Orson Welles, Vol I (107 page)

53.
‘Mr Orson Welles did much to satisfy …’
Irish Times
13 January 1932.

54.
‘… hints at Cézanne …’
Irish Independent
January 1932.

55.
‘… can the Ghost have been more movingly …’
Irish Press
3 February 1932.

56.
‘Orson Welles made the speech …’ From
Joseph Holloway’s
Irish Theatre
.

57.
‘Of course it was said …’ From Micheál Mac Liammóir, op. cit.

58.
‘In Dublin, when he started in the theatre …’ From
The Cradle Will Rock
, a screenplay by Orson Welles.

59.
‘… in reaction against the conditions it found at its birth …’ From
The Mantle of Harlequin
by Hilton Edwards.

60.
‘It was Berlin with its Russian influences …’ From Micheál Mac Liammóir,
op. cit.

61.
‘Anew McMaster is an unashamed exponent …’ Quoted in
The Story of the Abbey Theatre
by Sean McCann.

62.
‘Anew McMaster convinces us that he knows more …’ ibid.

63.
‘… who drifted into Dublin a few months ago …’ From the unpublished diaries of Joseph Holloway, National Library, Dublin.

64.
‘… when Kernoff tried to see the stage behind …’ From
Joseph Holloway’s Irish
Theatre
.

65.
‘… who could be thirty though he was only sixteen …’ Geraldine Fitzgerald in an interview with S.C.

1.
‘… enthusiasm and perseverance …’ From
Citizen Welles
by Frank Brady.

2.
‘I recall the way in which he received me …’ From
The Fabulous Orson Welles
by Peter Noble.

3.
‘After being a celebrity at sixteen in Dublin
…’ Johnston and Smith in
Saturday Evening Post
January 1940.

4.
‘… to get him out of my hair …’ From
Time and Chance
by Roger Hill.

5.
‘Stick with this boy! …’ Quoted by Roger Hill, op. cit.

6.
‘complete with its chauffeur-cook …’ ibid.

7.
‘It’s a swell show …’ Quoted in a letter to Roger Hill.

8.
‘I do hope you won’t continue …’ Quoted in
Orson Welles
by Barbara Leaming.

9.
‘An idiot, with a loose, wet mouth …’ Stage direction from the unpublished play
Marching Song
by Orson Welles and Roger Hill.

10.
‘… haven’t had fish like that in four years …’ From the unpublished play
Bright Lucifer
by Orson Welles.

11.
‘
Bright Lucifer
is a likely sounding piece …’ Russell Maloney, ‘This Ageless Soul’:
The New Yorker
8 October 1938.

12.
‘… a great deal of Welles’s
work can be explained …’ From
The Magic World of Orson Welles
by James Naremore.

13.
‘I needed a new project …’ From Roger Hill, op. cit.

14.
‘Write a Shakespeare book …’ ibid.

15.
‘If I said that Tangiers struck me as a dream city …’ Paul Bowles quoted in
An Invisible Spectator
by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno.

16.
‘A noble-looking old man …’ From
Cities of Spain
by Edward Hutton.

17.
‘It was the year 1346 of the Mahometan calendar …’ From
In the Lap of Atlas
by Richard Hughes.

18.
‘Much as Europeans visualise the Baghdad …’ From
The Lords of Atlas
by Gavin Maxwell.

19.
‘In the 1920s T’hami became …’ ibid.

20.
‘Vast banquets …’ ibid.

21.
‘The curious droop of his mouth …’ Quoted by Richard Hughes, op. cit.

22.
‘There are some tiny cottages with clean
patios …’ From
Letters from Spain
by Karel Capek.

23.
‘They are employed …’ From Edward Hutton, op. cit.

24.
‘… expressly based on what Orson imagined …’ From Barbara Leaming, op. cit.

25.
‘… wearing white pants and waving a red cape …’ From
Hemingway
by Carlos Baker.

26.
‘Still, even with all that untold Yankee wealth …’ From
This is Orson Welles
by Peter Bogdanovich.

27.
‘All that hot summer …’ From Roger Hill, op. cit.

28.
‘A mixture of poet, prophet …’ Quoted in
The Enthusiast
by Gilbert A. Harrison.

29.
‘By some curious jump of association …’ Quoted by Peter Noble, op. cit.

