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	Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	Mercury Theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Later that same year, beginning with assets of only $100, Welles and the Mercury company earned a reputation for their inventive adaptations of William Shakespeare's works: Julius Caesar set in contemporary Fascist Italy, and a voodoo-themed Macbeth with an exclusively African American cast.
		Significant publicity was generated, and The Mercury Theatre on the Air quickly became one of radio's top-rated shows.
		The War of the Worlds notoriety had a welcome side effect of netting the show the sponsorship of Campbell's Soup, guaranteeing its survival for a period, and beginning on December 9, 1938, the show was known as The Campbell Playhouse.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercury_Theater_on_the_Air (638 words)

	The Campbell Playhouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Campbell Playhouse was a sponsored continuation of the Mercury Theater on the Air, a direct result of the instant publicity from the War of the Worlds panic.
		There was a growing schism between Welles, still reaping the rewards of his Halloween night notoriety, and his collaborator John Houseman, still in the producer's chair but feeling more like an employee than a partner.
		Campbell Playhouse was also the title of a television series aired on NBC between 1952 and 1954 as a replacement for The Aldrich Family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Campbell_Playhouse (244 words)

	Radio Hall of Fame - Mercury Theater of the Air, Adventure / Drama
		Although The Mercury Theater on the Air only lasted five months, it was responsible for the most famous production in radio history.
		The Mercury Theater on the Air focused on classic literature; early productions included "Treasure Island," "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "Dracula," which opened the series on July 11, 1938.
		The Mercury Theater on the Air was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1988.
	www.radiohof.org /adventuredrama/mercury.html (226 words)

	A Moment in Time: The Panic Broadcast - Part I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Content: The invasion was harmless, one of the CBS Sunday night broadcasts of the Mercury Theater on the Air, a dramatic retelling of Herbert George Wells' novel, War of the Worlds.
		Orson Welles, the young director of the Mercury Theater had for some time been interested in adapting the story as a radio drama and settled on a broadcast within a broadcast as the plot.
		By 8:15 the audience of the Mercury Theater, which numbered at about six million nationwide had been hooked by Welles and his cast, and many began to take this broadcast very seriously.
	ehistory.osu.edu /world/amit/display.cfm?amit_id=1608 (327 words)

	Mercury Theatre biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Mercury Theater on the Air was an hour-long dramatic radio program which began in the summer of 1938 on the CBS radio network.
		Originally scheduled for nine weeks, the network extended the run into the fall, moving the show from its Monday night slot, where it was the sumemr substitute for the Lux Radio Theater, to a Sunday night slot opposite Edgar Bergen's popular variety show.
		Welles revived the Mercury Theater title for a short series in the summer of 1946.
	mercury-theatre.biography.ms (503 words)

	War of the Worlds
		Mercury member Paul Stewart helped Koch record a rough-cut read-through for Welles, who found the work "boring." For fans of old-time radio, there actually exists in circulation many recordings of read-through and rehearsals of the Mercury Theater radio productions, but none to date of the War of the Worlds rehearsals.
		What they heard was not the opening announcement of The Mercury Theater on the Air, but rather ballroom music being interrupted by news bulletins about strange gasses emanating from the planet Mars.
		The Mercury Theater on the Air was broadcast from 8 to 9 p.m., EST, but the fictional events in the broadcast started at 9 p.m.
	www.old-time.com /otrlogs2/wow_mg.html (3688 words)

	OTRNow - Old Time Radio
		Mercury Theater On The Air - Abraham Lincoln
		Mercury Theater On The Air - The Affairs of Anatole
		Mercury Theater On The Air - Julius Caesar (rehearsal)
	www.otrnow.com /store/discs/index.php?p=disc&cd=MercuryTheater-01.txt (303 words)

	Around the World in 80 Days (OTR - Old Time Radio CD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mercury Theater on the Air Broadcast: October 23, 1938 (Episode 16)
		It first aired as a summer series of nine shows, on CBS affiliated stations and in Canada on the CBC.
		It was the first time a theater company brought drama to the radio as their primary audience.
	www3.telus.net /shawnjor/dra05around.htm (234 words)

