thanks for recommending this episode. A couple of thoughts:

1. We've talked about the morality aspects of the RMT, and of how some plays they aired then might not make it today.

One such play was also written by this episode's original author, Oscar Wilde. The play is "Picture of Dorian Gray". I've seen it done on something like a Hallmark play back in the 70s, and I watched it when my Dad was still alive and I was junior high age. (I was so naive in those years that I had no clue what issues Gray, and Wilde, were grappling with.) There are what today would be some very sensitive subjects in that play/story...no pun intended.

2. Interestingly, in "Picture of Dorian Gray", like "The Saxon Curse", the main character's female love interest is named "Sybil".

3. Was it Evie Juster who played Aunt Clementine? She did some strange phasing of her voice while in character...at one moment she'd sound like Ms. Juster (always one of my favorite female RMT voices), then the next she'd sound like the marooned-aristocrat millionaire's wife in "Gilligan's Island". At times I expected her to start saying "Thuuuuston...dahhhling."

Paul Hecht is a consummate radio actor, and always sounded good in cultured roles (i.e. the doctor he played in the RMT's "The captain of the Polestar" or "Premature burial".)

4. Excellent twist at the end. Crime never pays...pretty much always the message on the RMT.