I was hoping to find a category for "The Shadow"; apologies if it's there and I missed it.
In any event, I wanted to share a squib from today's New Yorker, "Legendary First Encounters," which includes this link to a 1937 interview of "a rising wunderkind named Orson Welles" by A. J. Liebling:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1937 ... -tu-shadow
The article itself is well worth reading, and includes some wonderful sketches, photos and watercolors (among them: a photo of "[a] baby-faced Orson Welles, backstage"):
https://www.newyorker.com/books/double- ... encounters
"Et Tu, Shadow?"
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Re: "Et Tu, Shadow?"
NF, there are several in this very folder, including this one:NoFake wrote:I was hoping to find a category for "The Shadow"; apologies if it's there and I missed it.
viewtopic.php?f=38&t=3386https://www.we ... =38&t=1288
Elsewhere, there's this:
viewtopic.php?f=24&t=3378
That is very much an "onstage" pic - Orson's performing his "See what a contrite little boy I am?" :wink: schtick for the cameras, soon after Grovers Mill!The article itself is well worth reading, and includes some wonderful sketches, photos and watercolors (among them: a photo of "[a] baby-faced Orson Welles, backstage"):

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Re: "Et Tu, Shadow?"
Thanks, Craig. I was sure there had to be a folder(s), but when I entered "The Shadow" into the Search box, none of the posts and folders it brought up looked relevant to the topic. (Perhaps the series was referenced, but it wasn't immediately evident.)
As to the photo, I was indeed puzzled by the caption identifying it as a "backstage" shot, given the obvious stage lights (and, er, shadows).
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Leslie
As to the photo, I was indeed puzzled by the caption identifying it as a "backstage" shot, given the obvious stage lights (and, er, shadows).
Obscurely yours
Leslie