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Lafayette Theatre, Harlem, 220, 221; ‘Voodoo’
Macbeth
production, 222–44, 249

Lake Geneva,
Wisconsin, 209

Lakeside Musical Society, Chicago, 20

Lamb, Mary,
Tales from Shakespeare
, 13

Lang, Matheson, 94

Langner, Lawrence, 423–4, 428, 438, 439–40;
The Magic Curtain
, 423, 433–4

Laughton, Charles, 112, 168, 170, 172, 451, 463, 492

Laurence, Paula, 253, 270, 271, 277, 282

Laurens and Benjamin, 417

Lawrence, Gertrude, 344, 434, 445

Laye, Evelyn, 112

Leaming, Barbara, x, 7, 12, 22, 31, 32–3, 37, 39, 52, 62, 65–6, 98, 126–7, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 137, 138, 165, 174, 175, 196, 198, 206, 225, 244, 273, 285, 447–8, 462, 473, 479

Lean, Tangye, 566, 571

Lecture Notes on Acting
(Welles), 372, 449

Lederer, Charles, 530, 533

Lee, Canada, 224, 234, 543, 547, 551, 552

Lee, Gypsy Rose, 543

Lefkow, Irene, 58

Leiber, Fritz,
147

Leiter, Sam, 211, 239, 263, 348;
Encyclopaedia of the New York Stage
, 210

Lenin, V.I, 358, 394

Leoncavallo, Ruggiero, 23;
Pagliacci
, 23

Letter, The
, 143

Leve, Sam, 325, 327, 331, 352

Lewin, David, 58

Lewis, Cecil Day (Nicholas Blake),
The Smiler with the Knife
, 477, 480–1

Lewis, Chick, 572

Lewis, James, 182

Lewis, Lloyd, 159, 166, 167, 172

Lewis,
Robert, 214, 440

Lewis, William, 370, 372, 374

Liberty Jones
, 546–7

Life
magazine, 472, 549, 558

Life of Christ
(film project), 527

Life of Dumas, The
, 481

Light, James, 201

lighting effects, film, 507, 508, 566; stage, 230–2, 237, 241, 255, 269–70, 275–6, 281, 297, 325, 330–1, 340, 341, 354, 365, 396–8, 408, 409, 410, 432, 433, 508, 543, 544

Lillie, Beatrice, 423

Lin Yutang, 41

Little Man, What Now
(film), 175

Living Hours
(Schnitzler), 158

Living Newspaper (FTP), 219, 248, 313

Llewellyn Park, Welles’s marriage to Virginia in (1934), 198–9

Lloyd, Harold, 383

Lloyd, Norman, 284, 313, 327, 328, 333, 334, 335, 347, 349, 351, 352, 358–9, 470

Lloyd, Peg, 327

Lockhart, Gene, 458

Lockridge, Richard, 238, 339, 365

Lombard,
Carole, 470, 480

London, Welles’s stay in (1932), 112–14

London Gate Theatre, 112

Long Christmas Dinner, The
(Wilder), 504

Long Voyage Home, The
(film), 499, 500

Longchamps Diner, New York, 346, 351, 395

Longford, Countess of, 100–1, 139

Longford, Edward, Earl of, 84, 100

Look Back in Anger
(Osborne), 549

Lord of the Flies
, 302

Lorna Doone
, 398

Lorre,
Peter, 506

Los Angeles
see
Hollywood

Losey, Joseph, 228, 232, 258, 550

Love of Three Oranges, The
(Prokofiev), 19, 20

Luce, Henry, 334, 524, 549

Lucrece
, 139

Lundberg, Ferdinand, 519;
Imperial Hearst
, 493, 496

Lunt, Alfred, 285

Lux Radio Theatre, 372

Lysistrata
, 246

Macbeth
(Shakespeare), 113, 425; on disc, 474, 515, 529; film (1947), 516; Negro Theatre
Unit production (Voodoo
Macbeth
: 1936), 222–45, 246, 249, 255, 256, 259, 261, 278, 285, 305, 308, 310, 315, 444, 552; radio, 304, 375

MacBride, Maud Gonne, 101

McCandless, Stanley, 330

McCarthy, Charlie, 463

McCarthy, Mary, 223, 242, 282, 339–40, 346, 366, 414

McClintic, Guthrie, 139, 140–1, 142–3, 144–5, 146, 148, 150, 151–2, 153, 154, 185–8, 189–90, 198, 200, 207, 208, 212,
214, 353, 380, 430;
Me and Kit
, 186, 189

McCullers, Carson, 543

MacGowan, Kenneth, 138

McGraw-Hill, publishers, 185

Machiavelli, Niccolo dei, 481, 483

McKee, Harry, 270–1, 276

MacLeish, Archibald, 196–7, 199–200, 298, 299, 300, 328;
Air Raid
(radio play), 400;
The Fall of the City
(radio play), 202;
Frescoes for Mr Rockefeller’s City
, 196;
Nobodaddy
, 200;
Panic
, 196–7,
198, 200–5, 206;
The Young Men of Wall Street
, 200

