# Broadway's My Beat: Buddy Malpaugh and the Jeweled Scimitar (EP4873)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 24 Dec 2025, 38 min.

Audio: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdrl.fm/997ffb/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69182317/gd4873.mp3

Today's Mystery: It's Christmas Eve, and Sergeant Tartaglia is called to investigate the theft of a jeweled scimitar belonging to a ne'er-do-well millionaire. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Lamont Johnson; Howard McNear George Neise;. Georgia Ellis; Howard McNear Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Patreon Supporter of the Day: Rodger, Patreon supporter since July 2024. Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Take the listener survey at http://survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call at 208-991-4783 Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectives Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.

## Transcript

[0:28] Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
[0:35] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
[0:39] Speaker 1: going to bring you this week's episode of Broadways my Bait.
[0:43] Speaker 1: But first I do want to encourage you. If you're
[0:47] Speaker 1: enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software.
[0:54] Speaker 1: And today's program is brought to you in part by
[0:56] Speaker 1: the financial support of our listeners. You can't support the
[0:59] Speaker 1: show using the Zell app to box thirteen at Great
[1:03] Speaker 1: Detectives dot net and become one of our ongoing Patreons
[1:07] Speaker 1: hoarders for as little last two dollars per month at
[1:11] Speaker 1: Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. And I want to
[1:14] Speaker 1: go ahead and welcome our latest Patreon supporter, Norman, supporting
[1:18] Speaker 1: the podcast at the detective Sergeant level of seven dollars
[1:22] Speaker 1: and fourteen cents or more per month. Thanks so much
[1:25] Speaker 1: for your support, Norman. Now it's time for our final
[1:28] Speaker 1: Christmas related podcast, so we're skipping ahead a few months
[1:33] Speaker 1: to December twenty second, nineteen fifty one. Here is Buddy
[1:38] Speaker 1: Malpaul and the Jeweled Scimitar.
[1:53] Speaker 2: Broadways might be from Times Square to Columbus Circle. The Gaudiess,
[1:57] Speaker 2: the most violent, the Louns the most mile in the world.
[2:06] Speaker 3: Broadways might beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Klover
[2:22] Speaker 3: on the days before Christmas, Broadway dances along to carols
[2:26] Speaker 3: that flow from sequined loudspeakers. The kids mash their noses
[2:30] Speaker 3: against the plate glass, lick it and watch, and it's
[2:33] Speaker 3: all there. The mechanical clown, the tin man dancing a
[2:36] Speaker 3: jig in a tin box, the toy army precisely the scale,
[2:40] Speaker 3: with the latest equipment mechanized, and eyes are bright with
[2:44] Speaker 3: desire and hope. The one time in the year when
[2:47] Speaker 3: odds are better that dreams will come true. So make
[2:51] Speaker 3: a wish on a neon star.
[2:59] Speaker 2: And in the short time before Christmas, creatures were stirring
[3:02] Speaker 2: at police headquarters. There's the pattern of tired fees and
[3:05] Speaker 2: the sound of manly giggles, as little gifts are hidden
[3:08] Speaker 2: in desk drawers or according the Dixie cups, or slipped
[3:11] Speaker 2: under the police blotter. And in my office, my strong
[3:15] Speaker 2: right arm, Sergeant Gino to Taglia, Yeah, ask its pretty late,
[3:21] Speaker 2: you know, a couple more hours you can go home
[3:23] Speaker 2: and finish decorating your Christmas tree.
[3:25] Speaker 4: Indeed, indeed, getting a lot of nice things with suregon
[3:28] Speaker 4: Oh many of the things, Danny. I guess my old
[3:31] Speaker 4: cockles should be warm. Yeah, but they're not.
[3:35] Speaker 2: Oh something wrong.
[3:36] Speaker 4: You know what I want most for Christmas, Danny, I'm
[3:39] Speaker 4: not going to get I'm going to get nicks and
[3:42] Speaker 4: knacks and an electric shaver, and handkerchiefs and socks and
[3:45] Speaker 4: ties and the curved cake. Would he pipe to smoke
[3:47] Speaker 4: my troubles away?
[3:48] Speaker 2: It sounds like a pretty full Christmas.
[3:50] Speaker 4: To me, you know, a humbug. Any What I want
[3:54] Speaker 4: most is to go out and solve a crime, to me,
[3:56] Speaker 4: face to face, the sultry sirens, to harden criminals, solve
[4:00] Speaker 4: them the way you do, go out on a case
[4:03] Speaker 4: with you. My fondest wish for Christmas.
[4:05] Speaker 2: Police headquarters that fall apart without you. You know, you
[4:08] Speaker 2: just stick around here and do your job.
[4:10] Speaker 4: Indeed, indeed, just thought i'd let you know that.
[4:13] Speaker 2: So well, I'm going downstairs for some coffee. I'll be back.
[4:19] Speaker 4: So Roger m h fa, Si, Geno, you're stucorn dance Yeah, oh,
[4:49] Speaker 4: Sergeant Gino Pantagona speaking yes, yes, yeah, right away.
[4:58] Speaker 5: Danny.
[4:59] Speaker 2: Hey, Danny, Yeah, what's the matter. Gen know, I haven't
[5:01] Speaker 2: gotten my coffee yet.
[5:02] Speaker 4: Coffee at a time like this, Buddy Malpot, and they're
[5:05] Speaker 4: doing one million and a half.
