Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre of the Air was sold to Campbell Soup last week. Week before Mr. Welles had proved that his program had grip when his production of The War of the Worlds and the U. S. radio audience's gullibility had created a national panic. Mercury Theatre will replace Campbell Soup's Hollywood Hotel on CBS December...
...Delaney, who user to panic them at the Majestic, Eddie Nugent is a stand-out in a pretty good cast. Perey Kilbridge is excellent as Pop Clifford, who travels around the country "straightening out" his son-in-laws. Quill, the meek little man who used to think that men who wore top hats never had to go to the bathroom, is overplayed by Hume Cronyn. Barbara Robbins as Evelyn Quill does nothing to redeem a role which is entirely out of key. Harold Grau, Matt Briggs, Naomi Rae, and Otto Hulett are all good, and Donald Oenslager's hotel room...
MacLeish, on the Harvard staff this year for the first time, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning poem "Conquistador," and of "New Found Land," "Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City," "Union Pacific,--a Ballet," "Panic," and the two radio plays "Fall of the City" and "Air Raid...
While a doughty little band of Princeton scientists set out to investigate the reported catastrophe, in Harlem the godly gathered in prayer. Eight hundred and seventy-five panic-stricken people phoned the New York Times alone...
...cause of this amazing, nationwide panic last Sunday night was a broadcast by Orson Welles's CBS Mercury Theatre of the Air of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (no relative). Author Wells's classic pseudo-scientific thriller about how the men from Mars invade earth in a flying cylinder (at first thought to be a meteorite) was first published in 1898. That its broadcast on Halloween Eve 1938, caused something pretty close to national hysteria was not entirely due to the timelessness of the Wells story, the persuasive microphone technique of Orson ("The Shadow...