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The Count Of Monte Cristo

The Campbell Playhouse · October 1, 1939 · 58 min · 7,958 words

The transcript of “The Count Of Monte Cristo”, an episode of The Campbell Playhouse first broadcast October 1, 1939. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Orson Welles on the Air plays The Campbell Playhouse free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Campbell suits presents the Campbell playhouse. Awesome well. The Campbell playhouse brings you those famous lines again. Revives tonight for you the world's favorite romance.

This is awesome well. Speaking to you only after a low bow to the memory of Henry Miller and James O'Neill and all the rest of his betters who played the wonderful mysterious gentlemen from Cauticard the Forends.

of the author of Alexander Dumas who wrote Monte Cristo, there is no reasonable explanation. Dumas was a rich man, we note with interest that he went bankrupt in the theater. He was a revolutionary, his grandfather was a Marquis, his grandmother was a Negro.

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, The ball and the bullfight were organized for him in Seville, and finally, in Algiers, the customs man let his baggage through without examination.

Such things don't and can't happen today. But then, neither does Alexander Duma himself the wildest romance of a man who could and did openly maintain at 70, numerous establishments and a literary factory as well whose quantitative output is equal in the arts only by the fabulous Studio of Rubens.

Good story about what Dumas Payer told Dumas Peace. Father, to the inventor of Camille, I have just read your latest book. Have you, my son, said Dumas Payer? What's it about? I'm not sure I have.

It's no secret and no shame either that the Chateau Mount of Christo 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 build with his own hands.

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