 Broadway's my beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle the goddess the most violent The lonesomeest mile in the world Broadway's my beat with Larry Thor as detective Danny Clover Broadway it's a journey to the end of all the streets in the world You turn a corner and you're there you want more slowly and lean your heart against it like you were in church Until it explodes in your face Then you move swiftly and you're one of the crowd window shopping for kicks and bargains and heartbreak And you'll find it because it's Broadway my beat Side streets of furious will they funnel off of Broadway then they trail down into limbo Midway between the fury and limbo is a gray stone building. That's police headquarters That's where I was standing in front of it watching the patches of night sky bleed into each other That was my detail. I was waiting for something Sergeant Ellis our things upstate. Oh great. You know officer Quinn. Don't you he drove Tommy and me down. Sure. How are you Quinn? I'm fine Lieutenant. How'd you pull up in the parking area over there? We'll meet you in the squad room for coffee a little later. True thing Why don't somebody ask me how I am I serve half my sentence that makes me a semi-approved citizen Don't you look okay to meet Tommy? Haven't changed since you were 16 Danny I've known you a long time you lie sing sing doesn't agree with you I'd sing sing you inhale and exhale. It's the only way you know you're living. So I make a deal What kind of a deal Tommy? No, no, I'm saving it for the DA After we talk the DA and me I got a feeling the state's gonna forget all about my manslaughter rap And let me out of sing sing for good For you, huh? Look kid when I finish spilling some of the choices names in the choice of circles are gonna be doing things They never thought they could do before like getting sentenced like I break in rocks like making license plates for automobiles Hi stasha Tommy here lieutenant. I'll take off these cups between Tommy and me There you are Danny Tommy's your prisoner Tommy don't be a fool come back here. Let's get him Ellis Ellis Ellis, oh no Quinn go upstairs and put Tommy man in description on the wire I want the whole city dragged from and I want him found and I want him brought to me do that Quinn sure But how about what? Sergeant Ellis? That isn't dad Death and violence are easy commodities in the city easy to buy and easy to sell a Decent man named Gordon Ellis got here is free for nothing The sudden mob that gathered round his shrunken body got bears at bargain prices to headlines on the house criminal escapes cop murdered And the sick taste was in my mouth. I Just stood while the headquarter boys did what needed to be done Then I went back to my office and locked the door and waited until the sickness was gone Yeah, yeah, what do you want? Oh Just to talk to you. Can't I talk to you Danny? Yeah, come on in sir It was messy what happened out there Danny. You're selling something to a taglier Don't don't talk to me that way Danny You would hurt so it hurts when I plead for you Danny that's not your mouth. It says things like that here. Yeah, I'm sorry Apologies are also not necessary What happened could have happened to anyone Not just you I was clumsy. I was clumsy in a man's life dropped out of my hands But I did get me the file on Tommy Manon everything even the dust it's wrapped in okay, Danny Okay, in a minute, you know the way I figure it this deal that Tommy Manon wanted to make with the DA Well, maybe it was kosher and maybe it was crummy. Maybe this whole thing still here to a taglier Danny Danny I've brought you your pose you can't face the world without a posey Then down so I can pin it on you Janie how many times I have to tell you ain't dignified You should sell flowers and police headquarters and without a license. You're only a sergeant heart tag there You will address me as madam Stop squirming Danny. All right, Janie Tell me doll. Are you still running competition with the post office? Keep your nose to the smell in the flowers Danny. It's healthier boys from the lamb Do they still send messages to their loved ones through old Janie the subway lily like Tommy Manon, maybe Danny Don I'd rather be called lily and be planted with one So I'm not saying one way or the other Yeah, hey the lady for the posey to attack you Outside of headquarters and across the rooftops and down in the roaring avenues the city had already grown restless for the night It was a time of big noise and prowling and secret laughter And some were inside of it and part of it Tommy Manon Tommy Manon Hoodlum I was living this piece of my life just for him So I was prowling to and there was a place to go a white marble house that overlooked the East River It was on the other side of a world Precise pattern of house lights storm like tinsel against the dark the precise butler who opened the door and Tilted his finger at the precise angle toward the waiting room The decor of opulence that makes its own particular breed and the precise amount of time that went by before the greeting from mine host Danny clover, how nice won't you join us? We're in the library Oh Danny this is a surprise and a pleasant one. Oh, you know, mr. Arnold. Oh, James Arnold the attorney Brings you all the way out here Danny. That should be expecting me. I didn't know you're having company falconer I'll leave to stay a while Arnold. Thank you Danny. I was about to suggest the same thing Now why have I the honor had any other visitor lately like Tommy