,919 --> 00:12:35,679 I don't know. If I said they were strange, would 217 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:39,279 you know what I meant? H h me either. There's 218 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:41,759 something shrill about all of them, like they were waiting 219 00:12:41,759 --> 00:12:44,159 for something to happen, Like each was waiting for the 220 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:49,320 other to make a move, one of them moving. Danny 221 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:53,039 Clover speaking Yeah, that's what is it? Mister Hanson. Have 222 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:57,120 you been inside Kurt's apartment recently, about three hours ago? Why? 223 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:04,840 I suggs a revisit? I strongly Who was it? 224 00:13:04,919 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 12: Danny? 225 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 2: I'll tell you on the way. 226 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 11: Come on, doors wide open there. 227 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:26,679 Speaker 2: Thank you very much for the information, Magovin, go on 228 00:13:26,759 --> 00:13:28,240 in right, all right? 229 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 11: What's supposed to be here in Kurt's apartment? 230 00:13:30,759 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 2: I don't know. Look in that that room, Danny, Look, look, Danny. 231 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:47,240 He stood there in the doorway, Muggovn did, pointing, pointing 232 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,080 at Kurt Bauer, lying there on the bed, arms outstretched 233 00:13:50,159 --> 00:13:53,200 like the beginning of an embrace, like the end of one. 234 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,840 And beneath the white silk scarf around his throat was 235 00:13:56,879 --> 00:14:00,679 the shaft of a ski pole, steel tipped in paling him. 236 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:03,480 It was the thing that killed him, the thing that 237 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:04,919 had murdered Kurt Bauer. 238 00:14:15,159 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 3: You are listening to Broadways My Beat, written by Morton 239 00:14:18,279 --> 00:14:21,759 Fine and David Freakin and starring Larry Thor as Detective 240 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:22,480 Danny Clover. 241 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:24,039 Speaker 2: Robert Q. 242 00:14:24,159 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 3: Lewis is in the waxworks for a solid hour of 243 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,679 pop tunes every Saturday night on CBS Radio. If you 244 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,240 can win for ten penalty favorites come in for Robert 245 00:14:32,279 --> 00:14:34,879 Q's Waxworks just a little bit later tonight on most 246 00:14:34,919 --> 00:14:38,120 of these same stations, Robert Q's name guests who know 247 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:42,200 their music and sometimes sing it America's discs America currently 248 00:14:42,279 --> 00:14:45,480 selld on Enjoy them all on Robert Q's Waxworks later 249 00:14:45,519 --> 00:14:51,639 tonight on CBS Radio. 250 00:14:57,679 --> 00:15:01,159 Speaker 2: It's the time that was saved up for night on Broadway, 251 00:15:01,399 --> 00:15:04,360 the time when the great explosion flings itself out over 252 00:15:04,399 --> 00:15:07,240 the city and the lights climb in columns against the 253 00:15:07,279 --> 00:15:10,840 wall of night, like licking serpents. Crowd gathers to give 254 00:15:10,879 --> 00:15:14,240 it voice. The hawkers, the gawkers, the hurry up boys 255 00:15:14,799 --> 00:15:18,519 that take it easy girls, the laughers, the weepers, the footsteps, 256 00:15:18,919 --> 00:15:23,519 the sigh of silk, the whispers, and inside a thin 257 00:15:23,559 --> 00:15:26,159 sheet of glass, away the cocktails on the varnished bar, 258 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:30,200 and the piano and the secret sounds from a corner table. 259 00:15:30,919 --> 00:15:33,919 This is it, Kid Broadway in the blaze of the moon, 260 00:15:34,279 --> 00:15:43,360 Saturday night time, and the night had an hour in 261 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,320 it to find a man murdered, to consider him, to 262 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,600 watch the police technical department attend him, talk to the 263 00:15:49,679 --> 00:15:54,480 medical examiner. The hour to officiate, then to leave and 264 00:15:54,519 --> 00:15:57,679 to make a call to Dale Hansen summon him to headquarters. 265 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:01,799 Speaker 4: The first time in my life is Glover. I feel well, municipal, 266 00:16:02,279 --> 00:16:04,840 like a citizen. It has the shade of a sensation 267 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:05,440 about it. 268 00:16:05,679 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 2: You knew we'd find Kurt Bauer dead, didn't you. Of 269 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,320 course I called you from the phone next to his deathbed. 