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Ah, Wilderness!
The Campbell Playhouse
Broadcast: Sunday, September
17, 1939
Producer: John Housman
Director: Orson Welles
Sponsored by Campbell Soup Nat Miller
- Ray Collins
Richard - Orson Welles
Commentary - George Jean Nathan
 The
Campbell Playhouse Production
The finest radio drama of the 1930’s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a
show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson
Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive
array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and
George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds
broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown. The
show first broadcast on CBS in July 1938. It ran without a sponsor until
December of that year, when it was picked up by Campbell's Soup and
renamed The Campbell Playhouse. |
