WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:18.720 Broadway's My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the 00:18.720 --> 00:24.560 lonesomest mile in the world. 00:24.560 --> 00:39.000 Broadway's My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. 00:39.000 --> 00:44.160 In autumn sunlight, the September day trots out its promises for Broadway's considering, 00:44.160 --> 00:49.400 displays them in doorways, in push carts, in gutters, decorates them with price tags, 00:49.400 --> 00:54.160 invites you to browse, don't touch, buy, don't squeeze. 00:54.160 --> 00:58.160 And at cut rates of the second-hand delights, the tears slash down to any man's purse, 00:58.160 --> 01:00.400 the bold ends of dreams. 01:00.400 --> 01:04.160 The vendors simper, the hawkers wink, buy kid. 01:04.160 --> 01:07.880 That's a winter sun on your shoulder and the day is short, so buy. 01:07.880 --> 01:16.800 And that's what you do kid, because on Broadway there's no other choice. 01:16.800 --> 01:20.560 And at police headquarters, the September's Day has arranged its wares of violence on 01:20.560 --> 01:24.480 your desk, stacked as two category, degree, grade. 01:24.480 --> 01:28.600 Because the day is still fresh, you put off the reaching for them, the touching of them, 01:28.600 --> 01:30.280 but it screams close to your ear. 01:30.280 --> 01:39.200 In the morgue Danny, come down, I got something of interest to you. 01:39.200 --> 01:43.920 And walk the corridor to the room of the dead, through the swinging doors into a place without 01:43.920 --> 01:49.040 season where all nights, all days are of equal length, where temperature is constant, where 01:49.040 --> 01:52.240 the wind is conditioned before it's let flow over death. 01:52.240 --> 01:54.120 Walk up to the man who waits for you. 01:54.120 --> 01:58.520 A nervous twitch Danny, to juggle things in my right hand. 01:58.520 --> 01:59.960 Maybe I'll be remembered for it. 01:59.960 --> 02:01.680 What have you got Dr. Sinski? 02:01.680 --> 02:03.360 The man lying there. 02:03.360 --> 02:06.760 They found him in his bed last night murdered. 02:06.760 --> 02:10.000 These that murdered him, two bullets. 02:10.000 --> 02:11.000 Look. 02:11.000 --> 02:15.960 Yeah, a 22 and a 32, wouldn't you say so doctor? 02:15.960 --> 02:17.240 That I wouldn't know. 02:17.240 --> 02:20.800 What I know is only one of these was needed to kill him. 02:20.800 --> 02:22.120 Either one. 02:22.120 --> 02:24.360 The man was wanted dead twice Danny. 02:24.360 --> 02:26.660 He was killed twice. 02:26.660 --> 02:30.800 Two bullets, different size, twice dead. 02:30.800 --> 02:32.980 You know who he was? 02:32.980 --> 02:35.520 When they brought him to me last night, there was a tag on him. 02:35.520 --> 02:39.200 A name Tom Keeler, an address, the Nixon Hotel. 02:39.200 --> 02:40.700 Nothing else. 02:40.700 --> 02:43.560 No other word to the living about why such things must happen. 02:43.560 --> 02:44.920 You're sure doctor? 02:44.920 --> 02:45.920 You're sure that the... 02:45.920 --> 02:48.240 Each wound was a mortal wound Danny. 02:48.240 --> 02:49.240 Each wound could... 02:49.240 --> 02:50.240 Yeah, yeah I'm sure. 02:50.240 --> 02:51.240 You want these huh? 02:51.240 --> 02:52.240 Yeah. 02:52.240 --> 02:53.240 Take them. 02:53.240 --> 03:06.680 And that's the way my day began and the ingredients of it were a medical examiner, a murdered 03:06.680 --> 03:08.640 man and two bullets. 03:08.640 --> 03:13.940 In a room of no value except to the dead, except to those whose business is with death. 03:13.940 --> 03:16.400 Hear that briefly then push it away. 03:16.400 --> 03:21.880 Leave, go, get out and hurry. 03:21.880 --> 03:23.840 And in the corridor find what you're looking for. 03:23.840 --> 03:30.380 The breath of air not controlled by a thermostat. 03:30.380 --> 03:34.160 Then the walk down the hall, turn over the two bullets to technical. 03:34.160 --> 03:39.680 Then outside in the squad car, the ride to West 25th Street into the Nixon Hotel. 03:39.680 --> 03:43.880 With a five story brownstone that seemed to list from pressure of the insurance housing 03:43.880 --> 03:45.680 project next door to it. 03:45.680 --> 03:51.880 Go in, ring a bell, wait. 03:51.880 --> 03:54.960 Be greeted by the man in gray suspenders and no shirt. 03:54.960 --> 03:55.960 Morning. 03:55.960 --> 03:58.840 Good morning, I'm Danny Clover, police. 03:58.840 --> 03:59.840 Randy Quantrill, hi. 03:59.840 --> 04:02.520 You had a little trouble here last night didn't you? 04:02.520 --> 04:04.160 Oh just a mess of it. 04:04.160 --> 04:06.120 Did you know the man who was killed? 04:06.120 --> 04:07.480 You mean Tom huh? 04:07.480 --> 04:08.960 That's right, Tom Keeler. 04:08.960 --> 04:09.960 What do you mean know him? 04:09.960 --> 04:12.400 Talk to him, have a beer with him. 04:12.400 --> 04:15.800 Said hi to him, that's about the extent of my to do with him. 04:15.800 --> 04:18.080 How about visitors, did he have any? 04:18.080 --> 04:20.320 Look at the sign over my shoulder Mr. Clover. 