Word: wellesian
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...Moscow Bureau Chief William Jorden, the punctilious New York Times warned that "the rumors be treated with the greatest caution." From Washington,* the U.P. filed a detailed story on the State Department's wholly logical explanation for the spaceman stories: they had apparently been inspired by an Orson Wellesian rocket opera broadcast Sunday by Radio Moscow. Next day, in an intercontinental missive to editors, the A.P. said its two Moscow staffers (Bureau Chief Harold K. Milks and Roy Essoyan) heard the rumors well before the Wellesian broadcast and let them age 48 hours before breaking the story. Their "reliable...
Aaron's interpretation of the broadcast as having humor is correct, but the script's humor is a very subtle, Wellesian sneer. In the original, the farmer on whose field the first rocket landed was slow and countrived, but in Aaron's he is more of the village idiot...
Cinemactress Colbert, moving waxy and beautifully gowned through a series of handsome sets, manages to convey the idea that she cannot quite pierce the Wellesian disguise of beard, limp and heavy Teutonic accent. Welles himself, posing as an Austrian scientist, does a far more skillful job of characterization than the creaky plot and prevailing platitudes warrant...
Played in a very effective atmosphere, created by Howard Bay's strikingly simple sets and Moc Hack's Wellesian lighting. "The Eve of St. Mark" tells the truth so plainly, so free from flag waving, that it should rank with the best plays...