Latest / Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio / Broadway Is My Beat - "The Frank Conway Murder Case" (1950)

Transcript

Broadway Is My Beat - "The Frank Conway Murder Case" (1950) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: July 3rd, 1950 brought CBS listeners episode 41 of Broadway
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: is My Beat, the Frank Conway murder case. In New
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: York City, Detective Danny Clover is sent to the Olympian
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Hotel where a Texan has been shot in room 312.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: A telegram addressed to Eddie Donald and a roulette wheel
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: complicate the inquiry. Larry Thor appears as Clover with Charles
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia. Morton Fine and David Friedkin
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: wrote the script, and Elliot Lewis produced and directed. And now,
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: the original broadcast. Broadway's My Beat.
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: From Times Square to Columbus Circle. The gaudiest, the most violent...
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway's My Beat, the
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: thrilling drama of murder and mystery and the people who
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: walk the Great White Way, starring Larry Thor as Detective
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: Danny Clover.
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: ¶ ¶.
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: In the morning, a kind of silence touches Broadway. The
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: color has been squeezed from it, drained, spent by the
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: wanton night. The neon is still in a spectacular sleep.
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: The scavengers walk soft, grubbed furtively in the refuse of
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: the night. And if you listen close, you can hear
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: the wind. And it's the same wind that purrs through ruins.
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: At headquarters, you welcome Broadway's silence. But you know it'll
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: splinter in your face.
• 2:02
  Speaker 4: And it does.
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: Its shape is a slip of paper tossed carelessly on
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: your desk. On it are written the words, Homicide, Olympian Hotel,
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: room 312. Broadway is awake now. It's starting a new day.
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: At the Olympian Hotel, you walk down a corridor that's
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: been painted in a color that won't offend anybody. Then
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: a door opens to you and a voice designed not
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: to frighten you welcomes you into a room lately furnished
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: with death.
• 2:30
  Speaker 5: Come in. Come in, please. Uh, you're from headquarters, I presume?
• 2:34
  Speaker 4: And you?
• 2:35
  Speaker 5: Matthew Porter, Yale 47. Head of the Crime Detection Bureau
• 2:38
  Speaker 5: for the management. This is my first murder.
• 2:44
  Speaker 4: Shot. 45, I'd say. Who was he, a guest?
• 2:48
  Speaker 5: Not likely. Oh, I took the liberty of going through
• 2:51
  Speaker 5: his pockets for identification, of course. I find he is
• 2:54
  Speaker 5: a Frank Conroy. Obviously one of those people from Texas.
• 2:57
  Speaker 5: The high-heeled boots, that 10-gallon monstrosity over there on the bed.
• 3:01
  Speaker 5: They wear those things. Died with his boots on, eh? Classic.
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: And this?
• 3:08
  Speaker 4: Courtesy of the management?
• 3:10
  Speaker 5: The roulette wheel? Of course not. Gambling in the rooms
• 3:13
  Speaker 5: is positively forbidden at the Olympian.
• 3:15
  Speaker 4: But this is a roulette wheel, I'd swear it, Mr. Porter.
• 3:18
  Speaker 5: Maybe the Texan brought it with him. You know Texas millionaires. Oil, steers, women, roulette,
• 3:23
  Speaker 5: the black and the red.
• 3:24
  Speaker 4: You say he wasn't a guest?
• 3:25
  Speaker 5: Never saw him before. How he got in without my notice,
• 3:29
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 3:29
  Speaker 4: Whose room is this? Oh, uh, Mr.
• 3:32
  Speaker 5: Henry Sherwood, Stocks and Bonds. Inoffensive chap. A moment, please.
• 3:39
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 3:40
  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you. Strange.
• 3:43
  Speaker 4: A telegram.
• 3:44
  Speaker 5: Addressed to an Eddie Donald. Care of this room.
• 3:46
  Speaker 4: Open it. Open it.
• 3:50
  Speaker 7: Read it.
• 3:51
  Speaker 4: Aloud.
• 3:52
  Speaker 5: Uh, dear Eddie, stop. Arrived flight 12 from Cleveland. Stop. 11.15
• 3:58
  Speaker 5: this morning. Stop. Hope you had good rest. Stop. Ha ha. Stop. Signed,
• 4:04
  Speaker 5: Henry Sherwood. What time is it now?
