Orson Welles, Vol I (117 page)

Pittsburgh, 436, 446, 448

Plato, 195

Playboy of the Western World, The
(Synge), 462

Playfair, Sir Nigel, 109

Playwrights’ Company, 213, 423

Plutarch, 183, 336, 418

Polacco, Giorgio, 65, 67

Polacco, Graziella, 65

Polglase, Van Nest, 498

Pollock, Arthur, 408, 409–10, 413

Pommer, Erich, 451

Porgy and Bess
, 219, 221, 224

Potter, Mrs Palmer, 18, 19

Powell, Dilys, 87

Power
(Living Newspaper), 313

Power and the Glory, The
(screenplay), 484

Powers, Tom, 357, 358, 362

Powers Agency, 72

Price, Vincent, 348, 352, 356, 359, 362, 363, 364, 368, 392, 445, 512

Pritchett, V.S., 101–2

Pritt, Emil, 535–6

Private Lives
(Coward), 445

producers, Hollywood, 449, 452–3, 537–9

Project 891 (Classical Unit, FTP), 250–87,
340, 350, 444; collapse of, 301;
The Cradle Will Rock
, 290–301;
Doctor Faustus
, 266–83;
Horse Eats Hat
, 250–62, 263, 265–70

Prokofiev, Serge,
The Love of Three Oranges
, 19, 20

Provincetown Players, 201

Prussing, Louise, 159, 166, 170, 171, 174

Puccini, Giacomo, 23

Pythagoras, 281

Queen Kelly
, 449

Queen’s Theatre, London, 114

Radio Annual
, Welles’s article in, 373,
374

Radio City Music Hall, 219

Radio Corporation of America, 450

radio work, 204–6, 209, 210, 212, 226, 262, 273, 283, 303–6, 312, 360, 370–80, 381–2, 387–9, 398–408, 417–23, 426, 445, 470, 526, 555–7;
Campbell Playhouse
, 408, 417, 418–23, 426, 445, 448, 460–3, 464, 483, 489;
Dracula
, 375–6, 378–80, 388;
Hamlet
, 304;
Jane Eyre
, 418, 489;
Julius Caesar
, 336–7, 377, 418;
Macbeth
, 304,
375; Mercury Theatre of the Air, 336–7, 370–80, 381–2, 387–9, 394, 398, 399–408, 409, 411, 412, 413, 417–18;
Les Misérables
, 304–6, 320, 372, 373, 445;
Orson Welles’s Almanac
, 577; role of narrator in, 373–4;
The Shadow
, 320–1, 380;
Treasure Island
, 374–5, 387–9;
The War of the Worlds
, 124, 398–408, 409, 411, 418, 448, 451, 464, 490–2, 517, 520

Raphaelson, Samuel, 117

Rathbone, Basil,
146, 147, 150, 151, 185–6, 189, 193, 425;
In and Out of Character
, 146

Ratoff, Gregory, 500

Ravel, Maurice, 10, 20, 21

Ravinia Park, Chicago, 155; opera festival, 22–3, 47–8, 526

Readick, Frank, 400, 428, 470, 503

Rebecca
(radio play), 419, 420–1, 422

Rebecca
(film), 422, 452, 464

Red and White: Tosebo Camp Number
(Todd publication), 47

Regan, Sylvia, 310–11

Reid, Elliot, 312, 327, 349

Reinhardt, Max, 46, 112, 181, 226, 241, 253, 327, 347, 363, 386, 390–1, 393

Reis, Irving, 304, 332, 371, 372

Revolt of the Beavers
, 218

Rice, Elmer, 228, 248

‘Rich, The’ (Blitzstein song), 292

Richard II
(Shakespeare), 168–9, 425

Richard III
(Shakespeare), 484, 492; Todd School production, 67–8, 71, 424;
see also Five Kings

