A Tale Of Two Cities

The Colombian network takes pride in presenting Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air in the third broadcast of a unique new series dramatizing famous narratives by great authors. This is the first time that a complete theatrical producing company has been brought to radio and the Colombian network again welcomes Mr. Welles and his associates to its own stations

and to the stations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation coast to coast. week, Orson Welles invites our listeners to suggest their favorite titles. And tonight, at your request, the Mercury Theater on the Air presents A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, with Orson Welles as Dr. Manette and Sidney Cotton, A Tale of Two Cities.

1767. I, Alexander Manet, unfortunate physician, write this melancholy paper in my doleful cell in the Bastille. Hope has quite departed from my breast. I write these words with a rusty iron point dipped in scrapings of certain charcoal from the chimney mixed with blood one cloudy night ten years ago I was walking along the key by the

river a minute that is my name that is my name formerly above a I am that doctor Manhattan will you please enter the carriage doctor minute gentlemen pardon me that I I usually inquire who does need the honor to seek my assistance.

Sir, your clients are people of condition, and not will you please enter the carriage? They were armed and I was not. I got in in silence. We left the streets behind, through the North Bannier, onto a country road, and presently stopped at a solitary house.

I saw that the two men were brothers. I found a patient in a high fever of the brain, lying on a bed. She was a woman of great beauty, and young certainly not past twenty.