McLendon, Rose, 219

Mac Liammóir, Micheál, xi, 50, 78, 84, 88, 89–92, 93, 94, 96–9, 103, 104, 105–6, 107–8, 109, 111, 112, 115–16, 145, 235;
All for Hecuba
, xi, 85–6, 88–9, 96–7, 100, 107–8, 413;
Diarmuid and Gráinne
, 78, 84;
Put Money in thy Purse
, xi; at Woodstock Summer Festival, 156, 157–8, 159, 160, 162, 163, 164–5, 168–70, 171, 172,
173, 174–6, 181

MacMahon, Aline, 309, 359, 362

McMaster, Anew, 90, 109–10, 112, 164, 223, 316

Macready, William Charles, 178, 316

Macy, Gertrude, 145, 148

Mad Dog of Europe
(Mankiewicz screenplay), 486

Mad Love
(film), 506

Madame Butterfly
(Puccini), 23

Madame X
, 494

magic, Welles’s sense of, 57–8, 268–9, 270, 272, 282, 411–12, 468

Magnanimous Cuckold, The
, 53

Magnificent Ambersons, The
(film), 418, 512, 525, 577

Mailer, Norman, 506

make-up, 68, 105–6, 260–1, 365, 505–6, 574

Mamoulian, 214

Man Who Came to Dinner, The
, 139, 481, 553

Man Who Was Thursday, The
(Chesterton), radio adaptation of, 387, 418

Manhattan Theatre, New York, 249

Mankiewicz, Herman J., 482–9;
Citizen Kane
, 484–9, 493, 494, 495, 496, 497–8, 503,
504, 505, 507, 508, 515, 517–19, 524, 530, 532, 533, 534, 540, 566, 568, 570, 571, 577–8;
John Meade’s Woman
(screenplay), 487;
Mad Dog of Europe
(screenplay), 486;
The Tree Will Grow
, 484

Mankiewicz, Sara, 496

Manning, Mary, 104

Mantle, Burns, 142, 238, 275, 357, 411

March of Time, The
, 205, 312, 372, 400, 523–4, 531

Marching Song
(Welles and Hill), 115, 116–21, 127, 146, 155,
305, 465, 546

Margood, Charlie, 84, 88

Marlowe, Christopher, 267;
Doctor Faustus
, 156, 158, 207, 250, 266–83, 284, 287

Marquis, Don, 159

Marrakesh, 131–2, 133, 134

Marriage of Figaro, The
(Beaumarchais), 295

Martin Beck Theatre, New York, 190

Marshall, Herbert, 284

Martinelli, Giovanni, 23, 48

Martyred by his Love
(film), 175

Marx, Karl, 434

Marx Brothers,
282

Marxism, 212–13, 218, 288, 535

Mason, Edith
see
Bernstein, Edith

Massenet, Jules, 526

Morris, Lawrence, 295

Moscow Art Theatre, 19, 83, 158, 207, 297, 322, 396, 415

Mosel, Tad, 189

Mosley, Sir Oswald, 477, 485

Moss, Carlton, 219–20, 235, 236

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 45, 49

Mueller, Dr Frederick G., 32–3

Mulatto
(Hughes), 219

Muni, Paul, 197,
451, 557

Murder in the Cathedral
(Eliot), 228, 308, 427

Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The
(radio), 483

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban, 135

music and sound effects, film, 507, 521, 524–7, 536, 565, 566; radio, 375–6, 377, 379–80, 399, 526; theatre, 232–4, 241–2, 251, 255, 257, 270, 310, 322, 328, 331–2, 332, 333, 336, 353, 386, 543, 544–6;
see also The Cradle Will Rock

Musicians’ Union,
345

Mussolini, Benito, 322, 324, 332, 358, 485

Mutual (radio company), 304, 320

Muzio, Claudia, 19, 23

My Little Boy
(Ewald: radio play), 387, 418

Naremore, James, 126;
The Magic World of Orson Welles
, xii

Nathan, George Jean, 221, 308, 340, 409

Nation
, 563

National Council of Teachers of English, Welles’s speech to, 380–1, 382, 412

National Theatre, aim of,
248, 282–3, 363, 415, 474–5

National Theatre, New York, 357, 359, 362

Native Son
(Wright and Green), 540–54, 555, 557

Natwick, Mildred, 422

Nazimova, Alla, 447

NBC radio, 345, 372

Neale, Zora Hurston, 219

Negro Playwrights’ Company, 552, 553

Negro Theatre Project, Harlem, 219–47, 543;
Conjur’ Man Dies
, 228;
Macbeth
, 222–8, 229–45, 246, 249;
Walk Together Chillun!
, 228

Neher, Caspar, 352

Neilson, Adelaide, 187

Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir, 206–7, 413

New Deal, Roosevelt’s, 216, 217, 220, 235, 239, 248, 299, 303, 371

New Masses
, 349, 535–6, 564

New Republic, The
, 538–9, 566–8, 569–70

New Statesman
, 194

New Theatre Magazine
, 200

New York, 114–15, 117–18, 139–40, 154, 162, 168, 185–90, 194, 199, 209–12;
see also
Broadway;
individual plays performed in New York

