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The Medium and the Magician CRITICAL MEDIA STUDIES INSTITUTIONS, POLITICS, AND CULTURE Series Editor Andrew Calabrese, University of Colorado Advisory Board Patricia Aufderheide, American University Vincent Mosco, Queen's University Jean-Claude Burgelman, Free University Janice Peck, University of Colorado of Brussels Manjunath Pendakur, Southern Illinois Simone Chambers, University of Toronto University Nicholas Garnham, University of Arvind Rajagopal, New York University Westminster Giuseppe Richeri, Universita Svizzera Hanno Hardt, University of Iowa Italiana Gay Hawkins, The University of New Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths College South Wales Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago Maria Heller, Eotvos Lorand University Dan Schiller, University of Illinois at Robert Horwitz, University of California Urbana-Champaign at San Diego Colin Sparks, University of Westminster Douglas Kellner, University of California Slavko Splichal, University of Ljubljana at Los Angeles Thomas Streeter, University of Vermont Gary Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Liesbet van Zoonen, University of Technology Amsterdam Toby Miller, New York University Janet Wasko, University of Oregon Recent Titles in the Series Changing Concepts of Time Harold A. Innis A Fatal Attraction: Public Television and Politics in Italy Cinzia Padovani Entertaining the Citizen: When Politics and Popular Culture Converge Liesbet van Zoonen The Medium and the Magician: Orson Welles, the Radio Years, 1934-1952 Paul Heyer Forthcoming Mass Communication and American Social Thought: Key Texts, 1919-1968 Edited by John Durham Peters and Peter Simonson Global Electioneering: Campaign Consultants, Communications, and Corporate Financing Gerald Sussman Contracting Out Hollywood Edited by Mike Gasher and Greg Elmer Raymond Williams Alan O'Connor Democratizing Global Media: One World, Many Struggles Edited by Robert A. Hackett and Yuezhi Zhao The Film Studio Ben Goldsmith and Tom O'Regan Raymond Williams Alan O'Connor The Blame Game Eileen Meehan The Medium and the Magician Orson Welles, the Radio Years, 19 34-19 52 Paul Heyer ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Lanham • Boulder • New York • Toronto • Oxford ROWMAN & LITILEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Published in the United States of America by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706 www.rowmanlittlefield.com P.O. Box 317, Oxford OX2 9RU, UK Copyright © 2005 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Heyer, Paul, 1946- The medium and the magician: Orson Welles, the radio years, 1934-1952/ Paul Heyer. p. em.-(Critical media studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 978-0-7425-3797-2 1. Welles, Orson, 1915- I. Title. II. Series. PN1991.4.W44H49 2005 791.4402'8'092-dc22 2004018363 Printed in the United States of America QTM 'e::J The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. To the memory of Florian Morelli A man may see how the world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears. -Shakespeare, King Lear My big inventions were in radio and the theatre. Much more than in movies. -Orson Welles Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: A Man for All Media xiii Part I. The Road to CBS Chapter 1 A Voice Is Born 3 Chapter 2 Theatrical Notoriety, Radio Anonymity 15 Chapter 3 Mercury Theatre on the Air 45 Part II. Mercury Does Mars: The Panic Broadcast Chapter 4 Genesis 75 Chapter 5 Exodus 81 Chapter 6 Revelation 95 Part III. The Sound in the Fury Chapter 7 Campbell Playhouse 115 Chapter 8 Orson at RKO 151 Chapter 9 The Last Radio Shows 191 Epilogue 211 ix
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