Luck and Circumstance by Michael Lindsay-Hogg

[Glenn Anders]

Mike: The Lady Esther production of John Galsworthy's "The Apple Tree" you've found may be better than his Summer Theater one; it is certainly in better condition than any other copies I've heard of either. The story itself is a little gem, especially if one comes upon it innocently for the first time, for the whole tragedy is really foretold in the first line or two. Welles' dramatization, lean and simple, is particularly poignant and sad when we consider his stories of the walking tours he took in Ireland and Spain, declared by him the happiest times of his life. There must have been a knowing quality in the performances of both him and the Irish Geraldine Fitzgerald. I wonder if anyone can tell us if they both played dual roles here: the wandering gent and the rustic story teller; the wife and the country girl? That would be clotted-cream on a heartbreakingly amorous cake.

Glenn

[mteal]

That's an interesting connection, Glenn, between the Galsworthy story and Welles's time in Ireland. I never thought of that before, but there's probably something to it. Also your theory of Fitzgerald playing both Meghan and the wife is intriguing, although it sounds to me as if the sad storyteller at the end is voiced by Eustace Wyatt, who played Dr. Muller in JOURNEY INTO FEAR.

[RayKelly]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/15/being-orson-welles-son-perhaps/

It is refreshing to encounter this memoir by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. His life was haunted by a specter, and yet he is able - on paper, anyway - to bear it lightly with consummate grace. The specter in question was none other than the overwhelming figure of Orson Welles, who may or may not have been his father and flitted in and out of his life like a benevolent if detached deus ex machina. ... Mr. Lindsay-Hogg’s quest of discovery about his paternity is a kind of leitmotif throughout this memoir, but it is not so obtrusive as to prevent fascinating glimpses into his life and career.

[RayKelly]

In a Nov. 23 article in the L.A. Times. Lindsay-Hogg says: "(The revelation Orson Welles was my biological father) has come too late, in a way, in that I have no time to spend with him any more. There is no way I could find what the relationship truly would have been with him because he came in and out of my life in so many strange ways. I bumped into him once at a restaurant in London and then I didn't hear from him for three years. When I heard from him when the Beatles' movie 'Let it Be' came out, I hadn't heard from him in four years."
Read the entire piece at http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-michael-lindsay-hogg-20111123,0,6800900.story

[mteal]

Thanks to Hornet Montana at Wellesnet Facebook for the tip on this, a radio interview with MLH:

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2011/d ... ts-beyond/