One Hundred in the Dark

The Columbia Network takes pleasure in bringing you... Suspense. Suspense. Columbia's play theater of outstanding thrillers, produced and directed by William Speer, and scored by Bernard Herman.

The notable melodramas from fiction and stage and screen, from the world's great literature of entertaining excitement, present it each week to bring you to the edge of your chair, to keep you in... Spend. Tonight's story, by America's distinguished author, playwright Owen Johnson, gathers its suspense in a very gentle way.

It doesn't have a spectacular finish, garnished with revolver shots. There are no graveyard watches. There is not so much as a single lifeless body, identified or unidentified. It's a tale told in a club room, the artists and writers club in New York.

A tale of high-class robbery and suspicion, and of how some ladies and gentlemen nervously counted... 100 in the dark. That was a fine meal. Me for the club any time. Here, we can also do your pretty...

Yeah, if you'll just draw up that chair for Mr. Peters. Oh, yeah, that's the Peter's. Oh, thank you. Do you all know Peters? This is Mr. Stangal. How do you do? I know you. Mr. Gold, yeah.

Oh, I agree with you. Oh, yes. Yes. Oh, you know each other. Yes. And the one who drew up the chair, Mr. Rankin. How do you do? Well, I guess we're all acquainted now. To get back to our table discussion, Queenie.

Oh, yes. Oh, how about a drink? Who joined me? Oh, pleasure. Fine. Madam. Oh, John. Well, now, Stangal, as I said, there are only half a dozen stories in the world. What is more to the point? There's every reinter... Oh, five with soda, John.