270 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:13,960 I've been complimented before on my presence of mind, so 271 00:16:14,039 --> 00:16:14,639 he didn't bother. 272 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:16,759 Speaker 11: Did you kill him? Mister Hanson? 273 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:22,399 Speaker 2: You are mister Clover's I suppose you. People would say sidekick. 274 00:16:22,919 --> 00:16:23,799 Speaker 11: Did you kill him? 275 00:16:23,919 --> 00:16:26,879 Speaker 2: Certainly not. I went to give him his fee for 276 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:29,679 making my dear ones proficient on ice. Let's see that 277 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:36,360 medical examiner's report, Mugren. Thanks. Kurt Bomer died at about 278 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:37,840 seven o'clock, according to this. 279 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 4: And I called you at nine. From six to eight thirty, 280 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,000 I was being sweated massaged. You may check my club, 281 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,279 the Hermitage Club. Check it, Muglin, Gramercy five one one 282 00:16:47,279 --> 00:16:49,320 one oh. 283 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 2: Let me ask you something, mister Hanson. Certainly you tried 284 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:54,879 to throw us off the track, didn't You told me 285 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,360 your wife was in danger while it was Believe me, 286 00:16:57,559 --> 00:17:01,120 this whole turn of events is merely a pleasant who 287 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:02,320 killed him? Mister Hanson. 288 00:17:02,759 --> 00:17:06,640 Speaker 4: I suppose someone who's forty. Here's pleasant surprises. I called 289 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:08,079 you to frown forgive. 290 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:10,559 Speaker 2: Did you know your daughter was in love with him? 291 00:17:11,079 --> 00:17:14,519 She'll grieve and your wife, My wife is a foolish 292 00:17:14,559 --> 00:17:18,279 woman and harmless. Her attempts to recapture a lost youth 293 00:17:18,319 --> 00:17:20,680 is suddening, but I bear with it. 294 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 11: I just spoke to my surname Bill Danny. Yeah. Yeah, 295 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:25,680 he baked him and massaged him from six to eight. 296 00:17:26,039 --> 00:17:27,359 Give my half hour to get dressed. 297 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 2: You're in the clear, mister Hanson. You can get out 298 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:37,559 of here. Then the phone call to the Hansoon apartment 299 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,039 be plugged into the chauffeur's quarters, be told in a 300 00:17:40,039 --> 00:17:43,400 crescendo of yawns that missus Nola Hanson had been taken 301 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,759 to Grand Central at about four o'clock for a jaunt 302 00:17:45,759 --> 00:17:49,640 to Vermont. That she packed three custom made bags, stopped 303 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:53,559 off at Brooks Brothers for an undersuit of woollies. Then 304 00:17:53,599 --> 00:17:56,200 to your room to watch the October night die out 305 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,400 of your reach. Then the morning in the quick searing 306 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,160 coffee again, he's the call to be made. The call 307 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:05,759 on Connie Hanson, stepdaughter of Nola, hate her of Nola, 308 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:20,240 unloved by Kurt mis Hanson? Please? Who are you? Police? Now? 309 00:18:20,279 --> 00:18:22,599 Speaker 10: You mustn't trouble miss Constance with why she tried to 310 00:18:22,599 --> 00:18:23,559 do away with herself? 311 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:28,759 Speaker 2: She tried to commit suicide when last night? Can I 312 00:18:28,799 --> 00:18:29,240 see her? 313 00:18:30,279 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 10: Doctor left things like you to my discretion? 314 00:18:32,839 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 2: Can I see her? Well? 315 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 10: I don't see what harm it'll do? Come along, Miss Constance. 316 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:47,960 Speaker 11: It didn't make. 317 00:18:47,839 --> 00:18:49,279 Speaker 5: Me any more attractive, did it? 318 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 7: I thought? 319 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,559 Speaker 2: Maybe? Why miss Hanson? 