Orson Welles, Vol I (108 page)

7.
‘Hearing that voice …’ and ff. From John Houseman, op. cit.

8.
‘… the voice of the hopeless individual …’ From
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
by James D. Hart.

9.
‘… it had become necessary to me …’ From John Houseman, op. cit.

10.
‘…
to his own part … he brought us …’ ibid.

11.
‘… for such a young actor as Welles to play …’ Gabriel,
New York American
16 March 1935.

12.
‘The Revolution!’ From
Panic
by Archibald MacLeish.

13.
‘… the work of our protean poet …’ Brooks Atkinson,
New York Times
16 March 1935.

14.
‘A pretentious bore …’ John Anderson,
New York Evening Journal
16 March 1935.

15.
‘The words of
the play …’
Theatre Arts Monthly
April 1935.

16.
‘… swept by one of those groundswells …’ and ff. From John Houseman, op. cit.

17.
‘I saw this very strange guy dressed …’ and ff. Dwight Weist in an interview with NYU.

18.
‘… a select group of anonymous radio artists …’ Alva Johnston and Fred Smith,
Saturday Evening Post
27 January 1940.

19.
‘… a curious one-room residence …’ and
ff. From John Houseman, op. cit.

20.
‘He would, by voice and presence …’ Peg Lloyd in an interview with S.C.

21.
‘… of whose talent he was so fanatically convinced …’ From
John Houseman, op. cit.

22.
‘We parted friends …’ and ff. ibid.

23.
‘He admires radio as a medium …’ From an interview with John Hutchens,
New York Times
26 November 1937.

24.
‘We saw Reinhardt’s productions
…’ From
The Fervent Years
by Harold Clurman.

25.
‘… there was excitement because …’ From
The American Theatre
by Ethan Mordden.

26.
‘… attached to anything critical of war …’ From Introduction by John Gassner to
Drama Was a Weapon
.

27.
‘… the overriding dramatic topic of the decade …’ From
The Political stage
by Malcolm Goldstein.

28.
‘We expected to bring the actor …’ From Harold
Clurman, op. cit.

29.
‘I say that Group productions lack music …’ From
Slings and Arrows
by Robert Lewis.

30.
‘… the painstaking love of detail …’ From
Upstage: Types of American Direction
by John Mason Brown.

1.
‘… the arts projects were being set up …’ and ff. From
Arena
by Hallie Flanagan.

2.
‘… the theatre must become conscious …’ and ff. ibid.

3.
‘Mother Goose is no longer a rhymed escapist …’ Brooks Atkinson,
New York Times
21 May 1937.

4.
‘Imagine an organisation producing in a season …’ Quoted in
Free, Adult and Uncensored
by O’Connor and Brown.

5.
‘… a white man was needed …’ From
Run-Through
by John Houseman.

6.
‘like a colonial governor …’ Quoted by John Houseman, op. cit.

7.
‘… bitter, but brilliantly clear
…’ ibid.

8.
‘… a dozen and one vivid …’
American Mercury
21 February 1929.

9.
‘My set has discovered something …’ Quoted in
When Harlem was in Vogue
by David Levening Lewis.

10.
‘Mr Welles has the idea that an Elizabethan play …’ Reproduced in
Sights and Spectacles
by Mary McCarthy.

11.
‘I rehearsed them on a count of one …’ From an interview at the Federal Theatre Research Project.

12.
‘… a round-faced prodigy …’ Brooks Atkinson,
Broadway
1970.

13.
‘Orson, don’t do that …’ and ‘So get back to work!’ Quoted by O’Connor and Brown, op. cit.

14.
‘I don’t know what this guy’s up to …’ From an interview at the Federal Theatre Research Project.

15.
‘I always seduce actors …’ Quoted in
Orson Welles
by Barbara Leaming.

16.
‘Jack’s turn before …’ Notes on the production
preserved at the Federal Theatre Research Project.

17.
‘For several days running …’ Alva Johnston and Fred Smith,
Saturday Evening Post
27 January 1940.

18.
‘Our most original and imaginative mind …’ From Hallie Flanagan, op. cit.

19.
‘What would the negro interpretation …’ and ff. Federal Theatre Research Project.

