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Orson Welles, Vol I

Page 87

by Simon Callow


  McLendon, Rose, 219

  Mac Liammóir, Micheál, xi, 50, 78, 84, 88, 89–92, 93, 94, 96–9, 103, 104, 105–6, 107–8, 109, 111, 112, 115–16, 145, 235; All for Hecuba, xi, 85–6, 88–9, 96–7, 100, 107–8, 413; Diarmuid and Gráinne, 78, 84; Put Money in thy Purse, xi; at Woodstock Summer Festival, 156, 157–8, 159, 160, 162, 163, 164–5, 168–70, 171, 172, 173, 174–6, 181

  MacMahon, Aline, 309, 359, 362

  McMaster, Anew, 90, 109–10, 112, 164, 223, 316

  Macready, William Charles, 178, 316

  Macy, Gertrude, 145, 148

  Mad Dog of Europe (Mankiewicz screenplay), 486

  Mad Love (film), 506

  Madame Butterfly (Puccini), 23

  Madame X, 494

  magic, Welles’s sense of, 57–8, 268–9, 270, 272, 282, 411–12, 468

  Magnanimous Cuckold, The, 53

  Magnificent Ambersons, The (film), 418, 512, 525, 577

  Mailer, Norman, 506

  make-up, 68, 105–6, 260–1, 365, 505–6, 574

  Mamoulian, 214

  Man Who Came to Dinner, The, 139, 481, 553

  Man Who Was Thursday, The (Chesterton), radio adaptation of, 387, 418

  Manhattan Theatre, New York, 249

  Mankiewicz, Herman J., 482–9; Citizen Kane, 484–9, 493, 494, 495, 496, 497–8, 503, 504, 505, 507, 508, 515, 517–19, 524, 530, 532, 533, 534, 540, 566, 568, 570, 571, 577–8;John Meade’s Woman (screenplay), 487; Mad Dog of Europe (screenplay), 486; The Tree Will Grow, 484

  Mankiewicz, Sara, 496

  Manning, Mary, 104

  Mantle, Burns, 142, 238, 275, 357, 411

  March of Time, The, 205, 312, 372, 400, 523–4, 531

  Marching Song (Welles and Hill), 115, 116–21, 127, 146, 155, 305, 465, 546

  Margood, Charlie, 84, 88

  Marlowe, Christopher, 267; Doctor Faustus, 156, 158, 207, 250, 266–83, 284, 287

  Marquis, Don, 159

  Marrakesh, 131–2, 133, 134

  Marriage of Figaro, The (Beaumarchais), 295

  Martin Beck Theatre, New York, 190

  Marshall, Herbert, 284

  Martinelli, Giovanni, 23, 48

  Martyred by his Love (film), 175

  Marx, Karl, 434

  Marx Brothers, 282

  Marxism, 212–13, 218, 288, 535

  Mason, Edith see Bernstein, Edith

  Massenet, Jules, 526

  Morris, Lawrence, 295

  Moscow Art Theatre, 19, 83, 158, 207, 297, 322, 396, 415

  Mosel, Tad, 189

  Mosley, Sir Oswald, 477, 485

  Moss, Carlton, 219–20, 235, 236

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 45, 49

  Mueller, Dr Frederick G., 32–3

  Mulatto (Hughes), 219

  Muni, Paul, 197, 451, 557

  Murder in the Cathedral (Eliot), 228, 308, 427

  Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The (radio), 483

  Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban, 135

  music and sound effects, film, 507, 521, 524–7, 536, 565, 566; radio, 375–6, 377, 379–80, 399, 526; theatre, 232–4, 241–2, 251, 255, 257, 270, 310, 322, 328, 331–2, 332, 333, 336, 353, 386, 543, 544–6; see also The Cradle Will Rock

