WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:26.520 Broadway's My Beat with Anthony Ross as Detective Danny Clover. 00:26.520 --> 00:30.880 Broadway's My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle. 00:30.880 --> 00:37.200 The gaudiest, the most violent, the loneliest mile in the world. 00:37.200 --> 00:39.920 That's the street I'm walking. 00:39.920 --> 00:44.600 I was heading for the courthouse one day thinking of a phone call I got from Judge Summers. 00:44.600 --> 00:46.880 Said he could use a cop with the wisdom of Solomon. 00:46.880 --> 00:52.320 I met the judge in his chambers wondering why he had picked me. 00:52.320 --> 00:54.520 Why you Lieutenant Clover? 00:54.520 --> 00:58.000 Because I have a problem for a cop who can think like a judge, Danny. 00:58.000 --> 01:01.760 For a cop's pay or a judge's, your honor. 01:01.760 --> 01:04.960 A young woman is in New York looking for her father, Danny. 01:04.960 --> 01:07.280 He disappeared ten years ago. 01:07.280 --> 01:11.000 She's applied to Missing Persons Bureau and she doesn't know it yet, but they've located 01:11.000 --> 01:12.000 him. 01:12.000 --> 01:15.760 They don't know what to do about it, so they've asked my advice and I'm asking yours. 01:15.760 --> 01:16.760 Oh, I don't get it, Judge. 01:16.760 --> 01:19.640 If, I mean, if they found him, what's the problem? 01:19.640 --> 01:20.640 Human relations. 01:20.640 --> 01:25.680 Her father was located a prisoner in Sing Sing, served ten years. 01:25.680 --> 01:28.000 Tomorrow he comes out on parole. 01:28.000 --> 01:30.800 He insists that his identity be kept from his daughter. 01:30.800 --> 01:33.080 That she be told her father is dead. 01:33.080 --> 01:37.600 But Judge, how does this, I mean, where do you or I... 01:37.600 --> 01:39.600 Where do we come in, Danny? 01:39.600 --> 01:43.840 Well, let's say through sheer sentiment. 01:43.840 --> 01:49.560 You see, I was the judge who sentenced him and you were the arresting officer. 01:49.560 --> 01:50.960 Who's the prisoner, Judge? 01:50.960 --> 01:53.200 Nelson Jennings. 01:53.200 --> 01:54.200 Remember the case? 01:54.200 --> 01:56.120 Nelson Jennings? 01:56.120 --> 01:57.120 Ten years ago? 01:57.120 --> 01:58.120 Yes. 01:58.120 --> 01:59.120 A writer, manslaughter. 01:59.120 --> 02:03.080 Got in a fight with a drunk at a nightclub. 02:03.080 --> 02:05.960 The drunk died of a heart attack as the result of the fight. 02:05.960 --> 02:06.960 Yeah. 02:06.960 --> 02:08.680 Yeah, it comes back. 02:08.680 --> 02:12.680 He was nightclubbing with his wife and no good stew at the next table passes an insulting 02:12.680 --> 02:14.160 remark to Mrs. Jennings. 02:14.160 --> 02:15.160 Yeah. 02:15.160 --> 02:19.280 Yeah, well, what guy wouldn't haul off, Judge? 02:19.280 --> 02:22.200 I always did think you gave Jennings a pretty hard ride. 02:22.200 --> 02:24.680 His victim died a pretty long death, Danny. 02:24.680 --> 02:25.680 Yeah. 02:25.680 --> 02:29.680 I'll admit, though, I may have been a bit severe then. 02:29.680 --> 02:32.480 But today, Danny, in a similar case, I... 02:32.480 --> 02:36.960 Well, I suppose I would be inclined to temper justice with mercy. 02:36.960 --> 02:42.000 This daughter, Judge, who's looking for him now, you mean she actually hasn't known her 02:42.000 --> 02:44.240 father's been in the big house for ten years? 02:44.240 --> 02:45.240 That's right. 02:45.240 --> 02:49.120 From what I'm told, she grew up believing her father dead. 02:49.120 --> 02:50.920 That's the way that Jennings wanted it. 02:50.920 --> 02:52.920 That's the way he insisted his wife play it. 02:52.920 --> 02:54.680 Oh, what happened to the wife? 02:54.680 --> 03:00.760 Ruth's mother died recently and on her deathbed changed the story, Danny. 03:00.760 --> 03:05.280 Said Jennings was alive and somewhere in New York, but she still kept the real truth from 03:05.280 --> 03:06.280 the girl. 03:06.280 --> 03:07.280 How old is the girl now? 03:07.280 --> 03:08.280 She's 20. 03:08.280 --> 03:10.880 She was 10 when all this happened. 03:10.880 --> 03:14.120 Judge, what is it you want me to do? 03:14.120 --> 03:18.120 Danny, I want you to talk to them both. 03:18.120 --> 03:20.360 Now, a daughter wants her father. 03:20.360 --> 03:26.400 The father prefers to be dead, his past unrevealed, so his child won't be stigmatized. 03:26.400 --> 03:31.000 He's paid his debt and feels that the law owes him this one request. 03:31.000 --> 03:36.280 Now, where is our responsibility, Danny? 03:36.280 --> 03:38.920 It's a hard decision. 03:38.920 --> 03:41.400 You visit them both and decide. 03:41.400 --> 03:43.400 Do what you think best. 03:43.400 --> 03:45.360 I'm leaving it up to you. 03:45.360 --> 03:49.640 Judge Summers, you told me you wanted a cop with the wisdom of Solomon. 03:49.640 --> 03:53.600 Well, I'll sure need it. 03:53.600 --> 03:55.920 You say Jennings is due out tomorrow? 