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You are listening to the Columbia Broadcasting System's presentation of Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air in Sherlock Holmes.

With Orson Welles in the title role and Ray Collins as Dr. Watson.

We pause a moment for station item attention.

This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Again tonight, the Columbia Broadcasting System, through its affiliated stations coast to coast, has brought you Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the Air, the twelfth production in this unique series featuring Broadway's and radio's most celebrated theatrical producing company.

This evening, the play was Orson Welles' own adaptation of William Gillette's Sherlock Holmes.

In the cast, Dr. Watson, played by Ray Collins, Alice Faulkner by Mary Taylor, Mads Larrabee by Brenda Forbes, James Larrabee by Edgar Barrier, Inspector Foreman by Morgan Farley, Tragen by Richard Wilson, Jurassic by Alfred Shirley, Larry by William Allen, Billy by Arthur Anderson, Professor Moriarty by Eustace Wyatt, and Sherlock Holmes by Orson Welles.

The orchestra was conducted by Bernard Herman, and the production was supervised for CBS by Davidson Taylor.

Thank you, sir.

[instrumental music] You are listening to the Columbia Broadcasting System presentation of Arsenic and Old Lace and The Mercury Theatre on the Air in Sherlock Holmes, with Orson Welles in the title role and Ray Collins as Dr. Watson.

We pause a moment for Station IX announcements.

This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Again tonight, the Columbia Broadcasting System through its affiliated stations coast to coast has brought you Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air, the twelfth production in this unique series featuring Broadway's and radio's most celebrated theatrical producing company.

This evening, the play was Orson Welles' own adaptation of William Gillette's Sherlock Holmes.

In the cast, Dr. Watson played by Ray Collins, Alice Faulkner by Mary Taylor, Madge Larabee by Linda Ford, James Larabee by Edgar Barrier, Inspector Foreman by Morgan Farley, Craggan by Richard Wilson, Brassic by Alfred Shirley, Larry by William Allen, Dilly by Arthur Anderson, Professor Moriarty by Eustace Wyatt, and Sherlock Holmes by Orson Welles.

The orchestra was conducted by Bernard Herman, and the production was supervised for CBS by David T. Taylor.

If you've ever wanted to see, sorry, audio podcast listeners, if you've ever wanted to see somebody that just by looking at them, you could guess that their name was Lieutenant Arthur Tragg.

Here he is, played by Ray Collins.

Now, is that not an Arthur Tragg? Please.

That is Arthur Tragg, a police homicide detective and lead police official on the series.

There were others.

Lieutenant Anderson, played by Wesley Lau, police homicide detective and lead police official, now known as Andy to his friends.

Lau started appearing in the fall of 1961 when Ray Collins began to reduce his participation because of that illness, and he became more prominent.

For a while, some episodes featured Tragg, some Anderson, some both.

In the cast tonight, Dr.

Van Helsing was played by Martin Gable, Jonathan Harker by George Coulouris, Dr. Seward by Orson Welles, the Russian captain by Ray Collins, the mate by Carl Swenson, Mina Harker by Agnes Moorehead, Lucy Westenra by Elizabeth Farrow, and Count Dracula by Orson Welles.

Bernard Herrmann composed the original music and conducted.

Dan Seymour speaking.

Tonight, the Columbia Broadcasting System, through its affiliated stations coast to coast on the network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, has brought you a performance of Alexandre Dumas' great adventure story, The Count of Monte Cristo, as dramatized in the first-person singular by Orson Welles and played by the Mercury Theatre on the Air.

In the cast this evening, Ray Collins as the Abbe Faria, George Couloris as Monsieur Morrel, Edgar Barrier as de Villefort, Eustace Wyatt as Caderousse, Paul Stewart as Old Dantes, Sydney Smith as Fernand Mondego, Richard Wilson as the Officer, William Allen as a Merchant, Anna Stafford as Mercedes, and Orson Welles as Edmond Dantes, the Count of Monte Cristo.

The orchestra was directed by Alexander Semler, and Davidson Taylor supervised the production for CBS.

Dan Seymour speaking.

This is the man in black, here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense.

Our stars tonight are Miss Agnes Moorhead and Mr. Ray Collins.

We have seen these two expert and resourceful players in Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Amberson, in which Miss Moorhead's performance won her the 1942 Film Critics Award.

Mr. Collins will soon be seen in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor film, Salute to the Marines.

If you've been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know that suspense is compounded of mystery and suspicion, dangerous adventure.

In this series are tales calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation, and then withhold the solution until the last possible moment.

And so it is with the Diary of Sophronia Winters and the performances of Agnes Moorhead and Ray Collins, we again hope to keep you in...

Suspense.

And then there's...

William Johnstone, who's playing Gaylord Ravenel, Ray Collins, who's playing Wendy, and I'm playing Captain Andy Hawks.

Finally, Edna Ferber herself, Edna Ferber, who wrote Showboat, comes to our microphone and begins tonight her career as an actress.

Begins it in the service of one of her finest stories and in the character of one of her most famous creations, Parthy Hawks.

With

Orson Welles in the title role and Ray Collins as Dr. Watson.

We pause a moment for station item attention.

This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Again tonight, the Columbia Broadcasting System, through its affiliated stations coast to coast, has brought you Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the Air, the twelfth production in this unique series featuring Broadway's and radio's most celebrated theatrical producing company.

This evening, the play was Orson Welles' own adaptation of William Gillette's Sherlock Holmes.

In the cast, Dr. Watson, played by Ray Collins, Alice Bosner by Mary Taylor, Mads Larrabee by Brenda Forbes, James Larrabee by Edgar Barrier, Inspector Foreman by Morgan Farley, Tragen by Richard Wilson, Drastic by Alfred Shirley, Larry by William Allen, Billy by Arthur Anderson, Professor Moriarty by Eustace Wyatt, and Sherlock Holmes by Orson Welles.

The orchestra was conducted by Bernard Herman, and the production was supervised for CBS by Davidson Taylor.