RADIO PLAY PANIC

... the United States on Sunday 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: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 681 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

RETRACTION WANTED

... cable declared that the “Columbia broadcasting system and Mr Orson Welles, producer of the broadcast, have far overstepped their .-ight? in the matter, and should make a full retraction. Mr Wells added that the dramatis: rtion was made with liberty that ...

Published: Wednesday 02 November 1938
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 650 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

RETRACTION WANTED

... RETRACTION WANTED His cable declared that the “Columbia broadcasting system and Mr Orson Welles, producer of the broadcast, have far overstepped their rights in the matter, and should make a full retraction.” Mr WeMs added that the dramatisation was made ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1938
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 765 | Page: 13 | 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

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

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 

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... BSCSBESS5SX95S5S5SSf zj wjCsiH ftJEjEy Je Or zIa 'r'iL! Vn G Wells Angered By US Radio Scare New York Monday JACQUES CHAMBRUN Mr H G Wells’ representative xU here stated to-day that Mr-Wells was deeply n“e last night’s wireless dramatisation of his book ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1938
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1733 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A POLICE TRANSFER

... have been many end of the world scares, but not one quite like this. The culprit in this case was not Mr. Wells but Mr. Welles—Mr. Orson Welles, whose desire for topographical realism caused gigantic sensation that will not be forgotten for years. It ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1938
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1643 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DAILY RECORD AND MAIL WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 2 1938 This A Morning’s ad- of THE HOLY LAND William Power TILLIE the

... consequent upon the broadcasting of The War of the Worlds ” was Mr Orson Welles a young actor who already had the reputation of having a measure of dynamite in his composition He altered HG Wells’ story to make it more immediately topical he 'is equally free ...

Published: Wednesday 02 November 1938
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2125 | Page: 11 | Tags: none