Manon? Why should he come here? He's a wandering boy You might be keeping a light in the window for Tommy let my employee when he confessed to manslaughter really falconer Maybe I'd better leave you're comfortable Arnold the drinks are all right the order fine, but then stay a while sit Fucked Nervin Tommy was brought back to New York. It was because he was gonna turn states evidence Against some of the choicest names. He said so you're a choice name you and Arnold here respectively an untouchable high-class hoodlum the attorney for an untouchable high-class hoodlum Real choice names. Thank the police lieutenant Arnold with choice. He said so go ahead. Thank him my not that way attorney mine Thank him Thanks That's better Go ahead Danny. I think your guns will shut down a policeman and help Tommy escape But such a tactic would constitute a felony Danny I think that Tommy's being brought to town was a dodge Tommy had powerful friends on the outside who knew when he would be brought down So you suggest we arrange this afternoon's fiasco. I'm suggesting it. I'll throw it away It ruins a good evening. It lends a bilious overtone to the fine conversation Arnold and I were having Doesn't it Arnold? Yes, it makes conversation bilious exactly. I was explaining to Arnold the Seven-moved mate that one can't stunning off the chess championship in 32 Things like that devastate me Don't they you Danny? Believe men like Faulkner in his toldy in you have a feeling you've been playing mumble peg with scalpels And you take a long walk into a dismal and frayed edge of the city and it's a walk back into memory The street where you were born is the same the kids games are the same The cruel words on their mouths are not changed Fly spec electric bulbs that hang in peeling hallways are still there and the night sounds of a tenement still follow you as you climb the decaying stairs Then you knock on a door that opens into a room where Tommy Manon was born What do you want miss man? I might be You've peddling something. It's late and you come to the wrong place. Wait. I just want to talk to you Don't you remember me mrs. Manon? I stopped remembering a long time ago. I'm Danny Clover So yeah This is cleaner than when I saw you last How old were you Danny? 10 it won't take long could we Step inside we can talk here inside of the better miss man All right Oh Who is it mrs. Manon who's your gentleman caller mrs. Manon almost ran him. I know you You're Danny Danny Clover You're the cop who let my boy get away Have a drink Danny You've been wonderful to my boy Come on Danny. Have a drink. I don't mind him Danny. He means no harm He's a drunken sock that he don't mean no harm Go back to your bottle mr. Manon. I'll do that thing dairy. I'll just do that You want to know if Tommy's been here, don't you as he? When you were a kid Did you ever hear it said mrs. Manon was a liar? No, and you'll believe me when I tell you this If Tommy's so much as put foot in this house, I'd throw him back into the guttery wallows in That's no way to talk about Tommy Tommy's look Let me smart smart. I Drink to my boy Tommy then maybe you'll get a word to your smart boy mr. Minimum. Tell him we want him tell him we want him bad enough to hurt him Good night, mrs. Manon. I went back to Broadway for only one reason I was hungry and eating alone is the loneliest time a man can have On Broadway, there's always people you can watch them and make up your own stories stories that didn't have murder in it I doddle over spud nuts and coffee made up my stories Then hit the street again Part of it hit back at me and it had the smell of lavender in a bit of old Irish place Why Janey have you been following me the post office business is blooming Danny He's a posie for you. You've already pinned one on me that they remembered. Ah, but this is a very special pose Yeah, thank you. Thanks, Janey I've always wanted a corn flower. I got it from a florist who says he's a dear friend of yours Thank him for me. You think in Danny. He doesn't live too far from here. You could get a cab 2620 West Penn Street first floor back. Oh For whom do I ask ask for Tommy go quickly Danny dear and ask for Tommy Manon 10th Street was a quarter of an hour away and number 2620 was a hole in a block along a piled red bricks First floor walk back and you know when you've come to the end of the hole when you can't quite walk through the final shadow Tommy Tommy Manon Open up Tommy. It's Danny Clover. There was Tommy Manon. All right But his status had changed. He wasn't running anymore He was seated in the wooden chair in front of a wooden table beeping almost slyly over a bowl of waxed fruit. I Walked over to him with my hand on his shoulder Yeah, it was Tommy Manon all late and his status had really changed He wasn't living anymore You're listening to Broadway's my beat starring Larry Thor as detective Danny Clover At 9 o'clock in the morning Broadway is a five-minute stop over for a million people For these people, it's the five minutes that are important. It gives them time to adjust themselves to the world It's assuring Translux assures them that there's been a change in the weather And the headlines assure them that the daily murder has taken place Tabloids yelled cop killing. There was a piece in the item about me continued on page 23 On page 23. It said that I was standing right there when officer Ellis was killed. I didn't know did it My office at headquarters of police sergeant named a taglier had a word for it You mind repeating that to a taglier huh never