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Line 2,383: \|Guest: [[Ruth Terry]]<br>"With Your Wings" by [[John Steinbeck]]<br>Scenes from ''Hamlet''<br>Broadcast from Long Beach Coast Guard Camp, California \|} ==1946== ==='''''[[The Mercury Summer Theatre on the Air]]'''''=== Broadcast on [[CBS Radio]] from June to September 1946. ===Episodes=== * [http://archive.org/details/1946MercurySummerTheatre Mercury Summer Theatre episodes, Part 1 - available for download at archive.org (all in the public domain)] * [http://archive.org/details/1946MercurySummerTheatrepart2 Mercury Summer Theatre episodes, Part 2 - available for download at archive.org (all in the public domain)] Unless otherwise noted, the source for episode and cast information is ''Orson Welles on the Air: The Radio Years'' (1988), published by [[Paley Center for Media\|The Museum of Broadcasting]].<ref name="Museum of Broadcasting radio collection">''Orson Welles on the Air: The Radio Years.'' New York: [[Paley Center for Media\|The Museum of Broadcasting]], catalogue for exhibition October 28–December 3, 1988, pp. 53–62</ref> {\| class="wikitable" \|+''Mercury Summer Theatre on the Air''{{'}}s 1946 Episodes !# !Date !Program \|- \|1 \|June 7, 1946 \|''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]'' by [[Jules Verne]], [[Around the World (musical)\|based on the musical Welles was then directing on Broadway.]]<br />Music by [[Cole Porter]], lyrics by [[Noël Coward]]<br />Cast: Orson Welles (Fix), [[Arthur Margetson]] (Phileas Fogg), [[Enzo Stuarti\|Larry Laurence]] (Passepartout), [[Mary Healy]] (Princess Aouda), Julie Warren (Molly Muggins)<ref name="Museum of Broadcasting radio collection"/> \|- \|2 \|June 14, 1946 \|''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' by [[Alexandre Dumas]]<br />Cast: Orson Welles (Edmond Dantès), Julie Warren (Mercédès); with Stefan Schnabel, Guy Spaull, Brainerd Duffield<ref name="Museum of Broadcasting radio collection"/> \|- \|3 \|June 21, 1946 \|''[[The Hitch-Hiker (radio play)\|The Hitch-Hiker]]'' by [[Lucille Fletcher]]<br />Cast: Orson Welles, Alice Frost<ref name="Rosenbaum">[[Orson Welles\|Welles, Orson]], and [[Peter Bogdanovich]], ''[[This is Orson Welles]]''. New York: [[HarperCollins]] Publishers 1992 ISBN 0-06-016616-9. Welles career chronology by editor [[Jonathan Rosenbaum]], pp. 345–399</ref> \|- \|4 \|June 28, 1946 \|''[[Jane Eyre]]'' by [[Charlotte Brontë]]<br />Cast: Orson Welles (Rochester), Alice Frost ([[Jane Eyre (character)\|Jane Eyre]]), Guy Spaull, [[Stefan Schnabel]], Mary Healy, Abby Lewis<ref name="Rosenbaum"/> \|- \|5 \|July 5, 1946 \|''A Passenger to Bali'' by Ellis St. Joseph<ref name="Rosenbaum"/> \|- \|6 \|July 12, 1946 \|''The Search for Henri Le Fevre'' by Louise Fletcher<br />Cast: Orson Welles, [[Mercedes McCambridge]], Julie Warren, Brainerd Duffield<ref name="Rosenbaum"/> \|- \|7 \|July 19, 1946 \|''Life With Adam'' by Hugh Kemp<br />Host: Orson Welles, presenting a comic radio play originally produced for Stage 46 in Toronto by Andrew Allen.<br />Cast: [[Fletcher Markle]] (Adam Barneycastle), Grace Mathews (Eve), [[John Drainie]] (Chester), [[Betty Garde]] (Jenkins), Hedley Rainie (Waiter, Producer, others); with Patricia Loudry, Mercedes McCambridge<ref name="Rosenbaum"/> \|- \|8 \|July 26, 1946 \|''The Moat Farm Murder'' by [[Norman Corwin]]<br />Cast: Orson Welles (Dougal), Mercedes McCambridge (Cecile)<ref name="Rosenbaum"/> \|- \|9 \|August 2, 1946 \|''The Golden Honeymoon'' by [[Ring Lardner]]<br />Cast: Julie Warren, Brainerd Duffield, Mercedes McCambridge, Mary Healy, Ted Osborne, Stefan Schnabel, [[Santos Ortega]]<br>Excerpts from ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' read by Orson Welles<ref name="Rosenbaum"/> \|- \|10 \|August 9, 1946 \|''Hell on Ice'' by [[Edward Ellsberg]]<br />Cast: Orson Welles, John Brown, Elliott Reid, Byron Kane, Norman Field, [[Earle Ross]], [[Lurene Tuttle]]<ref name="Rosenbaum"/> \|- \|11 \|August 16, 1946 \|''Abednego the Slave'' by Orson Welles and John Tucker Battle<br />Cast: Orson Welles, Norman Field, Earle Ross, Joe Granby, [[Barbara Jean Wong]], Carl Frank, Byron Kane, John Brown, William Johnstone, [[Elliott Reid]], [[William Alland]]<ref name="Rosenbaum"/> \|- \|12 \|August 23, 1946 \|''I'm a Fool'' by [[Sherwood Anderson]] and ''[[The Tell-Tale Heart]]'' by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]<br />Cast: Orson Welles, William Alland, Joe Granby, Elliott Reid, Norman Field, Carl Frank, others<ref name="Rosenbaum"/> \|- \|13 \|August 30, 1946 \|''[[Moby-Dick\|Moby Dick]]'' by [[Herman Melville]]<br />Cast: Orson Welles (Ahab), William Alland, Byron Kane, John Brown, Earle Ross, Elliott Reid<ref name="Rosenbaum"/> \|- \|14 \|September 6, 1946 \|''The Apple Tree'' by [[John Galsworthy]]<br />Cast: Orson Welles, Norman Field, Mary Lansing, Lurene Tuttle, [[Jerry Farber]], others<ref name="Rosenbaum"/> \|- \|15 \|September 13, 1946 \|''[[King Lear]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]]<br />Cast: Orson Welles (King Lear), John Brown (Narrator); with Agnes Moorehead, Edgar Barrier, William Alland, Mary Lansing<ref name="Museum of Broadcasting radio collection"/><br />"Cynara", a poem by Ernest Dawson, read by Welles to conclude the ''Mercury Summer Theatre'' series<ref name="Rosenbaum"/> \|} ==1951-52==