Words At War Episode 47 “The Curtain Rises“ Released May 3, 1944.
Words At War, the series that brings you radio versions of the leading war book another adaptation of an important war book, “The Curtain Rises”. “The Curtain Rises” is the story of the beginning of the real show for the American Army; it’s a logical title. This book covers incidents that happened in Trinidad, Cairo, Palestine, Russia, North Africa and Sicily.
In Sicily Quentin Reynolds discovered the American army. It was the first time he had seen the American soldiers in combat. Reynolds seems to have discovered in the war zone “a great and gorgeous America that he never knew existed before. The part of Quentin Reynolds is played by Roland Winters.