Orson Welles, Vol I (113 page)

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Kenosha County Historical Society; p. 5
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Hascy Tarbox; p. 6
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Highland Park Public Library; p. 7
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Gate Theatre Archive, Special Collections Department, Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois; p. 8
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All other photographs courtesy of the estate of Orson Welles.

Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 83, 93, 95, 101, 105, 146

Abbott, George, 210, 214

Abraham and Isaac
, 344

Abraham Lincoln
(radio play), 387

Abraham’s Bosom
, 221

acting/role
of actor, 86–7, 93–4, 148–9, 260–1, 272–3, 276–7, 284, 315–18, 319–20, 328–30, 338, 339, 340, 346, 358, 364, 365–6, 392–3, 396, 408, 411, 439, 512–14, 568, 569–70

Actors’ Dinner Club, 211–12

Actors’ Fund of America, 152

Actors’ Repertory Company, 287

Adair, John, 428

Adams, John, 278

Addams, Jane, 9, 18

Addy, Wesley, 439

Ade, George, 10–11;
Fables in Slang
, 11

Adelphi Theatre, New York, 244–5

Adventures of Robin Hood, The
(film), 448

Agate, James, 564

Age of Innocence, The
, 143

Aherne, Brian, 185, 188, 189, 193, 200

Air Raid
(MacLeish: radio play), 400

Alexander, Rita, 496

Alfano, Franco, 23

Algren, Nelson, 19

Alice in Wonderland
, 102

Alien Corn
, 143

All Alone, The
, 106

Alland, William, 208, 327, 346,
357, 364, 387, 397, 408, 428, 459, 477, 506, 513–14, 523, 545, 546

Allen, Evelyn, 313

Ambler, Eric,
Journey into Fear
, 528, 577

American see Citizen Kane

American Laboratory Theatre, 251

American League of Decency, 485–6

American Legion, 557

American Mercury
, 308

American Repertory Company, 290

American Theatre Council, 294

Ames, Winthrop, 210

Anatol
(Schnitzler: radio), 387, 389, 418

Anderson, Arthur, 312, 347, 351, 388–9

Anderson, John, 338, 341

Anderson, Judith, 143, 425

Anderson, Margaret, 17

Anderson, Maxwell, 332, 424, 427

Anderson, Sherwood, 16, 17, 418, 555

Anderson, Tommy, 223

Androcles and the Lion
(Shaw), 53

Anisfeldt, Boris, 18, 19, 72

Ankrum, Maurice, 427

Anna Christie
(O’Neill), 19

Antony and Cleopatra
(Shakespeare), 342

Appia, Adolphe, 46, 92

Apple Cart, The
(Shaw), 107

apron stage, 272, 275, 281

Aran, Isles of, 78–80, 104, 108, 131

Archdupe, The
, 104–5

Archer, William,
The Green Goddess
, 445–8

Arena
, 320

Arliss, George, 445

Arms and the Man
(Shaw), 88

Around the World
, 386

Arsenic and Old Lace
, 553

‘Art for Art’s Sake’
(Blitzstein song), 292

ARTEF (Yiddish group), 417

Artaud, Antonin, 316; ‘Theatre of Cruelty’, 260

Arthur, Helen, 249

As You Like It
(Shakespeare), 112

Ash, Walter, 353, 365

‘Ask Us Again’ (Blitzstein song), 292

Atalante, L
’, 460

Atkins, Robert, 92

Atkinson, Brooks, 143, 148, 188, 189, 202, 218, 223–4, 237–8, 239–40, 264, 275, 276, 278, 282, 310, 338, 345, 355,
356, 361, 365, 409, 410, 411, 412, 413, 414, 551, 552–3, 564

Auden, W.H., 442, 543; ‘The Prince’s Dog’ (essay), 442–3

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 291

Badger Brass, 4, 5, 7, 8, 15

Baer, Richard, 428, 459–60, 464, 477, 515, 520, 529, 560

Baird, Bill, 253–4, 255, 256, 269

Baker, Carlos, 136

Bakst, Leon, 109

Balanchine, George, 378

Ball, Lucille, 480–1

Bankhead,
Tallulah, 342, 427

Bannerman, LeRoy, 400

Barber, Phillip, 239, 243, 265

Barker, Harley Granville, 148, 173

Barnes, Baron, 73

Barnouw, Eric, 371, 373, 375, 380, 399, 400

Barr, Richard, 377, 397, 400, 404, 429, 433, 513

Barrett, Edith (Mrs Vincent Price), 348, 356

Barretts of Wimpole Street, The
(Besier), 141, 143, 144–5, 148–9, 153, 154, 185, 200

