THE GARDEN OF ALLAH
by Robert Smythe Hichens & Orson Welles
 Campbell Playhouse's "THE GARDEN OF ALLAH" by Robert Smythe Hichens Produced and Scripted by Orson Welles with Claudette Colbert
PLOT SUMMARY: Domini,
an heiress who has led a cloistered life, visits the North African
desert for spiritual renewal. There she meets Boris, recently escaped
from a Trappist monastery. Their friendship ripens into love, but he
conceals his past from her. Then in a remote oasis, they meet a man who
knows his secret The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown. The show first broadcast on CBS and CBC in July 1938. It ran without a sponsor until December of that year, when it was picked up by Campbell’s Soup and renamed The Campbell Playhouse. Approximate play time of 1 hour
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