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

(above from Wikipedia)

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