[5:06] Speaker 2: What what about him?
[5:07] Speaker 4: What about he has been slugged.
[5:09] Speaker 2: Let's go, Gino? Did you say, of course on a
[5:12] Speaker 2: case like this, I'll need you, Geno.
[5:13] Speaker 4: Come on, this is his house, Danny, let's go. It's locked. Yeah,
[5:38] Speaker 4: stand aside, Danny.
[5:42] Speaker 2: We can go in now, Danny, Gino. Yeah, we could
[5:45] Speaker 2: have rung the bell.
[5:46] Speaker 4: Who's got time?
[5:47] Speaker 2: You're coming, We're here, Geno, back of the sofa.
[5:53] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[5:54] Speaker 4: Yeah, take a note, Danny. Yes, sir, Buddy mal Pot,
[5:58] Speaker 4: the unconscious they do well million are battleton budget on
[6:01] Speaker 4: the super octtical region of the cranium back an a
[6:04] Speaker 4: skull slug down the super occidial of virus assailant Anne.
[6:08] Speaker 4: From the size of the lump on Buddy Malpas hit
[6:11] Speaker 4: to four refined head conclude that said lump was administered
[6:14] Speaker 4: by a blunt weapon three millimeters by five of the
[6:17] Speaker 4: irregular contour and lead pipe consistency. You got that, Danny,
[6:22] Speaker 4: hold it, I got a ps to with a luxurious
[6:26] Speaker 4: apartment of said ney d well millionaire one buddy Mouthpas
[6:29] Speaker 4: ransacked and left in disarraye Pps, the butler of set household,
[6:33] Speaker 4: will have his work cut out for him. Telephone outside
[6:35] Speaker 4: him'll move? Huh, the drapes just moved, all right? You
[6:40] Speaker 4: behind those drapes out with your hands clasped behind your neck.
[6:44] Speaker 2: Out What you been, gentlemen?
[6:51] Speaker 4: Goody Danny. It can't be.
[6:54] Speaker 2: It can't be.
[6:55] Speaker 4: What Gino, this man, this hider behind drapes, it can't be.
[7:00] Speaker 4: Are you it is he? Danny May? I present Mike
[7:06] Speaker 4: Shrek the bolt had a miracle detector from Philadelphia.
[7:09] Speaker 5: Merry Christmas, gentlemen, Merry Christmas to you, Mike Shrek.
[7:13] Speaker 2: I assume you, gentlemen, are of the police.
[7:14] Speaker 4: I present to you, sir, Lieutenant Danny Kloba and myself,
[7:19] Speaker 4: Sergeant Gino Tatagliaglia.
[7:22] Speaker 2: That name has a familiar ring.
[7:24] Speaker 4: Or perhaps because I was an innocent abroad and the
[7:27] Speaker 4: guided in the footsteps of Mike Shrek tour in Philadelphia
[7:31] Speaker 4: last summer. I brew myself to it with my vacation money.
[7:34] Speaker 2: It's not for that I remember you, sir.
[7:35] Speaker 5: It's for the word that has come to me that
[7:37] Speaker 5: you are indeed the brains behind the brains the new
[7:40] Speaker 5: York Police Force. Oh come, mister Shrek, you mustn't believe
[7:45] Speaker 5: all I could have used you, sir, on my famed widow,
[7:48] Speaker 5: Charles Sedney's case. When having trailed the Desperado across the
[7:52] Speaker 5: one point eight three miles of the Philadelphia camden Bridge,
[7:56] Speaker 5: I was caught in the seductive toilsko.
[8:00] Speaker 4: The brain of the man, the memory for details to
[8:03] Speaker 4: have made a part of them, the size of the
[8:05] Speaker 4: Philadelphia camden Bridge.
[8:06] Speaker 5: Gentlemen, enough of nostalgia to work? Was I who phoned
[8:11] Speaker 5: this into you? Being now on the trail of lance Lash,
[8:16] Speaker 5: master criminal of them all, I was led to this
[8:18] Speaker 5: place only to find buddy Malpaw the there do well millionaires.
[8:23] Speaker 2: But hush, the man is coming around. What happened?
[8:28] Speaker 5: Man?
[8:29] Speaker 2: Tell us what happened? You gently, sir, who are among
[8:34] Speaker 2: friends well from the police, mister Malpaw, try to tell
[8:36] Speaker 2: us what happened. I'll try, fellows. I had arranged such
[8:41] Speaker 2: a pleasant evening a date with Rima nine, not the
[8:45] Speaker 2: Rama nine from Bolivia, but the miss Rima nine, who
[8:47] Speaker 2: was staying at the Stacey Arms or honest Melpo. Rima
[8:51] Speaker 2: was to meet me here at nine point thirty. However,
[8:53] Speaker 2: at precisely at nine the door bell rang. I went
[8:56] Speaker 2: to open it. There was no one there, no one,
[8:59] Speaker 2: no one, prank, I thought. I started back in the department.
[9:05] Speaker 2: Suddenly that the pain, the awful pain, screaming through my skull.
[9:11] Speaker 2: There was no prank, I assure you, no, Where is it?
[9:17] Speaker 2: Where is it? Where is what?
[9:18] Speaker 4: Mister Melpa It's gone? It was here in this case,
[9:22] Speaker 4: it's gone.