03:55.920 --> 04:01.040 Yes, and I hope he never violates his parole and that he's learned to control his temper. 04:01.040 --> 04:02.560 Where can I find the daughter? 04:02.560 --> 04:07.120 On your beat, Cleveland Hotel, Ruth Jennings. 04:07.120 --> 04:09.600 Judge. 04:09.600 --> 04:17.320 What was it Solomon finally did decide? 04:17.320 --> 04:29.120 Lieutenant Clover, I beg you, let me have my way in this. 04:29.120 --> 04:31.120 My child must not find me. 04:31.120 --> 04:32.120 She mustn't, never. 04:32.120 --> 04:34.120 Fellow, fellow, be reasonable. 04:34.120 --> 04:38.600 I know how you feel, but after all, she came to New York to find her father. 04:38.600 --> 04:41.040 She's better off without a father like me. 04:41.040 --> 04:44.240 I won't ruin her life like I ruined her mother's. 04:44.240 --> 04:47.640 A ten year stretch is a long time. 04:47.640 --> 04:49.520 I'm an old man now. 04:49.520 --> 04:53.120 I died for my family's sake ten years ago. 04:53.120 --> 04:56.800 All I asked of them was that they bury me and live. 04:56.800 --> 04:58.760 And you still think that made sense? 04:58.760 --> 05:00.680 Yes, look at my daughter now. 05:00.680 --> 05:04.880 Shortly before my wife died, she wrote me that Ruth's engaged to be married. 05:04.880 --> 05:06.360 Do you know who to? 05:06.360 --> 05:10.920 Let me tell you Lieutenant, to young Johnny Milton, who comes from a very prominent family 05:10.920 --> 05:11.920 in Indianapolis. 05:11.920 --> 05:16.640 Do you think that could have happened if the Milton's ever knew Ruth's father was a convict? 05:16.640 --> 05:20.000 Do you think Ruth would go through with it if she knew? 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 You win, Jennings. 05:22.000 --> 05:23.000 Lieutenant. 05:23.000 --> 05:24.000 Yes. 05:24.000 --> 05:27.000 You saw my daughter. 05:27.000 --> 05:28.360 Yeah. 05:28.360 --> 05:30.000 How does she look? 05:30.000 --> 05:31.000 How? 05:31.000 --> 05:35.800 Jennings, for a guy who insists he's dead, you're darn curious. 05:35.800 --> 05:51.360 But I'll tell you anyway, in one word, sweet. 05:51.360 --> 05:53.120 You're sure Lieutenant Clover? 05:53.120 --> 05:54.720 There's no trace of my father anywhere? 05:54.720 --> 05:58.200 I'm sorry Miss Jennings, nothing turned up yet. 05:58.200 --> 06:01.200 But what made you think he was in New York? 06:01.200 --> 06:03.140 Oh, just a feeling. 06:03.140 --> 06:05.280 Mother used to take trips to New York. 06:05.280 --> 06:08.080 Clover told me why, left me with Grandma. 06:08.080 --> 06:10.400 And when she came back she'd be crying. 06:10.400 --> 06:15.600 Well, then just before she died, she told me for the first time that father wasn't dead, 06:15.600 --> 06:19.040 that he was somewhere and that he still loved us very much. 06:19.040 --> 06:22.320 So you think your mother's trips to New York were to see him? 06:22.320 --> 06:26.160 Yes, there's some mystery about it all. 06:26.160 --> 06:29.000 Lieutenant, he's alive. 06:29.000 --> 06:31.380 Don't ask me how I know, but I know it. 06:31.380 --> 06:33.520 He's alive and he's somewhere in New York. 06:33.520 --> 06:37.000 Oh please, please don't stop looking for him. 06:37.000 --> 06:38.880 What if I do find him Ruth? 06:38.880 --> 06:44.800 And what if he isn't, well, everything you'd like to, I mean let us say that something's 06:44.800 --> 06:45.800 happened to him. 06:45.800 --> 06:49.280 Oh Lieutenant, I love my dad no matter what's happened. 06:49.280 --> 06:53.360 He's my father and even if he turned up with, oh, with one leg. 06:53.360 --> 06:57.820 No, no, no, not in illness I mean, but something even worse than that. 06:57.820 --> 07:02.360 What have you learned that he, well, this couldn't happen to him, but you never can 07:02.360 --> 07:03.880 tell. 07:03.880 --> 07:07.240 What if you found out say that your father's been in prison? 07:07.240 --> 07:08.240 In prison? 07:08.240 --> 07:11.040 Yeah, I mean would that make a difference? 07:11.040 --> 07:14.640 Would you prefer to return home without finding that kind of a father? 07:14.640 --> 07:16.360 Of course not. 07:16.360 --> 07:19.960 I think I'd love him even more then because he'd need me more. 07:19.960 --> 07:22.240 Oh, a father's a father. 07:22.240 --> 07:24.360 What about the man you're going to marry? 07:24.360 --> 07:26.400 What have he learned and his folks? 07:26.400 --> 07:27.400 Maybe all your wedding. 07:27.400 --> 07:29.720 Johnny and I are in love Lieutenant. 07:29.720 --> 07:33.640 One of his parents would be shocked, it couldn't make any difference to him. 07:33.640 --> 07:39.280 And if it did, I'd never want to marry him because, well then he wouldn't deserve my 07:39.280 --> 07:40.280 love. 07:40.280 --> 07:46.280 Oh, Ruth, you can't imagine how glad I am to hear you talk like that. 07:46.280 --> 07:47.280 You've got a right to know Ruth. 07:47.280 --> 07:49.280 You mean, you mean he's alive? 07:49.280 --> 07:50.600 My father's alive? 