20.
‘
Steps in Lighting
…’ and ff. From
Putting on the Play
ed.
John Gassner.

21.
‘Orson Welles? It was just like …’ and ff. Abe Feder in an interview with S.C.

22.
‘My other close director friend …’ and ff. From
Virgil Thomson
by Virgil Thomson.

23.
‘
Macbeth
was staged by a romantic tragedy …’ and ff. Interview with NYU for their Welles project.

24.
‘Orson Welles knew nothing about musical ideas …’ ibid.

25.
‘… instead of telling you in
musical terms …’ ibid.

26.
‘When you do that play …’ From
This is Orson Welles
by Peter Bogdanovich.

27.
‘Why had they mustered the audacity …’ and ff.
New York Times
5 April 1936.

28.
‘Flash of ten thousand people …’ From Hallie Flanagan, op. cit.

29.
‘Negroes have taken Shakespeare to themselves …’ Quoted by Hallie Flanagan, op. cit.

30.
‘African drums beat …’ From Hallie
Flanagan, op. cit.

31.
‘The floor became a moving forest …’ From John Houseman, op. cit.

32.
‘At the conclusion of the performance …’
New York Times
15 April 1936.

33.
‘They have always worried the life out of …’ ibid.

34.
‘This is not the speech of negroes …’
Sunday News
26 April 1936.

35.
‘Extremely vivid, though a bit bizarre …’
New York Sun
15 April 1936.

36.
‘The production
is only as interesting …’
New York Herald Tribune
16 April 1936.

37.
‘In
Macbeth
, the negro has been given …’
Amsterdam News
18 April 1936.

38.
‘Hallie Flanagan and Phillip Barber …’
New York Age
20 April 1936.

39.
‘It turns out to be a colorful and rousing …’
New York Times
18 April 1936.

40.
‘
A FURTHER CONSIDERATION
…’
New York Post
18 April 1936.

41.
‘No event in the art
galleries …’ Edward Alden Jewell,
New York Times
24 April 1936.

42.
‘… a tragedy of black ambition …’ From Hallie Flanagan, op. cit.

43.
‘Cocteau did not understand …’ From Virgil Thomson, op. cit.

44.
‘When Macbeth and Lady Macbeth …’ From
My Life, My Stage
by Ernst Stern.

45.
‘The Harlem
Macbeth
…’ From
Sights and Spectacles
by Mary McCarthy.

46.
‘I like
Macbeth
and I like
negroes …’ From
My Journey Round the World
by Jean Cocteau.

47.
‘It is significant that our white culture …’ From Mary McCarthy, op. cit.

48.
‘Welles has all the gall …’ Phillip Barber in an interview with the Federal Theatre Research Project.

49.
‘It was here that my first male relationship was formed …’ From John Houseman, op. cit.

50.
‘I was really the King of Harlem! …’ From
Barbara Leaming, op. cit.

51.
‘You have to take into account …’ Quoted in
The Theatre of Orson Welles
by Richard France.

1.
‘I must leave the project …’ and ff. From
Run-Through
by John Houseman.

2.
‘… the Federal theatre …’ From
Arena
by Hallie Flanagan.

3.
‘For eight years I have cherished …’ Quoted in
Lost Theatres of Broadway
by Nicholas van Hoogstraten.

4.
‘Ageing character actors …’ From John Houseman, op. cit.

5.
‘Working with him in his youth
…’ From
Virgil Thomson
by Virgil Thomson.

6.
‘He fed them every line …’ Quoted in
Free, Adult and Uncensored
by O’Connor and Brown.

7.
‘Everyone had their own aria …’ Paula Laurence, interviewed at NYU.

8.
‘Hiram said he wouldn’t do it …’ From O’Connor
and Brown, op. cit.

9.
‘… most talented …’ Quoted in
Copland 1900–1942
by Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis.

10.
‘Within ten minutes of our meeting …’ From
Without Stopping
by Paul Bowles.

11.
‘… in that way …’ From Virgil Thomson, op. cit.

12.
‘If
Macbeth
had in Orson’s hands …’ ibid.

13.
‘The last scene …’ From
Voices Offstage
by Marc Connelly.

14.
‘… imaginative, vigorous
…’ Quoted in
Conversations with Losey
by Michel Ciment.

