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The Fountain Plays

Suspense · August 10, 1943 · 30 min · 3,880 words

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Columbus program, suspense. From Hollywood tonight we bring you the noted British actor, Mr. Edmund Gwen, a star of an unusual murder study by his distinguished compatriot Miss Dorothy Sayers. The story called The Fountain Plays is tonight's tale of suspense. Currently appearing in the Metro Golden Mayor technical production, Lassie Come Home, following such

successes as foreign correspondent, and the stage plays The Wookiee and the Three Sisters, It is Mr. Gwen's particular pleasure to embody on the stage in the screen the eternal middle-class Englishman, the common man of Britain, and proud of it.

The character Mr. Gwen portrays in our play tonight Mr. Archie Bolt Spiller, conservative John Bull that he may be, has lately had a bit of luck. Mr. Spiller lives on a little country estate with a cook and a man-servant, and in the garden, yes, a fountain.

Of all these little luxuries, it is the fountain which pleases him the most. An interesting sort of hobby for such a man, a fountain, perhaps more interesting than even Mr. Spiller himself realized at the beginning of that memorable evening.

These events were really quite unusual, and with their publication, and with the performance of Mr. Edmund Gwen as Archie Spiller, we again hope to keep you in. The fountain plays. What a ballad, you know.

Have a cab of the fountain, Sam. Get wet if you stand too close. Fountain, join your plastic fountain, wasting your money on a do-dear. Oh, that's expensive, Sam. It's very ingenious, really. Use the same water over and over again, you see?

Don't try and put me off. What about it? Well, I told you, I talked to you about it later. See, later. Well, I want to talk about it now. I want a straight answer to my question.

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