An Orson Welles Radio Almanac variety show featuring Betty Hutton. The broadcast combines comedy, audience banter and Hutton's energetic musical performance, including 'The Rocking Horse Ran Away,' then shifts into a solemn wartime remembrance of the fighting in the Pacific. Welles closes by honoring the dead and framing their sacrifice as part of the larger Allied effort to defeat tyranny.
This The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast aired on March 22, 1944. It is listed as episode 9 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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