Abe Lincoln In Illinois
Broadcast: November 6, 1938
Starring:
Clifton Fadiman,
Raymond Massey,
Herbert Rudley,
Howard Da Silva,
Helen Jepson,
Milton Cross,
Frank Black,
Ben Grauer,
RCA Victor,
Herbert Brown,
Marion Rooney
Added: Feb 20 2023
The Magic Key turns opening the door to a star studded hour of comedy, drama, music and radio variety including a scene from Robert Sherwood's sensational hit Abe Lincoln In Illinois starring Raymond Massey as Lincoln.
There is also a short story of the history of radio from December1901 when Guglielmo Marconi receives his first radio waves from across the Atlantic. It also includes as an example of radio broadcasting a speech by Adolf Hitler to the people of Germany in in 1938.
Metropolitan Opera leading soprano star Helen Jepson sings Vissi D'Arte from the second act of Puccini's opera La Tosca.