 The FBI in peace and war ordinarily heard at this time throughout the year as taking its usual summer vacation and will return to CBS six weeks from tonight on September 1st Broadway's my beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle the goddess the most violent the lonesomest mile in the world My beat with Larry Thor as detective Danny Clover Broadway where night slips over the canyon streets like a black silk stocking splashed with spangles Then it's a flashy showgirl on an after theater date But during the day it wears a sleazy house dress no makeup on its face and stands on the street corner screaming Day or night it wears any face you're looking for and it's my beat The coolest place that police headquarters on a July afternoon is in the communications room, but it wasn't cool enough Sergeant Tartaglia, and I were taking turns standing under the fan It was my turn the sergeant walked over to a teletype machine picked up the latest car sheet came back. He was smiling Oh this heat Danny. It's rough on the police, but fine for the law and order the phone bus is sergeant your number. Yeah Sergeant Tartaglia Yeah, yeah, where? Yeah, I got it what time? 1 12 p.m. Yeah right away. What are you up sergeant? That was too good to last 30 core homicide. We were in a second Danny Commissioner Sergeant Tartaglia reporting a homicide sir Dodge Theater on 46th Street portable house Yes, sir performer right Sergeant Tartaglia speaking put this on the wires Special the squad cars 1922 and 69 special a homicide special the chief of detectives to special detail Hey, wait a minute. That's you Danny got it Dodge Theater 30 call performer murdered, right? Right you squad car 47. See you. Yeah Okay, back to you special the technical research laboratory special the car Your squad car stabs tears rips through a city and its whale is like a piece of broken glass See the terror silent and quick in the blur of the city It was maybe 125 when I hit the alley leading to the stage door of the Dodge Theater and twisted the car into it It must have been a comedy act playing in front of the heavy and stained velvet curtain The laughter and the music from the orchestra pit cut through from the front of the theater and washed against a wall of grim and blank faces backstage Under the naked yellow glare of a single stage work light lay a man in a glittering sequin covered suit of plates He lay there like some muscular statue torn from its pedestal, but the web of blood told you it was a lie The ballistics man the medical examiner the photographer Fingerprint man technical research all worked and moved silently weaving their way from shadow into light and back again Then out of the shadows a dapper little guy named Georgie walked over to me Glad to see you how are you these are the guys your colleagues? They're cold very very cold, but you you're warm and friendly. Yeah, it's a hot day in the Georgia You think so Danny I keep telling these guys in the front office the air-conditioning this theater Oh boy, it's a lie a fable an illusion rough on a house manager. How Georgie no air conditioning now this is all right Danny, how will it look on the report when I tell the front office? There was a murder act in the theater, and I didn't even give it billing Bad joke, huh Danny? You told me better ones. Now tell me about the man Georgie. He dead one the dead one Who what maybe why who he was an athlete from Vienna? He was an acrobat his name was prokosh auto prokosh and He was an athlete of muscle and steel a Filthy rotten brain and a nice clean body. No, that brings us to why I had a reason why do you want to hear my reason Danny? You lay yourself wide open that way Georgie doesn't matter. I don't believe in wasting time This I understand from how he once been a nusher at the Roxy She'll all right it down if you want to this dead Adonis this this murdered Achilles There's filth called auto making tempting noises into the years of my wife You don't have to answer this one of you don't want it Georgie Did she listen my wife Ruth? That you'll have to ask her a cell you'll find her in dressing room six right up those stairs. I'll ask her later Now tell me how it happened. Yeah, this I wouldn't know I was in the front office counting the house The way a manager should oh yes, Danny. Yes, and you can check on it. Yeah, and I will Danny you'll have to excuse me a minute. Say is anybody see me. Oh me come in. Has anybody see me? Excuse me. Pardon me. Will you I work here? I gotta get on. Sure in a minute. How are you? Please amory dancer. I dance for the people. What are you an agent? You're late amory Georgie's over there looking for you Oh, what's he got to worry about? He's a manager. I'm a dancer. I'm never late People are waiting for your dancer. Let's stick around. I want to talk to you from the police But of course there's been trouble murder, but of course I'll stick around. Yeah, we get on stage. There's your music. Okay, Georgie Okay, Georgie. What was that dressing room number six six Danny six? Yeah six Yeah, what are you no autographs, please? I'm Danny Clover police Looking for a Ruth Houston Georgie said she'd be here. Oh Georgie always knows where Ruth is doesn't he Ruthie always knows Except she finds it tough to keep up with a fast package like I pay no attention to Shelly. Mr. Clover Shelly's a comic He makes jokes Shelly Sheldon. I have seen you. Oh, you've lived You don't have to talk to policemen if you don't want to Ruth I know a lawyer who says it's all right not to talk to a police. You take advice from this comedian, Mrs. Houston What do you want to know? Georgie