 Remember a Hallmark card when you will carry enough to send the very best. The makers of Hallmark cards bring your transcribe true story from the life of Theodore Roosevelt, starring Edward Arnold on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. And here is our distinguished host, Mr. Lionel Barrymore. Ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Hallmark Hall of Fame. This Sunday, a true story taken from the police records of New York City. It concerns a fighting police commissioner and his battle against a system of graft, corruption and blackmail that leaked from the bowlery to the battering. As our star, we are proud to welcome back Mr. Edward Arnold. Oh yes, the police commissioner's name was Theodore Roosevelt. Now here is Frank Goss. As the Christmas season approaches, one of the most enjoyable prospects is the sending of Hallmark Christmas cards to be chosen with pleasure and mailed with pride. For in Hallmark cards of any price, you find the inherent quality and craftsmanship you want in your personal greeting to your friends. And the familiar Hallmark and Crown on the back of the card shows too that you carry enough to send the very best. Lionel Barrymore appears by arrangement with Metro Golden Mayor, officers of the color picture, Bo Brummel, starring Stuart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter Ustinov. And now with Edward Arnold as Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Barrymore brings you the Hallmark Hall of Fame. The City of New York was in the midst of a heat wave. It was also in the midst of a wave of reform. Time and day had been turned out of office for the first time in over 20 years. Brummel had announced that he was going to clean the streets of Manhattan physically and morally. At approximately 215, outside of Saloon, located on the southwest corner of 30th Street and 7th Avenue, these facts combined to make it a very hot night indeed. Open in the name of the law. Gunnar Sats. Would your name be Kelly? Edward. Would you happen to be the owner of these premises then? And if I am, I'd been thinking it was Sunday. But it can't be since you're open for business. Me and his there's a law against running a saloon on Sunday. What is this? Some new kind of shake down? Kelly's got protection from the top. And how about that fella at the bar, the one in the bowler hat? He an important friend of yours? Curious. Well, then you'll be known already that he's a plain clothesman. Mr. Kelly, it's my duty to inform you that you're under arrest. And that anything you say may be... I'd better fit to riot squad. How do you keep this up till you've no saloon left to come back to? Take him over to the 14th Street precinct and book him. Check. Come on, you walker. If it's a nip you're after, Mr. you're too late. The saloon's been closed. Yes, sir, I see. You sent your prisoner to 14th Street. 30 seconds closer, isn't it? Only way to get a prisoner booked for violating the saloon laws is to take him away from his home district. Then, like it's not, the charge will stick. Sounds like a lot of trouble for nothing. It is that. But we've been your broom at Mulberry Street. President of the police commission or some such thing. And the orders come out, enforce the law without fear of favour. And you do all the broo. After more than 20 years on the force, I've a bit of experience with no brooms. They wear down fast. Say, wait a minute. You would not be one of these newspaper men, would you know? Don't worry. I'm in an entirely different line of work. And what's that, may I ask? Well, in a manner of speaking, I specialize in brooms. New brooms. New paper in New York. Just take a look at them. Editorials. Letters for the editor. Cartoons in here. How about this one? A picture of two thugs carrying out a safe while police commissioner Roosevelt leans on the bar twirling his night stick. Wait, wait. Here, here's another. He's a little boy playing with a hobby horse marked Sunday Blue Laws while Father Nickerbocker watches. Well, maybe commissioner Roosevelt is pushing this thing a little too far, Senator. Really? He's even canceled the annual police parade. Well, claims the department isn't fit to show itself. By the next thing we know, he'll be setting up ducking stools in Central Park. You wanted to see me, Mayor Strong? Oh, yes, commissioner. You know Senator Sullivan, don't you? Oh, yes. Senator and I served in the assembly together. Nice to see you looking so welcome, commissioner. Thank you. Thought you'd be pretty worn down, prowling the streets of all ours. Good day, gentlemen. I guess you know what that was about. Yes, we must be hitting pretty close to the solar plexus when the reflexes run all the way up to the state senate. Oh, I suppose so. All the same, the Sunday closing ordinance has been on the books for nearly 50 years. It's an old fashioned blue law. Ah, the statues were revised in 1892. How blue can a law get in three years? Look, Mr. Mayor, I'm not saying that it's a good law, but I approve of it. That's out of