An Orson Welles Radio Almanac broadcast featuring Lionel Barrymore. Welles and Barrymore mix self-deprecating comedy, a comic inheritance sketch and musical interludes, including a Victor Herbert remembrance. The program closes on a serious note with Barrymore reading George Washington's warning about preserving national unity from the Farewell Address.
This The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast aired on February 2, 1944. It is listed as episode 2 in the archive.
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.
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