CAUSED U.S. PANIC

... 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: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1734 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... theatre of operations. How well would Americans stand up '© a threat of war, let alone war itself ! An incident that occurred on Sunday furnishes an indication. Mr. Orson Welles, the producer, in a broadcast of :\}l3 H. G. Wells’ novel, The War of the Worlds ...

Published: Wednesday 02 November 1938
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2175 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... hospital WELLS NOVEL BROADCAST CAUSES PANIC US Evacuations From New York DROADCAST over the Columbia system of H G Wells’ novel The War of the worlds” caused panic among susceptible listeners in all parts the United States last night Mr Orson Welles the producer ...

Published: Monday 31 October 1938
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 2516 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

“WAR OF WORLDS” BROADCAST CAUSES PANIC IN AMERICA MP-Son’s Atlantic Dash To Earl Beauchamp’s Bedside EVENING ..

... mess After T housartds Believed HG0 Wells Fantasy Was Real News AMERICA was thrown into panic last night a too-realistic broadcast dramatisation of Mr H G- Wells’s “The War of the Worlds” The producer Mr Orson Welles substituted names of American towns ...

Published: Monday 31 October 1938
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2813 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... END OF WORLD Broadcast of Wells’ Panic NEW YORK Monday TQROADCAST over the Columbia system of II G Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds” caused panic among susceptible listeners in all parts of United States night Mr Orson Welles the producer of the had the ...

Published: Monday 31 October 1938
Newspaper: Grimsby Daily Telegraph
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 3336 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TWO NEW CABINET twogermanarmy MINISTERS CHIEFS “RETIRE” RADIO PANICS AMERICA AIR RAID WARNING BY ’PHONE MR ..

... hysteria throughout the United States last night Mr Orson Welles producer of the feature on the Columbia broadcasting system substituted names of American cities towns for the original place-names in Mr II G Wells’s story of a martian invasion of the earth “The ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1938
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 4752 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FARMHANDS DEATH. Police Conference: Early Developments Expected. Det.-Sergt. Orson. who is assisting Chief ..

... FARMHANDS DEATH. Police Conference: Early Developments Expected. Det.-Sergt. Orson. who is assisting Chief Inspector Bridger, of Scotland Yard in investigating the death of Lewis Arthur Sandford (30), farmhand, of West Dereham. Norfolk, returned to Downham ...

Published: Tuesday 22 March 1938
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 196 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... The Orson Parrot, OM Stratford. B OARD-RFSIDENCE. • Terms strictly moderate. Telephone Stony Stratford 313411 430 CiERTIFIED NURSE and Midwife, fees moderate.-13 The Crescent. Havershara, Wolverton. (pm.l7i FOR One Billiards Table, complete with equipment ...

Published: Friday 16 December 1938
Newspaper: Wolverton Express
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 151 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... The Well-known Manufacturing Chemists spoolallso in T exact formula of nearly all boot known modlelnes, satiskod to soll at lid. Instead of 1/3. One Patent medicine firm made a quarter of a million pound* sad another firm nearly half a million pounds ...

Published: Saturday 13 August 1938
Newspaper: Marylebone Mercury
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 143 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

but both made commendable efforts. to set the forwards an example by shoot- j ing. Torquay s defence did well

... but both made commendable efforts. to set the forwards an example by shoot- j ing. Torquay s defence did well although not extended as they might have been owing to the weakness the Notts, forwards in front of goal. Heller was a great obstructionist at ...

Published: Monday 04 April 1938
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 342 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

WELL-KNOWN BURTON FOOTBALLER. Funeral of Mr. T. C. Metcalfe. SPORTSMEN PAY THEIR TRIBUTE. , WThI ere &et day

... addition to his prominent football career, he was well•known In other sports. being an actlys member of the Coops and Alisopp Bowls Club, and played for tbe club since they joined the Burton League. He was a well Known supporter or the Town. MOURNERS. -- -- ...

Published: Thursday 12 May 1938
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 794 | Page: 1 | Tags: none