• 4:07
  Speaker 7: 10.03.
• 4:08
  Speaker 5: On the nose.
• 4:09
  Speaker 4: That gives me an hour.
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: You'll be courteous to the public servants when they come
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: for the dead Texan, won't you, Yale? It took just
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: about that hour to get to LaGuardia. Four-engine plane from
• 4:23
  Speaker 2: Cleveland made a storybook landing, and the people who walked
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: through its door made storybook exits. Pause at the door, smile, wave,
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: and walk.
• 4:30
  Speaker 4: Down the ramp.
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: The stewardess stood there checking off each performance. I asked
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: her who was Henry Sherwood, and she pointed out a
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: little man with a briefcase who was just going off
• 4:38
  Speaker 2: the field.
• 4:40
  Speaker 7: Sherwood!
• 4:41
  Speaker 4: Henry Sherwood!
• 4:42
  Speaker 5: Hey!
• 4:44
  Speaker 4: Sure name Sherwood?
• 4:45
  Speaker 7: Who are you?
• 4:46
  Speaker 8: Police.
• 4:47
  Speaker 4: You Henry Sherwood?
• 4:47
  Speaker 9: Police?
• 4:48
  Speaker 7: Say, what is this?
• 4:49
  Speaker 4: You're registered at the Olympian Hotel, room 312?
• 4:52
  Speaker 7: Yes, I am.
• 4:52
  Speaker 4: Who's Eddie Donald?
• 4:53
  Speaker 7: Eddie Donald? What's he got to do with the police?
• 4:55
  Speaker 4: We're looking for him. What's he got to do with you?
• 4:57
  Speaker 10: Why, I lent him my suite while I was in Cleveland.
• 5:00
  Speaker 10: I called him and told him he could live like
• 5:01
  Speaker 10: a king in my suite for the week I was away.
• 5:03
  Speaker 5: He acquiesced.
• 5:04
  Speaker 4: All right. Where does Eddie Donald usually live?
• 5:06
  Speaker 10: In a hotel on West 59th. Let me think up
• 5:09
  Speaker 10: just where.
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: You do that, Mr. Sherwood, on the way down to headquarters.
• 5:15
  Speaker 2: It didn't take Mr. Sherwood all the way down to
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: headquarters to think of it. He thought of Eddie Donald's
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: address just as I was lifting him into the squad car.
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: He wriggled and said I could let him go now.
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: I said they'd point a finger at me if I did.
• 5:27
  Speaker 4: At headquarters, Mr.
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: Sherwood said he'd take up police brutality with the Stock Exchange,
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: the Governor, the State Department. When he got to Drew Pearson,
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: I walked out. Eddie Donald's hotel was run by a
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: sweet and charming lady. Everybody told her she was that,
• 5:48
  Speaker 2: so she told me.
• 5:50
  Speaker 11: Just call me Mom, Mr.
• 5:52
  Speaker 5: Clover.
• 5:52
  Speaker 11: Everybody calls me that. It's because I treat my boys
• 5:57
  Speaker 11: like as if they was my own son.
• 5:59
  Speaker 4: Mrs. Tobey, I... What's the matter?
• 6:01
  Speaker 11: You got monkeys in your ears? I told you to.
• 6:03
  Speaker 10: Call me Mom.
• 6:04
  Speaker 4: Okay, Mom. Eddie Donald, is he home?
• 6:07
  Speaker 5: Eddie.
• 6:09
  Speaker 11: Now, what do you want with dear sweet Eddie?
• 6:11
  Speaker 4: All I want is, is he home.
• 6:13
  Speaker 11: Eddie brings me candy. On Mother's Day, he brings me flowers.
• 6:19
  Speaker 11: Go on, Mr. Clover, talk to Mom about Eddie.
• 6:23
  Speaker 4: We want him for murder.
• 6:26
  Speaker 10: Murder?
• 6:27
  Speaker 11: Why, that dirty lowdown no good. The flowers he brought me,
• 6:32
  Speaker 11: they stunk. The candy he picked up off a subway seat.
