Read Orson Welles, Vol I Online
Authors: Simon Callow
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
Smith, Alston J., 5, 18
Smith, Dodie, 445
Smith, Fred, 301, 475
Smith, Gus, 246
Smith, Howard, 384
Sneden’s Landing,
Welles’s home at, 285, 306, 360, 385
Sokoloff, Vladimir, 391, 393, 411, 513
Son Excellence
, 133
Song of the Dnieper, The
, 352
Sophocles, 252
Spain, Welles’s trip to (1933), 129, 130, 134, 135–7
Speaight, Robert, 112, 427, 429, 431, 433, 434, 435
special effects/optical printing, film, 476, 521–3, 524
Spitz, Leo, 450
Spring Awakening
, 159
Stage, The
, 530;
Welles’s article in, 536–8
Stage at Eve, The
, 356
stage design/sets, 229–30, 238, 241, 255, 263, 270, 293, 294, 301, 311, 314–15, 325, 327, 340–1, 352, 353, 364–5, 367, 383, 392, 396–7, 428–9, 430, 432–3, 434, 437–9, 440–1, 443–5, 544
Stage Relief Fund, 211
Stagecoach
(film), 465, 509, 512
Stagg, Harold, 320
Stalin, Josef, 394, 530
Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 19, 50,
145, 173, 206–7, 213, 313, 322, 396, 413
Stanton, Olive, 298
Stein, Gertrude, 251, 259, 266;
Four Saints in Three Acts
, 194, 219, 220, 221
Steiner, George,
The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H
, xii, 198
Stern, Ernst, 181, 241
Stettheimer, Florine, 194
Stevedore
, 224
Stevens, Ashton, 60–1, 151, 159, 160, 164
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 77, 378
Stewart, James G.,
525
Stewart, Paul, 204, 376–7, 399, 445, 463, 491, 511, 512, 543
Stock, Frederick, 10
Stoker, Bram,
Dracula
, 375–6, 378–80, 388
Stong, Philip Duffield, 445
Stony Creek summer theatre, 383, 385, 387
Strange Interlude
(O’Neill), 357
Strasberg, Lee, 213
Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 19, 112, 347
Strauss, Richard,
Salome
, 19
Stravinsky,
Igor, 20, 21, 242
Strike Me Pink
, 211
Strindberg, August, 159
Stroheim, Erich von, 449, 532
Student Prime, The
, 211, 297
Sturges, Preston, 452, 484
subjective camera technique, 468–9, 470, 476
Sullavan, Margaret, 420, 421, 422
Sullivan, Barry, 109
Sullivan, Louis L., 18
Supervia, Conchita, 83
Sweetheart Town
, 47
Swiss Family Robinson
(film), 498,
505
Synge, J. M., 78
Taft, Lorado (‘Fra Lorado’), 18–19, 24, 159;
Black Hawk
(sculpture), 24
Taibhearc (first Irish-speaking theatre), Galway, 78, 84
Tale of Two Cities, A
(radio play), 387, 388
Taming of the Shrew, The
(Shakespeare), 113
Tangiers, 128, 129–30, 131, 133
Tarbox, Hascy, 37, 38, 39, 40, 44, 45, 65, 72, 121, 138, 172, 175
Tarkington, Booth, 25;
Clarence
, 418;
The Magnificent Ambersons
, 15, 418, 512, 515, 577
; Seventeen
, 418
Taubmann, Howard, 211, 212
Tchaikowsky, Pyotr llych, 288, 377, 419
Tchelitchew, Pavel, 274, 306, 358
Teichmann, Howard, 326–7, 334, 397
Tempest, The
(Shakespeare), 234
Temple, Shirley, 460
Ten Million Ghosts
(Kingsley), 262–4, 266
Terkel, Studs, 18
Thalberg, Irving, 458
Thami el-Glaoui,
Pasha of Karrakesh, 113, 129, 131, 132–4, 349, 430
Theatre Arts Monthly
, 46, 214, 275, 552
Theatre Arts Quarterly
, 570
Theatre Education League, 313
Theatre Guild, New York, 87, 89, 94, 99, 210, 213, 300, 311, 546;
Five Kings
co-produced by Mercury and (1938), 423–45, 447, 448, 451
Theatre Monthly
, 339
Theatre Union, 212, 224
Theatre Veterans’ League, 249
Thin Man,
The
(film), 480
Thirty-Nine Steps, The
(radio play), 387
Thomas, Edna, 224, 238, 239, 244–5
Thomas, François, 376, 377, 463, 511
Thomas, Ted, 265–6
Thompson, Dorothy, 285, 405
Thompson, Woodman, 149, 169, 186
Thomson, Virgil, 194, 201, 219, 221, 222, 224, 232–3, 241, 251, 255, 256, 257, 259, 262, 266, 287, 288, 320, 346, 424, 441, 444, 478, 479, 525
Thorndike, Russell, 113
Thorndike, Sybil, 113
Three Sisters, The
(Chekhov), 297
Thurman, Wallace, 221
Tichacek, Stephen, 392, 397
Time
magazine, 205, 300, 334, 413, 448, 549; ‘MARVELOUS BOY’ (profile of Welles), 341, 359–60, 361, 377
Time of Your Life, The
, 440