my department. But it is the law, and my job is to have it enforced. The system has been in effect a long time, commissioner. Bucking it was not going to be easy. What system? Bribery, blackmail, appointments, bought and sold, $300 to be a patrolman, $1,000 for a promotion, the cop on the beach swinging a night stick with one hand and shoving the other under the table for protection money? Well... I'm not planning to bust the system, Mr. Mayor. I'm planning to bust it. The trouble is, commissioner Roosevelt, I didn't figure there'd be an all out fight on this thing. I'm not sure it's the right issue. I'm not sure it's big enough. Big? Why the Lord Harriet's gigantic. You've read the Lexar committee report after crime in Manhattan was financed by the profits relief and saloon operation. All right, commissioner, you've sold me. I'll back you to the best of my ability against all comers. Good bully. I think you might start by taking on the chief of police. The chief of police? Have you ever heard of a football team winning any games with two quarter bats? Going different signals? You want me to request chief Burns' resignation? As far as I'm concerned, you can demand it. Well, I suppose he fights us. Goes over my head, demands a hearing appeals to Albany. The mayor can appoint a police chief, but the governor has to approve his dismissal. One of us is going to have to clear out of Albany street Mr. Mayor. And I've moved into state. All right. You're running with the in-commissioner, but have him help us if we're ever hit by a Sunday crime. I don't anticipate one. A few more Sundays like the last one and half the crooks in New York will be flat on their backs. Dying of thirst. It's just done. Let's see where I put the blessed thing. Oh, here it is. You can't tell me that there aren't fine men on this force, not after reading this list. Michael Frantz has done a patrolman. He's the one who had Kelly, isn't he? That's the man, sir. Twenty-two years on the force. There's 25 people out of the East River and half a dozen more from burning buildings. We've got medals from Congress and still a patrolman because he didn't know the right people. Well, he's a sergeant now. Bulley. Say, Commissioner, there's one name I've been meaning to mention. Patrolman Sullivan, Jerry D. Sullivan. Not about him. He's Senator Sullivan's nephew. Oh, he deserves the promotion, doesn't he? Yes, sir. But after Senator Sullivan's activity is concerning Chief Burns' resignation, well, I thought you might not want to... Oh, wait a minute. By Jingo Captain, while I'm head of police commission, nobody's going to use personal influence to get or block promotions. Nobody, including me. As a matter of fact, I told Mayor Strong young Sullivan was being promoted. The night before that. A time for a visitor commissioner? Sure, Senator Sullivan. Always glad to welcome the men who write all these laws. I, uh... heard about Jerry. It's, um... well, it's downright noble. They get the least I could do, say thanks. Oh, none needed. He's done his duty in promoting him's mind. All the same. Well, I'm glad you aren't holding a grudge about Chief Burns' business, I mean. Grudge is weighing pretty heavy, Senator. I'd like to travel light, Gern. Gern. I'm still dead set against you, Commissioner. Even so. As a citizen, you'll find efficiency improved with the new man and the Chief of Police's office. Are you planning on two of them? Hmm? The Mayor hasn't told you yet? Governor what? The Governor turned down Chief Burns' resignation, ordered him back to full duty status, effective immediately. Where it looks from here, Commissioner, who's about? If there's going to be a vacant office on Mulberry Street, it'll be yours. 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And on the back, of course, will be the familiar Hallmark and Crown that says, you'll carry enough to send the very best. And now with Edward Arnold as our star, Lionel Barrymore brings you the second act of our true story from the life of Theodore Roosevelt. The opposition managed to call Police Commissioner Roosevelt just about every name in the book. Except one, Quitter. His vacancy sign didn't go up on the office in Mulberry Street. And the fight was on. Theodore Roosevelt versus the system. Winner take all. New York hadn't seen a scrap like this since Boris Tweed went up the river. Unfortunately, however, there were four members on the board of Police Commissioners. It may be, Mr. Roosevelt, that you find this hobby horse campaign amusing, but I, for one, suggested it's high time that this commission and the New York Police Department get down to serious work. My dad, Colonel Grant, is in full agreement with me. Indeed I am, sir. I see. And since Commissioner Andrews is not present, I believe we represent a majority. This absurd anti-saloon campaign is finished. Don't be hasty, Mr. Parker. It just so happens that Commissioner Andrews before leaving the city provided for this eventuality. I hold here his proxy. May I see that, please? Certainly. Two against