The Lodger

Suspense! Radio's outstanding theater of thrills brings you an hour of suspense. A full 60 minutes of The Larger. A near-retail of 19th century London directed by William N. Robeson. And produced by Robert Montgomery. Who tonight also stars as The Larger.

This is Robert Montgomery with a few words about a city. a sprawling, furious city which had slackened its pace to allow the miasma of horror to settle even to its furthest corners. I say horror, but there was a fascination too, for there is always a fascination where there is violent death. The city, it was London,

and the year was 1888, a London terrorized by the fifth in a succession of horrible murders, Such is the very real setting for the larger, for Mrs. Belak-Lown's novel is based on fact. It was almost certain that these deeds were the work of one person, for this meager identity was established by the victims themselves.

They were all young, all attractive women. It was the killer still at large who absorbed the imagination of the great city, the killer who had taken special pains to make it clear that some obscure and terrible lust for vengeance possessed him. And because of him, laughter was forced, conversations waned, and there were silences where there should have been good talk between neighbors. Only in Holmes,

Dors bolted and blinds drawn was the talk easy, as for example in the home of Ellen Bunting, in particular Ellen Bunting. Ellen was no different from all the middle-aged housewives dwelling in London's squalid white chapel district. Her home was a small segment plastered into her block-long tenement in Maribun Road. Ellen read the newspapers as