04:20.320 --> 04:24.800 Mr. Clover, you know some Clovers down in Selma Alabama. 04:24.800 --> 04:26.360 You any kin any Clovers? 04:26.360 --> 04:27.360 No, no, no. 04:27.360 --> 04:28.360 No. 04:28.360 --> 04:31.720 Look at the sign over my shoulder, no visitors, no visitors. 04:31.720 --> 04:35.560 And you think just because the sign is there Tom Keeler didn't have any visitors? 04:35.560 --> 04:37.300 No, no I don't mister. 04:37.300 --> 04:41.120 We got a sign in each and every room says no smoking in bed. 04:41.120 --> 04:43.840 In the last year we had three mattress fires. 04:43.840 --> 04:48.160 So what I'm saying is I never saw anybody sneak past this desk that I said to myself 04:48.160 --> 04:50.880 there's a Tom Keeler visitor. 04:50.880 --> 04:51.880 What else about Keeler? 04:51.880 --> 04:55.360 Oh he got mail this morning, maybe I ought to tell you that. 04:55.360 --> 04:56.360 Yeah maybe you should. 04:56.360 --> 04:58.080 I'm going to. 04:58.080 --> 05:00.480 Fresh mail that come this morning. 05:00.480 --> 05:02.720 Here, a letter. 05:02.720 --> 05:04.720 Oh thanks. 05:04.720 --> 05:07.480 From the Great Northern National Bank. 05:07.480 --> 05:08.840 So I see. 05:08.840 --> 05:16.360 Please come in and talk to us with regards to your commercial account at your earliest 05:16.360 --> 05:17.360 convenience. 05:17.360 --> 05:20.440 You read upside down Mr. Quantrill? 05:20.440 --> 05:22.440 I've lived in Baltimore. 05:22.440 --> 05:30.520 Oh thank you Mr. Quantrill, thanks a lot. 05:30.520 --> 05:37.720 And for that Randy Quantrill winked at me, laughed noiselessly at me. 05:37.720 --> 05:40.680 Leaned against the mail rack, scratched his back with it. 05:40.680 --> 05:44.480 It wasn't the moment to intrude any longer on such private pleasures. 05:44.480 --> 05:51.200 So I left him. 05:51.200 --> 05:55.760 At the Great Northern National Bank a guard uniformed in tattletale gray took my name, 05:55.760 --> 05:58.480 my business, walked down a marble aisle with them. 05:58.480 --> 06:02.880 An aisle lined with identical desks, identical faces behind them. 06:02.880 --> 06:05.800 Unerringly the guard chose one, the right one. 06:05.800 --> 06:07.360 This was a shrewd guard. 06:07.360 --> 06:11.560 He muted his voice to the extracurricular business I had brought to the Great Northern, offered 06:11.560 --> 06:12.900 it to the man. 06:12.900 --> 06:16.280 The man considered it, digested it and when he had it all in order motioned me to the 06:16.280 --> 06:18.920 chair the guard had placed discreetly close to him. 06:18.920 --> 06:21.920 I'm told we can help you Mr. Clover. 06:21.920 --> 06:24.240 Man named Tom Keeler had a checking account here. 06:24.240 --> 06:25.240 They're aware of it. 06:25.240 --> 06:28.680 Then you know that he was murdered last night in a cheap hotel. 06:28.680 --> 06:31.040 They're aware of many things Mr. Clover. 06:31.040 --> 06:32.840 I'm sorry I can't hear you. 06:32.840 --> 06:33.840 What did you say? 06:33.840 --> 06:38.640 They say that our research department makes a point of informing each of us here on many 06:38.640 --> 06:39.640 diverse matters. 06:39.640 --> 06:42.840 Matters that could even most remotely concern. 06:42.840 --> 06:43.840 Thank you. 06:43.840 --> 06:44.840 Beg pardon? 06:44.840 --> 06:48.960 I said thank you because you let me hear what you had to say. 06:48.960 --> 06:51.080 I was appointed Mr. Clover. 06:51.080 --> 06:53.920 Should any questions arise about the late Thomas Keeler. 06:53.920 --> 06:56.840 Should any questions arise I will so answer the question. 06:56.840 --> 06:59.400 Your interrogation is what Mr. Clover? 06:59.400 --> 07:03.400 We down at headquarters think it's strange Tom Keeler slept in a flop house when he had 07:03.400 --> 07:04.400 a checking account with us. 07:04.400 --> 07:05.400 A checking account with us? 07:05.400 --> 07:06.400 Uh huh. 07:06.400 --> 07:07.400 Philosophical question Mr. Clover. 07:07.400 --> 07:08.400 I'm somewhat out of my problem. 07:08.400 --> 07:09.400 Pardon me what? 07:09.400 --> 07:14.720 I say that all we know of Thomas Keeler is that we were asked to transfer fifty dollars 07:14.720 --> 07:17.320 weekly to his account which we have done religiously until... 07:17.320 --> 07:19.320 Who asked you to do that? 07:19.320 --> 07:21.320 Counselor-in-law, a gentleman, George Webber. 07:21.320 --> 07:24.240 If you want his address we should give it to you. 07:24.240 --> 07:25.240 Thanks. 07:25.240 --> 07:28.240 You were saying you did this until... until what? 07:28.240 --> 07:29.240 Until two weeks ago. 07:29.240 --> 07:32.240 Possibly two weeks in the fraction of a day. 07:32.240 --> 07:34.240 Mr. Webber asked us to discontinue with generosity. 07:34.240 --> 07:35.240 Why? 07:35.240 --> 07:38.240 I suggest it is a personal matter concerning Mr. Webber. 07:38.240 --> 07:40.240 I don't mind troubling you with it. 07:40.240 --> 07:41.240 What? 07:41.240 --> 07:42.240 I'm sorry. 