320 00:18:55,839 --> 00:19:01,160 Speaker 5: Why Hurd's dead? Haven't you heard I ever tell you 321 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:06,519 about Kurt? Beautiful Kurt, Handsome Kurt. You're not a woman, 322 00:19:06,559 --> 00:19:08,240 so you don't know what it was when he touched you, 323 00:19:08,279 --> 00:19:11,759 even by mistake. He never drew his hand away from 324 00:19:11,839 --> 00:19:12,640 him the minute he did. 325 00:19:14,519 --> 00:19:17,559 Speaker 2: I good, gosh, like this forever you could have killed him, 326 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:20,359 tried suicide knowing it wouldn't work to make us think 327 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:22,759 you're a ray of sunshine. 328 00:19:22,799 --> 00:19:28,400 Speaker 7: Mister Cole, you really are a big hell. You're thinking 329 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:33,519 I could kill Kurt? That makes me something? Doesn't it really? 330 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 8: Something? 331 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 7: A girl a man could watch, a man could want 332 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:40,880 a girl like that? 333 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Handsome, don't you think he oh, hello, do 334 00:19:55,279 --> 00:19:55,480 you know? 335 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 13: Happy holiday? 336 00:19:57,319 --> 00:20:01,599 Speaker 2: Well? Thanks gino holiday? What holiday? 337 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:02,680 Speaker 13: You kidding? 338 00:20:03,079 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 2: No? No, not what holiday? 339 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 11: Why? 340 00:20:05,039 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 2: Danny? 341 00:20:05,519 --> 00:20:09,039 Speaker 13: On this date in seventeen seventy four, Samuel Adams did 342 00:20:09,079 --> 00:20:11,200 call together the Continental Congress. 343 00:20:11,519 --> 00:20:13,440 Speaker 2: Oh, I guess that slipped my mind. 344 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:16,039 Speaker 13: Don't let her body you. Last year I forgot too, 345 00:20:16,519 --> 00:20:19,799 and Danny. To celebrate this auspicious occasion, I gave my 346 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:22,359 oldest Emilio a new Columbia bicycle. 347 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:23,160 Speaker 2: Why. 348 00:20:23,319 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 13: What a happy, laughing lad he was upon receiving it. 349 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:26,880 Speaker 2: I'm sure he was. 350 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:30,680 Speaker 13: Well, Danny, let us not quaddle to work if you insist, 351 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,759 as indeed I do. However, the news I have to 352 00:20:33,799 --> 00:20:38,759 give you is pause. It's why pause, not much of it. 353 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,640 I put in a phone call to Vermont and Ian, 354 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,480 where Missus Hanson is stained. She was out walking the hill, 355 00:20:44,559 --> 00:20:46,279 so I left the message to get down. 356 00:20:46,079 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 2: Here post haste. Now what else do you know? 357 00:20:48,319 --> 00:20:51,319 Speaker 13: I already told you, Danny that the news were hell 358 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:52,240 on mygavn. 359 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,880 Speaker 2: Danny, Yeah, I've been over the Immigration Department most of 360 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:56,519 the morning. 361 00:20:56,319 --> 00:20:57,279 Speaker 11: Checking on Kurt Barr. 362 00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 2: What'd you find? 363 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:58,039 Speaker 9: Not? 364 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,079 Speaker 2: Oh, not much, we don't know already he was in 365 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:02,400 the German army deserted. 366 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:03,799 Speaker 11: You know what Kurt told you. 367 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:05,559 Speaker 2: Just one thing though. 368 00:21:06,079 --> 00:21:09,039 Speaker 11: Yeah, Bauer came over here with his mother, set her 369 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:10,440 up in a little house out and flushing. 370 00:21:11,319 --> 00:21:14,079 Speaker 2: Here's he address, Thanks Margavon. 371 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:32,839 Speaker 14: Court was something fine, her clover, something beyond your understanding. 372 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,559 Speaker 2: I met him, Missus Bauer talked to him. He told 373 00:21:35,599 --> 00:21:36,400 me he was a deserter. 374 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 14: My Court was a man of intelligence. When promises, dreams 375 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,200 were not what they pretended to be. Court fled from them, 376 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,039 as he fled from your authorities in our country. 