Silver Theater

[Store Hadji]

Young Mr. Welles in some more radio gigs.

http://www.archive.org/details/OrsonWel ... verTheater

[Glenn Anders]

Hadji: It's interesting to reflect that on the day he starred in this ironic radio play by John La Touche (who had just had Paul Robeson perform his "Ballad for Americans" on The Free Company), according to Welles, he had just been in New York to begin staging Richard Wright's Native Son, and he anticipated the release of CITIZEN KANE within a few weeks. This moment was the pinnacle of a brilliant career.

I had not heard the play before. I quite enjoyed it.

Glenn

[Store Hadji]

He was astride a cresting wave which would soon crash into a reef. Welles was a shipwreck long, long before he made that remark to Merv Griffin.