07:42.240 --> 07:43.240 I said that I would... 07:43.240 --> 07:44.240 Never mind. 07:44.240 --> 07:50.240 Probably wasn't important. 07:50.240 --> 07:52.720 Go to the Park Avenue Apartments of George Webber. 07:52.720 --> 07:55.960 Be told by the person at the desk that Mr. Webber is not at home. 07:55.960 --> 07:58.320 Perhaps at his office, the person suggested. 07:58.320 --> 08:02.560 And be handed a slip of paper with the office address in a handwriting with the eyes dotted 08:02.560 --> 08:04.560 with small circles. 08:04.560 --> 08:06.520 Webber and Marley, slip said. 08:06.520 --> 08:09.120 Attorneys, finance building, suite twelve. 08:09.120 --> 08:10.120 Go there. 08:10.120 --> 08:14.040 Go through a door and pass the beam of an electric eye. 08:14.040 --> 08:18.880 Wade through a carpet to a desk and an olive skinned girl with tight black hair. 08:18.880 --> 08:22.000 Look for your name, show your credentials and be told Mr. Webber is out. 08:22.000 --> 08:25.320 Would you see his partner, Mr. Paul Marley? 08:25.320 --> 08:26.320 You would. 08:26.320 --> 08:29.640 You're nodded past another door and another beam. 08:29.640 --> 08:32.680 And to a slender young man who is waiting for you in front of a wall lined with every 08:32.680 --> 08:37.400 law book ever written, be chaperoned by him through yet another door. 08:37.400 --> 08:41.040 And there he was, Paul Marley. 08:41.040 --> 08:45.960 Partner to George Webber, impeccable in morning coat, striped pants and an army discharge 08:45.960 --> 08:46.960 button in his lapel. 08:46.960 --> 08:47.960 That'll be all, Robertson. 08:47.960 --> 08:48.960 Now, sit down please, Mr. Clover. 08:48.960 --> 08:49.960 Clover, please sit down. 08:49.960 --> 08:50.960 Thank you. 08:50.960 --> 08:51.960 The information you gave out there says you're a policeman. 08:51.960 --> 08:52.960 That's right. 08:52.960 --> 08:53.960 And this is about what, sir? 08:53.960 --> 08:54.960 What can I do for you? 08:54.960 --> 08:55.960 It's about a man named Tom Keeler. 08:55.960 --> 08:56.960 Keeler? 08:56.960 --> 08:57.960 Keeler? 08:57.960 --> 08:58.960 A man found murdered last night. 08:58.960 --> 08:59.960 Yeah. 08:59.960 --> 09:00.960 Shot twice with different caliber bullets, either one fatal. 09:00.960 --> 09:01.960 Yeah. 09:01.960 --> 09:02.960 Is all this a matter of legal advice for the police department? 09:02.960 --> 09:03.960 You want to know if a man was killed by a gunshot wound? 09:03.960 --> 09:04.960 Yes. 09:04.960 --> 09:05.960 And if he was killed by a gunshot wound? 09:05.960 --> 09:06.960 Yes. 09:06.960 --> 09:07.960 And if he was killed by a gunshot wound? 09:07.960 --> 09:08.960 Yes. 09:08.960 --> 09:09.960 And if he was killed by a gunshot wound? 09:09.960 --> 09:10.960 Yes. 09:10.960 --> 09:11.960 And if he was killed by a gunshot wound? 09:11.960 --> 09:19.960 Yes. 09:19.960 --> 09:20.960 That's not it at all. 09:20.960 --> 09:23.960 Tom Keeler, it seems, was supported by your partner. 09:23.960 --> 09:24.960 By Mr. Webber. 09:24.960 --> 09:25.960 That's right. 09:25.960 --> 09:30.960 Each week, $50 was drawn on Mr. Webber's account and deposited in favor of Tom Keeler. 09:30.960 --> 09:31.960 Surely there's some... 09:31.960 --> 09:32.960 There's no mistake. 09:32.960 --> 09:33.960 That's the way it was. 09:33.960 --> 09:35.960 But I know Mr. Webber so well. 09:35.960 --> 09:36.960 His affairs, everything. 09:36.960 --> 09:37.960 Where is he? 09:37.960 --> 09:38.960 On Fire Island. 09:38.960 --> 09:39.960 Since the day before yesterday. 09:39.960 --> 09:40.960 He has a place there. 09:40.960 --> 09:41.960 I'm pretty sure he went there. 09:41.960 --> 09:43.960 A lot of season for Fire Island, isn't it? 09:43.960 --> 09:44.960 Oh, I don't think so. 09:44.960 --> 09:45.960 The end of September? 09:45.960 --> 09:47.960 Mr. Webber goes there all year round. 09:47.960 --> 09:48.960 Whenever. 09:48.960 --> 09:49.960 Whenever what? 09:49.960 --> 09:50.960 Whenever he's disturbed. 09:50.960 --> 09:54.960 He has the idea of the sea, the strand, the loneliness of it. 09:54.960 --> 09:55.960 Personally, I don't... 09:55.960 --> 09:57.960 What was Mr. Webber disturbed about? 09:57.960 --> 10:00.960 But he has a sister, Peggy. 10:00.960 --> 10:02.960 She's just 20, so you can imagine. 10:02.960 --> 10:03.960 No, I can't. 10:03.960 --> 10:07.960 Beautiful girl of 20, rich, and you can't imagine. 10:07.960 --> 10:09.960 Look, Mr. Marley, you know, 10:09.960 --> 10:12.960 My partner was constantly arguing with her. 10:12.960 --> 10:14.960 We're a conservative firm, Mr. Clover. 10:14.960 --> 10:16.960 Individually, both Mr. Webber and myself feel... 10:16.960 --> 10:18.960 What's that got to do with Peggy? 10:18.960 --> 10:20.960 Peggy Webber is headstrong. 10:20.960 --> 10:21.960 How? 10:21.960 --> 10:24.960 I take my partner's word for it that she's headstrong. 10:24.960 --> 10:25.960 Therefore... 10:25.960 --> 10:27.960 And they argued, Peggy and her brother. 