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The Mercury Theatre on the Air · October 16, 1938 · 60 min · 8,725 words
The transcript of “Seventeen”, an episode of The Mercury Theatre on the Air first broadcast October 16, 1938. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Orson Welles on the Air plays The Mercury Theatre on the Air free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Fitter on the air! Columbia Broad casting system brings you the 15th program in its weekly dramatic series featuring Orson Welles and the Mercury Fitter on the air.
The brilliant producing company which has been acclaimed by critics throughout the nation for giving to radio the same new stimulus they brought the Broadway. This evening, our play is an adaptation of a modern classic, Both Tarkington 17 with Orson Welles in the part of William Sylvainis Baxter.
But first, the word from the director of the Mercury Theater, the writer, star and producer of these broadcasts, Orson Welles. No man can explain the mystery and misery of being 17. That period, which is almost a full stop in the involved sentence of a man's life.
life. When every man's universe has growing pains and every man is his own hamlet. The talkington has left us a perspective of this sharp condition of human agony, all and beguiling him Sylvanas back as forever abolished. The institution of adolescence. My name is Parchar, Henry Parchar. I live on April Street number 42 wife and one daughter May 18 years old. On one side of
Mrs. Doc Watson's house vacant now. On the other is George Baxter's Mr. and Mrs. and two children. Hello girl about 10 I forget her name boy Willie 17. Just now we've got a visitor a friend of May's staying with us. Little of Prat talks baby talker well i guess we can stand for a weekend
anyway the young folks don't stay around the house these days this time they spend most of the time the main street pharmacy but he called out no and i'm glad well that the back there will be make it bananas let right there is much more same was must be blessed today we got nothing
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