Heart Of Darkness Life With Father

For seventeen weeks past, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air have brought you Mr. Welles' own dramatization of literary classics, both of the past and from our own time. On all broadcasts but one, the presentation has been a single narrative.

On one occasion, the Mercury players offered in dramatic form three of the world's great short stories. The success of that experiment led to nationwide requests for other brief narratives of contrasting emotional appeal. And so tonight, in their 18th broadcast, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air bring to life two famous short stories, each dealing with a different fundamental human

emotion. The authors are Joseph Conrad and Clarence Day. Tonight Mr. Welles will not only appear in several parts, but will also speak for the two authors as narrator. And here, ladies and gentlemen, is the star and director of the Mercury Theater to tell you about the first presentation. Mr. Orson Well. Good evening. There was a man called Krasjianovski, an agitator

for Polish freedom in the 50s, who was exiled by the Tsar. On the journey, his child was taken ill and when he begged an official to let him stop on his way to Merset, the official said not to bother. What's one baby's life among all these thousands of the official?

If it's dying, leave it behind. Luckily, this expedient was found unnecessary. And the happy ending of the story is that little Joseph Conrad Koshinovsky lived to drop his last name and to learn that careful, fortunate English, which he practiced to the everlasting glory of our literature.

Tonight, we present you with a dramatization of one of the best regarded and most typical of the works of Joseph Conrad. The heart of darkness could be described as a deliberate masterpiece or a downright incantation, a fine piece of prose work at the least.