[on developing the role of 'The Shadow' (Lamont Cranston) in the radio series)
The Shadow was originally the voice of conscience and it was through the fear which he aroused in the minds of criminals that they exposed their own villainy or destroyed themselves. Ten years ago, when the show was first presented, [he] was only a sound effect, a nasty, snarly voice that would burst in with a blood-curdling laugh, and sneer "The Shadow knows". Now the part has been expanded into that of a dual personality - Cranston, the educated society man, and The Shadow, the name he effects when employing his unusual talents in a good cause.