Rimbaud, Arthur,
132

RKO film studios, Publicity Department booklet, 572–3; Welles’s contract with, and
Citizen Kane
, 448, 449–53, 457–539, 543, 548–50, 555–9, 561–75

RKO Orpheum Vaudeville Circuit, 450; Welles’s tour with
The Green Goddess
of, 446–8

Roaring Girl, The
, 349

Robertson-Cole Film Company, 450

Robeson, Paul, 221

Robinson, Percy, 104

Robson, Mark, 511, 523, 524

Robson,
William, 372, 400, 524

Rockwell, Norman, 15

Rogers, Ginger, 496

Rogers, Will, 83

Roll, Sweet Chariot
(Green), 221

Romains, Jules, 106

Romeo and Juliet
(Shakespeare), 13, 243, 425; McClintic/Cornell production (1933–4), 140–2, 144, 145, 147, 149–50, 151, 153, 154, 158, 169, 177, 313, 353; and New York run of, 185–90, 193, 195, 197, 198, 200, 201, 207

Roosevelt, Mrs Eleanor,
285

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 216, 248, 249, 285, 286, 294, 295, 422, 530, 560

Root, John, 18

Rose, Billy, 210

Rosenbaum, Jonathan, 469

Rosenthal, Jean, 147, 232, 311, 322, 325–6, 330–1, 333, 340–1, 397, 398, 428, 429, 432, 438, 441, 465, 508, 543, 544

Roskie, Tony, 40

Rossellini, Roberto, 512

Rousseau, Henri Le Douanier, 241

Rowley, Samuel, 278

Royal
Court Theatre, London, 309

Royal Shakespeare Company, 19, 309, 358

Rudy Vallee Show
, 561

R.U.R.
, 19, 88

Sadler’s Wells theatre, London, 112

Sage, Michael, 538–9

Sailor Beware!
(Nicholson and Robinson), 221

St Helena
, 425

St James’s Theatre, London, 113

St James’s Theatre, New York, 262;
Native Son
performed at, 550–4

Saint-Saens, Camille, 321

Saki, 418

Salome
(Strauss), 19

Salvini, Tommaso, 109

San Simeon (Hearst’s Spanish-Gothic folly, Santa Barbara), 473, 486, 530, 533, 570

Sandburg, Carl, 16

Sandford, Erskine, 363, 398, 428, 470, 559

Santa
(unfilmed screenplay), 528–9

Sarnoff, David, 449–50, 524, 534

Saroyan, William, 555

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 196

Saturday Evening Post
, 74, 114–15, 205, 248, 258, 295, 301,
406, 423, 517; 3-part series on Welles (HOW TO RAISE A CHILD), 475, 485

Scalero, Rosario, 288

Schaefer, George J. (‘The Tiger’), 450–1, 453, 463, 464, 470, 471–2, 476, 477, 480, 481, 495, 504, 514, 532, 533, 534, 535, 539, 543, 548–9, 550, 555, 558, 562, 572–3, 575

