Orson Welles, Vol I (106 page)

4.
‘A crazy thing happened …’ Quoted in
Insight Guide to Chicago
.

5.
‘… with the blood and sweat …’ Quoted in Smith, op. cit.

6.
‘… the creaking of leather …’ Orson Welles in
Vogue
, December 1982.

7.
‘I’d see my
father …’ ibid.

8.
‘I was surprised …’ ibid.

9.
‘She was not the musical version …’ ibid.

10.
‘“Well,” says Beatrice …’ibid.

11.
‘There never was anything …’ Quoted in Smith, op. cit.

12.
Grand Detour background: from
John Deere & the Billion Dollar Plow Gamble
by David Shiaras.

13.
‘Mark Twain …’ Orson Welle in
Vogue
, December 1982.

14.
‘Do you want to see the stars?’
Quoted in Shiaras, op. cit.

15.
‘… a prison … a pestilential handicap’. Orson Welles quoted in
Hortense Hill Memorial Service
, a pamphlet.

16.
‘There was a country store …’ Quoted in
This is Orson Welles
by Peter Bogdanovich.

17.
‘I was marinated …’ Orson Welles in
Vogue
, December 1982.

18.
‘I knew very well …’ ibid.

19.
‘How much like her …’ ibid.

20.
‘Mothers of heroes
…’ From
Absent Fathers, Lost Sons
by Guy Corneau.

21.
‘… a perceptive American director …’
Playboy
, March 1967.

22.
‘It wasn’t that I didn’t love my mother …’ Quoted in
Orson Welles
by Barbara Leaming.

23.
‘… er, no, didn’t touch Lear till later …’ Quoted by Kenneth Tynan,
Playboy
, March 1967.

24.
‘From my earliest years, I was the Lily Langtry …’ Quoted by Barbara Leaming, op.
cit.

25.
‘The school did to him …’ Quoted in
The Fabulous Orson Welles
by Peter Noble.

1.
‘… responsibility is the great educator …’ Quoted in
The Todd School
, an unpublished thesis by John Hoke.

2.
‘When, by accident of birth …’ From
One Man’s Time and Chance
by Roger Hill.

3.
‘Boyhood is not a preparation for life.’ Roger Hill, op. cit.

4.
‘I wonder
what new hobby …’ ibid.

5.
‘The adolescent’s adolescent.’ Hascy Tarbox in an interview with S.C.

6.
‘Other students stuck their heads …’ From a letter from John C. Dexter to S.C.

7.
‘But Orson …’ Quoted in
The Fabulous Orson Welles
by Peter Noble.

8.
‘… a semi-orphan with a surplus …’ Orson Welles. Quoted in
Hortense Hill Memorial Service
, a pamphlet.

9.
‘I’m the boy you could
have had.’ Quoted in
Orson Welles
by Barbara Leaming.

10.
‘We all recognised almost immediately …’ From a letter from John C. Dexter to S.C.

11.
‘He was not one of us …’ Hascy Tarbox in an interview with S.C.

12.
‘When I first saw him …’ Quoted by Peter Noble, op. cit.

13.
‘He had a kind of youth that I never had …’ Quoted by Barbara Leaming, op. cit.

14.
‘Of everyone I’ve
known …’ Orson Welles. Quoted in
Hortense Hill Memorial Service
, a pamphlet.

15.
‘It’s that Christian marriage …’ Quoted by Barbara Leaming, op. cit.

16.
‘What’s the formula?’ Roger Hill, op. cit.

17.
‘Orson could talk a good talk …’ Joanne Tarbox in an interview with S.C.

18.
‘He didn’t look or feel like a twelve-year-old.’ Hascy Tarbox in an interview with S.C.

19.
‘I knew
he was going to be a great man …’ Quoted in
Crain’s Chicago Business
, 21 October 1985.

20.
‘It was either the best thing …’ Hascy Tarbox in an interview with S.C.

21.
‘I attacked the textbooks …’ Quoted by Barbara Leaming, op. cit.

22.
‘If he even so much as dangled …’ From a letter from John C. Dexter to S.C.

23.
‘He was a good kid …’ Tony Roskie in an interview with S.C.

24.
‘Orson really looked up to other children …’ Quoted by Peter Noble, op. cit.

25.
‘… the second genius in Todd’s class of 1931 …’ Roger Hill, op. cit.

26.
‘I became a man of importance …’ From a letter from Paul Guggenheim to S.C.