  Musicians’ Union, 345

  Mussolini, Benito, 322, 324, 332, 358, 485

  Mutual (radio company), 304, 320

  Muzio, Claudia, 19, 23

  My Little Boy (Ewald: radio play), 387, 418

  Naremore, James, 126; The Magic World of Orson Welles, xii

  Nathan, George Jean, 221, 308, 340, 409

  Nation, 563

  National Council of Teachers of English, Welles’s speech to, 380–1, 382, 412

  National Theatre, aim of, 248, 282–3, 363, 415, 474–5

  National Theatre, New York, 357, 359, 362

  Native Son (Wright and Green), 540–54, 555, 557

  Natwick, Mildred, 422

  Nazimova, Alla, 447

  NBC radio, 345, 372

  Neale, Zora Hurston, 219

  Negro Playwrights’ Company, 552, 553

  Negro Theatre Project, Harlem, 219–47, 543; Conjur’ Man Dies, 228; Macbeth, 222–8, 229–45, 246, 249; Walk Together Chillun!, 228

  Neher, Caspar, 352

  Neilson, Adelaide, 187

  Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir, 206–7, 413

  New Deal, Roosevelt’s, 216, 217, 220, 235, 239, 248, 299, 303, 371

  New Masses, 349, 535–6, 564

  New Republic, The, 538–9, 566–8, 569–70

  New Statesman, 194

  New Theatre Magazine, 200

  New York, 114–15, 117–18, 139–40, 154, 162, 168, 185–90, 194, 199, 209–12; see also Broadway; individual plays performed in New York

  New York Age, 239

  New York American, 149, 189, 201, 258, 275

  New York Drama Study Group, Welles receives award from (1938), 361

  New York Herald Express, 557

  New York Herald Tribune, 258, 264, 343, 405, 426, 460, 497

  New York Journal American, 338, 355, 552, 557

  New York Post, 240, 336, 337, 341–2, 562

  New York Sun, 238, 339

  New York Telegram, 354

  New York Theatre Project see Negro Theatre Unit; Project 891

  New York Times, 99–100, 104–5, 128, 139, 146, 148, 188, 189, 199, 202, 218, 234–5, 237–8, 239–40, 241, 243, 256, 258–9, 260, 261, 264, 275, 276, 278, 291, 298–9, 308, 310, 320, 324, 328, 338, 341, 345, 355, 356, 361, 366, 368, 372, 408, 409, 411, 413, 414, 431, 434, 436, 447, 482, 535, 548, 551, 552–3, 557, 562, 563, 568; ‘GOTHAM HOBGOBLIN’ (1938), 361, 411, 412; ‘THE SUMMING UP’ (Houseman, 1938), 366–7

  New York World Telegram, 303, 364, 405, 414

  New Yorker, The, 11, 126, 278, 342, 427, 482

  News, The, 9, 166, 167

  News of the Day, 524

  Newsweek, 340, 374, 549

  Newton, Robert, 389

  Nichols, Lewis, 258–9

  Nicholson, Leo, 199

  ‘Nickel Under Your Foot’ (Blitzstein song), 289, 292

  Nicolson, Virginia see Welles, Virginia

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Birth of Tragedy, 212

  Niles, David, 299

  Noble, Peter, 13, 113; The Fabulous Orson Welles, 264

  Norman Convin’s Words Without Music, 370

  Northwest Passage (film), 464

  Nouryeh, Andrea, xii, 331, 350, 353, 358, 362, 368, 385, 386, 392, 429, 544, 545

  Now I Am Twenty-one (Welles), 208

  Oboler, Arch, 372, 375

  O’Briain, Professor Liam, 78

  O’Brien, Edmond, 357–8, 362

  O’Casey, Sean, 101, 156

  Ó Ceallaigh, Cathal, 84, 109

  Ó Conaire, Pádriac, 81; Field and Fair; (Travels with a Donkey in Ireland), 75–6, 78