• 6:36
  Speaker 11: He's a week behind in his rent, and he has
• 6:39
  Speaker 11: the gall to commit murder.
• 6:40
  Speaker 4: Take it easy, Mom.
• 6:42
  Speaker 5: Where is he?
• 6:42
  Speaker 12: Wherever he is, I hope it's crawling. What a shame
• 6:46
  Speaker 12: he brought to my hotel.
• 6:48
  Speaker 4: He's not here?
• 6:49
  Speaker 5: No.
• 6:50
  Speaker 11: He didn't come home all week. Every night I waited
• 6:54
  Speaker 11: for him to bring me a box. He didn't come
• 6:58
  Speaker 11: home to Mom.
• 7:00
  Speaker 4: Mind if I take a look?
• 7:01
  Speaker 11: Look to the green face.
• 7:05
  Speaker 10: Come on.
• 7:07
  Speaker 6: This is his room.
• 7:09
  Speaker 11: As of now, it's got a sign on it. Room
• 7:13
  Speaker 11: to let half price. Show that, Eddie.
• 7:18
  Speaker 4: This picture?
• 7:19
  Speaker 11: September's the only picture of a month in the altogether
• 7:23
  Speaker 11: I ever seen.
• 7:25
  Speaker 10: Now comes November.
• 7:28
  Speaker 11: She don't even look cold.
• 7:30
  Speaker 4: It's framed.
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: The calendar part's been cut off.
• 7:32
  Speaker 4: To Eddie, it says. Forever and ever. No signature. You
• 7:36
  Speaker 4: ever seen the girl before?
• 7:37
  Speaker 11: Only in shop windows and on counters and magazines all
• 7:41
  Speaker 11: over the country. You like her?
• 7:45
  Speaker 4: The artist. Magna. A magna girl. Mind if I take
• 7:49
  Speaker 4: the picture with me?
• 7:50
  Speaker 10: You lonely boy. Take it.
• 7:54
  Speaker 11: Mom says you can take it.
• 7:57
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Mom. I beg your pardon? Whose name is Magna
• 8:13
  Speaker 4: around here?
• 8:14
  Speaker 7: But I am.
• 8:15
  Speaker 13: My studio, my artistry, my cocktail party for my one-man show.
• 8:19
  Speaker 7: But I am. A joke. A joke?
• 8:23
  Speaker 5: No.
• 8:25
  Speaker 4: I was just asking.
• 8:26
  Speaker 7: Are you taking the tour? Come, I will show you Magna.
• 8:30
  Speaker 13: Here, on this pedestal is the trunk of a small
• 8:32
  Speaker 13: tree on which Magna first carved it.
• 8:34
  Speaker 4: Ah, I think you misspelled the word there.
• 8:37
  Speaker 5: Ah, you saw it.
• 8:38
  Speaker 7: You saw it.
• 8:40
  Speaker 13: How Magna extracted the essence of the word and set
• 8:42
  Speaker 13: it down for the world to applaud.
• 8:45
  Speaker 7: Oh, you, you primitive. You saw it.
• 8:48
  Speaker 4: Now, stop jumping up and down, Mr. Wagner. I want
• 8:50
  Speaker 4: to ask you a couple of questions.
• 8:52
  Speaker 7: You don't understand my art?
• 8:55
  Speaker 4: I understand your calendars.
• 8:57
  Speaker 7: You are not a primitive after all.
• 8:59
  Speaker 4: If you look at this one, I brought it along.
• 9:01
  Speaker 7: Magnol does not autograph reproduction.
• 9:03
  Speaker 4: Who is this girl who modeled for this painting?
• 9:05
  Speaker 7: As it is printed on top. November modeled for it.
• 9:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but what's her name?
• 9:10
  Speaker 7: November.
• 9:11
  Speaker 4: I forgot to tell you I'm from the police, Mr. Magnol.
• 9:13
  Speaker 13: November posed for the painting. A touch of gold, a
• 9:16
  Speaker 13: sniff of sorrow, the dying days. All embodied in a
• 9:20
  Speaker 13: woman I found once.
• 9:22
  Speaker 7: You're a cop? I found November one day at a
• 9:26
  Speaker 7: model agency.
• 9:27
  Speaker 4: Who is she?
