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The Harry Brett Murder Case

Broadway is My Beat · July 31, 1950 · 29 min · 4,121 words

The transcript of “The Harry Brett Murder Case”, an episode of Broadway is My Beat first broadcast July 31, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Broadway Is My Beat plays Broadway is My Beat free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Frigly's Spearman chewing gum, the refreshing, delicious treat that gives you chewing enjoyment, presents for your listening enjoyment. From Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesome-us-mile in the world. Broadways My Beef, the thrilling drama, murder and mystery of the people who walk the great life way with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.

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The smooth, steady chewing helps keep you fresh and alert. Adds enjoyment to whatever you're doing. Riggly, Spearman chewing gum. Healthful, refreshing, delicious. The time comes finally to Broadway when the emptiness is big, when Solitude walks the street, arrogant and brave.

It's time when the neon carnival is wound down, when the blazing furnace of light darkens and grows cold. And on the pavement glistening with the tears of despair the stragglers walk. They plead for a door to open for a light to be turned on.

Solitude is at their heels. Please, kid, for a friend. But it's no good, kid. Broadway's closed for the night. But there are side streets where it's never closed, or trumpet's scream and saxes weep. In the 50s, for instance, in a little joint called the 34 Club, for instance, where I was, where death was.

And this time it was a circular platform raised above the bar with a piano on it, and a dead man resting his head on the keys, and all of it defined in the darkness by a spotlight that changed colors.

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