The Count Of Monte Cristo

The Mercury Theater on the air. The Columbia Broadcasting System takes pride in bringing you Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air in another broadcast of the unique series which signalizes radio's first presentation of a complete theatrical producing company.

For these programs, the regular member stations of the Columbia Broadcasting System are joined by the coast-to-coast network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Tonight the Mercury Theater turns to another of the great narratives and adventure stories of the world of literature, but Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Duma.

And here again is the director, the star and producer of these broadcasts, Orson Wells. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. There is no reasonable explanation of Alexander Duma. He 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 Negroes. 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, a ball and a bullfight were organized for him in Seville and finally in Algiers, the

customs men let his baggage through without examination. things don't and can't happen today, but then neither does Alexander Dumas 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 equalled in the arts only by Ruben's studio.

There's a good story about what Dumas Pare told Dumas Feas. I've just read your latest book, Have You My Son, said Yuma, what's it about? I'm not sure I have. It is no secret and no shame either that the Chateau Montecristo was haunted by many ghost writers and that its owner signed his name to more books than anyone could ever write.