The Mad Concerto
Strange Wills · June 8, 1946 · 29 min · 3,818 words
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Strange Wills. Stories of Strange Wills made by Strange People, starring the distinguished Hollywood actor Warren William, and featuring Lorraine Tuttle and Howard Culver, with the original music of Del Castillo. I devise and bequeathed to my heirs the seven deadly sins.
Pride, envy, hate, jealousy, anger, despair, and greed. And here is Warren William. These are the stories of strange wills made by strange people. Men and women who defy and defile every moral law of respectability and decency to satisfy a mad desire.
fire, to write an imaginary wrong that burns like a raging fire in their shriveled souls. Strange wills are stories based upon actual wills gathered from courts all over the world. Names, places, and time have been changed so that no reflection can fall on any person or persons living or dead.
Only the sin remains. Deadly sins that cry out from the depths of the grave for vengeance. You presently see what I mean, but first a word from your announcer. And now back to Warren William as John Francis O'Connell in the Mad Concerto.
This is the story of a woman who voluntarily became a prisoner of love because of greed. It's not a nice story, quite the contrary. Mad Concerto is the story of a beautiful woman who gave up every feminine and human desire for the power that goes with dollars. 10 million of them. It happened a short
while after I'd begun the practice of law in an Eastern city on the Atlantic seaboard. I remember I was standing near the window of my office looking out over the myriad of skyscrapers. Oh how I craved excitement. How I prayed for one case to pull me away from the small inconsequential work that is a young lawyer's
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