Barrier, Edgar,
384, 428, 470, 503

Barry, Phillip, 546

Barrymore, John, 140, 150, 154, 169, 198, 241, 263, 284, 319, 424, 446, 561

Bartholomew Fair
(Jonson), 349

Batista, Miriam, 208

Baudelaire, Charles, 196

Bax, Clifford,
Rose Without a Thorn
, 112

Bazin, André, 50, 566

Beardsley, Aubrey, 109

Beau Geste
(Wren), radio adaptation of, 445

Beaumarchais, Pierre,
The Marriage
of Figaro
, 295

Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher, John, 159, 164

Beck, Martin, 439

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 292

Belasco, David, 181, 188, 210, 214

Belfrage, Cedric, 565, 566, 572

Benchley, Robert, 278, 342, 411

Benét, Stephen Vincent, 119, 555

Benson, Sir Frank, 83, 100

Bergman, Ingrid, 470

Berlin, 50, 109, 121, 288, 429

Berman, Pandro S., 450

Bernhardt,
Sarah, 50

Bernstein, Edith (
née
Mason: second wife), 23, 65, 73

Bernstein, Hazel (
née
Moore: third wife), 20, 23, 49, 73, 75

Bernstein, Leonard, 288

Bernstein, Dr Maurice Abraham (‘Dadda’), 13–14, 15, 17, 20, 23, 30–1, 32, 41, 47, 50, 57, 58, 61, 62, 198, 199, 514; Beatrice’s relationship with, 14, 20, 21, 31, 63, 74; Highland Park house, 47, 49, 73; legal guardian of Welles, 65,
474; moves to California, 475; second marriage to Edith Mason, 65, 73; third marriage to Hazel Moore, 73; as trustee of Dick Welles’s estate, 74, 435; Welles’s letters to, 76, 77, 79–80, 81, 86–7; Welles’s relations with, 13–14, 21, 27, 28, 30–1, 33, 34, 37, 49, 54, 63, 69, 73, 74–5, 118, 125, 126, 127, 128, 141, 142, 185, 474, 475–6

Bernstein, Minna (
née
Elman: first wife), 14

Betterton,
Thomas, 178

Big Sisterhood Association, 14

Big White Fog
, 552

Bijou Theatre, New York, 208

Bird, William, 278

Birdseye, Clarence, 230

Bitter Sweet
, 83

Blackbirds
, revue, 221

Blake, Eubie, 219

Blavatsky, Mme, 64

Bleak House
(Dickens), 158

Blitzstein, Eva (
née
Goldbeck), 288, 289

Blitzstein, Marc, 288–302, 346, 354, 384, 386, 394, 529, 556;
Christina
(song), 393;
The Condemned
, 289;
The Cradle Will Rock
(operetta), 287, 288–303, 304, 345, 346;
Danton’s Death
, music score for, 393, 394;
The Harpies
, 289;
I’ve Got the Tune
(radio play), 302;
Julius Caesar
, music score for, 310, 322, 328, 332, 336, 353;
Ode to Reason
(song), 393

Blossom Time
, 211

Bodenheim, Max, 16, 20

Bogdanovich, Peter,
This is Orson Welles
, ix, x, 26–7, 43, 50,
87, 127, 137, 196, 234, 263, 264, 320, 329, 346, 385, 386, 424, 442, 486, 501, 503, 506, 509, 511, 514, 523, 535, 561, 565, 571

Bohm, Adolph, 19

Bokassa, Emperor, 222

Boleslavsky, Richard, 251

Bond, Ward, 460

Bonstelle, Jessie, Detroit stock company of, 143

Book of Todd, The
1931, Welles’s editing of, 69–71

Booth, Edwin, 95, 109, 169, 178

Booth, John Wilkes, 120

Booth, Clare, 334

Bordwell, David, 522, 523, 571

Borges, Jorge Luis, 570

Borgias, The
, 481, 484

Boston, 423, 431, 432, 448;
Five Kings
performed at Colonial Theatre, 433–6, 437, 438, 442

Boulanger, Nadia, 288

Bourbon, Diana, 461, 462–3

Bourchier, Arthur, 159

Bowden, Charles, 263

Bowles, Paul, 130, 251, 255, 257, 270, 386

Boyars, Ben, 118

Boyd, James,
555, 557

Bradford, Mary D., 9

Brady, Frank, x, 20, 113, 134, 384, 386, 469, 473, 481, 505, 510, 518, 533

Brady, William A., 118

Brahim el Glaoui, Kaid, 113, 129, 132, 133, 134

Brahm, Otto, 46

Brassler, Muriel, 313

Breasted, James H., 40

Brecht, Bertholt, 92, 289, 291, 313, 327, 342, 352, 390, 429

Breen, Joseph H., 476, 535

Brentwood, Welles’s house in, 450,
460, 477

Bridge of San Luis Rey, The
(Wilder), radio adaptation of, 418

Bridges-Adams, William, 109–10, 112

Bridie, James, 112

Bright Lucifer
(Welles), 121–7, 209, 305, 465

Bringing Up Baby
(film), 521

Britten, Benjamin, 543

Broadway (New York), 140, 143, 147, 194, 209, 210–12, 218, 221, 223, 236, 244, 249, 260, 262, 263, 272, 282, 309, 312, 342, 348, 354, 363, 365,
366, 381, 385, 414, 419, 447, 461, 539, 543, 546, 549, 550, 553, 561, 562

