An AFRS Mercury Wonder Show broadcast from the Naval Air Station at Terminal Island featuring Lucille Ball. Welles and Ball trade military-camp comedy and perform a prolonged audition-and-kissing gag with a sailor, along with music and other variety material. The program finishes with Welles turning from comedy to Shakespeare, delivering the St. Crispin's Day speech and related passages from Henry V.
This The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast aired on May 3, 1944. It is listed as episode 15 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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