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Native Son (produced by Orson Welles & John Houseman). Playwright Paul Green has helped Negro Novelist Richard Wright turn his best-selling Native Son into by all odds the strongest drama of the season. Broadway drama critics generally agreed that the book's pain-by-pain account of the Negro hero's tortured mind was more powerful than the play. But in ten scenes, framed within forbidding brick walls, played without intermission, the play says plenty...
...John Houseman, associate of Orson Welles, will speak tonight in the Poetry Room of Widener on "Radio Adaptions of the Novel and Other Literature." The meeting is sponsored by the Crimson Network, and the Radio Workshop...
...buff brick Greek legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue was quiet last week; on sunny mornings a Negro yardman hosed down the sidewalks; a white-coated houseman swung open the door to visitors in grand unconcern. Inside, white-haired, friendly little Minister Cimon P. Diamantopoulos gravely stated his pride in his country. Throughout the U. S., in Greek neighborhoods with their fruit stands, vegetable markets, small restaurants and grocery stores, the U. S.'s 700,000 Greeks discussed the news. In the Italian quarters - it was the 18th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome-fruit peddlers...
Some time in November, John Housemann, collaborator with Orson Welles on his radio programs and manager of the Mercury Theatre, will conduct the third meeting. Houseman is now engaged in writing the radio dramas for Helen Hayes...
...Cradle Will Rock," a ten-scene satire dealing bitterly with modern industrial strife, was first produced late in 1937 by Orson Welles and John Houseman for the Mercury Theatre in New York. When the Federal Theatre withdrew its sponsorship from the production on the opening night, Welles, Houseman, and the whole cast, followed by an angry crowd of first-nighters, trooped across Manhattan to the Venice Theatre...