# |
Date |
Program |
1 |
June 7, 1946 |
"Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne, based on the musical Welles was then directing on Broadway. Music by Cole Porter, lyrics by Noël Coward Cast: Orson Welles (Fix), Arthur Margetson (Phileas Fogg), Larry Laurence (Passepartout), Mary Healy (Princess Aouda), Julie Warren (Molly Muggins)[1][2] |
2 |
June 14, 1946 |
"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas Cast: Orson Welles (Edmond Dantès), Julie Warren (Mercédès); with Stefan Schnabel, Guy Spaull, Brainerd Duffield[1][3] |
3 |
June 21, 1946 |
"The Hitch-Hiker" by Lucille Fletcher Cast: Orson Welles, Alice Frost[4]: 396 [5] |
4 |
June 28, 1946 |
"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë Cast: Orson Welles (Rochester), Alice Frost (Jane Eyre), Guy Spaull, Stefan Schnabel, Mary Healy, Abby Lewis[4]: 396 [6] |
5 |
July 5, 1946 |
"A Passenger to Bali" by Ellis St. Joseph[4]: 397 [7] |
6 |
July 12, 1946 |
"The Search for Henri Le Fevre" by Lucille Fletcher Cast: Orson Welles, Mercedes McCambridge, Julie Warren, Brainerd Duffield[4]: 397 [8] |
7 |
July 19, 1946 |
"Life With Adam" by Hugh Kemp Host: Orson Welles, presenting a comic radio play originally produced for Stage 46 in Toronto by Andrew Allen. Cast: Fletcher Markle (Adam Barneycastle), Grace Mathews (Eve), John Drainie (Chester), Betty Garde (Jenkins), Hedley Rainie (Waiter, Producer, others); with Patricia Loudry, Mercedes McCambridge[4]: 397 [9] |
8 |
July 26, 1946 |
"The Moat Farm Murder" by Norman Corwin Cast: Orson Welles (Dougal), Mercedes McCambridge (Cecile)[4]: 398 [10] |
9 |
August 2, 1946 |
"The Golden Honeymoon" by Ring Lardner Cast: Julie Warren, Brainerd Duffield, Mercedes McCambridge, Mary Healy, Ted Osborne, Stefan Schnabel, Santos Ortega Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet read by Orson Welles[4]: 398 [11] |
10 |
August 9, 1946 |
"Hell on Ice" by Edward Ellsberg Cast: Orson Welles, John Brown, Elliott Reid, Byron Kane, Norman Field, Earle Ross, Lurene Tuttle[4]: 398 |
11 |
August 16, 1946 |
"Abednego the Slave" by Orson Welles and John Tucker Battle Cast: Orson Welles, Norman Field, Earle Ross, Joe Granby, Barbara Jean Wong, Carl Frank, Byron Kane, John Brown, William Johnstone, Elliott Reid, William Alland[4]: 399 [12] |
12 |
August 23, 1946 |
"I'm a Fool" by Sherwood Anderson and "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe Cast: Orson Welles, William Alland, Joe Granby, Elliott Reid, Norman Field, Carl Frank, others[4]: 399 [13] |
13 |
August 30, 1946 |
"Moby Dick" by Herman Melville Cast: Orson Welles (Ahab), William Alland, Byron Kane, John Brown, Earle Ross, Elliott Reid[4]: 399 [14] |
14 |
September 6, 1946 |
"The Apple Tree" by John Galsworthy Cast: Orson Welles, Norman Field, Mary Lansing, Lurene Tuttle, Jerry Farber, others[4]: 399 |
15 |
September 13, 1946 |
"King Lear" by William Shakespeare Cast: Orson Welles (King Lear), John Brown (Narrator); with Agnes Moorehead, Edgar Barrier, William Alland, Mary Lansing[1] "Cynara", a poem by Ernest Dawson, read by Welles to conclude the Mercury Summer Theatre series[4]: 399 |