by Simon Callow
McLendon, Rose, 219
Mac Liammóir, Micheál, xi, 50, 78, 84, 88, 89–92, 93, 94, 96–9, 103, 104, 105–6, 107–8, 109, 111, 112, 115–16, 145, 235; All for Hecuba, xi, 85–6, 88–9, 96–7, 100, 107–8, 413; Diarmuid and Gráinne, 78, 84; Put Money in thy Purse, xi; at Woodstock Summer Festival, 156, 157–8, 159, 160, 162, 163, 164–5, 168–70, 171, 172, 173, 174–6, 181
MacMahon, Aline, 309, 359, 362
McMaster, Anew, 90, 109–10, 112, 164, 223, 316
Macready, William Charles, 178, 316
Macy, Gertrude, 145, 148
Mad Dog of Europe (Mankiewicz screenplay), 486
Mad Love (film), 506
Madame Butterfly (Puccini), 23
Madame X, 494
magic, Welles’s sense of, 57–8, 268–9, 270, 272, 282, 411–12, 468
Magnanimous Cuckold, The, 53
Magnificent Ambersons, The (film), 418, 512, 525, 577
Mailer, Norman, 506
make-up, 68, 105–6, 260–1, 365, 505–6, 574
Mamoulian, 214
Man Who Came to Dinner, The, 139, 481, 553
Man Who Was Thursday, The (Chesterton), radio adaptation of, 387, 418
Manhattan Theatre, New York, 249
Mankiewicz, Herman J., 482–9; Citizen Kane, 484–9, 493, 494, 495, 496, 497–8, 503, 504, 505, 507, 508, 515, 517–19, 524, 530, 532, 533, 534, 540, 566, 568, 570, 571, 577–8;John Meade’s Woman (screenplay), 487; Mad Dog of Europe (screenplay), 486; The Tree Will Grow, 484
Mankiewicz, Sara, 496
Manning, Mary, 104
Mantle, Burns, 142, 238, 275, 357, 411
March of Time, The, 205, 312, 372, 400, 523–4, 531
Marching Song (Welles and Hill), 115, 116–21, 127, 146, 155, 305, 465, 546
Margood, Charlie, 84, 88
Marlowe, Christopher, 267; Doctor Faustus, 156, 158, 207, 250, 266–83, 284, 287
Marquis, Don, 159
Marrakesh, 131–2, 133, 134
Marriage of Figaro, The (Beaumarchais), 295
Martin Beck Theatre, New York, 190
Marshall, Herbert, 284
Martinelli, Giovanni, 23, 48
Martyred by his Love (film), 175
Marx, Karl, 434
Marx Brothers, 282
Marxism, 212–13, 218, 288, 535
Mason, Edith see Bernstein, Edith
Massenet, Jules, 526
Morris, Lawrence, 295
Moscow Art Theatre, 19, 83, 158, 207, 297, 322, 396, 415
Mosel, Tad, 189
Mosley, Sir Oswald, 477, 485
Moss, Carlton, 219–20, 235, 236
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 45, 49
Mueller, Dr Frederick G., 32–3
Mulatto (Hughes), 219
Muni, Paul, 197, 451, 557
Murder in the Cathedral (Eliot), 228, 308, 427
Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The (radio), 483
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban, 135
music and sound effects, film, 507, 521, 524–7, 536, 565, 566; radio, 375–6, 377, 379–80, 399, 526; theatre, 232–4, 241–2, 251, 255, 257, 270, 310, 322, 328, 331–2, 332, 333, 336, 353, 386, 543, 544–6; see also The Cradle Will Rock
Musicians’ Union, 345
Mussolini, Benito, 322, 324, 332, 358, 485
Mutual (radio company), 304, 320
Muzio, Claudia, 19, 23
My Little Boy (Ewald: radio play), 387, 418
Naremore, James, 126; The Magic World of Orson Welles, xii
Nathan, George Jean, 221, 308, 340, 409
Nation, 563
National Council of Teachers of English, Welles’s speech to, 380–1, 382, 412
National Theatre, aim of, 248, 282–3, 363, 415, 474–5
National Theatre, New York, 357, 359, 362
Native Son (Wright and Green), 540–54, 555, 557
Natwick, Mildred, 422
Nazimova, Alla, 447
NBC radio, 345, 372
Neale, Zora Hurston, 219
Negro Playwrights’ Company, 552, 553
Negro Theatre Project, Harlem, 219–47, 543; Conjur’ Man Dies, 228; Macbeth, 222–8, 229–45, 246, 249; Walk Together Chillun!, 228
Neher, Caspar, 352
Neilson, Adelaide, 187
Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir, 206–7, 413
New Deal, Roosevelt’s, 216, 217, 220, 235, 239, 248, 299, 303, 371
New Masses, 349, 535–6, 564
New Republic, The, 538–9, 566–8, 569–70
New Statesman, 194
New Theatre Magazine, 200
New York, 114–15, 117–18, 139–40, 154, 162, 168, 185–90, 194, 199, 209–12; see also Broadway; individual plays performed in New York
