Show Val Valter ter I ON BROADWAY BROADWAY- BROADWAY BROADWAY- Portrait of a Man Talking to Himself I I got my moneys money's worth on my new wave newall-wave wave all radio set Monday morn by golly What a walloping walloping wal- wal loping and breathless thrill for nearly an hour It was about when I threw the juice on and turned the switch to the band for police calls and the planes Cant Can't get the planes often any anymore anymore more since the mail mess down in Washington But ah those police calls when they're blazing blaz- blaz ing Attention all cars barked the basso bosso before the microphone from which is Detroit De- De troit be on the lookout for 1930 Ford sedan Wisconsin Wis- Wis license plate number numb 1934 plate Between Grantsburg Wis and nd headed for Pine watch county all roads leading to the Twin Cities St. St Paul and Watch Vatch for a Packard folI win winit's its it's Dillinger gang He kept intoning it and the skin on m my face toughened and my whiskers sli stiffened Then I kept toying toying toy toy- ing with the dial up and down slowly getting etting the same thrilling warning from police all over the middle west I thought sure they'd grab John by the time I read the afternoon gazettes gazettes- but he got away again I The dial was on fire and packed with excitement Buffalo Buffal and Rochester kept yelling to apprehend stick up experts Oklahoma Cit City and Tulsa were hot too and Kansas City police were fin finger finger- er- er fag their gats ats And then again the Michigan call 1930 Ford sedan plate between Grantsburg Vis and the Twin its Cities the Dillinger gang a gl Stop all cars stop all cars cars- its it's its the Dillinger the gang Dillinger gang What a thrill Boiling Point Talk about a aggravations and things to make you ashamed of being a New Yorker that case case about the mother and her tot being jailed because her child dug a hole in the park grass grass- makes me considerably ill The hero of our little story happens to be a cop named Albert G. G Learock of the Arsenal in Central park What a soft beat his Central is-Central park to frighten mothers moth moth- ers and children The little boy had a tiny shovel and a bucket and his daddy is s jobless and his mother is wearing a coat her husband made The kid is wearing clothes given by neighbors So Judge Overton Harris in Yorkville York York- yule ville court fined her two bucks and she didn't have two bucks and Judge Harris decided she was well dressed he let her and her child stay a day in the smelly jail of the court Well Vell now aint that something for tor his Honor to be proud about And will Policeman Learock get geta et eta a pretty ribbon to put on his chest Judge Harris you see is a bachelor he doesn't know what it means to have a child I dont don't know if Learock has any children and the fewer times I mention his name ame the less my nostrils will be stifled Arid And that goes lor br Judge Overton Harris Harris Har- Har ris too tco What the hell good is a park park-if children children chil- chil dren cant can't r in it The ironY of it all is what It all right for that little boy to be buried under grass one day But he ze mustn't play on it now |