07:50.600 --> 07:53.600 Mm-hmm, he's been in Sing Sing for the last 10 years. 07:53.600 --> 07:55.480 He got out just yesterday on parole. 07:55.480 --> 07:56.480 10 years? 07:56.480 --> 07:57.480 Oh, poor dad. 07:57.480 --> 08:01.080 No, no, no, no, really an accident. 08:01.080 --> 08:03.400 See your father's no criminal Ruth. 08:03.400 --> 08:07.560 He hit a man who insulted your mother and the man died of a heart attack. 08:07.560 --> 08:10.320 Any real husband would have done just what your father did. 08:10.320 --> 08:12.640 You've got nothing to be ashamed of. 08:12.640 --> 08:13.640 He just got a tough break. 08:13.640 --> 08:14.640 You see, the judge... 08:14.640 --> 08:16.520 Then we'll be together. 08:16.520 --> 08:18.360 Something told me I'd see my father again. 08:18.360 --> 08:21.160 No, Ruth, I'm afraid you won't. 08:21.160 --> 08:22.160 What do you mean? 08:22.160 --> 08:23.160 Why not? 08:23.160 --> 08:24.480 He doesn't want to see you. 08:24.480 --> 08:26.920 He wants to keep playing dead. 08:26.920 --> 08:27.920 He's never told me. 08:27.920 --> 08:28.920 Never to tell you. 08:28.920 --> 08:29.920 I promised I wouldn't. 08:29.920 --> 08:32.480 But after all these years, how can you even think of it? 08:32.480 --> 08:33.760 No, I'm going right to... 08:33.760 --> 08:36.520 Wade, Wade, it's his life. 08:36.520 --> 08:38.480 And that's the way he wants to live it, for your welfare. 08:38.480 --> 08:44.200 But now that I'm about to get married, all the while I thought I had no mother or father 08:44.200 --> 08:46.320 to advise me. 08:46.320 --> 08:50.440 And now that I have a father, oh, if he'd only see my Johnny, give me his consent. 08:50.440 --> 08:54.920 Ruth, all I can say is that it would kill your father to know that you knew. 08:54.920 --> 08:58.160 After these ten years, he's built it up in his mind. 08:58.160 --> 09:01.000 And you've got to humor his wish. 09:01.000 --> 09:05.920 Maybe someday he'll come to you on his own, but till then... 09:05.920 --> 09:07.920 How does he look, Lieutenant? 09:07.920 --> 09:08.920 Gray. 09:08.920 --> 09:10.880 Daddy Gray? 09:10.880 --> 09:12.240 Do you remember him at all? 09:12.240 --> 09:13.240 Oh, yes. 09:13.240 --> 09:14.240 How? 09:14.240 --> 09:15.240 How do you remember him? 09:15.240 --> 09:16.240 Young. 09:16.240 --> 09:22.440 Oh, if I could only see him again, if just for a moment. 09:22.440 --> 09:24.120 Lieutenant, isn't there a way somehow? 09:24.120 --> 09:26.360 I can just get a glimpse of him without him knowing. 09:26.360 --> 09:27.360 I don't see exactly... 09:27.360 --> 09:28.360 Oh, please, please. 09:28.360 --> 09:29.640 It would mean so much to me. 09:29.640 --> 09:32.040 Can't you arrange it somehow? 09:32.040 --> 09:33.040 Could be. 09:33.040 --> 09:34.840 I know the rooming house he's staying in. 09:34.840 --> 09:35.840 It's off-broadway. 09:35.840 --> 09:36.840 I can't let you... 09:36.840 --> 09:37.840 Please. 09:37.840 --> 09:38.840 I've got an idea. 09:38.840 --> 09:53.240 Listen, Ruth, now look, if you'll just do what I say, I think I can fix something. 09:53.240 --> 09:54.240 What did you say, Lieutenant? 09:54.240 --> 09:58.960 I said, would you like to just sort of catch a glimpse of your daughter, Mr. Jennings? 09:58.960 --> 10:02.080 You know, sort of meet her, but without her knowing who you really are... 10:02.080 --> 10:03.240 Yes, go on. 10:03.240 --> 10:06.120 Well, then drop in at the Broadway Automat at 6. 10:06.120 --> 10:07.480 I'm having a bite with her there. 10:07.480 --> 10:09.480 Just stop at our table a minute. 10:09.480 --> 10:12.840 I'll introduce you as an old friend of mine. 10:12.840 --> 10:13.840 Make it Burt Freeling. 10:13.840 --> 10:16.880 I'm afraid she's leaving town tomorrow. 10:16.880 --> 10:18.960 She's giving up the hunt for her dad. 10:18.960 --> 10:20.520 Here's your one chance. 10:20.520 --> 10:25.480 She might recognize me, but I don't think she will do you. 10:25.480 --> 10:26.920 She was only 10 at the time. 10:26.920 --> 10:27.920 She's a young lady now. 10:27.920 --> 10:28.920 That's right, Jennings. 10:28.920 --> 10:30.400 It's been 10 long years. 10:30.400 --> 10:33.600 I have changed a lot, Lieutenant, haven't I? 10:33.600 --> 10:34.600 Yes. 10:34.600 --> 10:35.680 You've changed a lot, Mr. Jennings. 10:35.680 --> 10:36.680 So she'd never... 10:36.680 --> 10:41.800 That is, I don't see what harm if I was just to sort of bump into you at the table for 10:41.800 --> 10:44.560 a moment and you introduced me as someone else. 10:44.560 --> 10:45.560 Exactly. 10:45.560 --> 10:46.560 I don't know. 10:46.560 --> 10:49.840 I don't think I could stand it. 10:49.840 --> 10:51.800 Let me think it over. 10:51.800 --> 10:54.240 My head's pounding. 10:54.240 --> 10:57.240 Let me think it over. 10:57.240 --> 11:02.000 Why doesn't he come? 11:02.000 --> 11:06.200 Are you sure he said he'd come, Lieutenant? 