A Mercury Wonder Show broadcast from an Air Transport Command base in Long Beach featuring Marjorie Reynolds. The service-camp variety format includes military comedy, music and a parody of Donovan's Brain in which mad scientists experiment on the living brain of a radio announcer. Welles closes with a wartime aviation poem and thanks the base personnel who hosted the broadcast.
This The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast aired on May 31, 1944. It is listed as episode 19 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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