The Glass Key (Aired March 10, 1939)
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. The switch occurred on December 9, 1938. In spite of using the same creative staff, the show had a different flavor under sponsorship, partially attributed to a guest star policy in place, which relegated the rest of the Mercury Players to supporting cast for Orson Welles and the Hollywood guest of the week. 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. The writer, as during the unsponsored run, was Howard Koch.
THIS EPISODE:
March 10, 1939. CBS network. "The Glass Key". Sponsored by: Campbell's Soup. A portrait of "the dark ways of the underworld" during the Depression. Crooked politics, murder, violence, a good story. Guest Warden Lawes of Sing Sing is interviewed after the story. Bernard Herrmann (composer, conductor), Edgar Barrier, Effie Palmer, Elizabeth Morgan, Elspeth Eric, Ernest Chappell (announcer), Everett Sloane, Howard Smith, Laura Baxter, Lewis E. Lawes (warden of Sing Sing), Myron McCormick, Orson Welles (host), Paul Stewart, Ray Collins (narrator). 60:10.
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