The Devil's Saint

is the man in black, here again to introduce Columbia's program, suspense. Our starter night is Peter Lorry, playing the part of the Hungarian Count Stefan Kahari, a gentleman of sinister aspect. The story is by John Dixon Carr who calls it, the Devil's Saint.

If you've been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know that suspense is compounded in mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. In this series are tales calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation, and then withhold the solution till the last possible moment.

And so, it is with the Devil's Saint and Mr. Peter Laurie's performance, we again hope to keep you in... Suspense the devil's saint, Paris, 15 years ago. Paris says it used to be, when lights twinkle from the old jakadira to the hill of Sakhra Kur, when taxi cats honked and the beater tango swayed, and Chinese lanterns leaned above

the lake in the boa, when in short you and I were young. Come then to the President's Ball at the Opera, St. Catherine's Day, 1927. A fancy dress ball at the Opera filling these marble halls with a multitude of masks and a multitude of dreams.

The mosaic decorations are no less bright than the colors that weave here. Halakwins and Columbine clear patre and musketeers. In the great marble foyer, remember it, they have set out little tables and lines and palms behind which you may sit screens.

Look at one such table, a young man wearing the scarlet and gold uniform of an English guard officer in Wellington's day. A dark, haired young girl in the custom of a becunting. And as we approach...