[9:23] Speaker 2: What's gone, mister Melops, I prized it more than the
[9:26] Speaker 2: dual scimitar of Genus Khan.
[9:29] Speaker 4: The jewel cimatar of Ginger's Khan, the jewel what's going
[9:33] Speaker 4: on here?
[9:33] Speaker 2: Sergeant?
[9:34] Speaker 4: Read your notes, man, read your notes, and.
[9:40] Speaker 2: Watched the sergeant as he considers the attitude of the
[9:42] Speaker 2: distressed man, the desolation of him, the sergeant's compassion, understanding
[9:48] Speaker 2: the most precious thing of Malpaw's life, the jeweled scimitar
[9:51] Speaker 2: of Ginger's Khan was gone, now vanished, lost, straight, stolen,
[9:55] Speaker 2: parlo and the sergeant's gentleness and the knowledge of it
[9:58] Speaker 2: caught up with Melpaw, took hold, displaced everything, until it
[10:02] Speaker 2: was only emptiness, void, vacuum, in the space nothing. Finally,
[10:07] Speaker 2: the ne'er do well Millionaire's rejection of it and turn now.
[10:13] Speaker 2: The sergeant to Taglia nods sagely opened the door farm
[10:17] Speaker 2: and leave, going out of the stacey arms, and the
[10:27] Speaker 2: clerk at the desk lifts a corner of his lip
[10:29] Speaker 2: and an eyebrow, and the sergeant mentions the name of
[10:31] Speaker 2: a woman he wants to see. The long ride up
[10:34] Speaker 2: on the elevator, walk down the carpeted corridor, the sprig
[10:39] Speaker 2: of Christmas Holly above the brass door knocker.
[10:42] Speaker 4: This time we'll knock Ernie.
[10:52] Speaker 6: Hi, fellows, please come in. You'll forgive the way I look.
[11:00] Speaker 2: We're from the police, Miss nine.
[11:01] Speaker 4: Yeah, we got some questions to ask you.
[11:03] Speaker 6: A piece of find me. I picked up a coat
[11:05] Speaker 6: a zoo I always wear at this hour. It's a
[11:08] Speaker 6: rishing hours. You may call me Reama.
[11:11] Speaker 4: I'm Gino. He's Danny.
[11:12] Speaker 2: It's about buddy Malpalmis nine.
[11:14] Speaker 4: Yeah, he was beaten and robbed this evening.
[11:17] Speaker 6: You may sit here beside me.
[11:18] Speaker 4: He is none of the sultry siren stuff. Miss nine.
[11:22] Speaker 4: Didn't you have a date with mister Malpot this evening? Yes?
[11:25] Speaker 6: I did at nine thirty.
[11:26] Speaker 4: That check, sergeant, what time did you get to the
[11:29] Speaker 4: malpal mansion?
[11:30] Speaker 6: At nine thirty. I rang the bell and rang it.
[11:32] Speaker 6: No one answered. I was so disappointed with an educational
[11:36] Speaker 6: evening like that.
[11:37] Speaker 4: In sight educational.
[11:39] Speaker 6: Buddy was going to show me the jeweled scimitar of
[11:41] Speaker 6: Ginger's connor, the real one, not the replica.
[11:45] Speaker 2: Oh, there's a replica at.
[11:47] Speaker 6: The Museum of Far Eastern Law. I often go there
[11:49] Speaker 6: in my idle moments and browse around the Far Eastern things.
[11:53] Speaker 2: You're a strange one, reama, yes, please go on.
[11:57] Speaker 6: That's how I met Buddy at the museum. They play
[12:01] Speaker 6: strange tricks. Yeah, now, if you'll pardon me so, I.
[12:09] Speaker 4: Ll go right ahead. We'll just make ourselves let's go.
[12:12] Speaker 4: You know, we are sorry, mister Zoeic, that we have
[12:26] Speaker 4: made you open your museum to us at such a
[12:28] Speaker 4: late hour. It is always a pleasure, Sergeant, to indulge
[12:31] Speaker 4: the whims of the culture, though they be policemen like you,
[12:36] Speaker 4: mister Zoig, not at all. And here, gentlemen, looming above you,
[12:42] Speaker 4: is the statue of the fabulous terrorizer Gingers come clothed
[12:46] Speaker 4: in the cap of Tibetan flair. The jeweled garnerprocaded picking silk,
[12:51] Speaker 4: all of it donated to us most generously by Buddy
[12:54] Speaker 4: Malcar to complete our far Eastern collection.
[12:57] Speaker 2: And the sword in his hands a replica.
[13:00] Speaker 4: Only I hear replica of the jeweled simitar of Ginger's
[13:03] Speaker 4: Cohn and mister Malpau's generosity dissolved when it reached tell.
[13:08] Speaker 2: Us about the cemetery, mister zoil.
[13:09] Speaker 4: Were the deepest pleasure Gingers tore it from the wounded
[13:13] Speaker 4: hands of Jella, let him his parching, bitter enemy Danny.
[13:17] Speaker 4: Then for centuries it was lost. Three centuries Danny vanished
[13:21] Speaker 4: to reappear again in the renaissances as an ornament worn
[13:24] Speaker 4: about the slim waist of the little creature.
[13:27] Speaker 2: For you, Danny, if their cemeter were real, mister Zowick,
[13:30] Speaker 2: how much would it be worth?