was telling me about Otto the acrobat. He said you could tell me more Sure, I can tell you a lot One he was a beautiful man to he made passes at me three I Loved Does that cover it mr. Clover? Maybe? Why are you at the theater today? I come down every day. I love vaudeville Maybe it's because I make you laugh her Ruthie girl needs a man who makes her laugh And I'm the best. How did you feel about Otto mr. Sheldon Shelly call me Shelly murder makes us all friends Doesn't it Danny boy keep it formal my suspects usually call me lieutenant. Ah Well a tunnel. I'll tell you about Otto. I hated his guts. He was egotistical vain selfish arrogant snobbish. He loved himself No, no the kind of a guy. I mean It went like that vote of electors are just like any other people. They're scared. They're cooperative They're uncooperative depending upon their attitude toward policemen and their own conscience The agile little dancer named Lee emory was different. I interviewed him in his dressing room It was like no interview. I ever had before Lee emory danced through it kind of weird soft shoe ballet to the music of the battered phonograph It was as if he were a grotesque puppet on strings The strings were dangled from some place of strangeness in his brain. I had to blink Is it body? Dancing Thanks, that's interesting music you're dancing to interesting is it That's interesting Why is it interesting lieutenant the music you danced to on stage earlier? Oh, I'm pleased You remember me as an artist when it was played in a different tempo faster and now is a blues Hey watch End of show lieutenant. You're a fine dancer emory. Oh tell me why the different tempos to your music Doesn't it throw your performance off? Ah, not at all You see I had a half a dozen records made of this music all different rhythms all different moves Before each performance. I practice the one I shall do Depends on my feeling at that moment. Oh, you don't feel good now, huh? Oh lieutenant. I'm in love with the world Last night. I took a walk in the Bowery. I talked with a poor sodden fragments of humanity. Oh people it Now I am disenchanted Next performance my dancing will be a mirror of that feeling so the orchestra conductor will play your music as blues Uh-huh must be a pleasure for him to work with someone as creative as you thank you Dancing lieutenant plover is an ultimate within itself The antics the grotesqueries of humankind are still into classic flawless expression Hey Now you say something philosophical lieutenant. Yeah try this did you have any reason to kill that acrobat? But of course as a performer. He was a bum. I Wished him dead from a purely artistic standpoint, of course But you know what lieutenant tell me I didn't kill him. I am a coward You have music for that too, but of course would you care to hear it? I didn't care to Emory looked at me sadly bowed and I made an exit The next morning at headquarters the reports came in Ballistics said the bullet had been fired through a silencer on a 38 frame Had entered the acrobat's shoulders with a downward passage The shot had come from backstage from somewhere high in the wings for peeling sats of scenery hung Coroner's report death was instantaneous the solution of murder almost never is I Found star sergeant don't tag you out of the way and took my turn under the fan that murdered the theater Danny a toughie Huh, yeah, I don't know it's too early to tell suspects any of them goes like this sergeant House manager Georgie Houston hated the acrobat because the acrobat made grand passes at his wife Ruth No jealousies are good sound substantial motive. I always say yeah I always say it's a hundred percent motive the modest comic Shelly Sheldon he likes Ruth to another hundred percent motive Lieutenant Clover speaking Lieutenant I told you I told you who is this Lee Emory? I told you I was a coward lieutenant. So a man. He was standing across the street for the last hour. What man? What are you talking about listen to me? I don't know what man He was watching the window of my room in just a minute ago. He walked into this hotel lieutenant. Yeah. Yeah, I'm listening Emory You didn't need a cop's mind to put that shot and Emory screamed together I thumbed through my notebook and got Emory's address at the time. I was downstairs a squad car was waiting its motor running It took four minutes to get there Emory's room was three flights up and walked back. The room was empty. No Lee Emory nothing Correction the room was filled with Emory's music coming from the phonograph That the narrow streak of blood that warmed on the threadbare grass rug Most of all it was Emory's music Was happy real happy. I couldn't stand it The room needed another quality the quality that came after terror a sigh maybe or silence And I had the feeling Lee Emory had just bought himself a large piece of that You are listening to Broadway's my beat with Larry Thor as detective Danny Clover one of the most successful dramas ever presented on the CBS Escape series will be repeated tonight CS Montague's story entitled action the tale of a man who scales a mountain Contemplating suicide and who finds a reason to live when he finally reaches the top On crime photographer, you'll hear the fascinating tale of durable Dennis Whose head was x-rayed to solve a seventy five thousand dollar theft In case someone tells you to get your head x-rayed Hear the story of durable Dennis on crime photographer as well as action on the series escape They'll both be here just a little later tonight on most of these same CBS network stations Now back to Broadway's my beat Broadway is a place that