The Most Dangerous Game

suspense. This is the man in black, here again to introduce Columbia's program, suspense. From Hollywood we bring you a star, Mr. Orson Welles, who this evening begins a four week engagement as guest of these proceedings. In the interest of prime suspense, Mr. Wells and the producer of this series have scheduled four radio stories which they feel are particularly

distinguished in our chosen field. The first of these is The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Gondel. And so the performance of Orson Welles and the character of General Taroff and Keenan Win as Sanger Rainesford, who learned from Taroff what was the most dangerous game, we again hope to keep you in, suspend.

Well now he may come in and when he does, I'm going to kill him. It's him or me. Maybe It sounds crazy to you, I guess it does. You sounded crazy to me a few days ago when I was with Whitney on the yacht.

I was on a pleasure trip. Ha! A pleasure trip! How could I? Or anyone realize, then the horror and torment I was to go through. How was I to know of Ivan? And the deathswirl? And the howls?

How was I to know of? It was only four nights ago that the ship went down. We've been talking about this island, ship trap island, I was caught by him, and he said it was called on a chart.

It was sleepy and started on down below to turn in. I was mixing myself in my cap when I looked up and saw it. A tremendous reef racing out of the fog. I screamed out a warning, but it was too late. We were right apart.