15.
‘… dozens of young men and women …’
New York American
28 September 1936.

16.
‘It looked as though somebody from …’ John Mason Brown,
New York Post
28 September 1936.

17.
‘… this sort of calculated nonsense …’
Brooklyn Eagle
28 September 1936.

18.
‘… that dismal embarrassment …’ Richard Watts,
New York Herald Tribune
28
September 1936.

19.
‘It is as though Gertrude Stein …’ and ff.
New York Times
28 September 1936.

20.
‘I’m afraid you’ll never make it as an actor …’ Quoted in
Vanity Will Get You Somewhere
by Joseph Cotten.

21.
‘A prototypical American businessman …’ Quoted in
The Theatre of Orson Welles
by Richard France.

22.
‘His versatility and enthusiasm …’ Richard Watts,
New York Herald Tribune
28 September 1936.

23.
‘It is a government-subsidised …’ John Chapman:
HORSE EATS HAT IS MAD, BUT NOT MAD ENOUGH:
New York Daily News
28 September 1936.

24.
‘Mr Welles, the triple threat of the evening …’ Lewis Nichols,
New York Times
28 September 1936.

25.
‘Mr Welles (wonder-product) …’ B.I. n.d.

26.
‘Mr Welles, an unusually gifted young man …’ John Mason Brown,
New York Post
28 September 1936.

27.
‘Welles, as an actor, for all his fine bass voice …’ From Virgil Thomson, op. cit.

28.
‘What I do have in common with Jack …’ From
This is Orson Welles
by Peter Bogdanovich.

29.
‘… the moment rehearsals were over …’ Charles Bowden in an interview with NYU.

30.
‘… a flashing screen of headlines …’ From
The Encyclopaedia of the New York Stage 1930–1940
by Sam
Leiter.

31.
‘
Ten Million Ghosts
is not the sort of play …’
New York Times
25 October 1936.

32.
‘Nor can I say …’
New York Herald Tribune
25 October 1936.

33.
‘That is one of the biggest pieces of schweinerei …’ From Peter Bogdanovich, op. cit.

34.
‘… since the mention of any …’ and ff. From John Houseman, op. cit.

35.
‘… the performance was run continuously …’ From
Putting
on the Play
ed. John Gassner.

36.
‘He had miles …’ Quoted by O’Connor and Brown, op. cit.

37.
‘The stage manager of that show …’ ibid.

38.
‘… can often float you into the
scenes’ Elysium …’
New Republic
10 January 1937.

39.
‘Going into the Maxine Elliott …’ From Hallie Flanagan, op. cit.

40.
‘Go across the street …’ Quoted by O’Connor and Brown, op. cit.

41.
‘She liked
a drink …’ Paula Laurence in an interview with NYU.

42.
‘Orson designed everything …’ ibid.

43.
‘Here was one of the goddam biggest …’ Quoted by O’Connor and Brown, op. cit.

44.
‘The apron causes …’ Quoted by Richard France, op. cit.

45.
‘… because we couldn’t see any more …’ and ff. From John Houseman, op. cit.

46.
‘… nothing but a curio …’
New York Daily News
9 January 1937.

47.
‘… including that of Mr Welles …’
Theatre Arts Monthly
February 1937.

48.
‘The prologue is spoken …’ Wyatt,
Catholic World
February 1937.

49.
‘… boldly thrust an apron stage …’ and ff.
New York Times
9 January 1937.

50.
‘… whose name …’
New Republic
10 January 1937.

51.
‘There were so many dark sides …’ Paula Laurence in an interview with NYU.

52.
‘Their presence on
stage together …’ From John Houseman, op. cit.

53.
‘… pride and despair …’ From Roma Gill’s introduction to her edition of
Doctor Faustus
.

54.
‘The old Marlowe opus …’ Robert Benchley,
New Yorker
12 January 1937.

55.
‘I suppose they wanted Lenin’s blood …’ Quoted in
Hallie Flanagan
by Joanne Flanagan Bentley.

56.
‘
Doctor Faustus
is the definitive …’ Paula Laurence in an interview
with NYU.

57.
‘
Doctor Faustus
was truly successful …’ From
Sights and Spectacles
by Mary McCarthy.