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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orson Welles, Ilka Chase, Tamara Geva (Fri. 9 p. m. CBS) in a dramatization of the Hollywood satire, I Lost My Girlish Laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...Orson Welles (Fri. 9 p. m. CBS), No. 1 U. S. Bogeyman, as radiominous Cap tain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Radio's Man of the Year was youthful Orson Welles who, in his famous The War of the Worlds broadcast, scared fewer people than Hitler, but more than had ever been frightened by radio before, demonstrating that radio can be a tremendous force in whipping up mass emotion. Playwright of the Year was Thornton Wilder, previously a precious litterateur, whose first play on Broadway, Our Town, was not only ingenious and moving, but a big hit. To Gabriel Pascal, producer of Pygmalion, first full-length picture based on the wordy dramas of George Bernard Shaw, went the title of Cineman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man of the Year, 1938 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...Christmas Carol. (Fri. 9 p. m. CBS). Orson Welles plays Scrooge in a dramatization of Charles Dickens' fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...contained in the Poetry Room in a complete set of all the recordings of Shakespeare's works, that have been made thus far. Chief among the actors reciting the Shakespearian dramas are such celebrities as John Barrymore, Maurice Evans, and Orson Welles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ultra-Modern Recording Instrument Recently Acquired for Poetry Room | 12/16/1938 | See Source »

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