11:06.200 --> 11:07.200 Yes, Ruth. 11:07.200 --> 11:08.200 He should be here any minute. 11:08.200 --> 11:09.200 Now, easy. 11:09.200 --> 11:12.000 Do you think you'd recognize him? 11:12.000 --> 11:14.280 Yes, and I think I'm going to faint. 11:14.280 --> 11:17.240 Oh, that must be him right now, that man coming this way. 11:17.240 --> 11:18.240 Easy, easy now, Ruth. 11:18.240 --> 11:19.240 Which man? 11:19.240 --> 11:20.240 Oh, this. 11:20.240 --> 11:21.240 He didn't stop. 11:21.240 --> 11:22.240 No, that wasn't him. 11:22.240 --> 11:23.240 Oh, I surely thought it was. 11:23.240 --> 11:32.240 Well, Ruth, what sort of a picture do you have of your dad? 11:32.240 --> 11:33.240 That fellow just went by. 11:33.240 --> 11:34.240 He's still young. 11:34.240 --> 11:35.240 You still remember him? 11:35.240 --> 11:36.240 Still young? 11:36.240 --> 11:37.240 Yes, that's right. 11:37.240 --> 11:38.240 I couldn't imagine him as anything. 11:38.240 --> 11:39.240 There he is, Ruth, your dad. 11:39.240 --> 11:40.240 He's coming this way. 11:40.240 --> 11:41.240 Now, take hold of yourself now and play it like I said. 11:41.240 --> 11:42.240 Shh. 11:42.240 --> 11:52.240 Well, if it ain't Bird Freeling, say hiya, Bird. 11:52.240 --> 11:53.240 Hello. 11:53.240 --> 11:56.240 Come on over and join us, Bird. 11:56.240 --> 11:58.240 Well, if you two don't mind. 11:58.240 --> 11:59.240 Not at all, sir. 11:59.240 --> 12:00.240 Do join us. 12:00.240 --> 12:04.240 Oh, Ruth, I want you to meet an old buddy of mine. 12:04.240 --> 12:07.240 Bird Freeling used to be on the force with me. 12:07.240 --> 12:08.240 This is Ruth Jennings. 12:08.240 --> 12:09.240 How do you do? 12:09.240 --> 12:10.240 How do you do? 12:10.240 --> 12:11.240 Little ladies from Indiana, Bird. 12:11.240 --> 12:12.240 Yeah, that's so. 12:12.240 --> 12:15.240 Here on a pleasure visit, miss? 12:15.240 --> 12:17.240 No, not exactly, Mr. Freeling. 12:17.240 --> 12:19.240 A visit, but... 12:19.240 --> 12:23.240 But it hasn't exactly been a pleasure, I guess you mean, Bird. 12:23.240 --> 12:24.240 Why not? 12:24.240 --> 12:29.240 Oh, it's just that I came to New York looking for someone and I can't find him. 12:29.240 --> 12:31.240 Tomorrow I'm going back home. 12:31.240 --> 12:33.240 And that's that. 12:33.240 --> 12:36.240 I'd rather not talk about it, Mr. Freeling, if you don't mind. 12:36.240 --> 12:38.240 I'm sorry, Miss Jennings. 12:38.240 --> 12:39.240 She needs cheering up, Bird. 12:39.240 --> 12:41.240 I'm taking her to a nightclub this evening. 12:41.240 --> 12:43.240 Nothing fancy. 12:43.240 --> 12:44.240 Hey, wait. What are you doing tonight? 12:44.240 --> 12:45.240 Why not come along? 12:45.240 --> 12:47.240 I'm sorry, Danny, I... 12:47.240 --> 12:49.240 Oh, yes, Mr. Freeling, why don't you? 12:49.240 --> 12:51.240 Why not the three of us? 12:51.240 --> 12:54.240 What exactly is troubling you, Miss Jennings? 12:54.240 --> 12:56.240 Who are you looking for? 12:56.240 --> 12:59.240 Come along tonight and maybe I'll tell you. 12:59.240 --> 13:01.240 Why do you want me along? 13:01.240 --> 13:07.240 Well, because you're a friend of the lieutenant's and he's been so kind to me. 13:07.240 --> 13:14.240 Because you've seen the type of gentleman that I'd like to talk to on my last night in New York. 13:14.240 --> 13:17.240 You can't back out after that now, can you, Bird? 13:17.240 --> 13:18.240 It's a date then, tonight. 13:18.240 --> 13:20.240 The three of us. 13:20.240 --> 13:22.240 Listen, Jennings. 13:22.240 --> 13:25.240 She'll be back in a minute, so let me give it to you straight. 13:25.240 --> 13:27.240 Tell her who you are now. 13:27.240 --> 13:29.240 She's got a right to know. 13:29.240 --> 13:31.240 It wouldn't make any difference. 13:31.240 --> 13:32.240 She likes you. 13:32.240 --> 13:33.240 She'd hate me if she knew. 13:33.240 --> 13:34.240 I'd lose her altogether. 13:34.240 --> 13:36.240 I'd ruin her life, Miss Jennings. 13:36.240 --> 13:37.240 I'd ruin her life. 13:37.240 --> 13:38.240 I'd ruin her life. 13:38.240 --> 13:40.240 I'd ruin her life. 13:40.240 --> 13:42.240 I'd ruin her life. 13:42.240 --> 13:44.240 I'd ruin her life. 13:44.240 --> 13:46.240 I'd ruin her life. 13:46.240 --> 13:48.240 I'd ruin her life. 13:48.240 --> 13:50.240 I'd ruin her life. 13:50.240 --> 13:52.240 I'd ruin her life. 13:52.240 --> 13:53.240 I'd ruin her life. 13:53.240 --> 13:55.240 I'd ruin her life. 13:55.240 --> 13:57.240 I'd ruin her life. 13:57.240 --> 13:59.240 I'd ruin her life. 13:59.240 --> 14:01.240 I'd ruin her life. 14:01.240 --> 14:02.240 She's getting married. 14:02.240 --> 14:04.240 If the boys' family ever knew... 14:04.240 --> 14:06.240 Oh, no, Lieutenant, the important thing is... 14:06.240 --> 14:08.240 You're her dad and she's your daughter. 14:08.240 --> 14:10.240 Can anything be more important than that? 14:10.240 --> 14:11.240 Here she comes. 14:11.240 --> 14:15.240 Oh, Lieutenant, Mr. Freeling, notice what they're playing? 