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...first minutes, which turned Jonathan Harker?s trip to Castle Dracula into a symphony of thun-der, horses? hooves and whinnies, shouting villagers, shrieking carriage springs and the baying of wolves - set to a breathless mixture of narration and dialogue, and prefigured by the urgent underscoring of Bernard Herrmann?s origi-nal music - listeners must have realized with a thrill that they were in for a splendid summer of weekly drama. Just another conquest for Welles the Boy Wonder...
...Stewart - had worked with Welles on radio. Herman J. Mankiewicz, the screenwriter of "Kane," had penned several "Campbell Playhouse" episodes, including "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" and "Huckleberry Finn." Houseman, who midwifed the "Kane" script, effectively produced the radio shows while Welles made mischief on Broadway or in Hollywood. Herrmann, the "Kane" composer, went way back with Orson. Much of the densely layered "Kane" sound track is an echo of effects and vo-cal tricks from "Mercury" and "Campbell." The first words to be seen in Welles? first feature film are "A Radio Picture"; and, as David Thomson notes...
...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 it was to pay the cast and the staff, except for Herrmann and the musicians. But Welles wasn?t in it for the money; he?d already made money as The Shadow. No: he thought it would be fun to run a radio show...
...dramas were infolded each week in the tense, stale air of CBS Studio One: the minor drama of the current show and the major drama of Orson?s titanic struggle to get it on." By Monday afternoon Houseman had written the adaptation and an introduc-tion about the author; Herrmann had composed a score; the actors had their scripts. Then Welles showed up for the dress rehearsal...
...necklace (Vertigo), a glass of milk on a silver tray (Suspicion), a black lace bra (Psycho) - is placed on a square of red satin in a glass case along with a small black-and-white scrapbook-style photo of the object's film role. The room is dark, Bernard Herrmann's music for Vertigo and Psycho fill the space, and the observers are cast in the role of detectives examining evidence from the crime. It doesn't seem to matter that Mrs. Bates' wax head with human teeth and hair, in the Psycho room, is the only original item...