[13:32] Speaker 4: Conservatively? Conservatively half a millionaires, give a little, take a
[13:37] Speaker 4: little half a million? Huh, that's all we need to know.
[13:40] Speaker 4: Let's go, Danny, and for you, mister Zoick, many thanks,
[13:43] Speaker 4: and merry merry Christmas. And to you that the eight
[13:52] Speaker 4: half a million bucks, Danny, no wonder, mister mal pol
[13:54] Speaker 4: and there do one millionaire nipper go oh geane old yeah,
[14:03] Speaker 4: I help me, Danny. I've been shocked.
[14:19] Speaker 3: You are listening to Broadways My Beach, written by Martin
[14:23] Speaker 3: Fine and David Freakin and starring Larry Thor as Detective
[14:27] Speaker 3: Danny Clover. It's so delightful it's become a Christmas tradition.
[14:31] Speaker 3: With Amos and Andy. Tomorrow Night again, Amos will be heard
[14:35] Speaker 3: explaining the meaning of the Christmas Spirit to his little
[14:38] Speaker 3: daughter Arbadella.
[14:39] Speaker 2: It wouldn't be yule tied without this special bit.
[14:42] Speaker 3: Amos and Andy contribute to the season's atmosphere, so be
[14:45] Speaker 3: sure to hear it again over most of these same
[14:47] Speaker 3: CBS radio stations Tomorrow Night on Amos and Andy. As
[15:01] Speaker 3: the winds move to the place of the years dying,
[15:03] Speaker 3: the Masdas and Broadways transluts arrange themselves in merry thoughts
[15:08] Speaker 3: suitable for Christmas past, Christmas Present, Christmas future. Broadway walks by,
[15:14] Speaker 3: glances up, smiles, hurries to buy the last minute gift
[15:17] Speaker 3: for the last minute friend. Crosby sings the tune That's
[15:20] Speaker 3: in your Heart the corner Santa Claus winks, and the
[15:23] Speaker 3: Golden Girl stops you, asks which way to Gimbals invite
[15:27] Speaker 3: you to come along and show her the budget term
[15:30] Speaker 3: dreams are coming true, kid, So go live.
[15:33] Speaker 2: A little.
[15:43] Speaker 4: Danny. Danny, I've been shocked. Oh no, I must have
[15:49] Speaker 4: been dreaming. Oh yeah, hey, I was shocked. H there
[16:09] Speaker 4: you are, sergeant, as good as new. Right, thanks, doctor Sinsky.
[16:13] Speaker 2: May I say something, Gino?
[16:15] Speaker 4: And did you? May? I've been privileged at ten many
[16:18] Speaker 4: courageous men, but you you Geno. No other way I
[16:24] Speaker 4: can say it.
[16:25] Speaker 5: I stand in humility before you, a doctor Sinski.
[16:29] Speaker 4: You you shouldn't say those things.
[16:32] Speaker 2: He's right, you know, Doctor Sinsky is only saying what
[16:34] Speaker 2: all of us feel. We've already initiated proceedings for an
[16:37] Speaker 2: award for bravery beyond the call of.
[16:39] Speaker 4: Duty, Danny, Doctor Sinsky, dear true friends, I know that.
[16:45] Speaker 4: What May I go?
[16:48] Speaker 2: Right ahead?
[16:48] Speaker 5: Sir?
[16:49] Speaker 4: Thank you? Sergeant? You know that dog are speaking?
[16:53] Speaker 5: Yes?
[16:54] Speaker 4: Yes, yes, that was my trick. Evil has come to him.
[16:59] Speaker 4: Got me a geno, never mind a hole in my head, Danny,
[17:02] Speaker 4: A squad car.
[17:20] Speaker 2: I got move The door is locked, you know?
[17:23] Speaker 4: One side.
[17:26] Speaker 5: After you, Danny, mister Shrek, what happened to you? Land Slash,
[17:31] Speaker 5: the master criminal of the more. I give the devil
[17:34] Speaker 5: his due if you haven't told us what happened, mister gentlemen, please,
[17:38] Speaker 5: of course.
[17:40] Speaker 4: I'll be gentlemen, Danny over here on the bed. Now
[17:46] Speaker 4: tell us about.
[17:46] Speaker 2: It, My friends, I feel I have failed.
[17:49] Speaker 4: You don't talk. I got after all, how many people
[17:52] Speaker 4: have come face to face with land Slash and lived
[17:54] Speaker 4: to all about it?
[17:56] Speaker 2: Give the devil his due? Yes, now do you mind
[18:00] Speaker 2: telling us what happened?
[18:01] Speaker 5: I came here to my rooms sparsely furnished, you'll admit,
[18:05] Speaker 5: but the way I like it, no fur blows to
[18:08] Speaker 5: distract my attention.
[18:10] Speaker 2: I needed to think.
[18:11] Speaker 5: I knew I was once again hot on the trail
[18:13] Speaker 5: of blan Slash, once again from the.
[18:16] Speaker 2: End of the earth.
[18:17] Speaker 4: Listen to the man, Danny.
[18:18] Speaker 5: We had met lan Slash and I the last time
[18:22] Speaker 5: on the Lonely Isle Mauricius, when we battled hand to
[18:25] Speaker 5: hand on top of Old far Fine and the volcano. Yeah,
[18:28] Speaker 5: I know, But what happened to night as is my
[18:31] Speaker 5: one before I retired. I looked under my bed, gentlemen,
[18:33] Speaker 5: and there he was lan Slash.