• 9:28
  Speaker 7: Nelson. Liz Nelson. A pedestrian name for November, yes? No?
• 9:35
  Speaker 4: Where do I find her?
• 9:37
  Speaker 7: Liz Nelson? Her address?
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: Her address.
• 9:40
  Speaker 7: I will write it down for you.
• 9:41
  Speaker 4: Don't extract the essence for me, Mr.
• 9:44
  Speaker 5: Magna.
• 9:44
  Speaker 4: Just the number and street.
• 9:46
  Speaker 7: What else?
• 9:46
  Speaker 3: © transcript Emily Beynon.
• 10:02
  Speaker 10: Go away.
• 10:03
  Speaker 12: If you're the fuller brush man, go away. If you
• 10:04
  Speaker 12: want me to sign a petition, go away. Whatever's eating you,
• 10:07
  Speaker 12: go away.
• 10:07
  Speaker 4: I'm from the police, Miss Nelson.
• 10:10
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 10:11
  Speaker 12: Now I can tell. I can tell by the way
• 10:13
  Speaker 12: you put your foot in the door. Police are a
• 10:15
  Speaker 12: mature college boy working his way through a mature college.
• 10:18
  Speaker 4: Let's go inside, Miss Nelson.
• 10:19
  Speaker 12: All right, let's go inside.
• 10:24
  Speaker 5: The bed.
• 10:24
  Speaker 12: It looks like that because I live in it. But
• 10:26
  Speaker 12: I'm not working that every minute. That way I stay bewitched.
• 10:31
  Speaker 12: The police want me to pose to improve their public relations.
• 10:33
  Speaker 12: That's why you're here.
• 10:34
  Speaker 4: Eddie Donald. You know him, Miss Nelson?
• 10:36
  Speaker 10: Uh-huh.
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: And maybe you can tell me where he is.
• 10:38
  Speaker 6: Uh-uh.
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: But you can't tell me about him.
• 10:42
  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: Tell me.
• 10:44
  Speaker 5: You first.
• 10:44
  Speaker 12: You tell me what.
• 10:46
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
• 10:48
  Speaker 12: Well, let's see now. I know Eddie for, oh, let's see,
• 10:51
  Speaker 12: for four years now. Two years of that, he was
• 10:53
  Speaker 12: in Dannemora Prison.
• 10:54
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 10:55
  Speaker 12: I never followed his career, so I don't know why.
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: After that?
• 10:59
  Speaker 12: He called me. Lots of times. Left a number where
• 11:02
  Speaker 12: I could reach him. Sometimes I'd call back. Depended on
• 11:05
  Speaker 12: my schedule and my mood.
• 11:07
  Speaker 4: When was the last time the schedule permitted?
• 11:09
  Speaker 12: About three months ago. I got it penciled in in
• 11:11
  Speaker 12: my little black book.
• 11:12
  Speaker 4: Frank Conroy, a man from Texas. He in the book?
• 11:15
  Speaker 12: He's dead, isn't he? I read about it.
• 11:16
  Speaker 4: Is he in the book?
• 11:17
  Speaker 5: Uh-uh.
• 11:18
  Speaker 12: First I heard of him.
• 11:19
  Speaker 5: He was dead.
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: And Eddie Donald, when was the last time you saw him?
• 11:22
  Speaker 12: I told you, three months ago.
• 11:24
  Speaker 4: You inscribed a picture to him. Forever and ever, it said.
• 11:27
  Speaker 4: A calendar picture.
• 11:28
  Speaker 12: The cost of my beauty. Men look at my picture
• 11:31
  Speaker 12: and they want me to belong to them forever and ever.
• 11:33
  Speaker 12: Sometimes it's for always. I put down what they tell me.
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 11:38
  Speaker 12: Let's not answer it, huh?
• 11:40
  Speaker 4: Uh-uh.
• 11:45
  Speaker 9: Oh?
• 11:45
  Speaker 5: Eddie? Eddie?
• 11:47
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm? I figured you'd be there.
• 11:50
  Speaker 5: This is Jack Perry. I'll make it easy for you.
• 11:52
  Speaker 5: Try room B, 1829, West 47.
• 11:57
  Speaker 12: Who was it?