377 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 2: He said he'd been an unwilling Nazi, but he was 378 00:21:50,039 --> 00:21:50,880 clear he was. 379 00:21:51,519 --> 00:21:56,079 Speaker 14: But it was still flight. Because missus Hanson beckoned she 380 00:21:56,160 --> 00:22:03,079 loved him. Nenne have loved courtne is Hansen's younger, richer, 381 00:22:04,039 --> 00:22:08,480 less greedy for you, and many husbands have wished my 382 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:09,759 Court dead for this. 383 00:22:10,319 --> 00:22:13,799 Speaker 2: Dale Hansen a curious man. 384 00:22:14,599 --> 00:22:17,599 Speaker 14: This house. It was his gift to Court. Court's close 385 00:22:17,839 --> 00:22:19,640 his apartment, money to spend. 386 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:21,680 Speaker 2: You mean there were a gift through missus Hanson. 387 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,599 Speaker 14: Oh, No, from him, from him personally, because my Court 388 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,000 went to him when we came to your country. Explained 389 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,039 to him his interest in missus Hanson was only professional. 390 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,720 She had talent for skiing, explained to him his gratitude 391 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:38,640 for the opportunities of your country. My Court was an 392 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,240 intelligent man, you could call it that. Was it not 393 00:22:42,319 --> 00:22:45,599 intelligent of him to call to mister Hanson immediately when 394 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:49,200 you found him with Missus Hanson, when you told him 395 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,200 of her husband's fear for her. 396 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:52,519 Speaker 2: Kurt did that. 397 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,559 Speaker 14: Immediately to ask of mister Hanson's in favor of money 398 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,720 for our return to our home. Courd no wish to 399 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:01,200 be present. 400 00:23:01,599 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 2: What did Hanson do? 401 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 14: He promised Court the money. He told Court to come 402 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:11,720 here to me, he would bring the money to us. 403 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,359 You wish more from me, mister Clover. 404 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 2: No nothing, And leave there and get back to Manhattan 405 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,720 and back to headquarters. Check in and make another phone call. 406 00:23:29,319 --> 00:23:32,160 Call Vermont and talk to a desk clerk and be 407 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,279 given answers. Then to a Park Avenue apartment where you'd 408 00:23:36,319 --> 00:23:41,599 been once before. Cloma, come in and watch mister Hanson 409 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,480 as he took up his post again next to plate 410 00:23:44,519 --> 00:23:47,720 hole and then noticed that the room another treasure had 411 00:23:47,759 --> 00:23:51,480 been added. His wife, Nola Hanson. This is a delight. 412 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,599 I'm glad you're back in town, Missus Hanson. We're all 413 00:23:54,599 --> 00:23:56,759 glad you've heard about Kurt, haven't you? 414 00:23:57,079 --> 00:23:59,160 Speaker 8: I cried for I'm on the train all the way 415 00:23:59,200 --> 00:23:59,720 to Boston. 416 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,400 Speaker 2: When she met her Harvard professor, he took a clinical 417 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,960 interest in her. How'd you find out about Kurt while 418 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:06,640 you were in Vermont, missus Hanson? 419 00:24:06,759 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 8: Your sergeant left word about what happened. Desk clerk at 420 00:24:09,519 --> 00:24:11,319 the end gave me quite a detailed report. 421 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:14,319 Speaker 4: I've got to tell you something, nolam. What I saw 422 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:17,279 Kurt a little before the police. I went to his 423 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:18,359 chambers to speak. 424 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 2: With him about you. There he was that tool of 425 00:24:21,519 --> 00:24:25,359 his trade, right through his chest. I cried, I really 426 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,680 did have you the one? Have you heard about your daughter? 427 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:31,240 About Connie? Yes, she tried to commit suicide, but she 428 00:24:31,279 --> 00:24:32,680 does that frequently, mister Clover. 429 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 8: However, she's very careful not to succeed by now she 430 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,319 knows precisely to the pill her limits. 