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Before he sang his way through\\xa01776\\xa0as Benjamin Franklin, Howard Da Silva was a busy screen and stage actor earning raves for his villainous turns on Broadway and on the big screen. We\'ll hear him as a cop on the trail of a cocky killer in "You Take Ballistics" (originally aired on CBS on March 13, 1947). Then, he recreates his screen role as a tyrannical ship\'s captain as the\\xa0Lux Radio Theatre presents\\xa0Two Years Before the Mast (originally aired on CBS on September 22, 1947).