Suspense.

This is the man in black.

Here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense.

Tonight from Hollywood, we bring you two of America's most artful and distinguished stars.

From the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Lotspot studios comes Mr. Robert Young,

and from Warner Brothers, Miss Geraldine Fitzgerald.

Mr. Young and Miss Fitzgerald are with us to play in an unusual tale by the unusual James Thurber.

An excerpt from the book, My World and Welcome to It called A Friend to Alexander adapted for radio by Freya Howard is tonight's study in suspense.

If you've been with us before, you will know that suspense is compounded of mystery and

suspicion and dangerous adventure. In this series, or tales calculated to intrigue you,

to stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation, and then withhold the solution

until the last possible moment.

And so it is with Mr. Thurber's poignant and strange story, and the performances of Robert

Young as the man who was a friend to Alexander, and of Geraldine Fitzgerald, as his wife,

Bess, who relates these events to us,

we again hope to keep you in.

Suspense.

Harry was a laughing happy-go-lucky fellow before he began to have those dreams.

I guess he was pretty much like dozens of other men who go to work every morning,

settle down in soft chairs with their newspapers after dinner,

and like a weekend in the country now and then.

He was fond of easy living and good times.

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