Dark Victory

Great scenes from great plays with your host Walter Hamden and starring tonight Miss Celeste Home and Mr. Walter Abel in Dark Victory. Each week at this same hour the Episcopal families of your own community and the Episcopal Actors Guild invite you to share the dramatic inspiration of great scenes from great plays as transcribed

by famous artists of stage screen and radio. And now, here is your host, the distinguished actor manager, Mr. Walter Handler. Thank you, and good evening. Our play tonight is not one of those tales which are briefly told and enjoyed and soon forgotten, but a story so deeply appealing that it could be told 100 times, and with each telling

bring new pleasure. It is George Brewer, Jr. and Bertram Bloch's Dark Victory. And I am privileged to present as our stars tonight Academy Award winner Celeste Holm and the ever-popular star of stage and screen, Walter Abel.

Thank you, Mr. Hamden. I'm very happy to be here to play the role of Dr. Frederick Steele. And I'm happy as still to have as Judith to return my patient in the story Celeste Holm, a lovely star and a talented star, if I may say so.

Thank you Walter. Judith Traheurne is a wonderful individual under her somewhat misleading manner. I think their beats are hard that every woman will understand. I like her so much that sometimes I forget she isn't real.

Oh but she is, Celeste, as we're about to learn. So let us go together through the open door of our imaginations into dark victory. We're in a hotel room.

The early morning sun shines through the windows on fine furnishings. and on a man's expensive leather bags in the process of being packed. Outside the traffic of New York City roars down the avenue, but inside the two men arguing here only each other's quiet voices.