Murder, Music and a Blonde Madonna ( )

Here's your pass to the Globe Theater. This is the Globe Theater. The radio playhouse especially for men and women of the armed forces of the United Nations.

Just as the Globe Theater has meant the best in entertainment since the days of Shakespeare, today it means the best in radio drama for service men and women all over the globe. Here to tell you about tonight's play is your host at the Globe Theater, Herbert Marshall.

Your favorite seat is very in waiting for you here at the Grove Theatre. No extra charge for lojis. And tonight's bill is one that I try to be well worth the hearing. There is one type of character that every actor longs to play, whether he be Sir Aubrey Smith or Roddy McDowell.

That is the role of the quick-witted romantic adventurer who moves through Monte Cristoesque's experiences, confronted with innumerable dangers, but usually confounding his adversaries by sharp thinking and subtle humor. Always, of course, there is a lovely girl who makes the confounding all the more worthwhile.

As I say, such is the part that every act belongs to play. Now there are decided advantages about being your host here at the Globe Theatre, so that means that I am also the casting director.

And when a fat juicy part of the title I've just described turns up, whom to suppose was chosen to portray it. Well, not Sir Orbrizmuth, or Roddy McDowell. I need only add to the title of this play is The Man Called Ex. What happens is of an exciting nature, I think you'll agree. So let's up the curtain and let's the play begin.

Tonight he finds himself involved with murder, music, and a blonde Madonna. But at At the moment he and Nancy, his best girl, are sitting in a booth in the smart cocktail lounge in Midtown Manhattan.