431 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 2: She never exceeds it. Poor desperate girl. I wish I 432 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,960 could feel more fatherly about her. How could you? 433 00:24:45,079 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 11: Dear? 434 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 8: Connie is so tall, and you. 435 00:24:47,599 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 2: Let me ask you something, missus Hanson. When I first 436 00:24:51,039 --> 00:24:53,759 met you, you were with Kurt Bauer. You were a 437 00:24:53,759 --> 00:24:56,200 different person. Nola has that talent. 438 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 8: Thank you. 439 00:24:57,519 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 2: When I first met you, missus Hanson, you seem so concerned, 440 00:25:00,039 --> 00:25:04,160 and the butt Kurt so warm, Tartan he was alive, 441 00:25:04,279 --> 00:25:08,200 then that's your talent, precisely alive. 442 00:25:08,279 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 8: Kurt was something shining, vibrant dead he did he sure? 443 00:25:14,039 --> 00:25:14,799 Speaker 2: Sure is? 444 00:25:16,079 --> 00:25:19,680 Speaker 4: Well, No, mister Hanson, don't be embarrassed to Nola, and 445 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,079 I will say, argabie right in front of your. 446 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 2: You planned it all, didn't you, mister Hanson, exceedingly well? 447 00:25:25,759 --> 00:25:28,000 Don't you take letter good in on it? Will you? Boys? 448 00:25:28,039 --> 00:25:31,240 What are you two talking about about? Something? Experty? No love? 449 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,119 I had a man murdered and mister Clover can't touch me. 450 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,200 You murdered Kurt. I didn't say that, my dear times. 451 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,359 You catch the train for Vermont, missus Hanson. 452 00:25:41,519 --> 00:25:43,799 Speaker 8: Oh, let me see now that chauffeur drove me to 453 00:25:43,839 --> 00:25:45,960 the station a little before four, and the train. 454 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,519 Speaker 2: Left soon after that. The train left, but you didn't. 455 00:25:49,319 --> 00:25:51,039 What do you mean there was a train at four 456 00:25:51,079 --> 00:25:53,319 and another one at eight. You took the one at eight. 457 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,319 I called the inn at Vermont. You arrived too late 458 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,279 to have taken the four o'clock train. Do you mean? 459 00:25:57,319 --> 00:25:59,599 Speaker 8: I stated around that dismal station all that time. 460 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,039 Speaker 2: Pay attention, Nola. He didn't say that either. That's right, 461 00:26:03,079 --> 00:26:06,039 I didn't. You didn't stay at the station. You used 462 00:26:06,039 --> 00:26:08,960 that time to murder Kurt Bauer me. 463 00:26:10,039 --> 00:26:12,640 Speaker 4: This is very important, Nola. You really should make an 464 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:17,119 effort to concentrate. He said you. 465 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 2: Your husband said he had a murder committed. He was right. 466 00:26:20,319 --> 00:26:23,599 He had you commit the murder. Missus Hanson, did you. 467 00:26:23,559 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 8: Expect me to listen to that? 468 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:28,160 Speaker 2: I do? Indeed I do. Your husband's a clever man. 469 00:26:28,759 --> 00:26:31,839 He understands people. He knows how people close to him 470 00:26:31,839 --> 00:26:35,359 will react. Right right. He set something in motion, missus Hanson. 471 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,119 Threw me. He used me to frighten Kurt away from you. 472 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,680 I told Kurt that something might happen to you. Kurt 473 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:42,319 didn't want to be mixed up in it, so he ran, 474 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,599 like he always ran from everything whenever there was trouble. 475 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:45,279 Speaker 14: Ker didn't run. 476 00:26:45,279 --> 00:26:45,640 Speaker 6: I ran. 477 00:26:45,839 --> 00:26:48,200 Speaker 2: Kurt told you to go while you were away, he 478 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,559 planned to leave the country. I found that out too. 479 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,319 Speaker 4: I do a diagram about what was going to happen. 480 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,680 It has so congratulate. 