two. We seem to have reached a deadlock. Well, out in the Dakotas, they have two ways of settling cases like this. Six shooters or a silver dollar. Oh, Captain McCullough, I suggest you do the honors. Heads the campaign is abandoned, tails the law continues to be enforced. Agreed, gentlemen? All right, if you must play games, Mr. Roosevelt, first aid, Captain. Yes, sir. Here goes. Tails? Well, the law will be enforced. The meeting will stand adjourned. Good day, gentlemen. Good day. Mr. Roosevelt, this silver dollar. Oh, yes, yes. You mind giving it back? I've carried it for years. Got it out west. It's sort of a lucky piece. Oh, sure, Commissioner, but the thing is that when you handed it to me, it looked like both sides were tails. That Captain McCullough is what makes it a lucky piece. Hardly seems positive we're in the barry. Like I said, too quiet. What seems to be the trouble, Sergeant? I'm not glad it's you. I was afraid it was someone huttin' down young Burke. You remember Burke, sir, the one who was beside me and Kelly's, please. You think I'd forget it right crossed like that? What's happened to him? Well, I've got him laid out in the vestibule. Over here. Seems he was after trying to close up King Callaghan's saloon single-handed. Callaghan's? Why, that's the biggest place in the barry. And the toughest. In here, sir. Not too bad. He's out. But all in one piece. Let's get him in the guard. Lift easy now. Lift easy. I have a fool thing like that. He should have called a squad. Well, I'd not like to sound the politician, Commissioner. But seems he figured if you could handle the kind of arduous gut at Mulberry Street, he could handle Callaghan. And did. Put the King of the Bowery into the Black Mariah, special delivery, started back to his beat and fell on his face. Steady, lad, steady. Oh, it's the truth, I'm saying, Commissioner. You'll not be winning any popularity contest among the politicians. But to the rank and file, at last a man has come to Mulberry Street. But pounding the beats along the East River and have you got that, McCullough? Yes, sir. I'm sorry to break in, sir. But you're the only chance he's got. I ran the whole way. I said he started to get your breath. It's Young Burke again, sir. He's in trouble, bad trouble. Callaghan? The same. Burke came into court this morning, bandages and all to get testimony and found the shoe was on the other foot. Callaghan's preferred charges against him. Against the police officer? Oh, they have a proper railroad already to run. Senator Sullivan, Chief Burns, even a Tammany judge. Sounds like quite a body. They forgot to send me an invitation. But my etiquette's a little rusty anyway. Finish the speed job, will you, Captain? You know what I want to say. Yes, sir, but you can't. Not to the women's court. Let's go, Sergeant, will you? What's your charge? I'm ducked and becoming an officer, a sultan, battery-breaking and entering, and a few more I didn't wait to hear. No, they can't get away with it. They can't make them stick. Can they, Commissioner? Maybe they can, Sergeant, but by the Lord Harry, they're not going to. About 90 days free room and board and then I hunt me a new job. Are you represented by counsel? No, not worth it, Commissioner. They'll crucify you. Don't stick your chin out for me. The way I see it, it's the other way around. They figure convicting you will finish me. And they could be right. Political ambition and to harass and brutalize the people of this city. I have been retained as counsel for the defendant. I object. The Commissioner be highly irregular. It would seem, Senator, that these proceedings are already highly irregular. Overruled. Mr. Roosevelt, you may act as counsel for the defendant. Thank you, Your Honor. I wish to move at this time for the dismissal of all charges against Patrolman Burke. Attention! The Senator has spoken about police brutality. I agree that where it exists, it is a reprehensible thing. He seems to forget, however, that there are two kinds. The occasional abuse of a power by a misfit patrolman subject to discipline and the systematic abuse of the public confidence by highly placed unscrupulous officials who deliberately seek to destroy not only the morale of the entire force, but also the security and even the freedom of the public. Your Honor, this is completely immaterial. This case concerns Patrolman Burke, not only Patrolman Burke. That Senator is patently untrue. These malicious charges have been brought in an attempt to discredit the police commission and its efforts to enforce the law in this city. If they are permitted to stand, this court will place in the hands of every lawbreaker in New York a weapon more dangerous than the repeating pistol or the sword of shotgun. They strike not just at the policies of this administration, they're at the saloon closing law, but at the law itself, at the American system of equal justice for all under a government of laws. And if you railroad patrolman Burke, the Senator won't have to worry about my department