30.
‘The reviews were so astounding …’ Quoted in
Smart Aleck
by Teichmann.

31.
‘You have given me a whole ring of keys to this city …’ Quoted by Gilbert A. Harrison, op.
cit.

32.
‘I remember shortly after Orson …’ Quoted by Teichmann, op. cit.

1.
‘It is an old story that the balcony and the gallery …’ Quoted in
Me and Kit
by Guthrie McClintic.

2.
‘It was obvious to me …’ Quoted in
The Fabulous Orson Welles
by Peter Noble.

3.
‘We were all struck by …’ ibid.

4.
‘He began by having his cast
sit round a table …’ From
The American Theatre
by Mary Henderson.

5.
‘Talkative, nervous, very witty …’ From
The Player
by Lilian Ross and Helen Ross.

6.
‘Orson at that time always played to the top row …’ Quoted in
The Theatre of Orson Welles
by Richard France.

7.
‘She has agreed to the selection …’
New York Times
October 1933.

8.
‘In the 1930’s Broadway …’ Quoted in
The Magic
of Light
by Jean Rosenthal.

9.
‘All the rest was just dead wire …’ From The
American Theatre
by Ethan Mordden.

10.
‘[Miss Cornell] was so beautiful …’ From
In and Out of Character
by Basil Rathbone.

11.
‘His Marchbanks to my way of thinking …’ Quoted by Peter Noble, op. cit.

12.
‘He could play
Jew Süss
…’ From
Time and Chance
by Roger Hill.

13.
‘He was flamboyant, exciting,
hammy …’ Quoted by Richard France, op. cit.

14.
‘He appealed to the general run …’ ibid.

15.
‘That he got by was by no means enough.’ From Guthrie McClintic, op. cit.

16.
‘By the crescendo of her playing …’
New York Times
10 February 1931.

17.
‘He was just adequate …’ Quoted by Richard France, op. cit.

18.
‘I personally believe …’ ibid.

19.
‘… his performance begins to
confirm the suspicion …’
New York American
26 February 1935.

20.
‘… his entrance was so strange …’ Tom Triffely in an interview with S.C.

21.
‘… it is admirable Shakespeare …’
Chicago Tribune
December 1933.

22.
‘… which seemed to meet with McClintic’s …’ From Basil Rathbone, op. cit.

23.
‘Orson Welles, who has scored a hit …’
Chicago Tribune
December 1933.

24.
‘… well-disciplined,
strictly ordered family …’ Gertrude Macy quoted by Richard France, op. cit.

25.
‘He was at all times …’ Quoted by Peter Noble, op. cit.

26.
‘About twice a year I wake up and find myself …’ Quoted by Richard France, op. cit.

27.
‘I found myself wondering …’ Quoted by Peter Noble, op. cit.

28.
‘He was gauche and tiresome …’ Quoted by Richard France, op. cit.

29.
‘… on “Big Time”
so to speak …’ From Guthrie McClintic, op. cit.

1.
‘Hail to thee, blithe spirit! …’ From
All For Hecuba
by Micheál Mac Liammóir.

2.
‘My God, Roger, do you realise what you’re up against …’ From Roger Hill, op. cit.

3.
‘The party had cost a fortune …’ ibid.

4.
‘Orson Welles says that the festival …’
Chicago Herald and Examiner
28 June 1934.

5.
‘Anyone who had 500 big
depression-time dollars …’ ibid.

6.
‘The work of Mac Liammóir and Edwards …’
Chicago Tribune
1 July 1934.

7.
‘Orson began to swell again …’ From Micheál Mac Liammóir, op. cit.

8.
‘Michael Mac Liammóir talked the least …’
Chicago Tribune
1 July 1934.

9.
‘A great grandson of Gideon Welles …’ Margot Jr,
Chicago Daily News
13 July 1934.

10.
‘Young Mr Welles …’
Chicago Herald and Examiner
July 1934.

11.
‘It was a real vendetta …’ Quoted in
Orson Welles
by Barbara Leaming.

12.
‘They were really, I think, rather mean to Orson …’ ibid.

13.
‘To us it looked like …’ From Micheál Mac Liammóir, op. cit.

14.
‘It represents, chiefly …’
Chicago Tribune
July 1934.

15.
‘It is a gala occasion …’
Chicago Tribune
13 July
1934.