Brooklyn Eagle-Examiner
, 258, 408, 409–10, 413

Brooks Costumes, 396

Broome Stages
(radio), 463

Brothers Karamazov, The
(Dostoevsky), 158, 297

Brown, Ivor, 355

Brown, John, anti-slaver, 115, 116, 117, 118–21

Brown, John Mason, 147, 214–15, 240, 336, 337, 338, 365–6, 409, 413

Brown, Mrs,
Music
in Kenosha
, 10

Browne, Maurice, 19

Browning, Robert, 226

Buchbinder, Hazel, 138

Büchner, Georg, 536;
Danton’s Death
, 380, 383, 389–98, 399, 404, 406, 408–12, 413, 415, 418;
Woyzeck
, 390, 540

Buffalo, NY, Cornell tour opens in, 147

Bumpus, Dr Dudley, 560–1

Bunuel, Luis, 176

Burbage, Richard, 178

Burgtheater, Vienna, 415

Burroughs, Eric, 224

Burton, Richard,
267

Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The
(film), 176

Cahiers du Cinéma
, 50

Calder-Marshall, Arthur,
The Way to Santiago
, 528

Campbell, Alexander, 349

Campbell, Mrs Patrick, 346

Campbell Playhouse, The
radio series, 408, 417, 418–23, 426, 445, 448, 460–3, 464, 483, 487, 489;
The Green Goddess
, 445–6;
Jane Eyre
, 418, 489;
Rebecca
, 419, 420–1, 422

Candida
(Shaw), 141, 143, 144,
146, 147–8, 153, 154

Cantril, Hadley,
The Invasion front Mars
, 402–3, 406, 492;
War of the Worlds
script authorship dispute, 406, 490–2, 517

Capek, Josef, 88

Capek, Karel, 88, 135

Capra, Frank, 452

Carpenter, Francis, 208, 209, 222, 313, 335, 352, 428, 529

Carringer, Robert, 476–7, 496;
The Making of Citizen Kane
, x, 493, 494, 504, 505, 522, 525

Carrington, Katharine,
154

Carroll, Madeleine, 489

Carter, Jack, 224–6, 227, 238, 244–5, 270, 271, 273, 276, 277–8, 470, 503

Casablanca, 128, 129, 134

Casamassina, Connie, 403

Case of Philip Lawrence, The
, 298

Cassidy, Claudia, 22–3, 167, 171, 173–4

Catalina, Bruno, 26

Catholic World
, 275

Cavalcade of America
, 376

censorship, 265–6, 300, 303, 311, 405, 476, 534–5

Césaire,
Aimé, ‘La Tragédie du Roi Christophe’, 222

Chaliapin, Fedor Ivanovich, 19

Chalk Dust
, 228

Chamberlain, Neville, 422, 539

Chancellor, Betty, 96, 97, 98

Chaney, Stewart, 266

Chaplin, Charles, 383, 449, 452, 504

Chappell, Ernest, 462

Chekhov, Anton, 19, 365, 536

Cherry Orchard, The
(Chekhov), 297, 315

Chesterton, G.K., 103, 418

Chicago (‘The Windy City’),
3, 5, 8, 9, 16–30, 61, 115, 128, 137–8, 150, 151, 159, 175, 184, 295, 358, 436, 542, 543–4; arts and architecture in, 16–17, 18–19, 21; première of
Citizen Kane
, 561–2; theatre and opera in, 19, 22–3, 83, 156, 446, 447, 448; Welles family move to (1918), 15, 17–18; Woodstock/Todd Theatre Festival (1934), 155–76; World’s Fair, 160–1, 175

Chicago Art Institute, 18, 24, 72

Chicago Drama League,
137–8, 156

Chicago Herald American
, 60–1

Chicago Herald and Examiner
, 161, 167, 171

Chicago Little Theatre, 19

Chicago Memorial Hospital, death of Beatrice Welles in (1924), 29

Chicago Opera, 19

Chicago Sunday Tribune
, 517

Chicago Tribune
, 142, 150, 162, 166, 168

Children’s Hour, The
, 250

Chimes at Midnight
(film), 435, 441, 442

Chimes at Midnight
(play),
441

China, Welles’s visits to, 49, 50, 52, 54–5, 58–9, 131