can get happy about a lot of things a cat in a tree a wrestler with curls Who sensed the ring with perfume even by a swami who predicts the world is coming to an end by high noon tomorrow Right now the current happiness was touched off by a rumor that Bodville was coming back But I had proof positive that it was dying all over again item a dead acrobat shot while opening the bill at the Dodge Theater item a Terrified Hooper named Lee Emory who left only an after-image of blood and music item I Had worked to do work was routine I called headquarters told them to send out a missing person call on Emory told them where I was going and went When I got backstage the Dodge Theater was making ready to put on its false face for the first batch of customers Ruth Houston was standing against a backdrop considering the light at end of a cigarette When she saw me she looked as if she could do without me Hello, Lieutenant. You want to see me. Does that make it any worse? Mrs. Houston frankly lieutenant There comes a time in every woman's life when she doesn't feel like talking to the police and now is the precise instant, huh? Like this lieutenant. I'm being sad. I'm being sad about a lot of things Each one takes time. Yeah, I'm afraid I'll have to interrupt the emotion. What's making you sad Mrs. Houston this this whole thing will just wreck him this this thing of Otto's murder wreck who my husband Georgie He had a good thing here at the Dodge. He was just going good. You get sad about Otto I can do that too Otto thought he could beckon to a woman by flexing a bicep. He needed talking to he he didn't need killing Maybe making muscles wasn't the reason he was killed Your job to think like that lieutenant. Tell me this Mrs. Houston How buddy were you with Lee Emory him him Lee Emory? What could the Emory do for me Ben? Is he around now? I haven't seen him. He hasn't shown up for the show You didn't know where he is. You took the words right out of my mouth. I wouldn't know where he is I wouldn't want Hello, hello Yes Yes, he's here For you lieutenant your office or whatever you call your office. Thanks, but we're speaking Yeah, where'd you find him? East River docks anyhow, that's where we fished him out. He's newly dead Danny The wet gray heat had turned into a wet gray drizzle when I arrived at the East River dock Free hooded cops and horseback held back a crowd whose face looked like it had a veil drawn over it and in between the Foghorns and the boat whistles you heard the soft whinny of a horse. You couldn't quite believe it Then a splash of blue named Muggevin Harbor police cut through the grayness him You had to believe okay, okay Come on Danny hold my hand. I'll get you through this barrier a curious onlooker. Thanks, Muggevin Why don't you yorkles get in out of the rain? Ain't you heard this song? It's wet outside. That's a great act Add Danny it builds from hatred to love that surly snares of the mob become smiles of pleasure when I'm through mold and their emotions When you get a chance mold me a ham sandwich on Muggevin on Rye You mean right now no not now now just tell me about him How it's like you see Danny first they shot him in the face twice from up close then they throw him in the river How long could you say he was in the river and not long Danny just long enough to wash him clean Yeah, anything on him. Yeah this wallet in these papers social security card issued to Lee Emory Maryland driver's license made out to Lee Emory description as stated adds up to Lee Emory Except for complexion and color of eyes that naturally we can't tell and This initial ring with the initials Ali that spelled Lee Emory. Yeah, I've seen the ring do something for me Muggevin Sure, you still want that sandwich Danny call headquarters for me Haven't pick up Georgie Houston his wife Ruth Houston and a funny funny boy named Shelly Sheldon He's very funny. I get a lot of my material from him. Have them meet me at the morgue I want them to identify a body It's a cold place you pick for me to play a matinee Danny boy. How do I get yawks in the morgue? Oh, no comedian you work it out. You know this hole reminds me of a theater I once played in Des Moines same type atmosphere same type audience reaction I was making with bombs and those hasties just lay there like these Shelly shut up haven't you got any respect? What's the matter Georgie the silent dead make you nervous. Oh shelly. They bring me peace That's why I give them respect Danny Why did you bring us up here? I want you to identify a body that was washed up in the East River anybody? We know a good question We are The figure is familiar, but the face it. What am I saying? What face? What do you say Georgie the suit? Yeah, I I recognize the suit It's exactly the same type suit Lee Emory wore every day of his life. Hmm. He had a maiden pairs He always said of you found something that made you feel good. Why change it? is a Is that Lee Emory Danny Shelly is this Lee Emory? Yeah? Yeah, how do you know the shoes? They're a dancer shoes soft shoe type shoes the kind of shoes a dancer like Lee Emory wears when he's doing soft shoe type dancing Do I make it clear Danny boy? Oh, I lived without you. Do you recognize this ring? Yeah, Danny That's Lee's ring. All right. He hocked it with me once when he needed some dough. All right, let's go Mean we can go now Danny. Yeah, you can go back to the theater Georgie. They'll need you now. Wait a minute Danny boy It's not that easy. I've got a twist. I'd like to ask you some questions But you'd have some I'll try to answer them mr. Sheldon Lee Emory the boy in the box He was murdered, huh? We