The Mercury Theater on the air.

No theatrical organization has done more in recent years to stimulate interest in the American

stage than the Mercury Theater, whose outstanding productions of last winter under the direction

of Orson Wells were the sensation of the theatrical season.

Julius Caesar in modern dress that you make as holiday, Mark Blitzstein's The Cradle

Will Rock, Bernard Shaw's Hot Break House, proved to the public the vitality and genius

of this new organization.

This summer, the Colombian network introduced Orson Wells and his company for the first

time to radio, and tonight we present the Mercury Theater on the air in the fifth broadcast

of its unique new series, Dramatizing Famous Narratives by Great Authors.

CBS again welcomes Mr. Wells and his associates to Columbia stations and to the stations of the

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

And here is Orson Wells to tell you about these stories himself.

Mr. Wells.

Good evening.

Tonight, as you were duly warned last week, we are trying out something altogether new.

We're telling three stories instead of one.

Three short stories instead of a single long one.

There's about love and ghosts and horse races.

Three stories in the first person singular about young people for grown-ups.

I'm a fool by Sherwood Anderson is the first of the three.

Let's begin at three o'clock one October afternoon.

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