10:27.960 --> 10:28.960 What about? 10:28.960 --> 10:29.960 I have no idea. 10:29.960 --> 10:31.960 And he went to Fire Island to recuperate. 10:31.960 --> 10:33.960 One way of saying it. 10:33.960 --> 10:35.960 Anything else, Mr. Clover? 10:35.960 --> 10:36.960 No? 10:36.960 --> 10:40.960 Then please, leave these documents here if you don't mind. 10:46.960 --> 10:49.960 And get in touch with the authorities at Fire Island. 10:49.960 --> 10:52.960 Check on the whereabouts of Mr. George Webber and wait. 10:52.960 --> 10:54.960 An hour later, a phone call. 10:54.960 --> 10:56.960 Mr. Webber is not on Fire Island. 10:56.960 --> 10:58.960 Mr. Webber's place there is deserted. 10:58.960 --> 10:59.960 From the looks of it, 10:59.960 --> 11:01.960 it hasn't been inhabited for over a month. 11:01.960 --> 11:03.960 So come up with a conclusion. 11:03.960 --> 11:05.960 Mr. George Webber was missing. 11:05.960 --> 11:07.960 Put out an old points bulletin on him 11:07.960 --> 11:10.960 and go back to his Park Avenue apartment. 11:10.960 --> 11:12.960 Make a request of the management. 11:12.960 --> 11:15.960 We're always glad to accommodate the police. 11:15.960 --> 11:16.960 Then let's go, show me. 11:16.960 --> 11:17.960 Of course. 11:17.960 --> 11:20.960 Mr. Webber's apartment right this way, down the hall. 11:20.960 --> 11:22.960 Yes, sir. 11:22.960 --> 11:26.960 Although, I'd like to know why we should intrude. 11:26.960 --> 11:28.960 Don't worry about it. 11:28.960 --> 11:29.960 Here, sir. 11:29.960 --> 11:30.960 Open the door. 11:30.960 --> 11:32.960 Of course. 11:32.960 --> 11:35.960 And here we are. 11:39.960 --> 11:40.960 Yeah. 11:40.960 --> 11:42.960 We are, aren't we? 11:42.960 --> 11:43.960 What? 11:43.960 --> 11:44.960 What did you say? 11:44.960 --> 11:46.960 What did you say, Mr. Clover? 11:46.960 --> 11:47.960 I didn't... 11:47.960 --> 11:48.960 Oh. 11:50.960 --> 11:52.960 It stopped both of us. 11:52.960 --> 11:54.960 The management and myself. 11:54.960 --> 11:56.960 It was a sight that needed only one glance 11:56.960 --> 11:58.960 and the details were there forever. 11:58.960 --> 11:59.960 The free-shaped coffee table 11:59.960 --> 12:02.960 and the grotesquery of the man spread beside it. 12:02.960 --> 12:05.960 The tracery of blood that stopped abruptly. 12:05.960 --> 12:06.960 Mr. Webber, that's Mr. Webber. 12:06.960 --> 12:10.960 The penknife, bone-handled and cheap in his heart 12:10.960 --> 12:12.960 to be remembered. 12:12.960 --> 12:15.960 Details in the death of George Webber. 12:24.960 --> 12:26.960 You are listening to Broadway's My Beat 12:26.960 --> 12:28.960 written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin 12:28.960 --> 12:32.960 and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. 12:32.960 --> 12:35.960 There will be a slight pause while we think of an adjective 12:35.960 --> 12:38.960 to describe Mario Lanza. 12:38.960 --> 12:40.960 Sorry, I guess there just isn't one adjective 12:40.960 --> 12:42.960 to describe a guy who sings just as well 12:42.960 --> 12:44.960 in the popular range as in the classics. 12:44.960 --> 12:45.960 But here's a suggestion. 12:45.960 --> 12:47.960 On CBS Radio tomorrow night 12:47.960 --> 12:48.960 over most of these same stations, 12:48.960 --> 12:51.960 don't miss Mario Lanza's All Requests show 12:51.960 --> 12:54.960 and more of the same by lovely Gisele McKenzie 12:54.960 --> 12:58.960 and Ray Sinatra's music. 13:05.960 --> 13:08.960 When the night slips out of Broadway's fingers 13:08.960 --> 13:10.960 and the false dawn blurs the shadows, 13:10.960 --> 13:12.960 Broadway stands bewildered. 13:12.960 --> 13:14.960 The carnival is rundown. 13:14.960 --> 13:16.960 Only the stragglers walk it 13:16.960 --> 13:19.960 with their step without pattern like their dreams. 13:19.960 --> 13:22.960 And the color of their loneliness is the darkened neon, 13:22.960 --> 13:25.960 the last sparks of a cigarette butt and pavement gray. 13:25.960 --> 13:27.960 And they walk it. 13:27.960 --> 13:30.960 They never know Broadway's closed for the night. 13:35.960 --> 13:37.960 And somehow or another, whether it deserves it or not, 13:37.960 --> 13:40.960 the world gets to be 9 o'clock in the morning. 13:40.960 --> 13:42.960 Then there's a place for everybody. 13:42.960 --> 13:46.960 It's daytime, breakfast time, work time, make-a-dollar time. 13:46.960 --> 13:48.960 Or as Sergeant Gino Tertaglia said it... 13:48.960 --> 13:50.960 Lend me a dollar, Danny. 13:50.960 --> 13:52.960 Here, Gino. Here. 13:52.960 --> 13:54.960 Thank you. 13:54.960 --> 13:56.960 The reason for this transaction, Danny... 13:56.960 --> 13:57.960 You don't have to explain it. 13:57.960 --> 13:59.960 I want to. I want to. 13:59.960 --> 14:00.960 Go right ahead. 14:00.960 --> 14:01.960 Thank you. 14:01.960 --> 14:04.960 Mrs. Tertaglia forgot to tuck my dollar into my lunch box today, 14:04.960 --> 14:08.960 as is her want, for the little things a man needs during the day. 14:08.960 --> 14:11.960 She just phoned me and confessed her deletion of duty in this matter. 