• 11:58
  Speaker 4: Uh-uh. Miss Nelson.
• 12:10
  Speaker 5: Hey, you came real early.
• 12:13
  Speaker 4: Who are you? Police. Danny Clover.
• 12:16
  Speaker 5: I did what?
• 12:16
  Speaker 4: Can I come in?
• 12:17
  Speaker 5: No.
• 12:18
  Speaker 4: Your name, Jack Perry?
• 12:19
  Speaker 5: State your business right from there. Actually, your muscle got
• 12:24
  Speaker 5: you in.
• 12:26
  Speaker 4: My real important thing?
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: Look, Perry, I'm trying to find out who killed the
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: man from Texas.
• 12:29
  Speaker 5: What voice whispered my name is Perry?
• 12:31
  Speaker 4: You did.
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: What else did I do?
• 12:33
  Speaker 4: Over the phone when you called Liz.
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: Spare me the method, police.
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: I got it figured already.
• 12:37
  Speaker 5: Your muscle lifted the phone, said it was Eddie Donald.
• 12:40
  Speaker 4: You're real anxious to talk to Eddie, aren't you? Real.
• 12:43
  Speaker 5: Real. Why?
• 12:44
  Speaker 4: I'm that way. Mind if I sit down? Let's go, Perry.
• 12:49
  Speaker 4: I got a squad car outside. All for me?
• 12:52
  Speaker 5: The police are looking for Eddie. Maybe you'll help.
• 12:54
  Speaker 4: Let's go.
• 12:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, I'll help.
• 12:58
  Speaker 4: I'll help you from here. All right.
• 13:00
  Speaker 5: Eddie's got a lot of money that's mine. It's a
• 13:03
  Speaker 5: reason for a man wanting to see a man.
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: How much money? What's the difference?
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: A lot.
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: You know what, police?
• 13:11
  Speaker 5: Someone's in backup.
• 13:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. Let's go.
• 13:15
  Speaker 7: Someone is. Let's go.
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: His laughter mixed well with pain.
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: It came in tides and swelled and rolled over me.
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: The thing that pounded at my brain was the thing
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: that exploded and showered down like a million nickels. Bright,
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: colored red and green and black. Then everything stopped. It
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: came back again later. And I opened my eyes. The color,
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: the pain, the room was the same. The pattern of
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: frayed furniture and dust. And Jack Perry was still there.
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: Only he was different. He wasn't laughing anymore. He couldn't.
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: He'd been shot to death.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: Though the R months fade and the oysters forsake Broadway,
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: life still goes on. They're the box scores to consider,
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: the hot dogs with everything. And for exercise, you can
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: now dial Nassau County... As if this weren't enough, Broadway
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: offers another diversion, double killing, this time backdrop to the
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: roulette wheel, and a police officer who got slugged at
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: the scene of the crime. Broadway tucks the protesting wiener
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: back into the role, takes another bite and chews appreciatively.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Later at police headquarters, Sergeant Tartaglia summed it all up.
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: This is something you can stick your teeth into, Danny.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: What is?
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: It's a sticky apple Mrs. Tartaglia packed with my lunch. Mmm,
• 15:13
  Speaker 6: it's tasty and good.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: I'm sure it is, Gino, but I got a headache.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: I've just come from the infirmary, and Dr. Sinsky said
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: I'd feel a lot better if I didn't have any
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: emotional disturbances for a while.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: So let's all pitch in and help Dr.
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: Sinsky, huh?
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: Roger, we'll go.
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: Well, to work we go. To wit, in the matter
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: of Frank Conroy from Texas, he is indeed from Texas.
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: Police authorities in Texas sent a 500-word telegram to us
• 15:36
  Speaker 6: to that effect.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: 500 words? Indeed.
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: Indeed. It states that Frank Conroy is an esteemed owner
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: of oil wells and well-known in Galveston. The rest of
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: the telegram is about Texas.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: Go on.
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: In the matter of Jack Perry, the man who was
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: killed under your very nose was a man known to
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: all and sundry as a man who delighted in floating
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: games of chance. That's what on him.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: All right. Tell me about the man we're looking for,
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: Eddie Donald.
