Show Notes
The Columbia Workshop || The Fall of the City | April 11, 1937 Columbia Workshop, pioneered all kinds of special sound effects and other dramatic techniques. In 1937 it put on a poetic drama by Archibald MacLeish called The Fall of the City, featuring a 22-year-old actor with an unforgettably expressive voice. The play was a sensation, which helped point the way to what radio could achieve. It also made the actor, Orson Welles, an overnight star. Adelaide Klein as Dead Woman Carleton Young as 1st Messenger Burgess Meredith as Orator Dwight Weist as 2nd Messenger Edgar Stehli as Priest William Pringle as General Guy Repp, Brandon Peters, Karl Swenson, Dan Davies, and Kenneth Delmar as Antiphonal Chorus
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