New York Age, 239
New York American, 149, 189, 201, 258, 275
New York Drama Study Group, Welles receives award from (1938), 361
New York Herald Express, 557
New York Herald Tribune, 258, 264, 343, 405, 426, 460, 497
New York Journal American, 338, 355, 552, 557
New York Post, 240, 336, 337, 341–2, 562
New York Sun, 238, 339
New York Telegram, 354
New York Theatre Project see Negro Theatre Unit; Project 891
New York Times, 99–100, 104–5, 128, 139, 146, 148, 188, 189, 199, 202, 218, 234–5, 237–8, 239–40, 241, 243, 256, 258–9, 260, 261, 264, 275, 276, 278, 291, 298–9, 308, 310, 320, 324, 328, 338, 341, 345, 355, 356, 361, 366, 368, 372, 408, 409, 411, 413, 414, 431, 434, 436, 447, 482, 535, 548, 551, 552–3, 557, 562, 563, 568; ‘GOTHAM HOBGOBLIN’ (1938), 361, 411, 412; ‘THE SUMMING UP’ (Houseman, 1938), 366–7
New York World Telegram, 303, 364, 405, 414
New Yorker, The, 11, 126, 278, 342, 427, 482
News, The, 9, 166, 167
News of the Day, 524
Newsweek, 340, 374, 549
Newton, Robert, 389
Nichols, Lewis, 258–9
Nicholson, Leo, 199
‘Nickel Under Your Foot’ (Blitzstein song), 289, 292
Nicolson, Virginia see Welles, Virginia
Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Birth of Tragedy, 212
Niles, David, 299
Noble, Peter, 13, 113; The Fabulous Orson Welles, 264
Norman Convin’s Words Without Music, 370
Northwest Passage (film), 464
Nouryeh, Andrea, xii, 331, 350, 353, 358, 362, 368, 385, 386, 392, 429, 544, 545
Now I Am Twenty-one (Welles), 208
Oboler, Arch, 372, 375
O’Briain, Professor Liam, 78
O’Brien, Edmond, 357–8, 362
O’Casey, Sean, 101, 156
Ó Ceallaigh, Cathal, 84, 109
Ó Conaire, Pádriac, 81; Field and Fair; (Travels with a Donkey in Ireland), 75–6, 78
O’Connor and Brown, Free, Adult and Uncensored, 216, 217
Ode to Reason (Blitzstein song), 393
O’Dea, Jimmy, 94
Odlum, Floyd, 534
Oenslager, Donald, 263
O’Flaherty, Liam, Tourist Guide to Ireland, 80
O’Hara, John, 549; Butterfield 8, 549; Pal Joey (musical), 549
O’Keefe, Winston, 439
Old Vic theatre, London, 90, 112, 113, 310, 313
Olivier, Laurence, 171, 445, 506
Olsen, Moroni, 189
Omaha theatre of the blind, 217
O’Morrison, Kevin, 362, 386, 393, 398
O’Neal, Charles ‘Blacky’, 174
O’Neal, Ryan, 174
O’Neill, Eugene, 210, 536
Only Angels Have Wings (radio play), 463
Orlick, Emil, 181
Ormsbee, Helen, 272, 349, 352, 395
Orpheus with his Lute, 332
Orson Welles’s Almanac (radio), 577
Ostrovsky, Alexander, 176
Othello (Shakespeare), 133, 138, 139, 154, 220, 234
Ottley, Roi, 239
Our Town (Wilder), 427; radio adaptation, 445
Paderewski, I
gnace Jan, 83
Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), 23
Pal Joey (O’Hara musical), 549, 553
Palace Theatre, Broadway, première of Citizen Kane at, 561
Palace Theatre, Chicago, 446, 447
Paley, William S., 371
Panama Hattie, 553
Panic (MacLeish), 196–8, 200–4, 212, 219, 310, 325, 484; radio recording of extract from, 204–5, 206
Paramount film company, 385
Paris, Welles in (1932), 113, 133
Parker, Dorothy, 437
Parlo, Dita, 460
Parry, Florence Fisher, 358
Parsons, Louella, 473, 474, 516–17, 530–1, 532, 534, 549; The Gay Illiterate, 516
Passenger to Bali, A (radio play), 412
Paul, Egerton, 176, 263
Paur, Leonard de, 219, 233
Peacock Players, 102, 106
Peacock Theatre, Dublin, 102
Peer Gynt (Ibsen), 462
Pepys, Samuel, 375
Perry, Antoinette, 344
Perry, Edward, 220
Philadelphia, 423, 436, 448; Five Kings, performed at Chestnut Theatre, 437–40
Philadelphia Story, The, 503, 511, 546
Phoenix Theatre, New York, 197, 202, 204
Physician in Spite of Himself, The, 53
Picasso, Pablo, 42, 53, 242
Pickwick Papers, The (Dickens), 481; radio adaptation, 412, 418
Pinter, Harold, Mac (memoir), 90
Piscator, Erwin, 121, 429
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
