WELLES, ORSON. Typescript of radio broadcast for "
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WELLES, ORSON Typescript of the radio broadcast for ""His Honor, the Mayor"", 15 pp. Based on a short story by George Ade about civic corruption and free speech in a small American town, the play was originally broadcasted on CBS on April 6, 1941. The broadcast was famously met with criticism from William Randolph Hearst and President Hoover due to communist undertones. Browning to pages; chipping around edges; folded in thirds; otherwise sound.
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