[18:36] Speaker 4: So you got on the tour and started a fight
[18:38] Speaker 4: with him.
[18:39] Speaker 2: Yes, it was nip and tuck under there. But if
[18:41] Speaker 2: the devil is why did he come here? Mister Shrek?
[18:43] Speaker 2: He thought I.
[18:43] Speaker 5: Had the jeweled scimitar of Gingis Khan. And as you know, gentlemen,
[18:48] Speaker 5: I have not as you would you mind side of course?
[18:54] Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, how do you like that? Danny? Like?
[19:00] Speaker 5: What?
[19:01] Speaker 4: Reama nine?
[19:02] Speaker 2: Christon?
[19:03] Speaker 5: Yeah?
[19:03] Speaker 4: She was picked up on a disorderly conduct charge and
[19:05] Speaker 4: you know what she had with her? No, I don't
[19:08] Speaker 4: a cimita and I was smashed to pieces. Let's go, Danny,
[19:12] Speaker 4: if I were you like prior Poltus, mister Shrek, open
[19:29] Speaker 4: it Danny Bill, Well, what have you to say for yourself? This?
[19:38] Speaker 4: You make it easy? Reamer? Just relax, thy king. We'll
[19:44] Speaker 4: get you nowhere a wild.
[19:48] Speaker 6: Oh you.
[19:50] Speaker 5: Real, easy girl? Easy, that's it. That's a good girl.
[19:57] Speaker 5: That's a baby.
[19:58] Speaker 6: He's young. I'm sergeant. Don't take you away.
[20:04] Speaker 2: The boys say they picked you up screaming on a
[20:06] Speaker 2: street corner. Why were you doing that? Miss nine?
[20:08] Speaker 6: They tell you about me banging their empty hits together
[20:11] Speaker 6: till they rang out the seasons. Greetings.
[20:13] Speaker 4: I mentioned it. Now you tell us why you did
[20:16] Speaker 4: all that? And right before Christmas?
[20:18] Speaker 6: You know why that piece of mail order carving knife
[20:23] Speaker 6: masquerading is the dule cemtar of Ginger's.
[20:25] Speaker 4: Count not the genuine article.
[20:27] Speaker 6: Huh not the genuine article. He says he was awake
[20:31] Speaker 6: a dory running.
[20:32] Speaker 4: So don't scream, angel, we were all nearby.
[20:35] Speaker 2: Okay, So it was a fake, miss mine, where'd you
[20:38] Speaker 2: get it?
[20:39] Speaker 6: What's that got to do?
[20:40] Speaker 2: Only this? You rang Buddy Maulpo's bell at nine last night.
[20:43] Speaker 2: You slugged him, stole the scimitar. Now you're hurt because
[20:46] Speaker 2: it's a fake. I just pile up a sarn't it?
[20:50] Speaker 4: Assault?
[20:50] Speaker 2: Theft?
[20:50] Speaker 4: Indeed the door ramer took.
[20:52] Speaker 6: Me for anything you want, lover, just so as you
[20:55] Speaker 6: bring in that woman beating cab driver.
[20:58] Speaker 4: Huh the cab driver.
[21:00] Speaker 6: I get in this cab. Time to get me the
[21:02] Speaker 6: airport in a hurry. Why should I stay in this
[21:04] Speaker 6: lonesome tolm on? What I had in my hands was
[21:06] Speaker 6: worth half a million what I've had in my hands?
[21:12] Speaker 5: Go on?
[21:14] Speaker 6: So Cabby tilts his cap to me. I see the
[21:17] Speaker 6: union label. I figured he's friendly, trustworthy, loyal. I make
[21:21] Speaker 6: chit chat with him one where am bang? He turns
[21:23] Speaker 6: onto a side street, grabs me by the throat, wrestles
[21:26] Speaker 6: me for the scimitar. He looks at us and breaks
[21:29] Speaker 6: it over my head. And you know who he was?
[21:33] Speaker 6: Who he really was not, not none other Lance Slash,
[21:41] Speaker 6: the master criminal of them all.
[21:44] Speaker 2: Love her.
[21:46] Speaker 6: Imagine poor little me in the clutches of Lancelash.
[21:51] Speaker 4: Oh there, don't think about it.
[21:55] Speaker 2: You've let her go out.
[21:56] Speaker 4: You know. Read your notes, man, Just read your notes.
[22:00] Speaker 2: Yea, and leave there. Go away, find a place at
[22:05] Speaker 2: police headquarters and close the door to the outside. Think
[22:08] Speaker 2: about it. You and Sergeant to Taglia put it down
[22:11] Speaker 2: and add it up, and it doesn't come out. So
[22:14] Speaker 2: Sergeant tod Taglia puts it down and adds it up.
[22:17] Speaker 2: Then it comes out. Go to a place now, back
[22:20] Speaker 2: to the museum, and tell it all to a man
[22:23] Speaker 2: you'd talked to before.
[22:24] Speaker 4: I can't believe it. I just cannot believe.
[22:26] Speaker 2: You. Better believe it, mister Zik, because that's the only
[22:28] Speaker 2: way it makes sense.
