Ivy

Screen Director's Playhouse, Stars Joan Fontaine, Charles Drake, Production, Ivy, Director, Sam Wood. 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, neuritis 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 the dramatic study of one woman and of the ambition that was her story. Here now is our adaptation of Ivy, starring Joan Fontaine in her original title role with Charles Drake as Jim.

This is Detective Lieutenant Martin, Fifth Breasing New York City. The story of Ivy Lexton were to be told in sequence to begin January 6, 1912. fateful day she chose to visit a gypsy fortune teller in a gloomy Greenwich Village basement apartment. Somehow from the moment I've reseeded herself she instinctively knew that her fate was sealed. That what she'd learn in the next few

moments would be the definite pattern of her life and that there'd be no turning back. What are you saying, Adam? It is not yet clear but soon I will know. Time. Please can't you shut off that metronome? It's very annoying.

No. When the instrument ceases to beat. So does life cease to exist. Well, all I came here for was to find out whether there will be a change for the better in your life. Yes, yes. Yes. There will be a great change.

Are you sure? Oh, you don't know how happy you've made me. What else? There are three men in your life. Yes. One can give you wealth. The wealth you so greatly covet. Miles, the other two men stand in your way.