mind it you get the data asked for oh sure Danny Okay, brief it to me. Yeah Danny. Yeah on June 17 1944 Tommy Manon confessed to beating up and killing one John West This was what is known as the aftermath of a drunk and brawl man was convicted of manslaughter end of brief Real brief huh? Yeah, it ran about like that and the other thing to a taglier about the newspapers. You fix that Oh, yeah, I fixed it Danny. Like you said not a word to the newspapers about finding Tommy Manon dead or alive Especially dead. Okay the corners report. Yeah. Yeah, I briefed up to like this Tommy Manon was dead on arrival not a mark on his body. He wasn't poisoned. No heart failure Mysterious, huh? I taglier. Okay. Okay Tommy Manon was drowned Drowned so it says under report Manon was and I quote Forcibly held with his head on the water until he was drowned and I unquote Yeah, they figured was in that fruit bowl on the table water was still clean to the wax fruit twist Yeah, funny killer You got that list of character witnesses at Manon's trial Yeah, yeah, there was one and the one was one Georgia web address the Brighton hotel for women right in hotel for women Oh, that's a quite a show place Danny This one I'll brief for myself the Brighton hotel for women stands at the edge of the park From its blood-granted threshold, you can watch the old men playing at bowls on the green Through its plate glass doors. You're looking on a pink plush world a world of plaster cupids and crystal chandeliers with electric candles mirrors the reflection of mirrors The room clerk is a crone and taffeta and tobacco stain fingers who points you to a satin tefted elevator And the fifth floor is a hallway lighted with rails of fluorescent lamps Some doors stood open Georgia webs was closed Come in come in whatever you are Georgia web mm-hmm Whatever you are, it's nice for him today. They're good. Who God? Whisper whatever it is that brought you to me. Come in sit down for yourself a drink Maybe you don't drink. I'm Danny. You didn't have to tell me that What's in the name? I'm Danny Clover Broadway special detail Oh Off-duty. No Georgia. I take it all back everything. I said I take it all back I've been catching up on my reading only today. I read where you were once Tommy Manon's girl Tommy man. Yeah punk who ran away. I thought maybe you ran here So he'd refresh your memory so you'd remember his name Tommy Manon if I knew him it didn't make an impression You know there are men like that you testified at his trial You gave your name your address and your testimony in a loud clear voice Clear enough and loud enough for me to hear five years later. It's true Your ears are cute. Maybe you left something out five years ago Georgia Something you'd like to tell me now Bob Manon Was it Tommy Manon Tommy Manon? Why don't you ask him? What do you find him? I found him That's why I'm asking you Because Tommy was dead. Oh How'd he die? It's natural causes or did you shoot him because you're a policeman you can kill people Some have pushed his head in the bowl of water and Tommy Manon was drowned. That's how he died. Oh We don't like the way he died because it could happen to other people like you Could so maybe now you'll remember some things that Tommy didn't get to tell us There are better ways of dying You know convincing how you talk Tommy was a jerk a jerk who made deals everything with the deal Even the man slaughtered Explain to me Tommy didn't kill that man. He was in Baltimore when it happened But he confessed to it for $20,000 he confessed to it. He gave five years of his life for $20,000 Tell me the deal maker the poor crumb Why doesn't somebody answer that phone they will let's go over it again, Georgia You're saying a man was killed that it was all a frame Who made the deal with Tommy for you, Jerry? All right I'll be a minute Danny. Okay This is Georgia Yeah, wait a All right All right You can go now please when your time's up. What yeah everything. I told you was a lie all the talk I made it was no good phone call. I've anything to do with it. Yes You asked me and I tell you yet. I told you not to talk anymore Who told you that a man who likes it when people are dead Now you understand why I've got nothing to say to you. You understand nothing you can do or think I can make me talk to you Yeah That's how it is Danny boy And that's how it was she really meant it It was noon when I left the Brighton Hotel for women I told myself I could think better if I walked when the walk was over I might as well have taken a cab nothing came no answers to anything no progress Except that I was back at headquarters In the first floor hallway. There's a bulletin board listing sheriff's sales police details and used radios at a bargain There was a man looking at it. He saw me and moved his lips over his teeth This was supposed to mean he was smiling which was supposed to mean he was glad to see me Hello, Lieutenant Remember me James Arnold isn't it? Faulkner's attorney. Yes Faulkner's my client. You mean your work for him. You're his flunky Mr. Clover I work for many people my association with Faulkner is neither more nor less intimate than my association with my other clients Understand I work for many people You've been wondering what I'm doing at police headquarters. I'll be frank with you. I haven't given you a thought I know that's how I affect people Can we talk aren't we cause I mean in private. This is private So talk Good things could happen to you lieutenant every night. Mr. Arnold every night. I say Let good things