anymore. There won't be any police forces in New York City worth the name, no courts, no laws. Courtroom is no proper place for the exercise of political debauchery. Mr. Roosevelt, have you anything to add in support of your motion? No, Your Honor. I submit the fate of my client into the city of New York, into the hands of the court. The court will stand in recess while we consider the motion. We'll have some speech, sir. Thank you, Burke, but remember Judge Thompson's a time-and-year pointee. He's not likely to rule again. He's not likely to rule again. He's not likely to rule again. Well, sir, thank you anyway for putting up such a good fight. You're welcome. Court is now prepared to rule on a motion for dismissal. Hey, Your Honor. Yes, Senator. I merely wish to express my confidence that the court has taken into consideration all the aspects of this case and its implication. You may be assured, Senator Sullivan that the court has done exactly that. Now, perhaps the circumstances of this case, perhaps even the selection of the presiding judge have caused the defendant to feel that he would not find full justice in this courtroom. Perhaps it is not intended by the prosecution that he should. However, the law is bigger than any man, any job, any party. The court finds the evidence presented does not indicate that Petrolman Burke exceeded his authority in attempting to enforce the law. All charges are hereby dismissed. Commissioner, you've won this round, but I assure you, this trial is not the end. Perhaps not, Senator, but it's a very good start. The forces fighting Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt's attempts to clean up New York City's police force. The end itself came only a few weeks later. The resignation of Chief of Police Burns and subsequently the adoption by a unanimous vote of resolution calling for the voluntary Sunday closing of every saloon in New York. With a fighting police commissioner, however, it was the beginning of the beginning for Teddy Roosevelt and Mulberry Street turned out to be a direct route to the White House. Now here's Frank Goss. Mr. Barrymore and Mr. Arnold will return in just a moment. In next week's issue of Coronet Magazine, there's a very interesting article entitled Christmas Starts on a Sunday in November this year. It explains that this year, in a rebirth of religious spirit, Americans will observe more fully than ever the Holy Advent season, the days before Christmas. Now, there are many local world customs of observing the Advent season, but the best love tradition is the sending of Advent cards in November. And this year, the article announces, Hallmark cards are bringing this cherished custom to America for the first time. Actually, each Hallmark Advent card is 24 cards in one. For these Advent cards contain 24 little flaps to be lifted up one a day from December 1st until Christmas Eve. The first up reveals a new scene, or verse. Some reveal, day by day, the story of the Savior's birth. Others show pictures of merry Christmas customs. These Hallmark Advent cards cost just 50 cents or a dollar. You'll want them for youngsters, for Sunday school classes, and families. But remember, Hallmark Advent cards are mailed in November. So be sure to look now for these beautiful new Hallmark Advent cards at the fine stores where the Hallmark cards are featured. And now, here is Lionel Barrymore with Edward Arnold. Eddie, it's good to have you back with us on the Hallmark All of Fame. Well, you know Lionel during the course of my Mr. President radio series, I portrayed every President in the United States history, but my favorite role has always been Thilo Roosevelt. And say, you've been doing some pretty exciting things since I was last a guest on the Hallmark All of Fame, both with your stories and with your cards. I think those Hallmark Advent cards sound very interesting. I'm actually to see them. And I've already seen your painting in the Christmas card album. It looks good to me. Oh, now, I'm just an amateur artist, you know. Oh, now at any rate, Lionel, I'm sure it'll give many people a lot of pleasure this Christmas to be able to choose a card with a painting done by Lionel Barrymore. Tell me, what are you planning for next week's Hallmark All of Fame? Well, next week we present a true story of the life of Newton Rockney, Notre Dame's famous football coach. And here to tell the story will be another great coach of Notre Dame. Frankly. Mmm, that sounds great. Now I'll be listening. Good night. Good night, Eddie. Good night. And until next week then, this is Lionel Barrymore saying good night. There are sold only in stores that have been carefully selected to give you expert and friendly service. A Hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best. Our producer director is William Frug, our transcribed script by Robert Yale Libet, featured in our cast were Byron Cain, Jack Edwards, John Boehner, Jack Krushen, Teddick Orsia, Lou Merrill, and Will Wright. 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