Orson Welles, Vol I (103 page)

Featuring in a newspaper story under the headline ‘Cartoonist, Actor, Poet – and Only 10’

Orson (left) with his older brother Richard Jr.

A school group at Todd. Welles is in the middle of the second row

The main building of the Todd School for Boys

From the 1936 Todd yearbook, ‘The seniors in their formal dinner clothes.’ Welles is in shorts

A souvenir fan from the Todd Theatre Festival

Todd headmaster Roger Hill with his wife Hortense and their daughter Joanne

Some of Orson’s artwork:

cover for a Todd catalogue;

headpiece for his column in the Todd
News
;

sketches in a letter to Roger Hill from Dublin

Taking a break during the Todd Theatre Festival in Woodstock: Welles and Hilton Edwards at edge of pool, Micheál MacLiammóir on diving board

Welles (right) as Claudius to MacLiammóir’s Hamlet at Woodstock

Photographed for a publicity release at the age of eighteen, Welles is described as ‘a young Chicagoan of amazing precocity’

Welles’s own drawing of the Gate Theatre in Dublin, where he launched his professional career