Ford Theatre

Gripping spy play with Lee Tracy and Walter Hampden in their original stage roles. The full-hour adaptation of the past season's Broadway thriller concerns the misguided intentions of a young scientist—the traitor —to solve the threat of an atomic war by giving nuclear energy secrets to a Russian spy ring. The youth, Wesley Addy, feels that world peace lies in sharing the atomic bomb. The main scene of the play is laid in the Manhattan apartment of Professor Tobias Emanuel, the young man's mentor, played by Hampden. Addy has hidden bomb secrets and fissionable material for the Russians in the apartment when Captain Gallagher of the Naval Intelligence Office, portrayed by Tracy, steps in, One of the exciting sequences comes when Gallagher uses a Geiger counter to spot the cache

Ford Theatre's recent CBS-TV adaptation of James M. Barrie's *The Little Minister* brought the romance of Babbie, the bewitching gypsy, and the serious young minister to life. Tom Drake beautifully portrayed the minister's struggle with a forbidden love, culminating in the revelation that Babbie, vibrantly played by Frances Reid, was in fact Lady Barbara Rintoul.

Despite being raised in a financially strapped family, a young woman longs to be a respected actress and sets about trying to become one.

An old woman hires a young man to help around the house. Unfortunately, she begins to be concerned that he is in fact psychotic.

Biff Grimes is a small-town dentist whose girlfriend is stolen by a an old friend named Hugo. Biff plots his revenge when Hugo returns to town with a toothache.