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AMAZING SCENES OF HYSTERIA

... test and black-out Paddington because it was felt might be misunderstood. MR. ORSON WELLES KNOWN IN DUBLIN. Orson Welles, producer of the sensational New York broadcast, is well known Dublin. He acted for a season with the Cate Theatre ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1938
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 867 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

COUNTRYWIDE ANGER AS REACTION TO HYSTERIA

... landed. MR. WELLS DEEPLY CONCERNED. NEW YORK. Monday.—Mr. H. G. Wells's representative 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1938
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 559 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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

... Mr. Wells added that the dramatisation was made “with a liberty that amounts to complete rewriting. He considered this a “totally unwarranted liberty.”—Reuter, MR. WELI NEW YORK, Monday.—Mr. H. G. Wells’s representative here states that Mr. Wells was ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1938
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 588 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

UNITED STATES IN GRIP OF HYSTERIA

... MR. WELLS DEEPLY CONCERNED. Mr. Jacques Chanthrun, Mr. 11. G. Wells's representative here, stated today that Mr. Wells was deeply concerned that the wireless dramatisation of his book should have :•aused such alarm in the United States. Mr. Wells had ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1938
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 270 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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

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

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

(L.N.A. Photo.)

... last night when a dramatisation of Mr. H. G. Wells’ fantasy— The War of the Worlds came on the air over the national network of the Columbia Broadcasting System. The programme was the work of Mr. Orson Welles, a young American, who is known as an innovator ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1938
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1042 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ONOADCAST CAUSES PANIC

... the United States on Sunday riMut. Mr.: Orson Welles, the produost of the feature on the Columbia Broadcasting System, substituted names of American cities and towns for the original place names in Mr. H. O. Wells' story of a Martian invasion of the earth ...

Published: Friday 04 November 1938
Newspaper: New Ross Standard
County: Wexford, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 926 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PANIC OVER U.S. BROADCAST

... 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: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 927 | Page: 7 | Tags: none