happen to me now. You know a secret fine things lieutenant like Celts and satans like me people are Interested in you and want the best for you people want that What people people Nice people who want to see you get along Mind if I interrupt cause interrupt. It's about Tommy Manon, isn't it cause now go on It isn't much the nice people don't know what happened to Tommy. They don't want to know They want this case closed as if Tommy were dead dead. They want this case closed You can arrange it then nice things will happen to you. I'll try mr. Arnold I really will spend it lieutenant. The nice people will be happy you too Goodbye, mr. Clown. Yeah That's how you send out a pickup with Georgia web Brighton hotel for women pick her up and bring her down Item to call the press room and give them the whole story and Tommy Manon Tell him we found him dead drowned everything the works. Yeah Danny tell him this Tell him we've got a witness who confessed everything named Georgia web. She talked her head off got that yeah, then do it Okay, Danny Where are you going home to a taglio home? I'm going to sleep when I got home the landlady had left two things for me a bowl of matzabal soup and a Manila envelope They both looked inviting so I tried the envelope first $5,000 The nice thing that Arnold had promised would happen became so fast to such a nice round sum But more to the man one out of life $5,000 in a dish of matzabal I ate the soup kissed the landlady put the $5,000 in an envelope address to the DA Pulled a chair over the window and sat there watching the city burst into fragments of electric flame I Must have sat there a long time because when I awoke the night had a new shadow shadow of a man named folk I Brought to the morning paper Danny They got your name all over it splashed in red ink. Oh, I knew I'd make it someday. Thanks. Oh there Here's a nickel for your trouble red ink could be blood in the later editions Danny Rotten place to sleep and a chair Like some coffee you think better if you have coffee and light They tell me you're a man of virtue clover Gratitude the virtue So whoever told me lied it hurts you whenever people lie to you it hurts me when a man of virtue is ungrateful You shouldn't have booked Georgia web You shouldn't have made a talk You shouldn't have taken my $5,000. I've been naughty. Haven't I I have one question for you detective mine One little question your gun gives me three chances. I'll guess in one you want to know what Georgia told me possibly possibly doesn't matter But tell me anyway your bluffing Faulkner your act is precious is that the word but you're bluffing you're scared to death, so Tell me why explicitly because your life depends on Georgia only I've got a tucked away where you can't touch her explicit Put away the artillery partner it could be deemed ungracious for guests come in Hello, Danny. Oh You already have a visitor. It's your counselor Faulkner happy day come in Arnold But now I don't have to come in you already know what I came to tell you tell me anyway I only that Faulkner is your man the man who killed a policeman the man who killed Tommy man Are you insane Arnold? Watch him Danny. He's dangerous. I told you he was dangerous He would have killed us. Oh, yeah, you shot him good the first time Arnold Why did you wish another bullet? Come on. Let's take a walk there headquarters. Is it necessary? Yeah, it's necessary. I want to straighten out the records Okay, no jokes. I'll be real sincere Tommy man and took your rap Arnold You were the one who committed the manslaughter Faulkner supplied a pigeon for you pigeon one of his hoodlums Tommy man I smoke sure Faulkner had to supply a pigeon because you knew all about Faulkner's operations He was supposed to pay Tommy 20,000 for taking the rap Faulkner's lying on the floor over there. He's dead. You'll need proof of all this. That's proof enough You shot Faulkner in cold blood so that he'd never talk To go on and Tommy was transferred to New York Faulkner went gunning for him. So Tommy wouldn't talk Only he missed and shot the wrong man. He killed a cop instead of Tommy How does all this theorizing concern me when you boys finally caught up to Tommy had drowned him in a fruit bowl Let's go Arnold. I'm gonna book you for the murder of Tommy man. You forgot something Danny. I've still got my gun I hadn't forgotten It's the chance I took Arnold had already used two shots on Faulkner. I had to get him to throw away the other four All the while I've been talking to him. I've been edging toward the light switch now. I flipped it one I Had one advantage I knew the apartment Arnold didn't Blackness you could only fire it sound I swapped an ice tray off the table to I picked up a book heated at the window One more I'd grab the chair and Okay, Arnold like I said, let's get you booked for murder Stretches out in front of you living the scar slashed into the night. It's a cruel and fantastic Carousel a palace of fun Hall of mirrors You pay your way you take your choice. I get it on the pass the most violent Lonesomest mile in the world Broadway my beat Broadway's my beat stars Larry Thor as detective Danny Clover and is written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin The musical score was conducted by Wilbur hatch and the program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis The cast tonight included Jane Morgan Peggy Weber Doris Singleton Charles Calvert Joe Kearns Herb Butterfield and Sydney Miller This is the United States Armed Forces radio and television service