[22:29] Speaker 4: That's right. If the cinetar stolen from Buddy Malpaw was
[22:31] Speaker 4: a phony, then the one, the statue of Ginger's Khan,
[22:34] Speaker 4: this holding is the real one. The ingeniousness of a man, Mailpa.
[22:38] Speaker 4: What better way to keep his treasures safe and to
[22:40] Speaker 4: put it before the eyes of the world.
[22:41] Speaker 2: We want to see again, mister of course, of course.
[22:44] Speaker 4: You do this way, this way, ah, this is very
[22:46] Speaker 4: gratifying to me. You know this publicity. People from all
[22:49] Speaker 4: walks of life now drop in to catch a peak
[22:51] Speaker 4: of the statue of Ginger's Khan holding the scimitar. And
[22:54] Speaker 4: just ten minutes ago I had to warn a cab
[22:56] Speaker 4: driver to keep his cab driver. Yes, it's interesting, fellow
[22:59] Speaker 4: too interested. We better hurry, Danny. Yeah. Now, look, look,
[23:06] Speaker 4: I don't understand me change his corn. He's dressed like
[23:09] Speaker 4: a cab driver. He's holding a city guide book in
[23:12] Speaker 4: his hand. The scimitar is gone. It's impossible, maybe, but
[23:16] Speaker 4: it's happened. The cab driver changed clothes. Maybe we can
[23:19] Speaker 4: catch him down here. And maybe that man is sitting
[23:26] Speaker 4: on the steps sing, let's ask him. Hey, hey, mister, hello.
[23:30] Speaker 4: Did you see your man come out of here a
[23:32] Speaker 4: few minutes ago?
[23:33] Speaker 2: I guess I did.
[23:34] Speaker 4: I have been sitting here for the last hour.
[23:35] Speaker 2: Did you notice anything strange about any of them? The
[23:38] Speaker 2: way one of them was dressed. Let me see.
[23:41] Speaker 4: This man had on a fur cap in a brocaded rope.
[23:43] Speaker 4: He was carrying a cimitar.
[23:45] Speaker 2: Oh, sure I saw him.
[23:46] Speaker 4: I didn't pay him no mind, though, I just figured
[23:48] Speaker 4: it's from California. Let's go Gino, Danny Annie, I think
[23:54] Speaker 4: I got it? God what get in the corn? I'll
[23:55] Speaker 4: tell you all about it.
[23:56] Speaker 2: Where are we going to see?
[23:57] Speaker 4: Mike Swich the bolt had a miracle that taped the Philadelphia.
[24:01] Speaker 4: I think we're are trails and.
[24:18] Speaker 5: It.
[24:18] Speaker 2: It's Lieutenant Clover, mister Shrek, and Sergeant at Taglia be
[24:22] Speaker 2: with you in a minute.
[24:25] Speaker 4: We're still waiting, mister Shrek.
[24:30] Speaker 2: Come in, Come in. I was just tidying up.
[24:35] Speaker 5: Going someplace. Mister Shrek, back to Philadelphia. I'm afraid afraid
[24:42] Speaker 5: land Slash has outwitted me again.
[24:44] Speaker 4: Oh has he now?
[24:46] Speaker 5: But I don't get him after the holidays. Sit down,
[24:50] Speaker 5: mister Shrek. Tell us how you're going to get land Slash.
[24:56] Speaker 5: I'm going to the Congo after the holidays. Oh why
[25:01] Speaker 5: are you going to do that, mister Shrek. Rumor has
[25:04] Speaker 5: already drifted up from the belt of the sudden appearance
[25:07] Speaker 5: of the long last emerald eye of the Goddess of series.
[25:11] Speaker 5: If I know lance Lash, that's where he'll be after
[25:14] Speaker 5: the holidays.
[25:16] Speaker 4: He will Willie. Let me ask you a question, mister Shrek,
[25:19] Speaker 4: at your service, how long.
[25:21] Speaker 5: Did you say the Philadelphia Camden Bridge was one point
[25:25] Speaker 5: eight three miles.
[25:27] Speaker 4: See, why did I tell you? Danny?
[25:29] Speaker 2: Go ahead, Geno, correct him.
[25:30] Speaker 4: The length of the Philadelphia Camden Bridge is one point
[25:34] Speaker 4: eight one miles. Did you hear me, mister Shrek? I
[25:39] Speaker 4: had you, Mike Shrek would never make an arrow like
[25:41] Speaker 4: that land slash.
[25:44] Speaker 5: The master criminal of them all, I presume at your service, gentlemen,
[25:48] Speaker 5: look in the closet, Danny, right, Hi, it's here, all right,
[25:53] Speaker 5: the costume of Gender's camp. And of course you left
[25:55] Speaker 5: the disguise of the cab driver at the museum.
[25:58] Speaker 2: Compliments to you, sir.
[26:00] Speaker 4: Came to the house of Buddy Malapo after the cimitar
[26:02] Speaker 4: was stolen. You traced at the Riema nine disguised as
[26:05] Speaker 4: a cab driver. You found her with it making her flight.
[26:08] Speaker 4: You discovered it.
[26:09] Speaker 5: Was a fake, That is correct. Of course you know
[26:11] Speaker 5: what happened. Then I deduced the same thing you did.
[26:14] Speaker 5: The genuine scimitar was at the museum. Where is it now,
[26:17] Speaker 5: mister lash?
[26:18] Speaker 2: It right is here?