Schallert, Edwin, 562

Schenck, Nick, 555

Schiller Theatre, Berlin, 415

Schilling, Gus, 428, 470

Schintzer,
Arthur, 322, 355

Schipa, Tito, 10

Schloss, Edwin H., 438–9, 442

Schnabel, Stefan, 313

Schneider, Albert (Welles’s agent), 370, 451, 477, 489

Schnitzler, Arthur, 156, 158, 387, 389, 418

Schoenberg, Arnold, 288

School of the Air of the Americas
(radio show), 204

Schumann-Heinck, Ernestine, 10

Scourby, Alexander, 208

Screenwriters’ Guild, 519

Seagull, The
(Chekhov), 322

Sears, David, 104

Second Hurricane, The
(Copland), 302–3

Second World War, 471, 476, 560

Seiderman, Maurice, 505–6

Selznick, David O., 382, 422, 448, 452

Selznick, Louis J., 450

Senber, Henry, 310, 324, 333, 394, 414

Sennett, Mack, 383

Sensenderfer (of
The Evening Bulletin
), 438

Servant in the House, The
, 45, 71, 120

Seventeen
(Tarkington
radio play), 418

Seville, 134, 135–6

Shadow, The
(radio play), 320–1, 380

Shadow Play
(radio), 205

Shakespeare, William, 28, 67–8, 83, 110, 112, 113, 137–8, 144, 154, 168–9, 175, 187–8, 200, 208, 222–3, 229, 240–1, 243, 267, 276, 316, 323, 338, 349, 380, 493;
see also Everybody’s Shakespeare; Five Kings; The Mercury Shakespeare
; titles of individual plays

Shakespeare Memorial
Theatre, Stratford, 19, 112, 347

Shanghai, 49, 54, 58–9

Shape of Things to Come, The
(Wells), 500

Shaw, George Bernard, 53, 113–14, 143;
Candida
, 141, 143, 144, 146, 147–8, 153, 154;
Heartbreak House
, 114, 309, 359, 362–6, 367, 381, 382, 389, 425; royalties paid by Mercury to, 367

Sheffield, Charles and Lotte, 50–1

Sherlock Holmes
(radio), 418

Sherman, Hiram ‘Chubby’, 156,
157, 158, 208, 253, 254, 270, 280, 284, 294, 303, 305, 313, 344, 348, 350–1, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356–7, 359, 363, 368, 370, 431, 470, 503, 529

Sherwood, William, 102, 106

Shoemaker’s Holiday, The
(Dekker), 322, 343, 344, 346, 347–56, 357, 359, 362, 367, 368, 380, 382, 409, 428, 545

Shor, Toots, 437

Showmen’s Trade Review
, 572

Shubert, Lee, 439

Shuberts, Shubert organisation
(theatre owners), 114, 115, 211, 247, 250

Si Versailles M’Etait Conté
, 261

Sica, Vittorio de, 512

Sight and Sound
magazine, 575

Silent House
, 114

Silent Woman, The
(Jonson), 286, 309

Siloti, Alexander, 288

Silva, Howard da, 294, 296

Silver Tassie, The
(O’Casey), 101

Silvera, John, 245

Sinclair, Upton,
The Jungle
, 16

Sing Out the News
(revue), 368

Singer, Mortimer, 5

Skinner, R. Dana, 390

Skolsky, Sidney, 562

Skouras, Spyros, 575

Skylark
, 434

Sloane, Everett, 305, 470, 515, 543, 559, 569

Sloper, L.A., 435

Smiler with a Knife, The
(unfilmed screenplay), 477, 480–1, 485, 487

Smith, Alston J., 5, 18

Smith, Dodie, 445

Smith, Fred, 301, 475

Smith, Gus, 246

Smith, Howard, 384

Sneden’s Landing,
Welles’s home at, 285, 306, 360, 385

Sokoloff, Vladimir, 391, 393, 411, 513

Son Excellence
, 133

Song of the Dnieper, The
, 352

Sophocles, 252

Spain, Welles’s trip to (1933), 129, 130, 134, 135–7

Speaight, Robert, 112, 427, 429, 431, 433, 434, 435

special effects/optical printing, film, 476, 521–3, 524

Spitz, Leo, 450

Spring Awakening
, 159

Stage, The
, 530;
Welles’s article in, 536–8

Stage at Eve, The
, 356

stage design/sets, 229–30, 238, 241, 255, 263, 270, 293, 294, 301, 311, 314–15, 325, 327, 340–1, 352, 353, 364–5, 367, 383, 392, 396–7, 428–9, 430, 432–3, 434, 437–9, 440–1, 443–5, 544

Stage Relief Fund, 211

Stagecoach
(film), 465, 509, 512

Stagg, Harold, 320

Stalin, Josef, 394, 530

Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 19, 50,
145, 173, 206–7, 213, 313, 322, 396, 413

