... DRAWING SHOWING MARTIANS ADVANCING WINDSOR.” HAVING BEEN SEEN BY THEM ! THE MARTIANS. On October 30 dramatisation by Orson Welles of H. G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds” was broadcast by the Columbia Broadcasting system. This dramatisation included the ...

... indignation here against H. G. Wells, whom many hold responsible for their fright. But Mr. Wells's New York representative announced to-night that he had received a cable from the author declaring that Mr. Orson Welles, the producer, had exceeded his ...

... is sold out weeks in advance every night. Another of the most striking successes is J ulius Cresar , produced by Orson Welles. Mr. Welles is only twenty-four, and last year he sprang into fame with his all-negro production of Macbeth. This year he has ...

... Romans! Countrymen .. . . It was Brutus (alias Orson Welles, the Shakespearean actor) opening his famous speech on the stage of the Mercury Theatre, New York, to a large audience. Suddenly it began to rain. Welles raised his voice, first to a shout, then to ...

... ran with wet towels round their mouths as protection from poison gas I To give the story added realism the producer, Mr. Orson Welles. set it in an American scene. One unforeseen result was that listeners who switched in after the start were horrified to ...

... Julius Caesar and Dekker’s “ Shoemaker’s Holiday.” The New York organisation is headed by the young producer and manager, Orson Welles, and run on the business side by a young Englishman, John Housman, who was once in the tea trade. Since it opened last ...

... in e a n d beg inning with a word about the success of the Mercury Theatre . The is a repertory venture presided over by Orson Welles and John Houseman . H is in the old and Theatre on 41 st Street , and is an outgrowth of that and exciting W . P . A . ...

... services. Burgess Meredith Orson Welles, and Sylvia Sidney will also star, and the thirteen plays chosen include the British Juno and the Paycock,” Berkeley Square,” The Barretts of Wimpole Street,” and Henry 1V.,” as well as Winterset • Ghosts,” Liliom ...

... author with a view to adapting it for the stage, and a radio dramatisation, made and presented on the air in America by Orson Welles, the Mercury Theatre director, whose radio War of the Worlds ” created such a sensation recently, seems to have been a ...

... one of the big successes of the Broadway season is Julius Caesar in modern dress, produced at the Mercury Theatre by Mr. Orson Welles, who is only twenty-two. That he is old enough to know better is, again, a matter of opinion. From the commercial view ...

... was achieved not by any subtle enemy but by a 23-year-old actor. Orson Welles, and the small Mercury Theatre company, who were broadcasting over the Columbia system from New York what Welles today calls a story so improbable that we hesitated whether to ...

... public which had never known the footlights and four-dimensional entertainment The organisation “discovered” such men as Orson Welles and Houseman, who have now branched off to management on their own. It fascinated Cochran into cabling for rights of Harlem’s ...