Word: wellesely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nope. Mr. Klein's act would never do. The Hobby Lobby has some 5 million listeners. If even a hundred of them corked off, without Mr. Klein in the living room to wake them up, it could make a mightier stir than the Orson Welles-invoked invasion from Mars...
Your article about Science Fiction magazines brings to mind a little-considered result of the now famous Orson Welles Martian-menace-hoax broadcast of last fall. Many of the Science Fiction pulps now on sale owe their success to the publicity given the Martians at that time. Martians, you know...
A holdout against Hollywood blandishments for two years has been pudding-faced, precocious Orson Welles, 24-year-old actor-manager of Manhattan's Mercury Theatre. Last week, when young Mr. Welles put his name to a one-picture-a-year contract with RKO, the terms for which he had...
Original director of the Workshop was Irving Reis, a swarthy, jittery onetime control-room engineer who thought the production, not the play, was the thing, and who sweated with oscillators, electrical filters, echo chambers to produce some of the most exciting sounds ever put on the air-Gulliver's...
Among U. S. citizens who listened, hair-on-end, to Actor Orson Welles's Martian newscast (TIME, Nov. 7) was a doddypolled 22-year-old airplane mechanic named Cheston Lee Eshleman. More piqued than panicked, he got an idea. He wanted to pay the Martians a return visit, stake...