The Signalman

Sauspens! And its producer, the master of mystery and adventure, William N. Robeson. Good afternoon. We are honored to bring you on this first program in our new Sunday time. One of today's most talented actresses, Ms. Sarah Churchill, starring in one of yesterday's most chilling tales, The Signalman by Charles Dickens.

More often than not, a classic suffers in transition from one medium to another. The transcribed play you are about to hear is an exception to this generality. The late great writer-director Irving Reese in his adaptation has given a dimension to the story of the late great Charles Dickens never imagined.

We suggest that you might find it interesting to read the Dickens story. After listening to this, the re-stramitization of the Sigma Man, starring Mrs. Sarah Churchill, a tale well calculated to keep you in... It had smashed by like a wounded monster screaming in pain and disappeared into the dark tunnel.

In those brief seconds, I'd relived the emotions of my childhood. I still trembled with the child's terror and fascination that had surged through me the many times I stood here twenty years before. years before. Nothing had changed. The steep, dripping wet walls of jagged stone that led down to the tracks. The gloomy mouth of a tunnel. The small signal and shack huddled against

the side of the cutting. Even the job was held by the same man they had told me in the village. He stood there in the glow of an angry sunset, firling a signal flag around a short pole.

I called him. Below. Instead of looking up at me, he turned tinsley to stare toward a red signal light that glowed at the mouth of a tunnel. Hello below there. He finally turned. Slowly it seemed to me, even fearfully and looked up.