14:15.240 --> 14:17.240 It's an old-fashioned waltz. 14:17.240 --> 14:18.240 I'm a young man. 14:18.240 --> 14:21.240 I haven't danced in years, I'm afraid. 14:21.240 --> 14:25.240 All right, Miss Jennings, with great pleasure. 14:31.240 --> 14:34.240 I'm so happy you came along with Lieutenant Clover tonight. 14:34.240 --> 14:35.240 Why, Ruth? 14:35.240 --> 14:39.240 Because somehow it's been so good to be with you. 14:39.240 --> 14:42.240 I somehow felt that I'd known you all my life. 14:43.240 --> 14:44.240 Ruth? 14:44.240 --> 14:46.240 Yes? 14:46.240 --> 14:49.240 I'd like to kiss you. 14:49.240 --> 14:52.240 I'd like that very much. 14:52.240 --> 14:54.240 Please do. 14:55.240 --> 14:57.240 I hope you didn't mind. 14:57.240 --> 14:59.240 I'm an old man. 14:59.240 --> 15:01.240 I could have had a daughter your age. 15:01.240 --> 15:04.240 I had a father your age. 15:04.240 --> 15:06.240 I'm sorry about your father, Ruth. 15:06.240 --> 15:11.240 I mean that story you just told me about your reason for coming to New York. 15:11.240 --> 15:15.240 What do you think my chances are of finding him some day, Mr. Freeling? 15:15.240 --> 15:18.240 From what you've told me, pretty slim. 15:18.240 --> 15:20.240 I don't think you ever will. 15:21.240 --> 15:25.240 I... I... I feel a bit faint, Mr. Freeling. 15:25.240 --> 15:28.240 I'm sorry. Please take me back to the table. 15:35.240 --> 15:37.240 Hey, now what happened? 15:38.240 --> 15:40.240 You didn't finish that waltz. 15:40.240 --> 15:43.240 Well, Danny, Ruth suddenly felt a bit faint. 15:43.240 --> 15:45.240 It was silly of me. 15:45.240 --> 15:47.240 I don't know what came over me for a moment. 15:47.240 --> 15:49.240 I'm really perfectly all right now. 15:49.240 --> 15:52.240 Well, Bert, you certainly seem to have made a hit with our little friend here. 15:52.240 --> 15:55.240 Mr. Jennings is a charming gentleman, Lieutenant. 15:55.240 --> 15:58.240 Oh, say, excuse me, folks. I clean for God. 15:58.240 --> 16:00.240 I got a phone in at the station house. 16:00.240 --> 16:02.240 Should have done it long ago. 16:03.240 --> 16:05.240 There goes the kindest man I've ever met. 16:05.240 --> 16:07.240 He certainly is. 16:08.240 --> 16:10.240 Mr. Freeling, I... 16:10.240 --> 16:12.240 I wonder if I could ask a favor of you. 16:12.240 --> 16:14.240 What is it, Ruth? 16:14.240 --> 16:17.240 I received a wire from my fiancé a few hours ago. 16:17.240 --> 16:21.240 He's decided to fly to New York and join me here for a few days. 16:21.240 --> 16:24.240 That means that I'll be staying on a while after all. 16:25.240 --> 16:26.240 Mr. Freeling. 16:26.240 --> 16:28.240 Yes, Ruth? 16:28.240 --> 16:31.240 I... I'd like you to meet my Johnny and tell me what you think of him. 16:31.240 --> 16:33.240 Me? But why me? 16:33.240 --> 16:36.240 Because I've taken such a liking to you. 16:37.240 --> 16:39.240 You see, I have no parents to advise me. 16:39.240 --> 16:41.240 You seem like such an intelligent man. 16:41.240 --> 16:43.240 You seem... 16:43.240 --> 16:45.240 Well, everything that I'd like my father to be. 16:46.240 --> 16:50.240 I wish you'd see my fiancé when he arrives and tell me whether you approve. 16:50.240 --> 16:53.240 Yes, but see here, I'm hardly the one to do that, Ruth. 16:53.240 --> 16:55.240 It's not my place after all. 16:55.240 --> 16:57.240 I see. I'm sorry if I imposed... 16:57.240 --> 17:00.240 Not at all, Ruth. It's not that I'm not flattered. 17:00.240 --> 17:03.240 I do admire you so. The short time I've known you. 17:03.240 --> 17:07.240 Such a lovely young lady. Everything I could wish a daughter of mine to be, but... 17:07.240 --> 17:08.240 But? 17:08.240 --> 17:11.240 Now, if you ask me anything else, I... 17:11.240 --> 17:13.240 I do wish you all the happiness in the world. 17:13.240 --> 17:15.240 And if there's anything else I could do... 17:15.240 --> 17:19.240 No, Mr. Freeling. I... I just wanted your opinion about the man I'm going to marry. 17:19.240 --> 17:21.240 But skip it. It's all right. 17:22.240 --> 17:27.240 Uh... Is he... this young man of yours coming alone? 17:27.240 --> 17:29.240 That is, his folks won't be with him? 17:29.240 --> 17:30.240 Oh, he's coming alone. 17:30.240 --> 17:32.240 Oh, I see. 17:32.240 --> 17:34.240 Well, now, I'll tell you what, Ruth. 17:34.240 --> 17:37.240 Since, as you say, you have no mother or father to consult, 17:37.240 --> 17:41.240 and since it's only natural for you to want some friend whose judgment you rely on to... 17:41.240 --> 17:43.240 Then you will? 17:43.240 --> 17:45.240 Yes. I will. 17:57.240 --> 18:00.240 Well, Captain, I got that matter that... 18:00.240 --> 18:04.240 Clover, I understand you got that matter that Judge Summers called you about straightened out. 18:04.240 --> 18:06.240 It was the best I could do, Captain. Don't you approve? 