[78-L] Panic..or myth? (Hey, it was 73 years ago tonight,

[Cary Ginell]

Did Welles establish any kind of a reputation because of his earlier Mercury Theatre stage presentations, most notably, "Julius Caesar"?
 
Cary Ginell
 

> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:21:38 -0700
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Panic..or myth? (Hey, it was 73 years ago tonight,
> 
> From: James Tennyson <jtennyson at sympatico.ca>
> >> When I first read about the panic when I was a teenager I asked my father
> >> if he had heard the broadcast. He said that in fact he HAD heard it. He 
> >> turned the radio on mid broadcast so he hadn't heard the opening of the 
> >> show. He said he thought" What the hell is is this? " and turned to another 
> >> few stations which were doing their regular stuff and he realized 
> >> immediately it was Orson Welles...AND it was Hallowee'en. JRT
> 
> If he knew it was Orson Welles, he was one of the probably fifteen
> people would have known who Welles was outside of the people in NYC
> broadcasting or theatre. He was still a NOBODY at that time. His
> Mercury Theatre program had been on for three months of low ratings, and
> all his earlier radio had been done without named credit. 
> 
> 
> On 10/31/2011 2:40 PM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
> > Some were truly panicked. My dad's family was happily enjoying Nelson 
> > Eddy when the old man in their upstairs apartment came downstairs in tears 
> > blubbering about the end of thw world.
> 
> As I just posted (after your posting, however) Eddy finished singing at
> about 6:30 into the program and the Martians had not yet crawled out of
> their machine, let alone start to destroy the earth. 
> 
> What this shows is that even people who DO remember, don't always
> remember accurately. 
> 
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