Alias Nick Beal

Screen Director's Playhouse, Stars Ray Milan, Jan Sterling, Production, Alias Nick Viel, Director John Farrell. This is the Screen Director's Playhouse, the Thursday night feature on NBC's All-Star Festival of Comedy, Music, Mystery and Drama. Brought to you by the makers of Amazon for fast relief from the pain of headache, uritis and uralge, and RCA Victor, world leader in radio, first in recorded music, first in television.

Tonight the Screen Director's Playhouse is pleased to present an adaptation of a compelling play on Good and Evil. Here now is Elias Nick Beale, starring Ray Muland in his original title role, and Jan Sterling as Donna, and so to our play, Act 1 of Elias Nick Beale.

May I introduce myself to Reverend Dr. Thomas Garcia. As a clergyman, I might be considered as somewhat of an authority upon the subject of evil. Still I offer you the question. Is there really evil in the world? Or merely men whose judgments serve the mill? Or are these one and the same thing? Consider. There is evil

in the world and it has many names. Know them now as the thunder sings its hymn to Hades, and the lightning lashes at the soul of man. Know the names of evil, sacred in the black books of the fallen universe. Satan, Lucifer, Tamut, Seaver, Arriman, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub, the devil.

Now, at year's end, might be an opportune time to consider the problem of evil. Now we do a kind of summing up, a balancing of the books of our lives, a balancing of good and bad. And since we talk of such things, I propose to tell you an experience I shared the two persons. One you know very well, the former district attorney Joseph Foster. The