A Man in the House

Now the Romo Wine Company of Fresno, California presents... Suspense! Tonight, Romo Wines bring you the remarkable young actress whose performance you have admired in the Warner Brothers production, The Corn Is Green. Miss Joan Loring has Star of a Man in the House.

A suspense play produced, edited and directed for Romo Wines by William Spier. So, Spence, Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. That's R-O-M-A. Roma Wines, those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, to your happiness in entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals.

Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant. Roma wines bring you John Lorring in a remarkable tale of... SUSPEN! When I was 17, they called me that pretty little Barrett girl. I never imagined then that five years later I'd be working in the public library day after day and two evenings a week.

One of the mousie-tight, mild librarians who frown and rap a pencil when the adolescent scuffling and giggling becomes a little too unruly. I never dreamed that pretty little Barrett girl would become Primus Barrett Barrett, know that my mother would...

But one evening my father came home from the office looking a little more tired than usual. He barely touched his dinner and said he thought he'd lie down on the sofa for a nap. Three hours later he was dead.

From that day, mother was a changed woman and our house was a changed house. She became suspicious and bitter and solitary. After time, people stopped coming to visit and Ted Roper learned not to call for me.