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Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble

Suspense · April 6, 1943 · 29 min · 4,558 words

The transcript of “Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast April 6, 1943. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Suspense plays Suspense free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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This is the man in black. Here again we introduce Columbia's program to Sten. Our distinguished star this evening is the stage and screen favorite, Mr. Paul Lucas, whose performance is in The Lady Vanishes, and in the stage production The What on the Rhine, you will recall with pleasure. Tonight's Tale of Sten is a story by John Dixon Carr,

Fire, Burn and Cold and Bubble. If you've been with us on these two denights, you will know that this tense is compounded of 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 until the last possible moment.

And so with Fireburn and Colroom Bubble, the conformance of Paul Lucas and the other members of our company, we again hope to keep you in. The Deline Theatre presents the Distinguished American Actor, Myron Willard, and Shakespeare's Macbeth, with magic effects especially designed by Ludwig von Anheim.

The historic Drury Lane Theatre, a relic of old London. On this site, in the cramped and crooked lanes of Alwych, there has been a playhouse since Nell Gwynn sold Onge's in the pit.

The present theatre, though modernized, is heavy and darkened with time. My daylight, it is a dinginess of red plush seats, haunted by old booths. But at night, when the lights bloom for some new production, when the murmur of a crowd fills the carpeted isles, the orchestra begins to tune up.

It is kindled with that strange magic before the rise of the curtain. Hi, six ways, sir. Each well of them. 13, program, pocket, no men. And this is Rowee. Your secret, G. And backstage were a nerves crawl and there is a tendency to scream. The three witches of the player huddled around the people in the curtain, looking out into the audience.

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