The Mercury Theater on the air.

The Columbia Broadcasting System takes pride in bringing you Orson Wells and the Mercury Theater on the air

In another broadcast of a unique series which signalizes radio's first presentation of a complete theatrical producing company

For these programs, the regular member stations of the Columbia Broadcasting System are joined by the Coast to Coast Network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Tonight the Mercury Theater turns to another of the great narratives and adventure stories of the world of literature

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumar and here again is the director, the star and producer of these broadcasts, Orson Wells

Good evening ladies and gentlemen

There is no reasonable explanation of Alexander Dumar

He was a rich man, we note with interest that he went bankrupt in the theater

He was a revolutionary, his grandfather was a marquee, his grandmother was a negris

He was born as Napoleon became emperor, he died in poverty as the Germans marched into France

He wrote the Count of Monte Cristo as a newspaper serial and shortly after the last installment a ball and a bullfight were organized for him in Seville and finally in Algiers

The customs men let his baggage through without examination

Such things don't and can't happen today but then neither does Alexander Dumar himself

The wildest romance of a man who could and did openly maintain at 70 numerous establishments and a literary factory as well

who's quantitative output is equaled in the arts only by Ruben's studio

There's a good story about what Dumar Pair told Dumar Fees

Father said the inventor of cameo

I've just read your latest book, have you my son said Dumar Pair? What's it about? I'm not sure I have

There's no secret and no shame either that the Chateau Monte Cristo was haunted by many ghost writers

and that its owner signed his name to more books than anyone could ever write

It is not expected of Pharaoh that he built with his own hands, his own pyramids

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