think so mr. Sheldon that means you suspect it may be Georgie or me murdered him Could be mr. Sheldon. This is the snapper policeman What makes me rate so high in your favor? There are others who were involved with Lee Emory like who mr Like any of the other people to dodge theater like like Ruthie the wife of Georgie. Why are you laughing? Hold it Georgie I'd like to answer mr. Sheldon the cop mr. Sheldon looks for motive a Good motive for killing the boy in there would be that he knew who killed out of the acrobat that could be you Georgie or Ruth By the way Georgie where is Ruth? We've been waiting for you to tell me why she isn't here why? She was at the theater last time. I saw it. Why she's not there anymore Georgie the boys upstairs. Tell me she's not anywhere Maybe you can help the boys upstairs Georgie Danny you You mean you can't find her you mean the whole police department can't find her Danny Danny you've got to find her you've got to we will Georgie we will Here you are sergeant send us Carl out over the intercom right away. Yeah Danny Attention all cars attention all cars 325 p.m. Pick up Ruth Houston Ruth Houston. She is five feet four inches tall weight about 121 she has black hair Black hair dark brown eyes Maybe in the company of a man may be carrying suitcase check bus rail and plane terminals urgent get the squad car moving Joe Grand Central. Yeah Petrolman-Michikov going precinct headquarters at 345 p.m. Not in it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah five four 121 black here. Yeah, I got it. I just went through. I am sure that was a green light. Yeah, I know Okay, you can go I don't understand that now you say I can go. Why because your eyes aren't brown Tartaglia speaking. Yeah, good 14th Street precinct right away. They got a Danny holding her at the 14th Street precinct. Let's go In there with the matron nice work fella That she is Danny You can go home miss. You're not the right Ruth Houston Lieutenant Clover speaking Something hot something directly from the laps of the guy don't make a production out of it Mark of it Just tell me what it is Ruth Houston The name bring a smile to your lips Danny. Come on. Come on, Mark of it. What's the story as follows? I was in a coffee joint on the pier like I always am at 9 p.m. So I can talk to my friend Marty Eugen Freud the cab driver who my friend we talked Routinely I tell in this description of one Ruth Houston. Okay, so far down Mark of them the night so long and lonely and flat Bush, what about Ruth Houston and Marty has her for a fair about 730 takes it to appear on the Hudson River How did he know she was Ruth Houston? Oh, she was a looker the description tally's in the initials on her suitcase was our age go on Then she gets on a boat the good ship Christina a freighter great hold that boat mark of it. Don't let it move Hey, hope you have good reason to delay the voyage of the Christina What can we do for you lieutenant? Just tell me where to find the girl who looks like this picture shot to a mug of Hershey's captain a princess Yeah, yeah, she's here. She and her husband husband Your face looks like it is perhaps not our husband wanted to get on board it was very romantic He borrowed the Christina hours before we sailed locked himself in the cabin and waited for his young girl Romantic, yeah, yeah, where's the cabin? I will show you just tell us we want to meet them alone It is down the end of this long passage bay the door on your left. Let's go mug of it Stanley clover mrs. Houston open up open up Lady don't want to see us looks like I'll have to open the door from this side. I think now It's okay for us to enter Danny. Yeah, I hurt her Danny. Let me see It's not too bad. Go get the captain. He'll know what to do. Yeah. Yeah Hmm, I wasn't wrong phonographed some records come out. I know you're here That music attracts me I thought it would you okay sure I duck into the washroom when you started shooting back Roots hurt though, isn't yeah, I'll take your gun here You're clever lieutenant You're an artist only because you made a mistake play me my mistakes You shot that man's face away At least more than just that trickle of blood you arranged in your room, but you know about things like that emmer Who was he? It was nothing an absolute nothing The zero an empty circle I knew you'd figure it that way You told me you walked the Bowery for art. You walked it to find a derelict It was the same size the same build as you that was his only use you figured so you used it You killed him You thought I'd believe you were dead that leaves Otto the acrobat Why should I kill the useful man like Otto Ruth's being here tells me that emmery Otto liked her too Competition from a man like Otto frightens two lovers like you so you killed him, but of course Ah, I said you're an artist Now if you'll pardon me lieutenant I didn't stop him It needed a touch like that emmery's dancing to a dirge This time he danced as if the puppet strings from his brain had been cut away and the madness was complete When muggerman came back with the captain they stopped in the splintered doorway and stood there just stood there But in a little while the dance was over There's no fury on Broadway now It's dawn the angry avenues of the night are still But in a few hours it'll renew itself the bang and the clatter in the rack and roar and the voice Because it's Broadway the goddess the most violent the lonesomest mile in the world Broadway my beat Broadway is my beat with Larry Thor as detective Danny Clover is produced and directed by Gordon T. 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