14:11.960 --> 14:12.960 Gino... 14:12.960 --> 14:14.960 She said, ask Danny for it. 14:14.960 --> 14:16.960 And tomorrow she will tuck in two dollars 14:16.960 --> 14:17.960 so that you will not go hungry. 14:17.960 --> 14:19.960 Tell Mrs. T not to worry. 14:19.960 --> 14:20.960 I will. 14:20.960 --> 14:22.960 And now, Danny, to the chores of the day. 14:22.960 --> 14:25.960 Knife, which did George Webber in, was of the variety 14:25.960 --> 14:27.960 which can be purchased at our leading hardware stores 14:27.960 --> 14:29.960 for the nominal sum of 198. 14:29.960 --> 14:31.960 Practically untraceable. 14:31.960 --> 14:32.960 Prints? 14:32.960 --> 14:33.960 White clean. 14:33.960 --> 14:34.960 Go on. 14:34.960 --> 14:36.960 Well, that's about the sum and substance of the intelligence 14:36.960 --> 14:39.960 which has been shunted from the downstairs to the here, Danny. 14:39.960 --> 14:41.960 As of now. 14:41.960 --> 14:42.960 However... 14:42.960 --> 14:43.960 Yeah? 14:43.960 --> 14:45.960 A young lady is in the ante room and wants to see you. 14:45.960 --> 14:46.960 Who is she? 14:46.960 --> 14:48.960 The Miss Peggy Webber, sister of the most laterally deceased. 14:48.960 --> 14:49.960 Get her. 14:51.960 --> 14:53.960 This way to see Danny Clover. 14:54.960 --> 14:55.960 Sit down, Miss Webber. 14:55.960 --> 14:57.960 That will be all, Gino. 14:58.960 --> 15:00.960 I'm glad you came, Miss Webber. 15:00.960 --> 15:03.960 Your name is right here on my calendar to see today. 15:03.960 --> 15:05.960 I knew you'd want to question me about George. 15:05.960 --> 15:07.960 How did you hear about his death? 15:07.960 --> 15:09.960 I was home, the late news on the radio. 15:09.960 --> 15:11.960 You see, I didn't live with my brother. 15:11.960 --> 15:12.960 We didn't get along. 15:12.960 --> 15:13.960 Oh? 15:13.960 --> 15:15.960 It's going to be a lot simpler now with him gone. 15:15.960 --> 15:17.960 I'll wear a black dress like this one for a month 15:17.960 --> 15:19.960 and call it a decent interval of mourning. 15:19.960 --> 15:22.960 It's not any concern of mine, Miss Webber, but... 15:22.960 --> 15:24.960 Oh, it's entirely your concern, Mr. Clover. 15:24.960 --> 15:26.960 Your position demands that you locate people 15:26.960 --> 15:29.960 who would have motives for murdering my brother. 15:29.960 --> 15:30.960 I would. 15:30.960 --> 15:32.960 Did you kill him? 15:32.960 --> 15:35.960 A few of my friends and I got together some time ago. 15:35.960 --> 15:36.960 For kicks. 15:36.960 --> 15:38.960 We were going to try things together, you know, 15:38.960 --> 15:39.960 just for kicks. 15:39.960 --> 15:41.960 Black magic. 15:41.960 --> 15:43.960 Well, I spent the first ten days of my membership 15:43.960 --> 15:46.960 sticking pins into my brother's picture. 15:46.960 --> 15:49.960 And all that happened is that he got a stye on his eye. 15:49.960 --> 15:52.960 Outside of that, I never harmed a hair on his head. 15:52.960 --> 15:54.960 Why all this hate, Miss Webber? 15:54.960 --> 15:56.960 Simply this. 15:56.960 --> 15:58.960 I love a boy. 15:58.960 --> 16:00.960 I told George about him. 16:00.960 --> 16:02.960 George got red, then blue, red again, 16:02.960 --> 16:04.960 and then a lovely color I never saw before. 16:04.960 --> 16:06.960 He found out who the boy was. 16:06.960 --> 16:08.960 Ruined him. 16:08.960 --> 16:09.960 Who is the boy? 16:09.960 --> 16:10.960 Ralph Clay. 16:10.960 --> 16:12.960 Now runs a bowling alley on Third. 16:12.960 --> 16:14.960 One more thing. 16:14.960 --> 16:16.960 Do you know a man named Tom Keeler? 16:16.960 --> 16:18.960 Not offhand. Why? 16:18.960 --> 16:19.960 Oh, never mind. 16:19.960 --> 16:22.960 Leave your address to Sergeant Otaglia, Miss Webber. 16:22.960 --> 16:24.960 Thank you very much. 16:40.960 --> 16:42.960 Yeah, yeah. 16:42.960 --> 16:44.960 You Ralph Clay? 16:44.960 --> 16:46.960 Oh, hello. 16:46.960 --> 16:48.960 Yes, me. It's my dying day. 16:48.960 --> 16:50.960 You walked into an empty hall, Mr. 16:50.960 --> 16:52.960 I feel real sorry about it. 16:52.960 --> 16:54.960 Don't be. This way we can have a long talk. 16:54.960 --> 16:56.960 Shall we? 16:56.960 --> 16:58.960 Don't let it get away, Miss Miss Tie. 16:58.960 --> 17:00.960 I want to take care of this thing coming up. 17:02.960 --> 17:04.960 King pin, seven pin. 17:04.960 --> 17:06.960 Challenge. 17:06.960 --> 17:08.960 What do you think? 17:08.960 --> 17:10.960 Go ahead. 17:10.960 --> 17:12.960 Yeah, yeah. 17:12.960 --> 17:14.960 Never say go ahead to me in that tone, Miss. 17:14.960 --> 17:16.960 They're not on that shot. 17:16.960 --> 17:18.960 My quirk, each day I live for it. 17:18.960 --> 17:20.960 I'll remember, Mr. Clay. 17:20.960 --> 17:22.960 Look, police. 17:22.960 --> 17:24.960 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 17:24.960 --> 17:26.960 Stick your thumb in the ball, Mr. Police. 17:26.960 --> 17:28.960 Have fun. 17:28.960 --> 17:30.960 I'll write it off under entertainment. 