481 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 2: Me, Nola. They'll help me. That's more. 482 00:27:00,519 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 4: And you've shown to me for years. Truly, Novah, I've 483 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,039 missed it. That's why I did what I did. I 484 00:27:06,079 --> 00:27:09,119 grew bored about being embarrassed among my friends about you. 485 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 2: Dale helped me. So you killed Kurt missus Hanson because 486 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,799 he was walking out on you. He told you that 487 00:27:13,839 --> 00:27:15,279 when you were waiting for the train, when you went 488 00:27:15,319 --> 00:27:15,759 to see him. 489 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 14: To me, Dail, you've got to help me. 490 00:27:17,519 --> 00:27:18,559 Speaker 2: I was foolish. 491 00:27:18,839 --> 00:27:22,160 Speaker 8: I was foolish before you stopped me before, oh you 492 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:23,119 had to do this time was to. 493 00:27:23,039 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 2: Tell me to stop. And it was innocent, Dail. You 494 00:27:25,759 --> 00:27:28,519 know that, Listen, Deale. 495 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,640 Speaker 8: I was doing it for Connie, for your daughter. 496 00:27:30,759 --> 00:27:31,880 Speaker 2: She's so unattractive. 497 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 8: I was trying to convince her to be kind to her, 498 00:27:34,079 --> 00:27:35,240 a lover, don't you see? 499 00:27:36,599 --> 00:27:37,880 Speaker 2: Don't you see? Dale? 500 00:27:39,039 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 4: And when you do have an emotion for me, my dear, 501 00:27:41,480 --> 00:28:00,240 it's so distasteful. Goodbye, Nola. 502 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:09,559 Speaker 2: Nighttime blares down Broadway. The canyon streets gather it in 503 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,680 like some passion, and the night is a backdrop for 504 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:18,200 a million fragments, neon and roar and melting shapes and 505 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:22,720 shock and clots of crowd. It's a fury that sweeps 506 00:28:22,759 --> 00:28:25,839 you up and holds you close. And throws you into 507 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:31,960 the gutter of your choice. It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the 508 00:28:32,039 --> 00:28:40,200 most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world, Broadway, My. 509 00:28:40,240 --> 00:29:01,200 Speaker 3: Beat, Broadways My Beat stars Leerry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, 510 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,160 with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack Krusian as Muggavin. 511 00:29:05,839 --> 00:29:08,920 The program was produced and directed by Elliott Lewis, with 512 00:29:09,079 --> 00:29:13,920 musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story, 513 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,680 Betty lou Gerson was sarved as Nola Hanson and Ted 514 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,359 Osborne as Dale Hanson. Featured in the cast were Mary 515 00:29:20,359 --> 00:29:34,680 ship Irene, Teddrow and Robert Boone. When Squire Jack Benny 516 00:29:34,759 --> 00:29:37,400 invites the whole gang to a swank Hollywood nightclub, the 517 00:29:37,519 --> 00:29:41,519 natural question arises in everybody's mind. Who's picking up the check? 518 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,759 They'll find out and so will you Tomorrow night when 519 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:53,359 CBS Radio brings you Jack Benny time, Bill Anders speaking, 520 00:29:53,559 --> 00:29:55,759 and remember the Frankie Lane Show is your date with 521 00:29:55,880 --> 00:30:29,720 slick syncopation every Sunday afternoon on the CBS Radio Network. 522 00:30:42,519 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 1: Welcome back. One point I do want to acknowledge here 523 00:30:46,599 --> 00:30:49,400 is that Danny seems to have moved forward a little 524 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:55,519 bit in his conclusion that people can be prosecuted for 525 00:30:55,920 --> 00:31:01,839 manipulating others into committee murder even they had nothing to 526 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:06,519 do with it. Here it's kind of acknowledged that husband 527 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:12,720 manipulated events but can't be held legally liable. Which that's 528 00:31:13,039 --> 00:31:16,920 legally correct, but different than what they've done before. It'll 529 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:21,279 be interesting to see if we have other cases where 530 00:31:21,599 --> 00:31:26,920 they try to have Danny arrest someone for manipulation. Now 531 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,680 that's not to say that it's not wrong and immoral, 532 00:31:31,279 --> 00:31:36,279 but not everything immoral is illegal, which can often be 533 00:31:36,319 --> 00:31:41,039 a dilemma for fictional detectives. In fact, one fictional detective 534 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,440 and I won't reveal who for those who have not 535 00:31:43,599 --> 00:31:49,240 read the book, actually committed