New York Age
, 239

New York American
, 149, 189, 201, 258, 275

New York Drama Study Group, Welles receives award from (1938), 361

New York Herald Express
, 557

New York Herald Tribune
, 258, 264, 343, 405, 426, 460, 497

New York Journal American
, 338, 355, 552, 557

New York Post
, 240, 336, 337, 341–2, 562

New York Sun
, 238, 339

New York Telegram, 354

New York Theatre Project
see
Negro Theatre Unit; Project 891

New York Times
, 99–100, 104–5, 128, 139, 146, 148, 188, 189, 199, 202, 218, 234–5, 237–8, 239–40, 241, 243, 256, 258–9, 260, 261, 264, 275, 276, 278, 291, 298–9, 308, 310, 320, 324, 328, 338, 341, 345, 355, 356, 361, 366, 368, 372, 408, 409, 411, 413, 414, 431, 434, 436, 447, 482, 535, 548, 551, 552–3,
557, 562, 563, 568; ‘GOTHAM HOBGOBLIN’ (1938), 361, 411, 412; ‘THE SUMMING UP’ (Houseman, 1938), 366–7

New York World Telegram
, 303, 364, 405, 414

New Yorker, The
, 11, 126, 278, 342, 427, 482

News, The
, 9, 166, 167

News of the Day
, 524

Newsweek
, 340, 374, 549

Newton, Robert, 389

Nichols, Lewis, 258–9

Nicholson, Leo, 199

‘Nickel Under Your Foot’ (Blitzstein song),
289, 292

Nicolson, Virginia
see
Welles, Virginia

Nietzsche, Friedrich,
The Birth of Tragedy
, 212

Niles, David, 299

Noble, Peter, 13, 113;
The Fabulous Orson Welles
, 264

Norman Convin’s Words Without Music
, 370

Northwest Passage
(film), 464

Nouryeh, Andrea, xii, 331, 350, 353, 358, 362, 368, 385, 386, 392, 429, 544, 545

Now I Am Twenty-one
(Welles), 208

Oboler,
Arch, 372, 375

O’Briain, Professor Liam, 78

O’Brien, Edmond, 357–8, 362

O’Casey, Sean, 101, 156

Ó Ceallaigh, Cathal, 84, 109

Ó Conaire, Pádriac, 81;
Field and Fair
; (
Travels with a Donkey in Ireland
), 75–6, 78

O’Connor and Brown,
Free, Adult and Uncensored
, 216, 217

Ode to Reason
(Blitzstein song), 393

O’Dea, Jimmy, 94

Odlum, Floyd, 534

Oenslager, Donald,
263

O’Flaherty, Liam,
Tourist Guide to Ireland
, 80

O’Hara, John, 549;
Butterfield 8
, 549;
Pal Joey
(musical), 549

O’Keefe, Winston, 439

Old Vic theatre, London, 90, 112, 113, 310, 313

Olivier, Laurence, 171, 445, 506

Olsen, Moroni, 189

Omaha theatre of the blind, 217

O’Morrison, Kevin, 362, 386, 393, 398

O’Neal, Charles ‘Blacky’, 174

O’Neal, Ryan, 174

O’Neill, Eugene, 210, 536

Only Angels Have Wings
(radio play), 463

Orlick, Emil, 181

Ormsbee, Helen, 272, 349, 352, 395

Orpheus with his Lute
, 332

Orson Welles’s Almanac
(radio), 577

Ostrovsky, Alexander, 176

Othello
(Shakespeare), 133, 138, 139, 154, 220, 234

Ottley, Roi, 239

Our Town
(Wilder), 427; radio adaptation, 445

Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 83

Pagliacci
(Leoncavallo), 23

Pal Joey
(O’Hara musical), 549, 553

Palace Theatre, Broadway, première of
Citizen Kane
at, 561

Palace Theatre, Chicago, 446, 447

Paley, William S., 371

Panama Hattie
, 553

Panic
(MacLeish), 196–8, 200–4, 212, 219, 310, 325, 484; radio recording of extract from, 204–5, 206

Paramount film company, 385

Paris, Welles in (1932), 113, 133

Parker,
Dorothy, 437

Parlo, Dita, 460

Parry, Florence Fisher, 358

Parsons, Louella, 473, 474, 516–17, 530–1, 532, 534, 549;
The Gay Illiterate
, 516

Passenger to Bali, A
(radio play), 412

Paul, Egerton, 176, 263

Paur, Leonard de, 219, 233

Peacock Players, 102, 106

Peacock Theatre, Dublin, 102

Peer Gynt
(Ibsen), 462

Pepys, Samuel, 375

Perry, Antoinette, 344

Perry, Edward, 220

Philadelphia, 423, 436, 448;
Five Kings
, performed at Chestnut Theatre, 437–40

Philadelphia Story, The
, 503, 511, 546

Phoenix Theatre, New York, 197, 202, 204

Physician in Spite of Himself, The
, 53

Picasso, Pablo, 42, 53, 242

Pickwick Papers, The
(Dickens), 481; radio adaptation, 412, 418

Pinter, Harold,
Mac
(memoir), 90

Piscator, Erwin, 121, 429

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