  O’Connor and Brown, Free, Adult and Uncensored, 216, 217

  Ode to Reason (Blitzstein song), 393

  O’Dea, Jimmy, 94

  Odlum, Floyd, 534

  Oenslager, Donald, 263

  O’Flaherty, Liam, Tourist Guide to Ireland, 80

  O’Hara, John, 549; Butterfield 8, 549; Pal Joey (musical), 549

  O’Keefe, Winston, 439

  Old Vic theatre, London, 90, 112, 113, 310, 313

  Olivier, Laurence, 171, 445, 506

  Olsen, Moroni, 189

  Omaha theatre of the blind, 217

  O’Morrison, Kevin, 362, 386, 393, 398

  O’Neal, Charles ‘Blacky’, 174

  O’Neal, Ryan, 174

  O’Neill, Eugene, 210, 536

  Only Angels Have Wings (radio play), 463

  Orlick, Emil, 181

  Ormsbee, Helen, 272, 349, 352, 395

  Orpheus with his Lute, 332

  Orson Welles’s Almanac (radio), 577

  Ostrovsky, Alexander, 176

  Othello (Shakespeare), 133, 138, 139, 154, 220, 234

  Ottley, Roi, 239

  Our Town (Wilder), 427; radio adaptation, 445

  Paderewski, I
gnace Jan, 83

  Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), 23

  Pal Joey (O’Hara musical), 549, 553

  Palace Theatre, Broadway, première of Citizen Kane at, 561

  Palace Theatre, Chicago, 446, 447

  Paley, William S., 371

  Panama Hattie, 553

  Panic (MacLeish), 196–8, 200–4, 212, 219, 310, 325, 484; radio recording of extract from, 204–5, 206

  Paramount film company, 385

  Paris, Welles in (1932), 113, 133

  Parker, Dorothy, 437

  Parlo, Dita, 460

  Parry, Florence Fisher, 358

  Parsons, Louella, 473, 474, 516–17, 530–1, 532, 534, 549; The Gay Illiterate, 516

  Passenger to Bali, A (radio play), 412

  Paul, Egerton, 176, 263

  Paur, Leonard de, 219, 233

  Peacock Players, 102, 106

  Peacock Theatre, Dublin, 102

  Peer Gynt (Ibsen), 462

  Pepys, Samuel, 375

  Perry, Antoinette, 344

  Perry, Edward, 220

  Philadelphia, 423, 436, 448; Five Kings, performed at Chestnut Theatre, 437–40

  Philadelphia Story, The, 503, 511, 546

  Phoenix Theatre, New York, 197, 202, 204

  Physician in Spite of Himself, The, 53

  Picasso, Pablo, 42, 53, 242

  Pickwick Papers, The (Dickens), 481; radio adaptation, 412, 418

  Pinter, Harold, Mac (memoir), 90

  Piscator, Erwin, 121, 429

  Pittsburgh, 436, 446, 448

  Plato, 195

  Playboy of the Western World, The (Synge), 462

  Playfair, Sir Nigel, 109

  Playwrights’ Company, 213, 423

  Plutarch, 183, 336, 418

  Polacco, Giorgio, 65, 67

  Polacco, Graziella, 65

  Polglase, Van Nest, 498

  Pollock, Arthur, 408, 409–10, 413

  Pommer, Erich, 451

  Porgy and Bess, 219, 221, 224

  Potter, Mrs Palmer, 18, 19

  Powell, Dilys, 87

  Power (Living Newspaper), 313

  Power and the Glory, The (screenplay), 484

  Powers, Tom, 357, 358, 362

  Powers Agency, 72

  Price, Vincent, 348, 352, 356, 359, 362, 363, 364, 368, 392, 445, 512

  Pritchett, V.S., 101–2

  Pritt, Emil, 535–6

  Private Lives (Coward), 445

  producers, Hollywood, 449, 452–3, 537–9

  Project 891 (Classical Unit, FTP), 250–87, 340, 350, 444; collapse of, 301; The Cradle Will Rock, 290–301; Doctor Faustus, 266–83; Horse Eats Hat, 250–62, 263, 265–70