Stanton, Olive, 298

Stein, Gertrude, 251, 259, 266;
Four Saints in Three Acts
, 194, 219, 220, 221

Steiner, George,
The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H
, xii, 198

Stern, Ernst, 181, 241

Stettheimer, Florine, 194

Stevedore
, 224

Stevens, Ashton, 60–1, 151, 159, 160, 164

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 77, 378

Stewart, James G.,
525

Stewart, Paul, 204, 376–7, 399, 445, 463, 491, 511, 512, 543

Stock, Frederick, 10

Stoker, Bram,
Dracula
, 375–6, 378–80, 388

Stong, Philip Duffield, 445

Stony Creek summer theatre, 383, 385, 387

Strange Interlude
(O’Neill), 357

Strasberg, Lee, 213

Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 19, 112, 347

Strauss, Richard,
Salome
, 19

Stravinsky,
Igor, 20, 21, 242

Strike Me Pink
, 211

Strindberg, August, 159

Stroheim, Erich von, 449, 532

Student Prime, The
, 211, 297

Sturges, Preston, 452, 484

subjective camera technique, 468–9, 470, 476

Sullavan, Margaret, 420, 421, 422

Sullivan, Barry, 109

Sullivan, Louis L., 18

Supervia, Conchita, 83

Sweetheart Town
, 47

Swiss Family Robinson
(film), 498,
505

Synge, J. M., 78

Taft, Lorado (‘Fra Lorado’), 18–19, 24, 159;
Black Hawk
(sculpture), 24

Taibhearc (first Irish-speaking theatre), Galway, 78, 84

Tale of Two Cities, A
(radio play), 387, 388

Taming of the Shrew, The
(Shakespeare), 113

Tangiers, 128, 129–30, 131, 133

Tarbox, Hascy, 37, 38, 39, 40, 44, 45, 65, 72, 121, 138, 172, 175

Tarkington, Booth, 25;
Clarence
, 418;
The Magnificent Ambersons
, 15, 418, 512, 515, 577
; Seventeen
, 418

Taubmann, Howard, 211, 212

Tchaikowsky, Pyotr llych, 288, 377, 419

Tchelitchew, Pavel, 274, 306, 358

Teichmann, Howard, 326–7, 334, 397

Tempest, The
(Shakespeare), 234

Temple, Shirley, 460

Ten Million Ghosts
(Kingsley), 262–4, 266

Terkel, Studs, 18

Thalberg, Irving, 458

Thami el-Glaoui,
Pasha of Karrakesh, 113, 129, 131, 132–4, 349, 430

Theatre Arts Monthly
, 46, 214, 275, 552

Theatre Arts Quarterly
, 570

Theatre Education League, 313

Theatre Guild, New York, 87, 89, 94, 99, 210, 213, 300, 311, 546;
Five Kings
co-produced by Mercury and (1938), 423–45, 447, 448, 451

Theatre Monthly
, 339

Theatre Union, 212, 224

Theatre Veterans’ League, 249

Thin Man,
The
(film), 480

Thirty-Nine Steps, The
(radio play), 387

Thomas, Edna, 224, 238, 239, 244–5

Thomas, François, 376, 377, 463, 511

Thomas, Ted, 265–6

Thompson, Dorothy, 285, 405

Thompson, Woodman, 149, 169, 186

Thomson, Virgil, 194, 201, 219, 221, 222, 224, 232–3, 241, 251, 255, 256, 257, 259, 262, 266, 287, 288, 320, 346, 424, 441, 444, 478, 479, 525

Thorndike, Russell, 113

Thorndike, Sybil, 113

Three Sisters, The
(Chekhov), 297

Thurman, Wallace, 221

Tichacek, Stephen, 392, 397

Time
magazine, 205, 300, 334, 413, 448, 549; ‘MARVELOUS BOY’ (profile of Welles), 341, 359–60, 361, 377

Time of Your Life, The
, 440