Juicy Contract
For two years, Orsen Welles, the 24-year-old actor-manager of Manhattan’s Mercury Theatre, who was responsible for the famous " Martian Invasion" broadcast which threw America into @ panic, has resisted all the temptations of Hollywood magnates who wanted him to try his precocious talents on the screen. A few weeks ago, according to "Time," RKO Radio Pictures baited its hook so enticingly that Welles nibbledand was landed. But only on his own terms. Under a one-picture-a-year contract, he will pick his own subjects for filming, produce them under the Mercury Theatre banner (for release by RKO), use players from. Broadway instead of Hollywood, serve as actor, co-author, and director; and all this without spending more than 18 weeks away from Broadway. His first picture will be Joseph Conrad’s "Heart Of Darkness."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 11, 8 September 1939, Page 33
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133Juicy Contract New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 11, 8 September 1939, Page 33
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