Word: orson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orson Welles, 29, boy prodigy of theater, radio and cinema, took on a prodigious job: recording the entire Bible. Reading 15 minutes a day for a year, he expects to put the 773,746 words of a "slightly rewritten" King James Version on Decca records. He has already finished the Song of Solomon...
...course of their work the tourists watch a Mexican peasant wedding and several pieces of professional entertainment, notably by Miss Brazil (Louise Burnett), who can span three octaves without turning a hair, and Cuba's dionysian Miguelito Valdes, who suggests a three-power compromise between Cab Galloway, Orson Welles and Rube Bandleader Spike Jones...
Zealot Morden got him a job on Orson Welles's radio program. Then, with the help of Washington's 27-year-old Nesuhi Ertegun, erudite, diminutive son of the late Turkish Ambassador, she founded the Crescent Record Co. Zealot Ertegun is passionately certain that New Orleans jazz is a genuine art form, and America's chief contribution to culture. His most obvious reason for founding the company was to get the Kid back on wax. (Ory's 1921 Sunshine recordings-Ory's Creole Trombone, Society Blues-were probably the first Negro-made records...
Rebecca Welles, six-week-old daughter of Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles (see PRESS), showed signs of having inherited her parents' camera appeal, did some photogenic cooing at her mother...
...Orson Welles, 29, precocious master of a number of trades-and jack of several more-apprenticed himself to a new one: newspaper columning. This week his first effort appeared in eleven papers (The New York Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Detroit News, etc.), all of whom bought him sight unseen. What they got were 1) excerpts from Welles's favorite reading, the Farmer's Almanac; 2) handy hints about cooking; 3) cocksure remarks about foreign affairs; 4) personal chitchat...