On August 30, 1937, Orson Welles' Mercury Theater presents Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare. The cast includes Tallulah Bankhead and Cedric Hardwicke
amid Mercury Theater regulars Orson Welles, Mark Smith, Estelle Winwood, Robert
Strauss, Helen Menken, Burford Hampden, John Griggs, Ray Collins, Niles Welch,
Sydney Smith and Conway Tearle (narrator). Music by Victor Bey.

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Four years earlier, when Welles was 17, he made a color film short of the dress
rehearsal of a production of the play Twelfth Night at his alma mater Todd School
for Boys. Welles designed the costumes and conceived and created the sets. In July–
August 1933, the play received the silver cup from the Chicago Drama League after
competition at the Century of Progress Exposition at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.
The full film was lost, but one extended fragment of a copy survived in the private
possession of Welles's former teacher and lifelong mentor Roger Hill, who produced
the play. (wiki)

It is interesting how much Welles reputation ascended in a mere four years, enough
to allow the casting of then stars Bankhead and Cedric Hardwicke in this Mercury 
Theater radio production. Many of the other players in Twelfth Night also had now 
largely forgotten, but distinguished careers on Broadway and in Hollywood. (Conway
Tearle, for example, had over 90 film credits and appeared in over 20 Broadway
productions.) Look them up on the web for more fun info.