Orson Welles?!

[a***@tiscali.co.uk]

According to "The Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Dracula",
an adapatation of Stoker's novel comprised the first episode of Orson
Welles's "Mercury Theatre on the Air" radio programme. His
introduction to the show, quoted in this book on Dracula, notes his
intention to "presemt during the next nine weeks, many different kinds
of stories [.....] Stories by authors like Robert Louis Stevenson,
Emile Zola, Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, and P.G. Wodehouse".

Cursory check on th'internet suggests that these authors were simply
whom Welles hoped to adapt, not necessarily those he ended up doing. I
can't work out, however, what PG Wodehouse story he had his eye on,
and whether he got anywhere with his plan. Anybody know? Welles and
Wodehouse seems such an odd combination...

Cheers

[Charles stone-Tolcher]

I know of no real connection between the two except that Welles satirised
William Hearst and Marion Davies in his film "Citizen Kane" and Wodehouse
was a friend of Davies and had met Hearst.

Pillingshot

Post by a***@tiscali.co.uk
According to "The Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Dracula",
an adapatation of Stoker's novel comprised the first episode of Orson
Welles's "Mercury Theatre on the Air" radio programme. His
introduction to the show, quoted in this book on Dracula, notes his
intention to "presemt during the next nine weeks, many different kinds
of stories [.....] Stories by authors like Robert Louis Stevenson,
Emile Zola, Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, and P.G. Wodehouse".
Cursory check on th'internet suggests that these authors were simply
whom Welles hoped to adapt, not necessarily those he ended up doing. I
can't work out, however, what PG Wodehouse story he had his eye on,
and whether he got anywhere with his plan. Anybody know? Welles and
Wodehouse seems such an odd combination...
Cheers