The Columbia Network takes pride in presenting Orson Wells in the first production of a unique new summer series by the Mercury Theater on the air. Oh, I'm not. In a single year, the first in the life of the Mercury Theater,

Orson Wells has come to be the most famous name of our time in American drama.

Says Collier's magazine,

23-year-old Orson Wells threw a bombshell into Broadway.

Robert Benchley writes in the New Yorker,

the production of the Mercury, as I should say, just about perfect.

Time magazine declares, the brightest moon that has risen over Broadway in years.

Wells should feel at home in the sky, for the sky is the only limit which his ambitions recognize and finally the united press remark

meteoric rise of Orson World's Mercury theatre continues unabated with four hit shows in its

first year the Mercury might well close its door on a season

unparalleled in Broadway history but Mr Wells has long been working on a project for a

greater audience the broadways of the entire United States. The Columbia Network is proud to give

Orsonwell the opportunity to bring to the air those same qualities of vitality and imagination

that have made him the most talked of

theatrical director in America today and it is this project which

Columbia brings you this summer the first time in its history that radio

has ever extended such an invitation to an entire theatrical institution.

But here is Orson Wells himself to tell you about it.

The director of the Mercury Theater, the star and producer of these programs,

Orson Well. Good evening. We're starting off tonight with the best story of its kind ever written.

You will find it in every representative library of classic English narratives.

His Bramstokers Dracula.

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