murder in order to stop 536 00:31:49,319 --> 00:31:55,000 someone who manipulated others into committing murder to prevent more 537 00:31:55,079 --> 00:32:00,480 murders from occurring. But Danny faces no such dilemma here. 538 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,599 I did have to kind of question the idea of 539 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:10,640 making quitting the Nazi army as part of the case 540 00:32:10,759 --> 00:32:17,279 that Bower quit. Everything perseverance is important, don't get me wrong, 541 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:21,240 but there's a limit. I mean, what Bear is going 542 00:32:21,319 --> 00:32:23,599 to say to the kid, you know, if you're going 543 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:29,480 to quit on a genocidal lunatic destroying his own country. 544 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,559 Can you really be expected to follow through on anything? 545 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,880 I mean, that's an absurd situation to set up, and 546 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,359 there had to be a better way to make the point. 547 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:45,000 And the thing is that they made this guy German 548 00:32:45,559 --> 00:32:49,039 and gave him this background just to make that point, 549 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:55,079 rather than having this point that Kurt left the German 550 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,759 Army because he couldn't stick with anything. Well, listener comments 551 00:32:58,799 --> 00:33:04,319 and feedback now, and we go to Spotify where Adriana 552 00:33:04,519 --> 00:33:10,799 comments regarding the Mariolovakia murder case deeply moving. The more 553 00:33:10,839 --> 00:33:14,559 episodes I hear, the more I preferred Danny's character to 554 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:19,160 Philip Marlow. Well, that's high praise and need I guess 555 00:33:19,319 --> 00:33:22,759 that if there's a difference that might work in Danny's 556 00:33:22,799 --> 00:33:26,680 favor and that sort of comparison, it's the way in 557 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:31,640 which he and Marlowe relate to the world. It's not 558 00:33:31,759 --> 00:33:34,720 just a matter of Marlow being a private detective and 559 00:33:34,839 --> 00:33:40,799 Danny being a call with Marlow particularly in the radio version. 560 00:33:41,559 --> 00:33:46,200 The characters that inhabit his world are all in their 561 00:33:46,279 --> 00:33:51,400 own little private space, separate from one another and disconnected 562 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,720 from the rest of the world and from marlow and 563 00:33:55,759 --> 00:34:03,240 he comes into their situation as the ultimate outsider. With Danny, 564 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:09,880 he approaches crimes as someone who belongs to the same 565 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:14,639 overall world. He is part of Broadway, and he is 566 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:19,039 connected to this community in many ways, and in many 567 00:34:19,079 --> 00:34:23,639 cases he is maybe one or two degrees of separation 568 00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:32,039 removed from the murder victim. So while Marlowe solves crimes 569 00:34:32,599 --> 00:34:37,400 and comes into situations as the night in tarnished Armor, 570 00:34:38,039 --> 00:34:42,760 Danny does so as someone who is part of this 571 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:47,000 community and feels the weight of the deaths of his 572 00:34:47,199 --> 00:34:51,199 fellow New Yorkers. And in some ways that reflects some 573 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:56,480 of the differences between New York City and Los Angeles 574 00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:01,039 of the era. Los Angeles was this growing city that 575 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:06,679 was changing and reinventing itself all the time, with so 576 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:13,119 many people coming into LA from other places around the country, 577 00:35:13,559 --> 00:35:18,599 while New York was much more established, many more people 578 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:24,599 having been in places for multiple generations, with deeper roots 579 00:35:24,639 --> 00:35:29,800 and deeper connections. Now, certainly both cities have evolved over time, 580 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:34,039 but I think the rootedness of Danny is a bit 581 00:35:34,079 --> 00:35:37,159 of a strength in this comparison. All Right, well, now 582 00:35:37,199 --> 00:35:39,960 it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, 583 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:44,000 and I want to thank Peter, Patreon supporter since March 584 00:35:44,039 --> 00:35:48,639 of twenty twenty five, currently supporting the podcast at the 585 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,000 Master Detective level of fifteen dollars or more per month. 