Dracula

The Columbia Network takes pride in presenting Horsten Wells in the first production of a unique new summer series by the Mercury Theater on the air. In a single year, the first in the life of the Mercury Theater, Horsten Wells has come to be the most famous name of our time in American drama.

It says Collier's Magazine, 23-year-old Horsten Wells threw a bombshell into Broadway. Robert Benchley writes in The New Yorker, The production of the Mercury, as I should say, just above perfect. magazine declares the brightest moon that has risen over Broadway in years.

Wells should feel at home in the sky, for the sky is the only limit which is ambitions recognized. And finally the United Press remark, meteoric rise of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre continues unabated. With four hit shows in its birth year, the Mercury might well close its door on a season unparalleled in Broadway history. But Mr. Wells has long been working on a project for a greater

The broad ways of the entire United States. The Colombian network is proud to give Orson Well the opportunity to bring to the air those same qualities of vitality and imagination that have made him the most talked of the Atrical Director in America today.

And it is this project which Colombia brings you this summer, the first time in its history that radio has ever extended such an invitation to an entire theatrical institution. institution. But 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. Good evening. We're starting

off tonight with the best story of its kind ever written. You'll find it in every representative library of classic English narratives. His Bram Stoker's Dracula. The next time I speak you I am Dr. Arthur Seward. George Guru has placed Jonathan Harker and Martin Gable plays Dr. Van Helsing. Is Dr. Seward who tells the story and so for the