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: An all-points bulletin is out on him at this very moment.
• 16:02
  Speaker 9: What else?
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: Eddie Donald was released in Dannemora nigh onto six months
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: ago after serving a two-year stretch for assault and battery.
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: Before he went to jail, Tertaglia.
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: Oh, hearsay has it that this same Eddie Donald was
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: a steerer for the gambling industry. Precisely speaking, for Mark Oslo.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: And hearsay has it that Mark Oslo isn't operating anymore.
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: You believe that, Danny?
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: No.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: I've never been able to get anything on him. Tertaglia.
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: Does Oslo still live at the same address?
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: I checked that already, Danny, and yeah, he does. In
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: that tumble-down shack on Park Avenue. Hey, Danny, I brought
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: you one, too.
• 16:38
  Speaker 11: I was hiding the sticky apple behind my back.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: The shack of Mark Oslo occupied five floors of a
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: gilt-edge apartment house where dogs were walked by student psychiatrists.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: On the first floor of his hovel, something in silk,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: knee breeches and epaulets held a candelabra to your badge,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: sighed profoundly, adjusted its wig and ushered you into a
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: private elevator. On the second floor, you caught a glimpse
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: of a library with real books, thousands of them. On
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: the third floor, a girl with ashen hair and leg
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: slits in her mandarin robe waved joy to you as
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: you floated up. On the fourth floor, a chef sniffing
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: a chafing dish took time to consider you as a
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: potential sauce, rejected you.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: Then you were on the fifth floor.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: The mate of the thing in silk knee breeches led
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: you through a luster of elegant men and women in
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: silent prayer at a roulette table. Then Mark Oslo extended
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: a glittering hand to you. You didn't take it.
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: No, Danny.
• 17:37
  Speaker 10: You don't shake my hand and it sets up a
• 17:39
  Speaker 10: melody of sorrow in my heart.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Cry a tear, Mark. I'd like to see it.
• 17:43
  Speaker 10: You'd be the first. You want a tear, Danny? I
• 17:45
  Speaker 10: could arrange it.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: You could. Having a party, Mark?
• 17:49
  Speaker 10: You mean my friends at the table? They're playing for matchsticks, Danny. Literally, matchsticks.
• 17:53
  Speaker 10: Come along, Danny.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: I'll show you. Don't bother.
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: No? Your pleasure, Danny.
• 17:57
  Speaker 10: I should get back to my guest. State your pleasure.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Eddie Donald.
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: Eddie Donald. Mark Oslo knows such a man?
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Mark Oslo does. Shall I freshen it up for you, Mark?
• 18:07
  Speaker 10: No need, Danny, thank you. It'll come back.
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: Eddie Donald.
• 18:11
  Speaker 10: Yes, you want him for murder, and you come to
• 18:13
  Speaker 10: me for help.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: For Eddie Donald, not for what you said, Mark. He
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: was a good boy.
• 18:18
  Speaker 10: Came to work on time, conscientious. Stuffed the suggestion box
• 18:22
  Speaker 10: with suggestions. I read a few, not bad. I sent
• 18:25
  Speaker 10: word down for him to keep trying.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: Where is he, Mark?
• 18:28
  Speaker 10: My chef baked some delicacies for him. I had them
• 18:30
  Speaker 10: sent to Eddie at Dannemora. After that, we lost touch.
• 18:33
  Speaker 10: Not even a thank you note from Eddie.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: It goes, it goes. A man named Frank Conroy. What
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: does that do to you, Mark?
• 18:41
  Speaker 10: The dead Texan? Nothing at all. Someone pointed it out
• 18:43
  Speaker 10: to me while I was having a rub, and it
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: didn't do anything at all.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Jack Perry. Try him.
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: Some of my friends sent a wreath. I paid for it.
• 18:50
  Speaker 10: Should I have done more?
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, of course.
• 18:54
  Speaker 10: You were hurting that one, weren't you, Danny? Name your
• 18:56
  Speaker 10: favorite charity.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: Eddie Donald, Mark. That's all I want. Send the word around.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Get him to me.
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: You're ordering me, Danny?
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Surprise you?
• 19:05
  Speaker 10: No, I find it rather delightful.
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: I'll tell you what, Danny.
