Word: welleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Variety doped it as a white elephant, for which there are no stables on Broadway. But it was coming this week, anyway-a huge (36 scenes, nine carloads of props) staging of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days. Producer-Director-Actor-Magician Orson Welles would not...
In New Haven, when the flicker which opens the show refused to flick, the unperturbed Welles cracked: "This just proves what many of us in the theater have felt right along . . . movies are not here to stay."
Later, when a cowpoke quaffed a "prairie pickup" ("straight formaldehyde with a black widder spider ridin' the olive"), his crepe whiskers fell off. Ad-libbed Actor Welles: "Mighty pow'ful stuff, that likker. Burns the whiskers right off'n a man's face."
A few minutes later the comics received an enigimatic call from a person who identified himself only as "G.G. Toale," warning them that the Ibis had just been produced in the Opera House by Orson Welles, playing the part of the Japanese magician in his new Mercury production, "Around the...
Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days" is the basis for Mr. Welles' effort. Adapted to afford frequent opportunities for song and dance, it ends up as a series of skits--and, like most revues, it runs hot and cold all evening. When Phileas Fogg is being seduced...