586 00:35:52,119 --> 00:35:54,400 Thanks so much for your support, Peter, And that will 587 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:58,159 do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please 588 00:35:58,199 --> 00:36:03,079 follow us using your favorite podcast software and be sure 589 00:36:03,119 --> 00:36:06,360 to rate and review the podcast wherever you download it from. 590 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,559 We'll be back next Wednesday with another episode of Broadways 591 00:36:10,639 --> 00:36:13,039 My Beat, but join us back here tomorrow for it's 592 00:36:13,159 --> 00:36:14,199 riding that where. 593 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:18,119 Speaker 15: The newspapers went too specific? How did he manage to 594 00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:21,400 escape the way he did? I always thought state penitentiaries 595 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:22,239 were well guarded. 596 00:36:22,559 --> 00:36:24,880 Speaker 16: Apparently Blair was one of the trusted prisoners. It's a 597 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,039 minimum security prisoner to begin with, father. 598 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:27,639 Speaker 12: I see. 599 00:36:28,159 --> 00:36:30,519 Speaker 15: I suppose Blair and the man he escaped with thought 600 00:36:30,519 --> 00:36:32,760 about it a good deal according to the paper as 601 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:33,480 well planned. 602 00:36:34,519 --> 00:36:35,840 Speaker 12: When did they get away last night? 603 00:36:36,079 --> 00:36:39,159 Speaker 16: It was this morning, prison official figure about two am 604 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,800 slugged the guard and went over the wall some other 605 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,559 Two of them got hold of a gun, held up 606 00:36:43,599 --> 00:36:45,280 a motors on the high wind store his car as 607 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,079 last report be hand terrible. 608 00:36:48,039 --> 00:36:49,760 Speaker 12: Did the police consider them dangerous? 609 00:36:50,039 --> 00:36:50,239 Speaker 2: Well? 610 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,039 Speaker 17: Their arm father. Both of them were doing time for robbery. 611 00:36:53,079 --> 00:36:56,159 They both used guns before. How about possible contacts he 612 00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,239 might have out hound, father, Can you help us there 613 00:36:58,239 --> 00:36:58,519 at all? 614 00:36:58,639 --> 00:37:02,000 Speaker 15: I'm afraid not, Sergeant. I think stan knew some people 615 00:37:02,119 --> 00:37:05,719 in San Francisco. I don't know their names or addresses, though, 616 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:06,880 I haven't any idea. 617 00:37:07,519 --> 00:37:09,800 Speaker 17: And there's no special person or place that you know 618 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,440 of that he'd be likely to go if he heads 619 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:12,400 back for Los Angeles. 620 00:37:12,519 --> 00:37:15,840 Speaker 12: No, no, I can think of. You imagine he'd be 621 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:16,960 likely to come back here. 622 00:37:17,199 --> 00:37:17,880 Speaker 2: We're not sure. 623 00:37:18,159 --> 00:37:20,719 Speaker 16: Last report we had seemed to indicate Blairin's partner. We're 624 00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,599 heading this way. Prison's only about forty miles away. Could 625 00:37:23,639 --> 00:37:24,280 be there in the city. 626 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,920 Speaker 15: Now, I don't understand. I mean, with all the police 627 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,599 looking for them, why would they come back here? 628 00:37:31,119 --> 00:37:33,119 Speaker 17: They probably figured they can find cover a lot easier 629 00:37:33,159 --> 00:37:34,679 than they could in some of the small towns. 630 00:37:35,119 --> 00:37:39,440 Speaker 15: Sagean, Yeah, father, do you think they'll have trouble taking stand? 631 00:37:40,039 --> 00:37:42,000 I mean, can they take him a line? 632 00:37:42,519 --> 00:37:44,280 Speaker 17: Well, we'll try our best to make it that way. 633 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,199 It's like I told you, father, he's got a gun. 634 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,079 If he's cornered, there's a good chance he might try 635 00:37:48,119 --> 00:37:48,960 to shoot his way out. 636 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,079 Speaker 1: Hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, send 637 00:37:52,159 --> 00:37:56,760 your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot yet, 638 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,719 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detective, and check us 639 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:07,079 out on Instagram, Instagram dot com slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. 640 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,920 This is your host, Adam Graham, sogn and off.