The Birds

The Summer Theatre, and to the Summer Theatre, a dramatic hour of romance, love, and adventure. Tonight we present Daphne de Morier's startling tale, The Birds, starring Mr. Herbert Marshall.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is your host, Don Wilson. Tonight we're presenting a brand-new story by the famous author of Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek, and many other favorites, Ms. Daphne de Morier. Now this new story, however, is far different from any of these, and in many ways far more exciting.

It's a tale I am sure will haunt you for a long time to come. The title is simply The Birds, and our star is Mr. Herbert Marshall. Our scene is London, and the Office of a Successful Publisher of Books.

With him, sits Jenkins, his editor. them on the broad shining surface of the desk is a manuscript pattered worn it's bulk held together with a bit of string change wait it's a bit of story you say there was no address on it no the author left no address but I wish you'd read it

sir you like it huh you think it's publishable I don't know it's terrifying I can't I can't seem to get it out of my mind. Hmm. All right, Dickens, all right. I'll read it. Mind you, it'd better be good.

Just read it, sir. Title. The bird. By John Waite. John Waite. John Waite. My name is John Waite. I'm writing this as a minute record of what has happened thus far Because I cannot help feeling that in the recounting of these events I may, in some measure, come to an understanding of what has happened.

And even perhaps why it has happened. The whole business is monstrous and overwhelming. And I am not sure that human eyes will ever fall upon this, my journal. I am a writer of moderately successful fiction.