18:06.240 --> 18:10.240 I'm not sure, Lieutenant. Hardly the way missing persons bureau would have tackled it. 18:10.240 --> 18:12.240 But since Judge Summers seems pleased, then that's that. 18:12.240 --> 18:14.240 Well, what angle's wearing you, Captain? 18:14.240 --> 18:18.240 Clover, if the girl's boyfriend finds out who this Mr. Freeling is, he'll leave her flat. 18:18.240 --> 18:22.240 And if Nelson Jennings ever learns you've wised up his daughter to his real identity 18:22.240 --> 18:23.240 against his wishes, he'll flatten you. 18:23.240 --> 18:26.240 Well, no solution could have been perfect, Captain. I believe that I found the... 18:26.240 --> 18:28.240 Where's the, uh... Where's her boyfriend due in town? 18:28.240 --> 18:30.240 Well, sometime this afternoon. 18:30.240 --> 18:32.240 Oh, and now look, Captain, I've made two people happy. 18:32.240 --> 18:34.240 You're still out in the limb, Clover. 18:34.240 --> 18:36.240 A girl isn't entitled to know her own father. 18:36.240 --> 18:40.240 And he isn't entitled to see his daughter after ten long years and stir. 18:40.240 --> 18:42.240 I brought them together for a while, so what? 18:42.240 --> 18:45.240 He doesn't know she knows, and they're real palsy. 18:45.240 --> 18:48.240 It was the best I could do under the circumstances, but it was something. 18:48.240 --> 18:50.240 Almost a happy ending. 18:50.240 --> 18:52.240 Clover speaking. 18:52.240 --> 18:55.240 You'll never guess who the pie wagon just blew in, Lieutenant. 18:55.240 --> 18:56.240 Yeah? Who, Sergeant? 18:56.240 --> 18:58.240 Friend of yours, Nelson Jennings. 18:58.240 --> 18:59.240 Nelson Jennings? 18:59.240 --> 19:01.240 Yep. Beat up a complainant named Frank Black. 19:01.240 --> 19:03.240 Booked him on assault and battery. 19:03.240 --> 19:06.240 Had five years for violation of parole, the poor guy... 19:06.240 --> 19:10.240 Oh, no. This same thing happened ten years ago. 19:10.240 --> 19:12.240 Now it's started all over again. 19:12.240 --> 19:14.240 He'll go back to prison. 19:23.240 --> 19:28.240 Tonight on CBS, you can hear about a man who believes you should never run to work when you can walk. 19:28.240 --> 19:31.240 A man who believes you should never walk to work when you can just stay home 19:31.240 --> 19:33.240 and think about it and keep your feet healthy. 19:33.240 --> 19:36.240 His name is, of course, Mr. Jack Benny. 19:36.240 --> 19:41.240 And he will be heard on the same CBS stations to no one's great surprise, but to everyone's delight. 19:48.240 --> 19:52.240 And now back to Broadway's My Beat and Lieutenant Danny Clover. 19:54.240 --> 19:55.240 Why did you do it, Jennings? 19:55.240 --> 19:56.240 I'll leave me alone. 19:56.240 --> 19:59.240 You must have had a reason why you invade a hotel room at the Cleveland. 19:59.240 --> 20:02.240 Take a poke at a guest named Frank Black. He calls the police. 20:02.240 --> 20:04.240 What happened? He claims he doesn't even know you. 20:04.240 --> 20:07.240 Why did you go there? What did you have against him? Who is he? 20:07.240 --> 20:08.240 What did he ever do to you? 20:08.240 --> 20:09.240 Leave me alone. Leave me alone, Lieutenant. 20:09.240 --> 20:11.240 Do you realize what a jam you're in? 20:11.240 --> 20:13.240 It'll mean five more years for parole violations. 20:13.240 --> 20:15.240 Come on, talk, Jennings. 20:15.240 --> 20:17.240 Tell me for the love of heaven and maybe somehow I can help you. 20:17.240 --> 20:20.240 Everyone's at me. Everyone wants to know, but it's no use. 20:20.240 --> 20:29.240 Talking won't help. Send me back. Send me back. 20:30.240 --> 20:34.240 Judge Summers, it's Bob Nelson Jennings I'd like to see about, sir. 20:34.240 --> 20:39.240 I understand his case comes up before you tomorrow and I don't know why he did it, 20:39.240 --> 20:41.240 but, Judge, if any guy deserves a... 20:41.240 --> 20:45.240 Lieutenant Clover, we both wasted our time showing sympathy for that man. 20:45.240 --> 20:47.240 He'll never learn a lesson with that hot temper of his. 20:47.240 --> 20:48.240 But, Your Honor, if he just... 20:48.240 --> 20:51.240 Just 10 years, it seems, wasn't enough. 20:51.240 --> 20:53.240 I was beginning to think I'd been too hard on him. 20:53.240 --> 20:54.240 But, Judge... 20:54.240 --> 20:56.240 No use, Jennings, no use. My mind's made up. 20:56.240 --> 20:58.240 You'll get the limit this time. 21:06.240 --> 21:08.240 A couple of those perfecto, Sally. 21:08.240 --> 21:11.240 Right, Lieutenant Clover. What's up? You look low. 21:11.240 --> 21:13.240 No mood for conversation, lover. 21:13.240 --> 21:18.240 Get that gratitude. And just when I was just about to throw you a little dirt 21:18.240 --> 21:20.240 on that Nelson Jennings case, too. 21:20.240 --> 21:24.240 Well, and I love you very madly. Come on, give. 21:24.240 --> 21:28.240 Well, remember you were in here a little while ago asking me what do I know 21:28.240 --> 21:30.240 about a guy stopping here named Frank Black? 