	Mercury Theatre History
		In August of that same year The Mercury Theatre was born, starting off with total monetary assets of $100 (about $1150 in modern funds).
		Although not officially a Mercury (the series had been airing for a few weeks before The Mercury even came into existence), several actors who were to become fixtures of The Mercury Theatre of the Air such as Martin Gabel, Alice Frost, Ray Collins, Virginia Welles (Mrs.
		In the show’s second season, it was moved from New York to Hollywood to accomodate Orson Welles and the other Mercury Players, who had signed a contract for their first picture at RKO (In the weeks prior to Campbell’s move to the West coast, Mr.
	www.mercurytheatre.info /history (857 words)

	Orson Welles @ Classic Movie Favorites - Radio
		The Mercury Theater gave Welles a vehicle to show his multi-faceted abilties as writer, director, actor, and producer.
		The Mercury Theater was well respected and demonstrated a quality that was well needed in radio.
		Evenso, Mercury Theater didn't do well in the ratings until the now famous broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" on October 31, 1938.
	classicmoviefavorites.com /welles/radio.html (258 words)

	CRITIQUE :: Orson Welles, The New Deal, and The Mercury Theatre on the Air
		In its brief history, The Mercury Theatre would present the public with a wide view, a sense of enlightenment and a belief in the possibility of change that was inherent to a free society.
		Formed in 1935 as a part of the Works Progress Administration, the Federal Theater Project operated for several years under the leadership of a Vassar College theater professor named Hallie Flannigan.(4) Her vision for the FTP was two-fold.
		As the Mercury Theatre left the air, Welles was already gathering a company of long time associates and new talents to work on a film project.
	www.critiquemagazine.com /article/mercurytheatre.html (4624 words)

	Welcome To To O.R.C.A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Indeed complete tombes have been written about the influence of that one broadcast by Welles's Mercury Theater of the Air.
		Howard Koch's radio dramatization that was used is a masterpiece of radio theater adaptation from another format.
		Lux Radio Theater was an outstanding radio drama series of its day and still compares favorably with today's efforts by broadcasters.
	my.eurekanet.com /~orca/drama.htm (695 words)

	JSB - Project #3 - Plays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As the table shows there were a number of different theater groups broadcasting on the radio.
		Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater on the Air was probably the most famous because of the War of the Worlds production, on 30th October 1938, which caused mass panic across America.
		However the Lux Radio Theater is also well known, its host was Cecil B. De Mille from 1936 - 45, and it was broadcast on the NBC blue network.
	www.otal.umd.edu /~vg/amst205.F96/vj04/drama.html (219 words)

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		On September 15, 1941, THE MERCURY THEATER title again graced the airwaves, for a run of 20 shows.
		On June 7, 1946, The Mercury Theater made one last appearence on radio.
		First done in 1941 in the Mercury Theater series, this show appeared in SUSPENSE, on September 2, 1942 and even stared Orsen Welles.
	www.old-time.com /otrlogs2/mst.log.txt (262 words)

	Thrilling Days of Yesteryear : Thrilling Days of Yesteryear
		The Mercury Theater was scheduled for a nine-week run over CBS, but the critical buzz and favorable press convinced the network to continue the series through the fall, moving it to Sunday nights beginning September 11.
		Programs that were sustained also encouraged experimentation, both in scripting and in sound effects—a Mercury Theater production of The Count of Monte Cristo (8/29/38) featured the story’s dungeon scenes being played from the floor of a CBS restroom, because the acoustics were ideal to recreate the subterranean reverberation.
		I can’t think of one theater productionthat was not postponed, but [in] radio, he knew every week that clock was ticking, that red light [would come] on and say “On the Air.” And good or bad, right or wrong, boy, that was it.
	blogs.salon.com /0003139/2004/02/12.html (1242 words)

	Series Descriptions Page 3
		In December, 1938, Mercury Theatre was picked up by Campbellâs Soup and renamed The Campbell Playhouse.
		Reviving the great Mercury Theater in a short series of adaptations of classic stories and plays.
		The finest radio drama of the 1930âs was The Mercury Theater on the Air, a show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman.
	vintageradioofoklahoma.4t.com /custom3.html (994 words)

	Talk:Ventriloquism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1938, the Mercury Theater of the Air, directed by Orson Welles, aired weekly dramas, such as Treasure Island, Dracula and Julius Caesar, over the CBS network every Sunday night at 8 pm..
		On October 30th 1938, it aired H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds rendered in the style of a radio news story with bulletins from reporters played by actors in the Mercury Theater.
		Ten minutes into the program, the announcer said: “Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Ventriloquism (211 words)

