Suspense: The Black Curtain

This is Robert Montgomery. I have a new assignment and I'm very happy about it. During these 60 minutes each Saturday, I'm to be acting spokesman for one of Radio's really great entertainments. A program which is a prime favorite with all of us.

You have come to know its opening music as the curtain razor for Radio's outstanding theatre of thrills. You know it as a show which each week for five years has brought you first-class story material and exciting performances You have come to recognize throughout the unique touch of our unique producer my friend Bill Spear

All of which can be said in one word saw suspense an hour of suspense now a A full 60 minutes on Saturday night. And with a distinguished actor-director Robert Montgomery as your host. Night Mr Montgomery also appears as star in The Black Curtain, a suspense play produced, edited and directed by Williams-Pier.

I don't have very much to say in the prologue department tonight. That's because at this premiere of The Full Hour Show, we're anxious to ring up our curtain, our black curtain, if you will, without unnecessary delay.

So because tonight I am appearing as an actor. The idea on most Saturday evenings is for me to make you welcome and chat about things you and I are mutually interested in. Crime mostly, and the various types of criminal achievement, real and fictional, and the person's actual and invented who have committed those crimes, and gotten themselves into those predicaments.

And the people who have written about it and have compounded the particular brew of mystery and dangerous adventure which we serve up to you in the name of suspense. But tonight I am appearing for a good many of our sixty minutes as a man named Frank Townsend.

And so closes the black curtain. Tonight's tale of suspense. In a moment the spokesman of suspense and tonight's star Robert Montgomery will be back. For the benefit of late comers among our audience, may we say that suspense is now being heard as a full hour program on Saturday nights at this hour, eight to nine o'clock Eastern Standard Time.

Suspense as always is produced, edited and directed by William Speer. Our musical director and conductor is Lud Gluskin. The composer of our original scores is Lucian Morrowak. Lorraine Tuffill appeared opposite Mr. Mount Gomry as Ruth Dillon, and you heard performances by Kathy Lewis, Janet Nolan, Sidney Miller, Conrad Binyon, Jack Crucian, Bill Conrad, Jerry

Hosner, Paul Freeze, Ira Grisele, Junius Matthews, Harry Lang and Joseph Kearns. This is Bill Spirit twice as much as out of breath as usual after our first hour of production of suspense. I certainly want to thank everyone connected with our adventure this evening and naturally it begins with Mr Montgomery.