• 19:09
  Speaker 10: Mark Oslo will see what he can do, and the
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: footman will show you out.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: Goodbye, Danny.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: On the way back down on the elevator, I caught
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: a glimpse of the girl in the mandarin robe again.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: This time, she was eating a hamburger. I was disenchanted
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: about the whole thing. I called headquarters. Nothing on Eddie Donald.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Phoned cab garages.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: Nothing.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Spent a few more hours dropping in on back rooms
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: and dropping the name of Eddie Donald. Blank Stairs. Then
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: I went home and slept on it.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: The way it happened was simple. The next morning, I
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: walked out of the door.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: There was a hand on my sleeve by the time
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I stepped onto the pavement.
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: Hi, Danny.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Benny Fane. You're looking good, Benny.
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I am. I'm on my way to work.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: How do you like that?
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: I like it. What happened?
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: I kicked it, Danny, off the stub.
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: Got a job. Look at me.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: $ 50 suit, suede shoes, watched by Lon Jean.
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: Beautiful, huh? On credit, Danny, but I'm going to pay
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: for it. Legitimate job. Publishing.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Huh? Publishing what?
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: Well, but anyhow, Danny, the reason I've been waiting for
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: you on my way to work is because I never
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: let my old friends down, so you never let them down.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: Still working for you.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: Now, don't call it stewing, Danny. I can't stand that word.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Nobody called it anything, Benny.
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: Okay, okay.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: Now, look.
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: Try the Bronx, Danny, if you want to find Eddie Dolan.
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: You know, where those guys build them shacks by the river,
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: those guys, those guys out of work. Or try the
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: one with the Bull Durham sign for a front door.
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: Come on in, pal.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's Not a pal.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: No, Eddie.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: I'd appreciate it if you'd tell me your name. It
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: slips the memory.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Danny Clover, police.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: That's right, Danny Clover. You are the slug who wants
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: me for the murder of, let me think now, Frank
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: Conroy from Texas and Jack Perry from Stinkville, right?
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh. Let's go, Eddie.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Gladly. Huh? I said I will go with you gladly. However,
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: if you should care to listen to my side for
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: a minute, I think this courtesy will not go unrewarded.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: You haven't got much time, Eddie.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Not even enough to give you the for real murder
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: of those two?
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: The real murder, Eddie? For real. Interested? Maybe.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: The story goes with it, Mr.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Clover.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: That Texan. He shouldn't have died. It wasn't planned that way.
• 21:43
  Speaker 11: No?
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: No, Mr... Mind if I call you Danny?
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: It was like this, Danny. I took a rap in Dannemora.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: I know. Yeah.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: Then Perry put salt in the wound. While I am
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: in the crib, he purloins my girl.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Go on.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: Well, look at me, Danny. How little I am. Can't
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: knock over mosquitoes. Well, one night in a bar, I
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: meet a Texan. He wants to fight. I figure who
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: better he should beat up than Jack Perry from Stinkville.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: This can be so easy arranged.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: By that roulette game in the Olympian.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: Exactly, exactly. This is a game rigged by Perry. The
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: same night, he tells me, go get a sucker for
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: old time's sake. No hard feelings. I got a hotel
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: room courtesy of a friend, so get a sucker. The
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: sucker I bring him is the Texan. And? And I
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: play Perry for the sucker. While the Texan loses, I
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: bet against him and keep winning. Then when I got
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: it all, I tell the Texan he's been taken by
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: a rigged wheel. I figure this will make him mad
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: at Perry.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: It didn't?
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: No, the Texan turns yellow just because Perry pulls a
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: gun on him. I quick turn out the lights, there's
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: a shot, and I flee with the dough, 50 grand.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: So for the murder of the Texan, you should have
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: talked to Perry.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: I was talking to Perry, and somebody killed him. You.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: That's what I've been trying to tell you, not me. Look,
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: all you gotta do is let me go for a
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: little bit, and I'll lead you to the for real murderer.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Sorry, let's go.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: You got it, Danny, you got it. I'll get the
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: murderer for you. Let me go.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: I'll make you let me go. The little man took
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: a swing at me, flicked my chin, and I pretended
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: he'd knocked me cold. How I kept from laughing out
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: loud at his surprised, bewildered, then proud face, I'll never know,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: but I did.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: And I let Eddie go, because I believed him.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: To follow him, to get a for real murderer, or
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: maybe to make an idiot out of Danny Clover. It
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: was the chance I took. I watched him while he
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: made a phone call. I watched him while he had
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: some coffee. Then I watched him while he hailed a cab,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: and I hailed one too. He stopped at an address
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: I'd been to once before. I let him go in,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: and I waited five minutes. Then I went to the
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: apartment where I knew he'd be.