	War of the Worlds at The Vintage Library
		On October 30, 1938 over 6 million listeners tuned in for Mercury Theater on the Air's adaptation of "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells.
		With only a hasty rehearsal and a substantial rewrite just days before, the theater group was only hoping to get through the night without a major flop.
		The breaking news format where a reporter interrupted the regular programming at intervals until taking over the airwaves with the panic and confusion of a Martian invasion proved to be incredibly realistic.
	www.vintagelibrary.com /cat.cfm?catId=168&skey=0 (357 words)

	Free Press News : Printable Format
		Before we fiddle still more with the First Amendment — and the price for doing so goes even higher — it might be useful for us, and the FCC, to stop, take a breath and look back 60-plus years, when another call for censorship swept the land.
		On Oct. 30, Orson Welles’; Mercury Theater of the Air performed a radio version of H. Wells’ “War of the Worlds,”; the famous story of Martians invading the Earth.
		And when they did, they came to the Mercury Theater, 12 minutes into its own show and “broadcasting” what sounded like a live newscast describing the horrors of a Martian invasion.
	www.freepress.net /news/print.php?id=5674 (980 words)

	mercury
		Mercury, the first planet from the Sun in our solar system.
		Mercury, France, a commune in the Savoie département of France.
		Mercury Marine - #1 on the Water - Mercury Marine
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	Orson Welles: Independent Profile
		The widespread fanfare of publicity brought to the Mercury Theatre of the Air a wealthy sponsor.
		He is tremendously loyal to the members of the Mercury company and is using most of them in his pictures.
		On forming Mercury Productions, Inc., in partnership with Jack Moss, Welles announced that hereafter his activities would be centralized in Hollywood.
	www.cobbles.com /simpp_archive/orson-welles_biography.htm (848 words)

	Sci-Fi Site of the Week
		Also featured on the page is an essay on the history of the radio program, which tells how Welles created the show and lists the many luminaries of stage and screen who participated in various episodes.
		The Mercury Theater On the Air is probably best known for its panic-inducing broadcast of
		Unlike these mutant offspring, though, Mercury's radio plays were not confined to the SF genre.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue287/site.html (701 words)

	Rovisoft - Science Technology Aerospace Aeronautics Lighter Than Air Hindenburg - Free Directory Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1938, Howard Koch was a 33-year-old lawyer-turned-script writer when John Houseman, Orson Welles' co-producer of the CBS radio show "The Mercury Theater on the Air," handed him a copy of "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells.
		The Paris Air Show has showcased the aviation sector's future flight paths, from superjumbos to nano-drones, with even dirigibles...
		It was the beginning of the rout of civilization, of the massacre of mankind," wrote H.G. Wells in his classic novel "War of the Worlds," words that then as now tap into man's fears of being attacked by the unimaginable and indefensible.
	www.rovisoft.com /Science/Technology/Aerospace/Aeronautics/Lighter_Than_Air/Hindenburg (448 words)

	Inkblots: Citizen Kane by William R. Coughlan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Welles was determined to put together a cast of unknowns, choosing not to play within the Hollywood system but to work with actors he could feel confident directing.
		For the most part, that meant bringing together the stable of actors from his Mercury Theater (and its radio counterpart, the Mercury Theater on the Air): Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, and newcomer Dorothy Comingore, none of whom had acted in features before.
		Also drawing from the theater, the pair used on-set lighting to flen the background before the foreground for transitions; an old stage trick, but when paired with photography, the effect was to dissolve from one segment to the next in stages rather than all at once.
	www.inkblotsmag.com /critiques/film/citizenkane.php (2027 words)

	He Dreamed the Future
		In between, about four million Americans were treated to the greatest Halloween trick of all time--the Mercury Theater on the Air's October 30, 1938, radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' 1898 novel The War of the Worlds.
		Orson Welles, founder and director of the Mercury group, decided that a special Halloween broadcast might attract listeners away from his program's competition, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.
		When his friend Elizabeth Bowen visited him there after one air raid, she found him trembling, but it wasn't the aerial bombardment that had frightened him.
	www.worldandi.com /newhome/public/2004/january/writerspub.asp (5445 words)

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