27.
‘Orson was distressed …’ ibid.

28.
‘Welles does not want to explain himself …’ Interview in
Réalités
(Paris) no. 201, 1962.

29.
‘Our philosophic
discussion …’ From a letter from Paul Guggenheim to S.C.

30.
‘I always had a feeling …’ ibid.

31.
‘He told me that his dream …’ ibid.

32.
‘I have had this recurring dream since I was 12 …’ Quoted in
This is Orson Welles
by Peter Bogdanovich.

33.
‘Todd is the most complete laboratory …’ Quoted by Roger Hill, op. cit.

34.
‘The theatre was totally Orson’s …’ Hascy Tarbox in an
interview with S.C.

35.
‘Our activities are genuine …’ Roger Hill, op. cit.

36.
‘Soon a whole country was finding …’ ibid.

37.
‘The chubby 11-year old was just the size and shape …’ ibid.

38.
‘When he finished with me he kissed me …’ From a letter from John C. Dexter to S.C.

39.
‘Yes. They’re Boys …’ Roger Hill, op. cit.

40.
‘Mystic, Ibsenic, Maeterlinckian …’
New York
American
, 3 May 1921.

41.
‘It was Simon Legree …’ Hascy Tarbox in an interview with S.C.

42.
‘I can remember a number of times …’ From a letter from John C. Dexter to S.C.

43.
‘The Theatre blends in a common art the talents …’ Orson Welles in the Todd catalogue, 1931.

44.
‘The whole piece was rather loosely put together …’ Orson Welles in
Red and White
.

45.
‘I rollicked around
my whole childhood …’ From the BBC TV interview with Huw Wheldon, 1960.

46.
‘What places do you remember most vividly …’
Playboy
, March 1967.

47.
‘All the great ones …’ Quoted by Peter Bogdanovich, op. cit.

48.
‘How you’d love it here …’ Quoted in
Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius
by Charles Higham.

49.
‘America’s most exclusive hotel …’ French
Vogue
, 1982.

50.
‘… wonderful Chicago-built toys …’ Quoted in
John Deere & The Billion Dollar Plow Gamble
by David Shiaras.

51.
‘You’d wake up in the morning …’Quoted by Peter Bogdanovich, op. cit.

52.
‘… never got to know Orson well …’ Shiaras, op. cit.

53.
‘We’d just returned from China …’ French
Vogue
, 1982.

54.
‘He didn’t want to admit he was interested …’ Quoted by Barbara Leaming,
op. cit.

55.
‘I felt that the ordinary audience …’ Roger Hill, op. cit.

56.
‘… even though you did not get the first prize …’ Letter from Maurice Bernstein in the Lilly Library Welles Collection.

57.
‘I discovered the magic of money …’ Quoted in an interview with David Lewin, London
Daily Mail
.

58.
‘He hoped to be mistaken for one of those …’ French
Vogue
, 1982.

59.
‘They guess
at what normal behaviour is …’ From
Adult Children of Alcoholics
by Janet Woititz.

60.
‘I was, in my childhood, determined to cure myself …’ Orson Welles quoted in
Hortense Hill Memorial Service
, a pamphlet.

61.
‘I’ll try to write about that later …’ French
Vogue
, 1982.

62.
‘I didn’t think I was doing the right thing …’ Quoted by Barbara Leaming, op. cit.

63.
‘Orson once tried
to scare Grandma …’ Quoted in Bate, ‘Debunking the Orson Welles myth’:
Kenosha Evening News
June 1941.

64.
‘I was in no position to interfere …’ French
Vogue
, 1982.

65.
‘The ballroom on the top floor of the old woman’s house …’ ibid.

66.
‘You see, the Italians believe …’
Quoted by Barbara Leaming, op. cit.

1.
‘I was never any good …’ Hascy Tarbox
in an interview with S.C.

2.
‘The irresponsibility of said Richard I. Welles …’ Quoted in
Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius
by Charles Higham.

3.
‘He feared his ward …’ Alva Johnston and Fred Smith,
Saturday Evening Post
, 27 January 1940.

4.
‘… was gracious and candid …’ From a letter to Hortense Hill.

5.
‘“Terrible, wasn’t it?”’ Quoted in
The Fabulous Orson
Welles
by Peter Noble.

6.
‘I said I was a star already …’ From
This is Orson Welles
by Peter Bogdanovich.

