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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

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

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

REWRITTEN

... Mr. Jacques Chambrun, Mr H. G. Wells' representative in New York, stated that Mr. Wells was deeply concerned. He said that Mr. Wells had cabled him declaring that the Columbia Broadcasting System and Mr. Orson Wells, the producer of the ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1938
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 183 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... and tree-lined Avenues. They have that essential good atmosphere and tone. The Houses are sound—of best possible materials, well finished and fitted ; built with Rustic Tint Bricks and cavity walls. Dual Hot Water System. Electric Clock points, etc. There ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1938
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 310 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Standing By: One Thing and Another

... massacred, so there should be no necessity for all that undignified panic over again. Pyrenean CA EORGE BOR- T row, as is well known to his admirers, has a habit of describ ing in his books superhuman mental and physical feats per formed by him self ...

Published: Wednesday 02 November 1938
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1769 | Page: 15 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Friday 04 November 1938
Newspaper: Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2556 | Page: 14 | Tags: none