17:30.960 --> 17:32.960 Joint's bad, no one will know. 17:32.960 --> 17:34.960 Something Peggy Webber said. 17:34.960 --> 17:36.960 He sent me to you. 17:36.960 --> 17:38.960 Peggy? 17:38.960 --> 17:40.960 She's a class. 17:40.960 --> 17:42.960 She tell you I killed her brother? 17:42.960 --> 17:44.960 I got the impression she was in love with you. 17:44.960 --> 17:46.960 Pity the girl. She lives in ancient history. 17:46.960 --> 17:48.960 In a time where she loved and I loved back. 17:48.960 --> 17:50.960 But ancient history. 17:50.960 --> 17:52.960 Under the bridge. 17:52.960 --> 17:54.960 Peggy did something to you? 17:54.960 --> 17:56.960 She had a brother. 17:56.960 --> 17:58.960 Now dead, I read. 17:58.960 --> 18:00.960 It stopped me for a breath on the way to the sports page. 18:00.960 --> 18:02.960 George Webber did something to you? 18:02.960 --> 18:04.960 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 18:04.960 --> 18:06.960 And I'm a man who likes to talk about it. 18:06.960 --> 18:08.960 Huh. 18:08.960 --> 18:10.960 Georgie Porgi Webber didn't like 18:10.960 --> 18:12.960 how his sister used to put her hand in mine. 18:12.960 --> 18:14.960 So he marked me lousy. 18:14.960 --> 18:16.960 How? 18:16.960 --> 18:18.960 Standing before you, Mr. Police, 18:18.960 --> 18:20.960 is a boy who once thought he was a lawyer. 18:20.960 --> 18:22.960 Cap in hand, he went to Georgie, 18:22.960 --> 18:24.960 a soon-to-be brother-in-law, 18:24.960 --> 18:26.960 asked for a job, keeping it in the family. 18:26.960 --> 18:28.960 Georgie smiled, shook his head no. 18:28.960 --> 18:30.960 And with words and music, 18:30.960 --> 18:32.960 he told me it spoiled from me 18:32.960 --> 18:34.960 any job I took from anyone he knew. 18:34.960 --> 18:36.960 Because you loved his sister? 18:36.960 --> 18:38.960 I was second in my class in law school. 18:38.960 --> 18:40.960 You want to invent other reasons? 18:40.960 --> 18:42.960 Why hate Peggy for it? 18:42.960 --> 18:44.960 Things like that, running a blood. 18:44.960 --> 18:46.960 I don't stick around till it comes out in Peggy 18:46.960 --> 18:48.960 and slaps me in the head. 18:48.960 --> 18:50.960 Then that gives you a motive for having killed Webber. 18:50.960 --> 18:52.960 Yeah, I ain't had a luck here. 18:52.960 --> 18:54.960 And Tom Keeler, what did you have for him? 18:54.960 --> 18:56.960 Keeler? 18:56.960 --> 18:58.960 A man who got killed in a flea bag, 18:58.960 --> 19:00.960 a man Webber supported until... 19:00.960 --> 19:02.960 Typical, typical. 19:02.960 --> 19:04.960 Good old Uncle Tom was an old friend 19:04.960 --> 19:06.960 of Georgie's and Peggy's father. 19:06.960 --> 19:08.960 After the father died, Uncle Tom still hung around. 19:08.960 --> 19:10.960 Why is he called Uncle? 19:10.960 --> 19:14.960 Peggy called him Uncle because he was her confessor, her hero. 19:14.960 --> 19:16.960 Everything that ached Peggy, 19:16.960 --> 19:18.960 she brought to good old Uncle Tom. 19:18.960 --> 19:20.960 Not to her brother? 19:20.960 --> 19:22.960 Who goes to a man like that except to kill him? 19:24.960 --> 19:26.960 I'll give you something to ponder, Mr. Police. 19:26.960 --> 19:28.960 Yeah, you did. 19:28.960 --> 19:30.960 I'm glad. 19:30.960 --> 19:32.960 Makes me want to live through another day. 19:32.960 --> 19:34.960 Watch the bitter boy make his strike. 19:40.960 --> 19:42.960 Yeah, yeah. 19:42.960 --> 19:44.960 And consider the lie he'd flipped to you, 19:44.960 --> 19:46.960 the girl's lie that she didn't know Tom Keeler, 19:46.960 --> 19:48.960 and wonder over it. 19:48.960 --> 19:50.960 Jotted down in memory as a future conversation piece 19:50.960 --> 19:52.960 with Peggy Webber. 19:52.960 --> 19:54.960 And then, remember a man who said 19:54.960 --> 19:56.960 he knew all about George Webber, everything. 19:56.960 --> 19:58.960 Everything but the mention of Keeler's share 19:58.960 --> 20:00.960 in his partner's life. 20:00.960 --> 20:02.960 Go to him, wait for him to finish his preening. 20:02.960 --> 20:04.960 To taste to the full the decorations bestowed upon men of know-how. 20:04.960 --> 20:06.960 Got this little time machine for being on my toes, Mr. Clover. 20:10.960 --> 20:12.960 Handsome tidbit, isn't it? 20:12.960 --> 20:14.960 Yeah, yeah, it is. 20:14.960 --> 20:16.960 Seventeen jewels, Hamilton. 20:16.960 --> 20:18.960 All because I proved in court 20:18.960 --> 20:20.960 that Chaps wife had been unfriendly to said chap. 20:20.960 --> 20:22.960 Look what the grateful devil had engraved in the gold. 20:24.960 --> 20:26.960 To chum Paul Marley 20:26.960 --> 20:28.960 for setting me free. 20:28.960 --> 20:30.960 To chum... 20:30.960 --> 20:32.960 What was there about Tom Keeler that shut your mouth about him? 20:32.960 --> 20:34.960 My... 20:34.960 --> 20:36.960 My compliments, Mr. Clover. 20:36.960 --> 20:38.960 Brilliant strategy. 20:38.960 --> 20:40.960 Attack while the enemy celebrates 20:40.960 --> 20:42.960 minor victories. 