An operating theater, brilliant with light.

A surgeon, delicately moving a knife inside the brain of a young woman,

in an operation which will change her personality, her outlook, her entire life.

Science at work, searching for knowledge that will shape your world of the future.

Dramatic stories of science and industry exploring the unknown.

Today on the Science magazine,

we are fortunate to have one of Hollywood's

loveliest actresses, Miss Veronica Lake,

who starred a dramatic tale of the March of Science.

Listen now to Act 1 of the Dark Curtain.

Oh, no! of the dark curtain. I don't suppose at the beginning I was very different from anyone else.

I lived with my sister Mary. She was older. She looked after me because our parents had died

a long time ago. But we still lived in the house father had left us, Mary and I. It was home.

I don't know exactly when it all began for me. The trouble I mean. I used to imagine things a lot when I was little.

Then I found it was fun to go on imagining things,

but I couldn't tell anyone.

Then one day I imagined people were staring at me.

I was always timid.

I came home frightened.

I was engaged to be married about then. I had known Paul a long time.

Mary was happy about it.

And one day something happened.

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