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INVASION PANIC IN U.S

... PANIC IN U.S. A broadcast over the Columbia system of H. G. Wells' film, *' The War of the Worlds, caused panic among susceptible listeners all over the United States last night Mr Orson Welles, the producer, had substituted names of American towns. In ...

Published: Monday 31 October 1938
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

STATE OPENS INQUIRY INTO BROADCAST THAT SHOOK U.S

... frantic telephone calls. Wells Upset Mr Jacques Chambrun, Mr H. C. Wells's representative in New York, said that Mr Wells was deeply concerned that the wireless dramatisation of his book should have caused such alarm. Mr Wells had cabled him declaring ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1938
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 723 | Page: 9 | 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

AN OLD SCHEMER

... generation —so, pal no, Bill mould have to be sacrificed o Anyway: . Joe soliloquised, he can parson's 'buoy,' an' can't, and o,rson's 'hairy' don't hurt curtains.• ..m.th it bites my tongue somethin' Yes, Bill, it's got ter he, and I'll 'is host matt, it ...

Published: Friday 19 August 1938
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 454 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SPARE THE BOUQUETS AT DENS

... expect him and Pat.orson to carry on the attack practically unaided. His goal was a binder —probably the pick of the dozen. George M'Lean glittered but fitfully, and the right wing was practically non-existent. As for the defence—well, their pluck was ...

Published: Monday 26 September 1938
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 660 | Page: 9 | Tags: none