Broadcast: 17th April 1949

Starring: John Brown

Added: Jun 24 2008

Starring John Brown as Broadway, the narrator of Damon Runyon’s dramatic stories of old Manhattan New York and the gangster life in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Chances are you haven’t heard of a citizen by the name of Itsky Iron Hat or his horse “old Em”. Itsky claims that his horse is a racehorse but the truth is she is not even able to keep with an old pony at the track, even when the pony is walking at a slow gait. Broadway will tell you the story of Itsky and “old Em”.