The Prisoner of Shark Island

Shenley Laboratories, producer of Penicillin, Shenley and Shenley Pharmaceuticals, presents the Encore Theatre. The Encore Theatre play tonight, the prisoner of Shark Island. Our star is Zachary Scott. Shenley Laboratories presents another in the new series of great dramatic programs.

Some of our stories are fact, the struggles and accomplishments of great men of medicine. Others are fiction, stories of devotion to an ideal, individual heroism or courage. By these programs, Shenley Laboratories would remind you that medical science and progress is not cold in personal research or pages of statistics, but a warm human story told in living terms,

whether it's the life of one of medicines and mortals or the everyday record of service rendered by your own position. Now, the prisoner of Shark Island, starring Zachary Scott as Dr. Sam Mudd, April 9th, 1865, and at last it was over. Silent. Silent at last were the guns of Shiloh, Chancellorsville,

Gettysburg, the wilderness. It was over, yes. But for the tall, ungainly man who sat one evening in a box at Ford's Theatre in Washington and it was not yet over. That is not quite yet. The company was presenting our American cousin on the stage. And from time to time, the President and the box laughed at the night of comedy. He laughed. And then

the laughter and the suffering, the anxiety and the pain, was simply suddenly over. Yes, gentlemen. Dr. Sam Mud. I'm Dr. Mud. I got a patient here for you. His leg is broke. Let's get him inside. Oh, Blanche. Yes, Sam. What is it?

for Buck right away. I might need some help. That'll be all Buck. You're a fine medical orderly. Thank you, Wash Mudd. Thank you. How's that leg feel now, mister? Better. Did you two gentlemen ride down from Washington on such a night?