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

in the fourth broadcast of a unique new series, dramatizing famous narratives by great authors.

This is the first time that a complete ethical 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 the Mercury Theater on the air presents 39 steps by John Bucking,

with Orson Wells as Richard Hannae and Marmaduke Jopley. Here is Orson Welles.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

I cannot divulge the full name of the author of the 39 steps.

Seven university degrees and a title make him a gentleman and a scholar and also practically unpronounceable.

But I think you'd like to know if you didn't that it is the present Governor-General

of the Dominion of Canada

and first Baron of Tweedsmuir

who perpetrated this tall and shamelessly exciting

spy story about high doings in Scotland.

Lord Tweedsmure, who in private life is a publisher,

is himself very properly a Scotsman, who regards the sensational diversity of his responsibilities with the special calm of his nation. I regard my business, he says, as my profession.

Writing as my amusement, and politics is my duty.

The world. The

The Oh, Yellow, Oh, I'm sorry, I was a little, Oh, cock to fight again?

I'm sorry.

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