Julius Ceasar

The Mercury Theater on the air. The Columbia Broadcasting System takes pleasure tonight in bringing you the first of a new series of weekly broadcasts by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air. Two months ago this brilliant Broadway company came to radio as the first complete theatrical producing unit ever to take the air.

Hailed by stage critics as the brightest moon to rise during recent years over New York's legitimate theater. The name of Orson Welles has become a by word to the greater Broadway of the country as a whole. After nine weeks this is what the radio critics say. Radio dial declares everything was well night perfect. A feather in the cap of the Columbia broadcasting system. Bill

Byrd and the Pasadena, California independent units. The program sparkled with originality, cleverness and skilled acting. The series suggests new avenues of approach in the development of radio drama. Says the St. Louis Democrat, a master of the theatre, the at-stage or radio. Mr. Wells' choice of classics is a master strike, a must for any listener declares the Camden New Jersey Post. And

finally the Cleveland Plain Dealer research. There was nothing in the production the year could not see. Now I have it for Orson Wells to produce, well, a wish of, radio shows, and so tonight by overwhelmed popular demand, Orson Wells and the Mercury Theater on the air open a new cycle of broadcast dramas

with a radio production of their greatest stage success to date, Shakespeare's Caesar. And here is Orson Welles himself to tell you about it. The director of the Mercury Theater, the star and producer of these programs, Orson Welles.