Word: orson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orson Welles prepared to return to Hollywood from Brazil (TIME, July 20) the following ad, signed by RKO's Brazilian manager, appeared in Rio de Janeiro papers: "RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., established in New York, U.S.A., hereby declares it will not assume responsibility for any acts committed by Orson Welles in Brazil...
With much less publicity than usual, Orson Welles presents another of his famous attacks upon the traditional standards of art. After marked victories over both radio and stage conventionality, he has turned upon the moving picture business in a brave attempt to make it into a real art. "Citizen Kane" demonstrated great possibilities for advance in technique and threatened the complacency of the movie industry. Unfortunately "The Magnificent Ambersons" merely repeats that threat...
...Magnificent Ambersons (Mercury; RKO-Radio) is a magnificent movie. It is also Round Two of the Orson Welles v. Hollywood set-to. The upstart young (27) producer-director-author-actor won Round One in a walk with his first picture, Citizen Kane (TIME, March 17, 1941), 1941's most provocative and exciting movie. Ambersons is not another Citizen Kane, but it is good enough to remove Director Welles for keeps from the novice or one-picture-prodigy class, and to further the feud...
Said the Smithsonian: Ainu women, properly dressed, could stroll unnoticed along any U.S. Main Street. Ainu men are hairy and large-headed, with faces strikingly like those of Leo Tolstoy, Alfred Tennyson, or Orson Welles. The almost beardless Japanese point to the Ainus' hirsuteness as evidence of subhuman status...
Deeply moved, Orson Welles revised his script, now dedicated throughout to "An American Hero." Inspired by Jacare's feat, four messenger boys of the Telegrafo Nacional planned to walk the same distance from Fortaleza to Rio to ask President Vargas for a better wage. But what would have pleased Jacare most was that the first pension won for the jangadeiros by his efforts goes to his wife and nine children...