A wartime Mercury variety broadcast from Chicago's Wrigley Building, mixing home-front and sponsor material with comedy about Chicago life and the Quiz Kids, music, and dramatic performance. The program closes with a forceful Shakespearean excerpt centered on Richard's ambition for the English crown.
This The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast aired on June 21, 1944. It is listed as episode 22 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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