• 23:37
  Speaker 12: I'm telling you to get out of here, Eddie.
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: You don't get the money. You don't get anything.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: You know, I figure it's different, please.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: How do you figure it, Eddie?
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: The policemen.
• 23:45
  Speaker 12: Look, Eddie, they caught up with you.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: Oh, Danny, you recovered. There's your murderer, Danny. I told you,
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: give me a chance.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Miss Nelson here murdered Perry. Is that how you figured?
• 23:54
  Speaker 12: Take him out of here.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: I'm repeating myself, Eddie. Let's go.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: No, no, listen to me. You've got to listen. She
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: wants me to get electrocuted. That's why she did the
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: whole thing. And you know something?
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: I love her.
• 24:06
  Speaker 12: My kicks for just now. Take him away.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: Don't laugh at me, Liz. You could have had the money.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Don't you understand? You could have had it.
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: Now.
• 24:14
  Speaker 12: You two play patty cake down on the pavement. I'm busy.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: What about now, Eddie?
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: Don't you see, Danny? Don't you see what she's done?
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: She kills Perry so I can sit in the electric
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: chair for it.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Why would she want to do a thing like that?
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Because she's greedy. She wanted all the dough for herself.
• 24:27
  Speaker 12: Shut up, Eddie. Make him shut up.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: I gave her the money. I won. And she said
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: she loved me all over again. And I believed her.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: But when she heard the cops were looking for me
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: for that rhubarb in the Olympian Hotel, she got cagey
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: as all get out. Kills Perry and books me solid
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: with the executioner.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: You're an accomplished girl, Miss Nelson. You model, you pistol
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: whip me in Perry's room, you kill Perry.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Accomplished.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Uh-uh.
• 24:48
  Speaker 12: Try again.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Don't be like that, Liz.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: Show him the money. All that money, give it to him.
• 24:52
  Speaker 12: Eddie, you fool.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Go ahead, Liz. The man's waiting.
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: Give it to him.
• 24:55
  Speaker 11: Shut up.
• 24:55
  Speaker 12: Shut up.
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: Now, Liz.
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: I told you to shut up.
• 24:57
  Speaker 12: I told you.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: Watch it.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Drop a gun. Drop a gun. It's a lot better.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: All that money.
• 25:06
  Speaker 10: That money.
• 25:06
  Speaker 12: He ruined it.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Eddie. Bad, Eddie?
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: I got a bad shoulder now, Danny.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: You're a fool, Eddie. She could have killed you.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. I didn't know whether she did it
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: or not, what I said. But I had to find out.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: I loved her. I really did.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Broadway.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: It's an eight-beat revival meeting, and the lost souls wail
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: to a hot trumpet and sax.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: It's a hunger.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Complete with syncopation and spinning neon. Grab your dream and
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: dance a while. Then try to look it in the face.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: You can't. It's a mask of terror. It's Broadway. The gaudiest,
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: My beat.
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: We invite you to join us next week at this
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: same time when Detective Danny Clover returns again with Broadway's
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: My Beat. Broadway's My Beat is produced and directed by
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: Elliot Lewis with music composed and conducted by Alexander Courage.
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: The program is written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: and stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover with Charles
• 27:10
  Speaker 9: Calvert as Tartaglia. Included in tonight's cast were Peggy Weber,
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: Francis Robinson, Eddie Quillen, Herb Butterfield, Jane Avello, and Anthony Barrett.
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: Bob Stevenson speaking. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: The End.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Broadway Is My Beat has concluded with The Frank Conway
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Murder Case. Until our next radio mystery, good night. Follow
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Old Time Mystery Radio for more classic mystery and detective broadcasts.