  Prokofiev, Serge, The Love of Three Oranges, 19, 20

  Provincetown Players, 201

  Prussing, Louise, 159, 166, 170, 171, 174

  Puccini, Giacomo, 23

  Pythagoras, 281

  Queen Kelly, 449

  Queen’s Theatre, London, 114

  Radio Annual, Welles’s article in, 373, 374

  Radio City Music Hall, 219

  Radio Corporation of America, 450

  radio work, 204–6, 209, 210, 212, 226, 262, 273, 283, 303–6, 312, 360, 370–80, 381–2, 387–9, 398–408, 417–23, 426, 445, 470, 526, 555–7; Campbell Playhouse, 408, 417, 418–23, 426, 445, 448, 460–3, 464, 483, 489; Dracula, 375–6, 378–80, 388; Hamlet, 304; Jane Eyre, 418, 489; Julius Caesar, 336–7, 377, 418; Macbeth, 304, 375; Mercury Theatre of the Air, 336–7, 370–80, 381–2, 387–9, 394, 398, 399–408, 409, 411, 412, 413, 417–18; Les Misérables, 304–6, 320, 372, 373, 445; Orson Welles’s Almanac, 577; role of narrator in, 373–4; The Shadow, 320–1, 380; Treasure Island, 374–5, 387–9; The War of the Worlds, 124, 398–408, 409, 411, 418, 448, 451, 464, 490–2, 517, 520

  Raphaelson, Samuel, 117

  Rathbone, Basil, 146, 147, 150, 151, 185–6, 189, 193, 425; In and Out of Character, 146

  Ratoff, Gregory, 500

  Ravel, Maurice, 10, 20, 21

  Ravinia Park, Chicago, 155; opera festival, 22–3, 47–8, 526

  Readick, Frank, 400, 428, 470, 503

  Rebecca (radio play), 419, 420–1, 422

  Rebecca (film), 422, 452, 464

  Red and White: Tosebo Camp Number (Todd publication), 47

  Regan, Sylvia, 310–11

  Reid, Elliot, 312, 327, 349

  Reinhardt, Max, 46, 112, 181, 226, 241, 253, 327, 347, 363, 386, 390–1, 393

  Reis, Irving, 304, 332, 371, 372

  Revolt of the Beavers, 218

  Rice, Elmer, 228, 248

  ‘Rich, The’ (Blitzstein song), 292

  Richard II (Shakespeare), 168–9, 425

  Richard III (Shakespeare), 484, 492; Todd School production, 67–8, 71, 424; see also Five Kings

  Rimbaud, Arthur, 132

  RKO film studios, Publicity Department booklet, 572–3; Welles’s contract with, and Citizen Kane, 448, 449–53, 457–539, 543, 548–50, 555–9, 561–75

  RKO Orpheum Vaudeville Circuit, 450; Welles’s tour with The Green Goddess of, 446–8

  Roaring Girl, The, 349

  Robertson-Cole Film Company, 450

  Robeson, Paul, 221

  Robinson, Percy, 104

  Robson, Mark, 511, 523, 524

  Robson, William, 372, 400, 524

  Rockwell, Norman, 15

  Rogers, Ginger, 496

  Rogers, Will, 83

  Roll, Sweet Chariot (Green), 221

  Romains, Jules, 106

  Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 13, 243, 425; McClintic/Cornell production (1933–4), 140–2, 144, 145, 147, 149–50, 151, 153, 154, 158, 169, 177, 313, 353; and New York run of, 185–90, 193, 195, 197, 198, 200, 201, 207

  Roosevelt, Mrs Eleanor, 285

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 216, 248, 249, 285, 286, 294, 295, 422, 530, 560

  Root, John, 18

  Rose, Billy, 210

  Rosenbaum, Jonathan, 469

  Rosenthal, Jean, 147, 232, 311, 322, 325–6, 330–1, 333, 340–1, 397, 398, 428, 429, 432, 438, 441, 465, 508, 543, 544

  Roskie, Tony, 40

  Rossellini, Roberto, 512

  Rousseau, Henri Le Douanier, 241

  Rowley, Samuel, 278

  Royal Court Theatre, London, 309

  Royal Shakespeare Company, 19, 309, 358

  Rudy Vallee Show, 561

  R.U.R., 19, 88

  Sadler’s Wells theatre, London, 112

  Sage, Michael, 538–9

  Sailor Beware! (Nicholson and Robinson), 221

  St Helena, 425

  St James’s Theatre, London, 113

  St James’s Theatre, New York, 262; Native Son performed at, 550–4

  Saint-Saens, Camille, 321

  Saki, 418

  Salome (Strauss), 19

  Salvini, Tommaso, 109

  San Simeon (Hearst’s Spanish-Gothic folly, Santa Barbara), 473, 486, 530, 533, 570

