The Columbia Network takes pride in presenting Orson Wells and the Mercury Theater on the

air. In the third broadcast of a unique new series dramatizing famous narratives by great authors.

This is the first time that a complete theatrical producing company has been brought to radio,

and the Columbia Network again welcomes Mr. Wells and his associates to its own stations and

to the stations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation coast to coast. Every week, Orson Wells invites

our listeners to suggest their favorite titles. And tonight at your request, the Mercury Theater on

the air presents a tale of two cities by Charles Dickens with Orson Wells as Dr. Manette and Sydney

Cotton, a tale of two cities.

I, Alexander Manette, unfortunate physician, write this melancholy paper in my doleful cell in the bestie.

Hope has quite departed from my breast. I write these words with a rusty iron point dipped in

scrapings of certain charcoal from the chimney mixed with blood. One cloudy night, ten years ago,

I was walking along the key by the river. Dr. Manette, Dr. Manette. That is my name. Dr. Manette,

formerly a boveg. I am that Dr. Manette. Will you please enter the carriage, Dr. Manette?

Gentlemen, pardon me, but I usually inquire who does me the honor to seek my assistance.

Dr., your clients are people of condition, enough. Will you please enter the carriage?

They were armed and I was not. I got him in silence.

We left the streets behind, through the North Banner onto a country road.

In present day, stopped at a solitary house. I saw that the two men were brothers.

In an upper room, I found a patient in a high fever of the brain lying on a bed.

She was a woman of great beauty and young certainly not past 20. Her hair was torn and ragged

and her arms were bound to her side. My father, my brother, one, two, three. How long has she

lasted? It's about the sorrow as that. She has a husband, a father and a brother, a brother.

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