21:30.240 --> 21:31.240 Yeah, sure, I know that. 21:31.240 --> 21:32.240 The guy who had Jennings arrested? 21:32.240 --> 21:33.240 Yeah. 21:33.240 --> 21:36.240 And I answered you. I didn't know anything about him. 21:36.240 --> 21:37.240 Didn't even know what he looked like. 21:37.240 --> 21:38.240 Go on. 21:38.240 --> 21:40.240 Well, when you described him to me, nothing clicked. 21:40.240 --> 21:41.240 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go on. 21:41.240 --> 21:43.240 Well, now something clicks. 21:43.240 --> 21:44.240 What? 21:44.240 --> 21:47.240 A man of that description bought a cigar off of me here yesterday. 21:47.240 --> 21:49.240 And he was very inquisitive. 21:49.240 --> 21:50.240 So? 21:50.240 --> 21:54.240 Well, I don't know whether this will help you any, Danny, or how it fits in, 21:54.240 --> 22:00.240 but this guy asks me questions like, is Miss Ruth Jennings registered at this hotel? 22:00.240 --> 22:01.240 What? 22:01.240 --> 22:04.240 He did. Well, go on, Sally, I'm listening. 22:04.240 --> 22:10.240 Well, I tell him, yeah, she is. And then he says, is her father named Nelson Jennings? 22:10.240 --> 22:12.240 Naturally, I says, search me. 22:12.240 --> 22:16.240 Oh, lover, I think I'm beginning to do a slow two and two. 22:16.240 --> 22:18.240 Hey, where you off to, Danny? What's up? 22:18.240 --> 22:20.240 I'll see you, lover, thanks. 22:20.240 --> 22:23.240 I gotta add it up at the station house, see if it comes out four. 22:32.240 --> 22:35.240 Well, Sergeant, did you check on Frank Black? Turned up anything? 22:35.240 --> 22:36.240 Your hunch was right, Lieutenant Clober. 22:36.240 --> 22:39.240 He ain't Frank Black. He's Frank Blakey, an ex-con 22:39.240 --> 22:42.240 released from Sing Sing at about the same time Nelson Jennings was. 22:42.240 --> 22:46.240 Yeah, well, how about that now? And the piece is fit all right. 22:46.240 --> 22:49.240 I think I'll drop in again on friend Jennings. 22:49.240 --> 22:53.240 Yeah, yeah, I think he'll be about ready to talk to me now. 22:59.240 --> 23:02.240 Come on now, Jennings, fellow B, you may as well give now. 23:02.240 --> 23:06.240 I got a pretty good idea why you did it, but I want it from you. 23:06.240 --> 23:11.240 Jennings, Jennings, if I tell you that that scummy Blakey 23:11.240 --> 23:14.240 was asking around about your daughter, will that make you talk? 23:14.240 --> 23:18.240 Ah, then I guess you have it, Lieutenant. 23:18.240 --> 23:20.240 Ah, he was trying to blackmail you, wasn't he? 23:20.240 --> 23:24.240 Yes, and to think he was the one prison inmate I trusted. 23:24.240 --> 23:27.240 He knew the secret I was trying to keep from my daughter. 23:27.240 --> 23:32.240 Well, this morning I get a phone call from him threatening that unless I come across, 23:32.240 --> 23:37.240 he'll tell my daughter just who her missing father is and to expose my prison record. 23:37.240 --> 23:40.240 So I went to his room to argue him out of it. 23:40.240 --> 23:45.240 I saw red, Lieutenant. Will I be sent up again? 23:45.240 --> 23:48.240 I don't know, Jennings. I'm not the judge. 23:48.240 --> 23:52.240 You should have reported to the police, but I'm with you 100%. 23:52.240 --> 23:56.240 I'll see that all your evidence gets in. Who knows? 23:56.240 --> 23:59.240 Maybe the judge will temper justice with mercy anyway. 23:59.240 --> 24:02.240 Keep your fingers crossed. 24:07.240 --> 24:09.240 But I want to attend this trial, Lieutenant Clover. 24:09.240 --> 24:11.240 And I'm advising you against it, Ruth. 24:11.240 --> 24:14.240 I can only go to Dad and tell him that I know everything and that no matter what happens... 24:14.240 --> 24:16.240 If you did that, it would kill him, Ruth. 24:16.240 --> 24:20.240 Do you think the judge will send him to prison again? 24:20.240 --> 24:23.240 I'm sorry, but I'm afraid that's in the cards. 24:23.240 --> 24:26.240 I think the judge is his mighty disturbed about it all. 24:26.240 --> 24:31.240 Oh, your father had plenty of provocation, but he shouldn't have taken the law into his own hands. 24:31.240 --> 24:36.240 Suppose you just wait right here and pray for a miracle. 24:49.240 --> 24:51.240 And so to sum up, Your Honor, 24:51.240 --> 24:57.240 in view of this felonious assault by defendant Jennings against the person of this innocent complaining witness, 24:57.240 --> 25:02.240 the state of New York feels confident that Your Honor will remand the defendant to state prison 25:02.240 --> 25:07.240 there to serve his remaining five-year sentence as fitting punishment for this vicious, 25:07.240 --> 25:11.240 this reprehensible violation of his parole. 25:13.240 --> 25:15.240 Is that the state's case? 25:15.240 --> 25:17.240 It is, Your Honor. 25:17.240 --> 25:20.240 Is Detective Lieutenant Danny Clover in the courtroom? 25:20.240 --> 25:22.240 Lieutenant Clover. 25:22.240 --> 25:24.240 Yeah? Yeah? 25:24.240 --> 25:26.240 Will you step up here to the bench a moment, Lieutenant? 