A Radio Almanac variety broadcast featuring Ann Sothern, with Orson Welles mixing topical comedy, romantic and domestic sketches, music and sponsor material. The program moves through jokes about radio romance and married life, then shifts into more reflective material. Near the close Welles presents a reading about Abraham Lincoln leaving Springfield for Washington, emphasizing the burden of becoming president and the national responsibility that awaited him.
This The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast aired on February 9, 1944. It is listed as episode 3 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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