'BERTRAM MATHEWS (Howard Craven) was a shoddy piece of theatrical material, unemployed and married to a virago. To keep things going in his San Francisco home he invites the handsome and brainless Longstreet (Malcolm Mealey) to become a boarder, and he himself takes a job as a floor-walker. Then he discovers Longstreet and his wife, Elizabeth (Madi Hedd), about to run away. He suggests that he should fake suicide so they could collect his life insurance money for him, while for their part of the bargain they could retain the house. But Elizabeth double-crosses him about the insurance money. In a quarrel he shoots Longstreet, and the circumstances are such that Elizabeth is arrested and charged with murder. From this point on, Bert, intent on regaining the limelight, attempts to prove that he was responsible for the murder and engineered the whole plot, but nobody believes him and he takes his "curtain call" anonymously.'
Source: 'For Next Week', ABC Weekly, 26 January 1952, p.13.
Broadcast by 2UW on 2 February 1952, from 8:30pm.
Director: John Appleton.
Cast: John Appleton (as Announcer), Madi Hedd (as Elizabeth), Howard Craven (as Bert), Joe McCormick (as Gateman), Malcolm Mealey (as Longstreet), Harvey Adams (as Foreman & Guard), Paul McNaughton (as Judge & Clerk), and Ellen Morgan (as Girl).