25:26.240 --> 25:28.240 Well, sure, Your Honor. 25:30.240 --> 25:32.240 Yes, Your Honor. 25:32.240 --> 25:33.240 Danny. 25:33.240 --> 25:38.240 Recently I turned this man Jennings over to you for the judgment of Solomon. 25:38.240 --> 25:39.240 Yes, sir. 25:39.240 --> 25:41.240 You did a good job on that. 25:41.240 --> 25:44.240 Now, I'd like to know your opinion of this case before me. 25:44.240 --> 25:50.240 I'm inclined to discredit Blakey's story and to believe Jennings, 25:50.240 --> 25:55.240 to hold Blakey on charges, to view the whole act as just provocation, 25:55.240 --> 25:59.240 amounting to self-defense, as though a gun were being held at his head. 25:59.240 --> 26:02.240 And with respect to defendant Jennings... 26:02.240 --> 26:04.240 Yes, Your Honor. 26:04.240 --> 26:07.240 ...to temper justice with mercy. 26:07.240 --> 26:09.240 What do you say, Clover? 26:09.240 --> 26:11.240 What do I say? 26:11.240 --> 26:13.240 You do that, Your Honor. 26:13.240 --> 26:15.240 You do that. 26:22.240 --> 26:23.240 This is where he lives, Ruth. 26:23.240 --> 26:25.240 He's a free man now, like I said. 26:25.240 --> 26:28.240 He asked me to bring you here. He wants to tell you something. 26:30.240 --> 26:33.240 Lieutenant Clover, what shall I say? I mean... 26:33.240 --> 26:36.240 Shh! Now, just let nature take its course. Shh! 26:36.240 --> 26:39.240 Mr... Mr. Freeling... 26:39.240 --> 26:42.240 No, Ruth. Not Mr. Freeling. 26:42.240 --> 26:45.240 There's something I've decided to tell you at last. 26:45.240 --> 26:46.240 You see, I'm... 26:46.240 --> 26:47.240 Daddy! 26:47.240 --> 26:48.240 Ruth! 26:48.240 --> 26:50.240 Daddy, I've known all along. 26:50.240 --> 26:53.240 Ruth, oh, my darling. 26:54.240 --> 26:58.240 Lieutenant Clover. Oh, Danny, how can I ever thank you? 26:58.240 --> 27:01.240 Oh, Lieutenant Clover, yes, you've been so wonderful. 27:01.240 --> 27:03.240 Don't thank me. 27:03.240 --> 27:06.240 Thanks, Solomon. 27:19.240 --> 27:23.240 Like I said, I was betting on nature to take its course. 27:23.240 --> 27:26.240 It always has and it always will. 27:26.240 --> 27:30.240 A warm may breeze now filtering down the earth... 27:30.240 --> 27:34.240 A warm may breeze now filtering down the side streets... 27:34.240 --> 27:39.240 No, you won't see may flowers growing anywhere along Broadway, 27:39.240 --> 27:44.240 but somehow other things do bloom once in a while, even here. 27:44.240 --> 27:48.240 Like, well, kindness, where you least expect it. 27:48.240 --> 27:53.240 Yeah, even here along the Gordius, the most violent, 27:53.240 --> 27:56.240 the lonesomest mile in the world. 27:56.240 --> 28:00.240 Broadway, my beat. 28:11.240 --> 28:14.240 Columbia has just brought you Broadway's My Beat 28:14.240 --> 28:17.240 with Anthony Ross as Detective Danny Clover, 28:17.240 --> 28:21.240 Gene Carson was Sally, Nancy Franklin was Ruth, 28:21.240 --> 28:25.240 Charles Penman was Jennings, and Julian Noah was Judge Summers. 28:25.240 --> 28:29.240 Others in the cast were Paul Luther and Art Carney. 28:29.240 --> 28:33.240 Today's broadcast was written by Joseph Roscoe, 28:33.240 --> 28:37.240 produced by John Dietz and directed by Bruno Zirotto Jr. 28:37.240 --> 28:41.240 The musical score was composed and conducted by Robert Stringer. 28:41.240 --> 28:44.240 This is Bern Bennett speaking. 28:44.240 --> 28:47.240 He may be a close neighbor of yours, 28:47.240 --> 28:49.240 or at least he lives quite near you. 28:49.240 --> 28:53.240 You go to the polls, you elect him, you bid him farewell, 28:53.240 --> 28:55.240 trusting him to represent you in Washington. 28:55.240 --> 28:59.240 From then on, what happens to your congressman in the nation's capital? 28:59.240 --> 29:02.240 What pressures are brought to bear on him? 29:02.240 --> 29:06.240 And how many hundreds of fields must he rapidly become an expert? 29:06.240 --> 29:10.240 And how many hundreds of people are there to help him? 29:10.240 --> 29:14.240 And how many hundreds of fields must he rapidly become an expert? 29:14.240 --> 29:16.240 Why does he vote as he does? 29:16.240 --> 29:20.240 Tonight on CBS, you'll hear Ralph Bellamy, star of radio, stage, and screen, 29:20.240 --> 29:24.240 playing a typical freshman congressman in the 81st Congress. 29:24.240 --> 29:29.240 His story will be a drama taken from interviews and talks with many regular congressmen, 29:29.240 --> 29:33.240 with Washington experts, with politicians, with, yes, with voters like yourselves. 29:33.240 --> 29:38.240 This CBS documentary unit drama, The People's Choice, starring Ralph Bellamy, 29:38.240 --> 29:42.240 will come to you tonight over most of these same CBS network stations. 29:42.240 --> 29:46.240 Now stay tuned for The Family Hour, starring Miss Ginger Rogers, 29:46.240 --> 29:49.240 which follows immediately over most of these stations. 29:49.240 --> 30:09.240 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.