[26:22] Speaker 4: Watch you'll cut your a piece. I'll take him.
[26:24] Speaker 5: Donny Plants, don't don't say uncle uncle uncle.
[26:33] Speaker 4: Yeah. Look, Danny, see I removed his ballheaded to pay.
[26:40] Speaker 4: And why do we have a full head of hair.
[26:43] Speaker 4: What a phony uire Land slash.
[27:04] Speaker 2: G you know, come on, you know, wake up?
[27:12] Speaker 4: You fell asleep Gino huh yeah yeah, I must have.
[27:16] Speaker 2: Known no calls?
[27:17] Speaker 4: Uh yeah from no no calls.
[27:22] Speaker 2: What's the matter with it?
[27:23] Speaker 4: You know? Danny? Yeah, I had a dream, Danny. I
[27:29] Speaker 4: was a big hero.
[27:31] Speaker 2: I went out on a case with you, a dreamer.
[27:35] Speaker 2: I want to tell you something. You know what, when
[27:38] Speaker 2: something happens to you, something real, then it's over. You
[27:41] Speaker 2: know what? You have left? Memory?
[27:44] Speaker 4: Yeah, Danny, that's right.
[27:45] Speaker 2: One of dreams over and you can remember it. You
[27:48] Speaker 2: have the same thing, a memory. That's all anything is, geno,
[27:53] Speaker 2: a memory.
[27:54] Speaker 4: Then I got my Christmas wish and Danny, sure you did?
[27:59] Speaker 2: Go on hold now?
[28:00] Speaker 4: Sure, Merry Christmas, Danny.
[28:06] Speaker 2: Merry Christmas. J The bells ring out on Broadway, the
[28:35] Speaker 2: horns blow, and there's laughter. The translux spells out peace
[28:40] Speaker 2: on earth, goodwill to men. You read it and believe it,
[28:46] Speaker 2: because it's Christmas time, the time we're believing in miracles.
[28:51] Speaker 2: The crowd pushes you along and you're part of it.
[28:54] Speaker 2: It makes you happy. It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent,
[29:02] Speaker 2: the lonesomest mile in the world Broadway My Beat.
[29:24] Speaker 3: Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover,
[29:29] Speaker 3: with Charles Calvin as Tartaglia and Jack Krushian as Muggavan.
[29:34] Speaker 3: The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with
[29:37] Speaker 3: musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story,
[29:42] Speaker 3: Lamont Johnson was heard as Mike Shrek, Georgia Ellis as
[29:46] Speaker 3: Riemon nine, Howard McNair as mister Zoich, and George Nie
[29:51] Speaker 3: as Buddy Malpaul. Ships loaded with vital cargoes for our
[30:02] Speaker 3: men at the fighting front are swinging at anchor for
[30:05] Speaker 3: lack of radio officers. Men with six months merchant ship
[30:10] Speaker 3: radio operating experience since nineteen thirty five or any kind
[30:14] Speaker 3: of FCC license can get an emergency license to ship
[30:18] Speaker 3: at once. Right phone wire or go now to American
[30:23] Speaker 3: Radio Association, five Beakman Street, New York City. Bill Anders
[30:34] Speaker 3: speaking and remember the comedy treat that can't be beat
[30:37] Speaker 3: is Jack Penny Time Sunday nights on the CBS Radio Network.
[31:33] Speaker 1: Welcome back. For the interest of full disclosure, I am
[31:38] Speaker 1: using a different microphone now. I should still sound very listenable.
[31:45] Speaker 1: But if you detect any difference, it's because of this
[31:47] Speaker 1: new microphone. I actually only anticipate using it for a
[31:52] Speaker 1: few episodes. My preferred microphone I'm ordered a replacement, but
[31:58] Speaker 1: it was going to take a few days and I
[32:00] Speaker 1: needed to get these podcasts recorded before Christmas. So if
[32:04] Speaker 1: I'm sounding a little different to you, that might be why.
[32:07] Speaker 1: All right, well, I have to wonder why they went
[32:10] Speaker 1: ahead and credited the character as Mike Shrek when Sergeant
[32:15] Speaker 1: Tartaglia incisively exposed him as really being Lance Lash. There
[32:23] Speaker 1: are general rules against writing it was all a dream episodes,
[32:27] Speaker 1: but to me this is an exception. The writers, first
[32:30] Speaker 1: of all, do everything possible to make it clear that
[32:34] Speaker 1: this was a dream. If you actually thought this case
[32:37] Speaker 1: was real, I don't know what to tell you. It's
[32:41] Speaker 1: a great story idea for Christmas to give a beloved,
[32:44] Speaker 1: supporting character a chance to be the star, and it's
[32:48] Speaker 1: done in a way that respects him as a character,
[32:51] Speaker 1: even while pulking fun at the sort of stories he loved,
[32:55] Speaker 1: which really sound more like say a comic strip or
[33:00] Speaker 1: out of a pulp magazine. Because of all these wild
[33:04] Speaker 1: adventure characters and no emotional stakes, Yet it never disrespects
[33:11] Speaker 1: Seant Tartaglia. There's never a moment when it feels like
[33:15] Speaker 1: we're laughing at him as some ridiculous figure. Now, I've seen,
[33:19] Speaker 1: particularly on television programs and some movies, where people will
[33:24] Speaker 1: have a fantasy and they are so egotistical and they
[33:30] Speaker 1: they think so much of themselves that they really buy
[33:34] Speaker 1: into the dream and go around walking in the real
[33:37] Speaker 1: world as if the dream were real. Could you imagine
[33:41] Speaker 1: Sergeant Greco from Rocky Jordan having this vivid of a dream.
