The Columbia Broadcasting System and its Associated Stations present Orson Wells and the Mercury Theater on the air. Oh, Tonight for the 20th broadcast in this series of great narratives dramatatized, produced, and directed by Orson Wells,

return again to one of the classics of the last century, The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.

Orson Wells and the Mercury Theater on the air in the Pickwick Papers

starring Orson Wells as Alfred Jingle and Sergeant Buzzfuzz. was.

May the 12th, 1827.

In special session of the corresponding society of the Pickwick Club, Samuel Pickwick Chairman presiding,

unanimously resolved that the first expedition of the society be devoted to the study of the habits and customs of the landed

gentry of southern England in pursuant of which places are to be reserved on a

Commodore coach down from Golden Cross to Rochester whence the party will proceed by Kaddich, the manner of

Dingley-Dell in the County of Suffolk, England.

Signed, Samuel Pickwick, Permanent Chairman.

Nathaniel Winkle, Permanent Vice Chairman, Tracy Tupman,

Permanent Ottery Treasure.

Augustus Snobgrass, Permanent Secretary. Comidor, Comidor,

Comidor, Comidor Express Coast, starting now for the

Cajevo Brok, Brokett, Grofton, equal Grille and Rochester.

Bright and still was the day,

bar me the air, and beautiful the appearance of every object

as our illustrious chairman rose from his bed in castle street and proceeded to put

himself into his clothes and his clothes into his portmante as he sat down to breakfast a casual observer

might possibly have remarked nothing extraordinary in the bald head and circular spectacles which were intensely turned towards the grilled kidney that lay on the plate before him.

To those who knew that the gigantic brain of Pickwick

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