A Friend to Alexander

Suspense! This is the man in black here again to win produce Columbia's program Suspense Tonight from Hollywood we bring you two of America's most artful and distinguished stars From the Metro Gold Runemare Lottstutt studios comes mr. Robert Young and from Warner Brothers Miss Geraldine Fitzgerald Mr. Young and Misfits Gerald are with us to play in an unusual tale by the unusual James

Thurber. An excerpt from the book, my world and welcome to it called A Friend to Alexander Adapted for Radio by Freya Howard is tonight's study in suspense. If you've been with us before, you will know that suspense is compounded of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure.

In this series or 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 it is with Mr. Thurber's poignant and strange story, and the performances of Robert Young is the man who was a friend to Alexander,

and of Geraldine Fitzgerald as his wife, best who relates these events to us. We again hope to keep you in. I guess he was pretty much like dozens of other men who go to work every morning, settle down in soft chairs with their newspapers after dinner, and like a weekend in the country

now and then, he was fond of easy living and good times. Like everyone else he talked of the war, rationing tires and his golf scores. Until those nightmares began to plague him. At first I was amused.

You know, I've been dreaming about Aaron Burr every night. What for? Well, how do I know what for? Aaron Burr's a funny person to be dreaming about nowadays. Why? I mean, with all the countries in the world at war with each other.