[33:47] Speaker 1: You never convinced him he wasn't the new Captain of Police.
[33:50] Speaker 1: But Geno Tartaglia is a lot more down to earth
[33:54] Speaker 1: and kind of realized as soon as he woke up
[33:57] Speaker 1: that what had been a dream, because he has that
[34:01] Speaker 1: sense of who he is. And I like Danny's statement
[34:03] Speaker 1: equating the dream and the reality of the cases Danny's
[34:08] Speaker 1: souls and in a meta way, it's true because all
[34:12] Speaker 1: these adventures are fictional. Of course, that's not so much
[34:16] Speaker 1: true in real life, and most dreams aren't. Even ones
[34:20] Speaker 1: like this aren't remembered in detail long term, unless perhaps
[34:24] Speaker 1: you write them down. But the sentiment is nice and
[34:28] Speaker 1: it shows that Danny wants to say something so that
[34:32] Speaker 1: Tartaglia will be happy on Christmas, and the truth is
[34:36] Speaker 1: that neither the audience or Danny needs Tartaglia to be
[34:40] Speaker 1: the hero he's beloved for who he is, a lovable
[34:45] Speaker 1: and caring person who brings lightness and humanity into often
[34:50] Speaker 1: grim situations. The story is a gift for giving him
[34:53] Speaker 1: a chance to sign, but without doing so in a
[34:57] Speaker 1: way that undermines the world tone of the series in
[35:02] Speaker 1: a way that makes this better than the nineteen fifty
[35:06] Speaker 1: Christmas episode. Listener comments and feedback now, and we start
[35:12] Speaker 1: over on Spotify with a comment regarding the Ruth Larson
[35:16] Speaker 1: murder case and Mechanics sixty six rights good one. And
[35:21] Speaker 1: then we have a comment on YouTube from art regarding
[35:25] Speaker 1: Broadways My Beat. Broadway Is My Beat had one of
[35:29] Speaker 1: the most distinctive literary styles of old time radio. It
[35:32] Speaker 1: was a combination of street smart lyricism and gritty film
[35:35] Speaker 1: noir darkness. The musical themes and orchestration were also distinctive
[35:40] Speaker 1: as well. They should be, having been written by Alexander Kurage,
[35:44] Speaker 1: composer of the Star Trek theme. Well, thanks so much,
[35:47] Speaker 1: appreciate your comment and that will actually do it for today.
[35:52] Speaker 1: If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your
[35:56] Speaker 1: favorite podcast software. And if you're listening to the podcast
[36:00] Speaker 1: on YouTube, be sure to lock the video, subscribe to
[36:04] Speaker 1: the channel, and mark the notification.
[36:06] Speaker 2: Bell.
[36:07] Speaker 1: I want to go ahead and wish everyone to marry Christmas,
[36:10] Speaker 1: and I hope you've enjoyed this year's programs. And if
[36:14] Speaker 1: you want even more Christmas Detectives program you can check
[36:19] Speaker 1: out our old time radio detective Christmas special feeds Christmas
[36:24] Speaker 1: feed dot Great Detectives dot Net with episodes of series
[36:29] Speaker 1: like Dangerous Assignment, The Man Called X, Boston, Blackie, and
[36:33] Speaker 1: so many others. We will be back in three weeks
[36:37] Speaker 1: with another episode of Broadways My Bait, but stay tuned
[36:41] Speaker 1: for special encores the next two weeks, but join us
[36:44] Speaker 1: back here tomorrow for dragonetwhere.
[36:48] Speaker 7: That's right, Uster. It was just a little before three
[36:51] Speaker 7: point thirty. I was in the bus depot there waiting
[36:54] Speaker 7: for my husband. That's when I first noticed this package
[36:57] Speaker 7: lying on the bench.
[36:58] Speaker 4: Just to cross from I sing, would you go on,
[37:01] Speaker 4: please mus bring?
[37:02] Speaker 7: I didn't think anything of it at first. I went
[37:04] Speaker 7: on reading the afternoon paper, but no one came for
[37:07] Speaker 7: the package. It was just lying there was there a
[37:10] Speaker 7: long time.
[37:11] Speaker 5: How long would you say, ma'am, I mean before you
[37:12] Speaker 5: pick it up and took the lost and found clerk.
[37:15] Speaker 7: Oh, I'd say twenty minutes, half an hour, that much
[37:20] Speaker 7: at least. I left it with the young man at
[37:23] Speaker 7: the counter there, and I told him i'd be back
[37:25] Speaker 7: to see if anyone claimed it. Well, when I did
[37:28] Speaker 7: get back, that's after I had dinner with my husband Carl.
[37:33] Speaker 7: We found out what was in the package. Certainly strange.
[37:38] Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.
[37:40] Speaker 1: Send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net,
[37:45] Speaker 1: follow us on Twitter, Radio Detectives, and check us out
[37:49] Speaker 1: on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho.
[37:55] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.

Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. Every show and episode belongs to its publisher and plays from the publisher's own feed; this site hosts none of them.