20:42.960 --> 20:44.960 In tactics class at Fort Meade we used to... 20:44.960 --> 20:46.960 You told me about Webber, personal things about him. 20:46.960 --> 20:48.960 His sister. Why not about Tom Keeler? 20:48.960 --> 20:50.960 It pained me. 20:50.960 --> 20:52.960 For George's sake, my deceased 20:52.960 --> 20:54.960 partner's sake, it pained me. 20:54.960 --> 20:56.960 You'll show me where it hurts. 20:56.960 --> 20:58.960 You think you'll be able to understand? 20:58.960 --> 21:00.960 Don't answer, it doesn't matter. 21:00.960 --> 21:02.960 Keeler was a derelict, a bum, 21:02.960 --> 21:04.960 a hungry shadow in George's closet. 21:04.960 --> 21:06.960 That's why George opened that account for him. 21:06.960 --> 21:08.960 To keep him from coming here 21:08.960 --> 21:10.960 to beg. George and I had a large 21:10.960 --> 21:12.960 investment here. The presence of Keeler 21:12.960 --> 21:14.960 was hard... Webber cut off the account. 21:14.960 --> 21:16.960 At my insistence, my counsel. 21:16.960 --> 21:18.960 It made quite a row 21:18.960 --> 21:20.960 the other day. Between Tom and 21:20.960 --> 21:22.960 George, I had to shoo people 21:22.960 --> 21:24.960 back to their desks. You killed George Webber? 21:24.960 --> 21:26.960 Attack, attack. 21:26.960 --> 21:28.960 I admire your method, Mr. Clover. 21:28.960 --> 21:30.960 Well the investment, the plush carpets, 21:30.960 --> 21:32.960 the perfumed secretaries, the junior partners, 21:32.960 --> 21:34.960 all yours now. You kill 21:34.960 --> 21:36.960 Webber for that? The death of my partner 21:36.960 --> 21:38.960 was a great loss to me, Mr. Clover. 21:38.960 --> 21:40.960 A personal loss. 21:40.960 --> 21:42.960 Were it in my humble power 21:42.960 --> 21:44.960 to hunt out his assassins, 21:44.960 --> 21:46.960 I would dedicate my knowledge, 21:46.960 --> 21:52.960 my life, my... 21:58.960 --> 22:00.960 Yes? Danny. 22:00.960 --> 22:02.960 Something I can do for you? 22:02.960 --> 22:04.960 Dr. Sinskey, I have an idea 22:04.960 --> 22:06.960 about something. I want you to check it for me. 22:06.960 --> 22:08.960 Gladly. Get out the medical examiner's 22:08.960 --> 22:10.960 report on Tom Keeler. 22:10.960 --> 22:16.960 Wait a second. 22:16.960 --> 22:18.960 Here. 22:18.960 --> 22:20.960 What do you want it for? 22:20.960 --> 22:22.960 I want to put it side by side with this one 22:22.960 --> 22:24.960 I've got on George Webber. 22:24.960 --> 22:26.960 So? Here, look. 22:26.960 --> 22:28.960 It says Webber 22:28.960 --> 22:30.960 died the day before yesterday 22:30.960 --> 22:32.960 at approximately 6 p.m. 22:32.960 --> 22:34.960 Uh-huh. And it says in this report 22:34.960 --> 22:36.960 that Keeler died about midnight 22:36.960 --> 22:38.960 on the same day. You know what that 22:38.960 --> 22:40.960 means, Doctor? 22:40.960 --> 22:42.960 No, what? There's a pencil on your desk. 22:42.960 --> 22:44.960 Figure it out. 23:00.960 --> 23:02.960 Well, Mr. Clover, 23:02.960 --> 23:04.960 you used my address after all. 23:04.960 --> 23:06.960 Mind if I come in, Miss Webber? This evening you can go 23:06.960 --> 23:08.960 as far as calling me Peggy. 23:08.960 --> 23:10.960 But you can't come in. I'm afraid I'll have to... 23:10.960 --> 23:12.960 You'll have to force your way in? 23:12.960 --> 23:14.960 Well, I could relish that. Peggy... 23:14.960 --> 23:16.960 But a friend's visiting with me. 23:16.960 --> 23:18.960 Ralph Clay. 23:18.960 --> 23:20.960 You said the password. If you know that 23:20.960 --> 23:22.960 you might as well come in. 23:22.960 --> 23:24.960 Ralph! 23:24.960 --> 23:26.960 Come out, come out 23:26.960 --> 23:28.960 wherever you are! 23:28.960 --> 23:30.960 Say hello to Mr. Clover, Ralph. 23:30.960 --> 23:32.960 I told you, Peggy Fudd didn't have Mr. Clover. 23:32.960 --> 23:34.960 Well, now you know. 23:34.960 --> 23:36.960 I didn't know whether you'd broken off with Peggy or not. 23:36.960 --> 23:38.960 It doesn't matter anymore. 23:38.960 --> 23:40.960 You want to ask Peggy questions, huh? 23:40.960 --> 23:42.960 You too. Goodie, goodie. 23:42.960 --> 23:44.960 You lied to me too, Peggy. 23:44.960 --> 23:47.960 Because I'm a liar. I give Ralph a lot of trouble that way, don't I, Ralph? 23:47.960 --> 23:49.960 Let's just listen to what the man has to say. 23:49.960 --> 23:52.960 You're lying about Keeler, Peggy. You said you didn't know who he was. 23:52.960 --> 23:54.960 I explained it to you. I'm a liar. 23:54.960 --> 23:56.960 I found out who killed your brother, Peggy. 23:56.960 --> 23:58.960 I said I... 23:58.960 --> 24:00.960 We heard you. 24:00.960 --> 24:02.960 There were a lot of motives floating around, Peggy. Yours... 24:02.960 --> 24:04.960 Leave her alone. She didn't kill her brother. 24:06.960 --> 24:07.960 I did. Oh, cut it out, Ralph. 24:07.960 --> 24:09.960 Peggy. Ralph had nothing to do with it. 24:10.960 --> 24:12.960 I did it. What's the matter with you, Peggy? 24:12.960 --> 24:14.960 You're crazy. You're a liar. You lie. That's why you're saying you killed your brother. 