Mercury Theater 1938-10-16 (15) Seventeen

A comic coming-of-age story follows a seventeen-year-old boy through the embarrassments, infatuations and social agonies of adolescence.

This The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast aired on October 16, 1938. It is listed as episode 15 in the archive. CBS Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Mary Wickes, Morgan Farley, Ruth Ford, Betty Garde, and Dan Seymour. Other credited names include Orson Welles as host.

The surviving recording runs about 59 minutes.

This version is based on Mercury Theater 1938-10-16 (15) Seventeen. Booth Tarkington is credited as author.

Only 18 objects belong to Mercury Theatre on the Air proper; later items are separately profiled by historical program.

Listeners can expect drama, anthology drama in format, and dramatic in tone.