16.
‘… the natives sat …’
Chicago Daily News
13 July 1934.

17.
‘A man of impeccable social standing …’ From Roger Hill, op. cit.

18.
‘I could only quail and shiver …’
Chicago Daily News
13 July 1934.

19.
‘… he played the villain last night …’
Chicago Herald and Examiner
13 July 1934.

20.
‘Wunderschon! …’ and ff. from
Trilby
by Paul Potter after George du Maurier.

21.
‘Even his fakes …’ From Micheál Mac Liammóir, op. cit.

22.
‘… due obviously to the youth’s …’ Lloyd Lewis:
Chicago Daily News
22 July 1934.

23.
‘… the production was disappointingly vague …’ From Micheál Mac Liammóir, op. cit.

24.
‘… said to be one of the few …’
Chicago Tribune
22 July 1934.

25.
‘I fancied at times to have penetrated …’ ibid.

26.
‘A Hamlet of metropolitan stature
…’ and ff.
Chicago Tribune
27 July 1934.

27.
‘Orson Welles departed from the orthodox king …’
Chicago Herald and Examiner
27 July 1934.

28.
‘An unhorrific old ghost …’
Chicago Daily News
27 July 1934.

29.
‘Hilton Edwards, Orson Welles and Micheál Mac Liammóir …’ Lloyd Lewis,
Chicago Daily News
11 August 1934.

30.
‘His Count Pahlen kept all the essentials of the part …’ From Micheál
Mac Liammóir, op. cit.

31.
‘His variety and range are amazing …’
Chicago Tribune Magazine
article.

32.
‘Oh, it was wild because …’ Quoted by Barbara Leaming, op. cit.

33.
‘… vigorous, non-homosexual types …’ ibid.

34.
‘Our Woodstock season ended for us all …’ From Micheál Mac Liammóir, op. cit.

35.
‘Plug at that book …’ Quoted by Roger Hill, op. cit.

36.
‘… to make the
Elizabethan popular in the classroom …’ ibid.

37.
‘I found that actors were plainly frightened …’ From an article in
Theatre Quarterly
.

38.
‘Orson’s extreme and obvious youth …’ Quoted in
The Fabulous Orson Welles
by Peter Noble.

39.
‘I told him of my newly-conceived decor …’ From
Me and Kit
by Guthrie McClintic.

40.
‘… with their high colour and total lack of sophistication …’
From
The Theatre of Joe Mielziner
.

41.
‘… ending with a marvellous dark …’ From Guthrie McClintic, op. cit.

42.
‘… how fine the play was
when left intact …’ ibid.

43.
‘… all during the rehearsals of
Romeo
…’ ibid.

44.
‘The actors must be made to forget …’ and ff. ibid.

45.
‘Orson seemed friendly and good-natured …’ From
A Proper Job
by Brian Aherne.

46.
‘Audience warm in
its commendation …’
New York Times
4 December 1934.

47.
‘It was a performance at once …’ Grenville Vernon,
Commonweal
21 December 1934.

48.
‘Guthrie McClintic has somehow managed to persuade all the members of the cast …’ Richard Lockridge,
New York Sun
21 December 1934.

49.
‘Miss Cornell has kept faith with her audiences by giving …’ Brooks Atkinson,
New York Times
21 December 1934.

50.
‘… the smooth, veinless look of a young girl’s …’ From
Leading Lady
by Tad Mosel.

51.
‘… instances of minor parts played with …’
New York Times
21 December 1934.

52.
‘… a performance to watch and applaud …’ John Anderson,
New York American
21 December 1934.

53.
‘Before our beautiful green sage curtains …’ Guthrie McClintic, op. cit.

1.
‘… that glossy and successful evening …’ and ff. From
Run-Through
by John Houseman.

2.
‘Let’s not talk about Houseman …’ From
This is Orson Welles
by Peter Bogdanovich.

3.
‘… meeting Welles was the most important event of my life …’ Houseman in an interview with S.C.

4.
‘Orson Welles’s initial impact …’ and ff. From John Houseman, op. cit.

5.
‘At first he fell in love with me …’
Quoted in
Orson Welles
by Barbara Leaming.

6.
‘… slim and graceful of movement …’ From
The New Theatre
, ed. Herbert W. Kline.