  Sandburg, Carl, 16

  Sandford, Erskine, 363, 398, 428, 470, 559

  Santa (unfilmed screenplay), 528–9

  Sarnoff, David, 449–50, 524, 534

  Saroyan, William, 555

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, 196

  Saturday Evening Post, 74, 114–15, 205, 248, 258, 295, 301, 406, 423, 517; 3-part series on Welles (HOW TO RAISE A CHILD), 475, 485

  Scalero, Rosario, 288

  Schaefer, George J. (‘The Tiger’), 450–1, 453, 463, 464, 470, 471–2, 476, 477, 480, 481, 495, 504, 514, 532, 533, 534, 535, 539, 543, 548–9, 550, 555, 558, 562, 572–3, 575

  Schallert, Edwin, 562

  Schenck, Nick, 555

  Schiller Theatre, Berlin, 415

  Schilling, Gus, 428, 470

  Schintzer, Arthur, 322, 355

  Schipa, Tito, 10

  Schloss, Edwin H., 438–9, 442

  Schnabel, Stefan, 313

  Schneider, Albert (Welles’s agent), 370, 451, 477, 489

  Schnitzler, Arthur, 156, 158, 387, 389, 418

  Schoenberg, Arnold, 288

  School
of the Air of the Americas (radio show), 204

  Schumann-Heinck, Ernestine, 10

  Scourby, Alexander, 208

  Screenwriters’ Guild, 519

  Seagull, The (Chekhov), 322

  Sears, David, 104

  Second Hurricane, The (Copland), 302–3

  Second World War, 471, 476, 560

  Seiderman, Maurice, 505–6

  Selznick, David O., 382, 422, 448, 452

  Selznick, Louis J., 450

  Senber, Henry, 310, 324, 333, 394, 414

  Sennett, Mack, 383

  Sensenderfer (of The Evening Bulletin), 438

  Servant in the House, The, 45, 71, 120

  Seventeen (Tarkington radio play), 418

  Seville, 134, 135–6

  Shadow, The (radio play), 320–1, 380

  Shadow Play (radio), 205

  Shakespeare, William, 28, 67–8, 83, 110, 112, 113, 137–8, 144, 154, 168–9, 175, 187–8, 200, 208, 222–3, 229, 240–1, 243, 267, 276, 316, 323, 338, 349, 380, 493; see also Everybody’s Shakespeare; Five Kings; The Mercury Shakespeare; titles of individual plays

  Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford, 19, 112, 347

  Shanghai, 49, 54, 58–9

  Shape of Things to Come, The (Wells), 500

  Shaw, George Bernard, 53, 113–14, 143; Candida, 141, 143, 144, 146, 147–8, 153, 154; Heartbreak House, 114, 309, 359, 362–6, 367, 381, 382, 389, 425; royalties paid by Mercury to, 367

  Sheffield, Charles and Lotte, 50–1

  Sherlock Holmes (radio), 418

  Sherman, Hiram ‘Chubby’, 156, 157, 158, 208, 253, 254, 270, 280, 284, 294, 303, 305, 313, 344, 348, 350–1, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356–7, 359, 363, 368, 370, 431, 470, 503, 529

  Sherwood, William, 102, 106

  Shoemaker’s Holiday, The (Dekker), 322, 343, 344, 346, 347–56, 357, 359, 362, 367, 368, 380, 382, 409, 428, 545

  Shor, Toots, 437

  Showmen’s Trade Review, 572

  Shubert, Lee, 439

  Shuberts, Shubert organisation (theatre owners), 114, 115, 211, 247, 250

  Si Versailles M’Etait Conté, 261

  Sica, Vittorio de, 512

  Sight and Sound magazine, 575

  Silent House, 114

  Silent Woman, The (Jonson), 286, 309

  Siloti, Alexander, 288

  Silva, Howard da, 294, 296

  Silver Tassie, The (O’Casey), 101

  Silvera, John, 245

  Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle, 16

  Sing Out the News (revue), 368

  Singer, Mortimer, 5

  Skinner, R. Dana, 390

  Skolsky, Sidney, 562

  Skouras, Spyros, 575

  Skylark, 434

  Sloane, Everett, 305, 470, 515, 543, 559, 569

  Sloper, L.A., 435

  Smiler with a Knife, The (unfilmed screenplay), 477, 480–1, 485, 487

 

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