Mask of Dimitrios

Lady Astor presents the Screen Guild Players. The Lady Astor Screen Guild Play Tonight, the Mask of Demetrius. The Starring Players, Mrs. Sidney Greenstreet. And this is Peter Lorry. Lady Astor presents the Screen Guild Players in an intriguing story of drama, suspense and murder.

The Mask of Demetrius, based on the Warner Brothers picture. stars Peter Loli as Professor Leiden and Sydney Green Street as Eric Peters. Even now, when I know the whole story, it's difficult to believe it all happened to me, but one must make a star, I suppose.

So just for a beginning, let's put down a date. This tambour, Turkey, 1938. A woman strolling along the beach approaches some Jetsam cast up by the sea. She dances at the little mound, turns half away, turns suddenly back to her dand...

Nothing else on the body, Colonel Hacky. The identification card, that's all. Thank you, Sergeant. You're made to use Macropolis. And now it lasts the cases officially closed. And so it might have been. The case of Demetrius might have been closed.

Only that very afternoon at a little party in Istanbul. I was introduced to Colonel Hacky, chief of the Turkish secret police. Our pleasure, sir, Demetrius, at last. So you're the famous professor like? Oh, please, not so famous and no longer a professor, I've been retired.

Hell, I'll forge it. Now you can devote yourself your writing. Do your murder, mister, is that? possibly if I can find material. Material? The world's full of it. Why just a day? Tell me. Have you ever heard of Demetrius? Demetrius, that was the first time I ever heard his name.

Demetrius Macropoulos sometimes called himself Demetrius Talat, a spy, an assassin, a murderer, hunted by every policeman in Europe, but never once taken into custody. It was a strange tale that Colonel Hacky wrote. The story he claimed that had no ending.