7.
‘We wanted a first-hand knowledge of the new methods of presentation …’ From tenth anniversary booklet of the Gate.

8.
‘… when the theatre once again makes its audience …’ ibid.

9.
‘The theatre has lost the individuality it once had …’ ibid.

10.
‘They gave me an education
…’ From RTE radio documentary
The Hilton and Micheál Show
.

11.
‘… behaving – their behaviour was Irish …’ From Micheál Mac Liammóir’s address to the Abbey Society.

12.
‘The actor works with himself as surely as …’ From
All For Hecuba
by Micheál Mac Liammóir.

13.
‘There were moments …’From Micheál Mac Liammóir, op. cit.

14.
‘It runs the gauntlet …’ From a letter to Roger Hill.

15.
‘He had indeed that unwavering energy …’ From Micheál Mac Liammóir, op. cit.

16.
‘In all the striving years since my debut …’ From RTE’s
The Hilton and Micheál Show
.

17.
‘… in the bliss of ignorance …’ ibid.

18.
‘… a full-blooded, soldierly figure …’ Stage direction to
Jew Süss
by Ashley Dukes from the novel by Lion Feuchtwanger.

19.
‘When Orson came padding onto the stage
…’ From Micheál Mac Liammóir, op. cit.

20.
‘His extraordinarily mature acting …’ Quoted by Peter Noble, op. cit.

21.
‘Dubliners, besides being very keen critics …’ From
The Hilton and Micheál Show
.

22.
‘the friendship of two men with no sexual overtones …’ From
Orson Welles
by Barbara Leaming.

23.
‘… or even in playing a part that called for a romantic side …’ Quoted by Peter Noble,
op. cit.

24.
‘Micheál would have seen through it …’ Orson Welles in an interview with Leslie Megahey for the BBC.

25.
‘I am like Hilton; I believe anything anyone tells me …’ ibid.

26.
‘… a touch of humanity …’
Irish Independent
14 October 1931.

27.
‘… looked the uncouth, hard-drinking …’ From
Joseph Holloway’s Irish Theatre Vol. One, 1926–1931
.

28.
‘It will be necessary to
see …’
Irish Times
14 October 1931.

29.
‘… the Duke is played by a young American …’
New York Times
November 1931.

30.
‘People began to talk about Orson …’ From Micheál Mac Liammóir, op. cit.

31.
‘… his favourite words were virile …’ From Peter Noble, op. cit.

32.
‘… the new American boy Orson Welles playing what he calls …’ From the unpublished diaries
of Denis Johnston, Trinity
College Dublin library.

33.
‘The extraordinary thing about Orson …’ Quoted by Peter Noble, op. cit.

34.
‘… a time of balls and parties …’ From the unpublished diaries of Denis Johnston, Trinity College Dublin library.

35.
‘… people had tea parties …’ From
Dublin
by V. S. Pritchett.

36.
‘British or Irish Free State …’ From the unpublished diaries of Joseph Holloway, National Library,
Dublin.

37.
‘It is astonishing …’ From V. S. Pritchett, op. cit.

38.
‘When the demon of showmanship …’ From Micheál Mac Liammóir, op. cit.

39.
‘With theatre people he was at his best …’ From Micheál Mac Liammóir, op. cit.

40.
‘The whole show gave one the idea …’ From the unpublished diaries of Joseph Holloway.

41.
‘The settings, designed and decorated …’
Irish Independent
28
December 1931.

42.
‘… while on the subject of the Gate …’
Daily Express
11 November 1931.

43.
‘… he must not be given …’
Irish Independent
4 November 1931.

44.
‘I didn’t like Orson Welles …’ From the unpublished diaries of Joseph Holloway.

45.
‘… qualities of subtlety sufficient …’
New York Times
22 November 1931.

46.
‘… at the première, the young American actor …’
New York
Times
8 December 1931.

47.
‘He had put most of the contents of his make-up box …’ Quoted by Peter Noble, op. cit.

48.
‘… with a pantomime head …’ From the unpublished diaries of Joseph Holloway.

49.
‘My greatest success was at the Abbey …’ In an interview with Leslie Megahey for the BBC.

50.
‘At the Gate, I got less and less good parts …’ ibid.

51.
‘… several pounds of nose
putty …’ From Micheál Mac Liammóir, op. cit.

52.
‘His performance is good enough …’
Irish Times
28 December 1931.