An Orson Welles Radio Almanac camp broadcast featuring Susan Hayward, with military-camp comedy, guest banter, domestic sketches and music before Welles closes with a dramatic Shakespeare performance from Richard II. The program mixes service humor and star appearances with a serious literary finale rather than presenting a single continuous story.
This The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast aired on July 12, 1944. It is listed as episode 25 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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