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...weeks before, Welles and his producing partner John Houseman had been told they were hired to put on "The Mercury Theatre on the Air" (also known as "First Person Singular") as a nine-week summer re-placement in the Lux slot, Monday nights from 9 to 10 on CBS. So they scurried for a property, chose Bram Stoker?s epistolary novel "Dracula" and, in an all - night cut - and - paste session at Reuben?s Deli, assembled the adaptation. The pressure isn?t evident in the show, but the furious energy is. From the first minutes, which turned Jonathan Harker...
...first nine-week run, "The Mercury Theatre On the Air" was what was called a sustaining program. No commercial sponsors picked up the bill; William Paley?s CBS paid for the Mercury, to fill time and attract listeners. It was rare - unique, in fact, as listeners were informed each week - for "a complete theatrical producing company" to present original pro-gramming. But it wasn?t rare for CBS to run sustaining shows: in 1938, three-quarters of its air time was filled with them. The Mercury got $50,000 for the nine hours, from which...
...MONDAYS, when the special issues appear, the CBS Early Show will preview the choices...
...There's something grimly funny about the fact that the news coverage of the Chandra Levy disappearance, and of the still unfolding, formerly private life of Representative Condit, has itself become an issue. CBS' Dan Rather - acting from old-fashioned journalistic principle and also, it may be, from a touch of what might be called artful self-righteousness - has rather grandly declined, for the most part, to cover the Levy-Condit business, on grounds it is essentially a non-story that has been disgustingly sensationalized by the media...
...Minutes devoted to it on the CBS Evening News...