Panic Over U.S. Broadcast

... the nited States on Sunday nigj;xt. Mr. Orson Welles, the producer of the feature on the Cclumbia broadcasting system, substituted names of American cities and towns for the original place names in Mr. H. G. Wells’s story of a Martian invasion of the earth ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1938
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 284 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BROADCAST PANICS CAUSED BY U.S. VERSION OF H. G. WELLS’S STORY MYTHICAL MARS INVASION INDIGNANT NOVELIST

... here states that Mr. Wells was deeply concerned” that the wireless dramatisation of his book should have alarmed the United States. He said Mr. Wells had cabled him declaring “Columbia Broadcasting System,’ and Mr. Orson Welles, the producer of snread ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1938
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 710 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LISTENERS FEAR END OF WORLD

... Monday. BROADCAST over the Columbia system of H. G. Wells' novel, The War of the Worlds, caused panic among susceptible listeners in all parts of the United States last night. Mr. Orson Welles, the producer of the feature, had substituted the names ...

Published: Monday 31 October 1938
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
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EVACUATIONS FROM NEW YORK

... Itionday.—Broadcast over the Columbia system of H. G. Well's novel, The War of the Worlds caused panic among susceptible listeners in all parts of the United States last night. Mr. Orson Welles. the producer of the feature, had substituted the names ...

Published: Monday 31 October 1938
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 311 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

RADIO PLAY ACCEPTED AS REAL

... was achieved not by any subtle enemy but by a 23-years-old actor. Orson Welles and the small Mercury Theatre Company, who were broadcasting over the Columbia system from New York what Welles calls a story so Improbable that we hesitated to use It because ...

Published: Wednesday 02 November 1938
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 769 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Around and A

... recently in the Unite ! States by the broadcast version of The War of the Worlds.” I was not aware until yesterday that Mr. Orson Welles, the producer of this broadcast, was for some years actor with the Dublin Gate Theatre and a member of Lord Longford’s ...

Published: Wednesday 16 November 1938
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 775 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

U.S. INQUIRY INTO WAR SCARE

... mountains. Mr Jacques Chambrun, Mr H. G. Wells's representative in America, stated yesterday that Mr Wells was deeply concerned that the wireless dramatisation of his book should have caused such alarm. Mr Wells had cabled him declaring that the Columoia ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1938
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 361 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

WELLS NOVEL BROADCAST PANICS U.S. LISTENERS

... Columbia system of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. R. ORSON WELLES, the producer, substituted the names of real American towns for those in [he novel, and in many places listeners failed to realise that the descriptions of devastation which were broadcast ...

Published: Monday 31 October 1938
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 367 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LISTENERS FEAR END OF WORLD

... YORK, Monday. BROADCAST over the Columbia system of H. G. Wells' novel, The War of the Worlds, caused panic among susceptible listeners in all parts of the United States last night Mr. Orson Welles, the producer of the feature, had substituted the names ...

Published: Monday 31 October 1938
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 430 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

AMERICANS TRY TO LAUGH OFF RADIO SCARE

... treat the matter as good joke. A group of Princeton students founded a League for Interplanetary Defence.' inviting Air Orson Welles, the producer of the bioadcast, to become honorary leader of this organisation, which is to 1 provide adequate defence ...

Published: Wednesday 02 November 1938
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 435 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SPRING START

... Mr. Jacques Chambrun, Mr. H. G. Wells’ representative here, stated, today, that Mr. Wells was “deeply concerned” that the wireless dramatisation of his book should have caused such alarm in the United States. Mr. Wells had cabled him declaring that the ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1938
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
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Fiipht From Cities and Towns. Wave of Panic and Mass Hysteria

... hyster:u wt., that u broadcast version had 4I ii. over lit Mr H. G. Well's tr,vel, - The War ut th e Worlds,” the story of a Martian :twits:on of the earth. written by him in 18rJ8. Mr Orson Welles, the producer of the feature, substituted the saboes of American ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1938
Newspaper: East Galway Democrat
County: Galway, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 424 | Page: 1 | Tags: none