Dark Venture article from January 1946

HERE IS A moment in the life of every person when he is on the verge of entering upon a ‘dark venture’ _a time when he hovers on the brink of committing a crime. Most of us never do it. ‘Dark Venture’ tells the stories of those who do.”

This is producer Leonard Reeg’s explanation of the basic idea behind the weekly thrill series heard

Each Tuesday evening over American, Produced by Reeg, narrated by scripters as Larry Marcus, Bob Light and Dwight Hauser, with music by Dean Fossler, “Dark Venture” offers realistic, psychological studies of me and women with troubled minds who choose the hard way, the fast way, the wrong way, to solve their problems.

The series was conceived by J. Donald Wilson who, incidentally, has one of the finest libraries on psychology in the world.

1. PLAY PICTURED is “Holy Acrimony “. Scene is Bill’s apartment Sharon (Betty Moran) and Bill (Dwight Hauser) have been secret lovers for several months. Sharon’s husband, Elton, stands between them. Unable to stand the strain any longer, Bill urges Sharon to poison him and forces a small vial of deadly poison into her hand. Reluctantly Sharon agrees to the plan.

-Sterling Trevor photos

2. IN ELTON’S LAB. After Sharon has given poison to Elton (John Lake), he tells her of his plan to leave her, to “disappear”. In seven years, she can have him declared legally dead and collect his large insurance policy. She tells him what she has done and administers an antidote to the poison.

3. NEARLY THREE YEARS after Elton’s mysterious disappearance, an insurance claims inspector, to protect the interests of his company, delves into the case to see if he can find the man the Missing Persons Bureau couldn’t locate.

Dramatic Air Series Presents Psychological Studies of Troubled Minds Driven to Crime

Tuesday, 9:00 p.m.

American-KECA

4. THE INSPECTOR CONFRONTS Sharon with a string of circumstantial clues that would indicate she killed Elton and disposed of his body. He threatens to bring charges of murder, unless she signs a waiver to her insurance claim. After Sharon signs the waiver, in spite of the protests of Bill, the inspector reveals that he deduced the actual happenings and also discovered that Elton had died later of natural

Causes, three months after his departure. Sharon also discovers that her boyfriend, Bill, loved her only for the money she was o get. She is left with nothing.

(Jan 27, 1946)

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