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“ THE WAR OF THE WORLDS ” BROADCAST WHICH CREATED PANIC IN

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1938
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 132 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Many Are Going to Law

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1938
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 450 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

UW

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1938
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 156 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MARS INVASION HYSTERIA IN FEDERAL INQUIRY MO HALIFAX GAS RADIO FANTASY. TRAGEDY, PANIC-STRICKEN LISTENERS FLEE ..

... throughout the United States last night. Mr. Orson Welles, the producer of the feature on the Columbia 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: Tuesday 01 November 1938
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 181 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ANNUAL LOLLIPOP PRIZE

... person who makes the biggest fools out of Am2ricans has been awarded by the students of Brown University, Rhode Island. to Orson Welles, whose War of the Worlds wireless programme alarmed America. The student paper of Brows University recommends that Mr Weles ...

Published: Thursday 24 November 1938
Newspaper: Blyth News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 211 | Page: 8 | 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

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
Type: | Words: 474 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BE

... group of Creat Powers and to reproach them OUR LONDON LETTER. . Politics On The Hearth—Refugees Arrive — A Royal Retreat—Welles And Wells. hospitality would, I understand, be welcomed. he consolidated five acts into one and gave it in modern dress. _ There ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1938
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 812 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

It Makes Them Think

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1938
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 762 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

INSANITY THEORY

... HOLIDAY From Our Dramatic Critic LONDON, Friday Night. Produced last year in New York at the Mercury Theatre by Mr. Orson (Broadcast) Welles, Thomas Dekker's lfith century play, The Shoemaker's Holiday, was described as bawdy. At the Playhouse to-night ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1938
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 411 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... and Derain are among the twentieth-century painters represented in this eclectic exhibition. MR. ORSON WELLES. This is the man who changed the names in Wells's book The War of the Worlds for a broadcast in the U.S.A. This is the man who caused such a scare ...

Published: Wednesday 09 November 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2060 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

Merchant Navy Reserve

... 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