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The radio theatre brings you Jean Taney and Vincent Price in Dragon Wick. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keeley. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. If I should offer any one of you a kingdom, I'm sure you'd accept it.

And that's how a certain section of our country was settled. Under Dutch rule in the 1600s, wealthy Hollenders were offered vast estates along the Hudson River as an inducement to come to America. Over these land-grants or patruneships, as they were called, the patrunes had absolute authority, and many of them ruled until the middle of the 19th century, a unique phase

of Americana that forms the background of tonight's play. 20th-century's Fox Screen hit, Dragon Week. We are happy to have the fine stars of the picture, Jean Tierney in one of her greatest dramatic roles, and Vincent Price, in the part that raised him to well-deserved stardom.

On to our play, Act One of Dragon Week, starring Jean Tierney as Miranda, and Vincent Price as Nicholas and Ryan, with Gail Gordon as Dr. Jeff Turner. New York City, 1844. In a suite of the ultra-fashion of the Lasterhouse, Delpham Wells and his daughter await the arrival of a man they've never met.

I never had such a dinner in my life, Pa. Imagine Mr. Van Rine ordering all that food, just for us. Wasteful extravagance is what it is, and how did he know what I wanted to eat?

But there was everything you could possibly want. Everything is what no man should ever want, Miranda. Yes, Pa. We'll drink our coffee later. And renting these rooms for us, I just don't understand such a man as Nicholas Van Raine.