A disillusioned man trying to escape his past becomes involved with his employer's wife, and the affair destabilizes the lives around them.

This NBC University Theater broadcast aired on October 30, 1949. It is listed as episode 63 in the archive. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Ellen Andrews, Gloria Hunter, Harvey C. Webster, Lawrence Dobkin, and Parley Baer. Other credited names include Ernest Kinoy as writer.

The surviving recording runs about 55 minutes.

This version dramatizes Dark Laughter. Sherwood Anderson is credited as author.

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