The Shadow knows . . .
Have you ever heard a rebroadcast of the radio drama "The Shadow"? It debuted in 1937 and no, I'm not old enough to have listened to the original, thank you very much. The "official" radio drama
that many Shadow fans know and love featured a 22-year-old Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston, a "wealthy young man about town." It ran every Sunday evening through 1954.
The opening became a national sensation when radio veteran Frank Readick, Jr. raised the hair on the back of listeners' necks with his echoing question, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" He voiced it in such a way that you just knew it was evil with a capital E, and that such a thing exists in the world.
Some things are better left to the imagination. A strange pronouncement from a photographer, I know. But your own imagination is more powerful than a thousand cameras. Try it sometime.
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