24:14.960 --> 24:16.960 Ralph, Ralph... Neither one of you killed him. 24:18.960 --> 24:20.960 You thought Ralph did, Peggy, and Ralph... 24:20.960 --> 24:22.960 What are you trying to do to us, Clover? What are you doing? 24:22.960 --> 24:24.960 Police methods? Trying to get us to play against each other? 24:24.960 --> 24:26.960 Take it easy, Ralph. Go on, take it easy, Ralph. 24:26.960 --> 24:28.960 What are you trying to say? Talk, talk! Tom Keeler 24:28.960 --> 24:30.960 killed Peggy's brother. 24:30.960 --> 24:32.960 Clover, so help me out. Listen to me, both of you... 24:32.960 --> 24:34.960 Clover! Let him talk, Ralph. 24:34.960 --> 24:36.960 Keeler killed him because his source of income was cut off. 24:36.960 --> 24:38.960 A man like Keeler could kill him. 24:38.960 --> 24:40.960 Desperate man. A man without livelihood. 24:40.960 --> 24:42.960 A tramp who made a habit of living off 24:42.960 --> 24:44.960 someone else's generosity. 24:46.960 --> 24:48.960 Ralph... 24:48.960 --> 24:50.960 Ralph, it was all my fault. 24:50.960 --> 24:52.960 You found your brother dead, didn't you, Peggy? 24:52.960 --> 24:54.960 Yes, and I... 24:54.960 --> 24:56.960 You thought Ralph did it? 24:56.960 --> 24:58.960 Yes, I thought... 24:58.960 --> 25:00.960 Oh, Ralph... 25:00.960 --> 25:02.960 It's gonna be all right, baby. 25:02.960 --> 25:04.960 Peggy went to her Uncle Tom like she always did when she was in trouble. 25:04.960 --> 25:06.960 Told him Ralph had killed her brother. 25:06.960 --> 25:08.960 What did Tom Keeler say to you, Peggy? 25:10.960 --> 25:12.960 He said... 25:12.960 --> 25:14.960 He said not to worry. 25:14.960 --> 25:16.960 Just not to worry. 25:16.960 --> 25:18.960 Then he got in touch with you, huh, Ralph? 25:18.960 --> 25:20.960 Yeah. Yeah, he did. 25:22.960 --> 25:24.960 You know what he told me? 25:24.960 --> 25:26.960 I think so. He told me Peggy killed her brother. 25:26.960 --> 25:28.960 And he was the killer all the time. 25:30.960 --> 25:32.960 And I'm supposed to be a bright boy. 25:32.960 --> 25:34.960 So he had each of you believing the other had killed George Weber. 25:34.960 --> 25:36.960 How much money did he want from each of you to protect the other? 25:38.960 --> 25:40.960 Oh, what difference does it make? 25:40.960 --> 25:42.960 It doesn't matter anymore. 25:42.960 --> 25:44.960 Blackmail. 25:44.960 --> 25:46.960 That's why Tom Keeler's dead too. 25:46.960 --> 25:48.960 Murdered. 25:48.960 --> 25:50.960 Yeah. 25:50.960 --> 25:52.960 You slapped the cuffs on me for that one, Clover. 25:52.960 --> 25:54.960 No, Ralph. 25:54.960 --> 25:56.960 No more. 25:56.960 --> 25:58.960 You don't have to anymore. 25:58.960 --> 26:02.960 Mr. Clover, my uncle said he wanted everything I had to keep quiet about Ralph. 26:04.960 --> 26:06.960 So I went up to his hotel room while he was sleeping. 26:06.960 --> 26:08.960 And I shot him. 26:08.960 --> 26:10.960 No. No, Peggy, that's what I... 26:10.960 --> 26:12.960 That's what you both did. 26:12.960 --> 26:14.960 To protect the other. 26:14.960 --> 26:16.960 You both shot Tom Keeler. 26:16.960 --> 26:20.960 Peggy. 26:20.960 --> 26:22.960 Peg. 26:22.960 --> 26:24.960 Peg, Peggy. 26:24.960 --> 26:26.960 Peg. 26:26.960 --> 26:28.960 Stop her! Stop her! 26:28.960 --> 26:30.960 Peg. 26:30.960 --> 26:58.960 There's a time on Broadway when the crowd gives up, goes home, and the lights buzz fitfully die. 27:00.960 --> 27:08.960 Then it's a street of dim moonlight and dark whispers and the wind of the autumn night, the wind that scatters everything. 27:08.960 --> 27:16.960 Yesterday's headline, yesterday's dreams, yesterday's people. 27:16.960 --> 27:24.960 It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. 27:24.960 --> 27:44.960 Broadway, my beat. 27:44.960 --> 27:52.960 Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack Prussian as Muggavan. 27:52.960 --> 28:00.960 The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. 28:00.960 --> 28:29.960 In tonight's story, Lillian Bief was heard as Peggy Weber, Anthony Barrett as Ralph Clay, Paul Frese as Randy Quantrill, Bob Bruce as Mr. Chase, and Edgar Berrier as Paul Marley. 28:29.960 --> 28:34.960 Here are two Sunday features that have captured America's fancy year in and year out. 28:34.960 --> 28:40.960 On Sunday afternoon, the distinguished music of the symphonette directed by Michelle Piastro. 28:40.960 --> 28:43.960 On Sunday evening, the outstanding vocals of the choral heirs. 28:43.960 --> 28:49.960 Listen for both these musical treats every Sunday on most of these same CBS radio stations. 28:49.960 --> 28:54.960 The symphonette in the afternoon, in the evening, the choral heirs. 28:54.960 --> 29:07.960 Stay tuned now for Songs for Sale, which follows immediately over most of these same stations. 29:07.960 --> 29:09.960 Bill Anders speaking. 29:09.960 --> 29:25.960 And remember this Monday night, Lux Radio Theater features 13 Hollywood stars in the gala salute on the CBS Radio Network.