File:Welles-Les-Miserables-1937.jpg

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Description

English: Photograph of Orson Welles, directing and performing in the seven-part radio series Les Misérables, broadcast July 23 – September 3, 1937, on the Mutual Broadcasting System.

Caption reads as follows:
Busy Radio Man
Orson Welles, 24-year-old [sic—Welles was 22] actor, writer and producer, is one of radio's busy men. Here he is pictured while acting in and directing the presentation of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables," heard on recent Friday nights over the WOR-Mutual network. Welles is shown wearing earphones which enable him to hear simultaneously with the radio audience the program as it is being broadcast.

Date

23 August 1937

Source

The Evening Sun, Hanover, Pennsylvania (page 9)

Author

No photographer credited but likely to be Mutual Radio

Permission
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	05:40, 25 January 2018		580 × 1,270 (405 KB)	WFinch	replace initial upload that documents publication with cropped version
	05:38, 25 January 2018		3,000 × 3,939 (6.88 MB)	WFinch	{{Information \|Description ={{en\|1=Photograph of Orson Welles, directing and performing in the seven-part radio series ''Les Misérables'', broadcast July 23–September 3, 1937}} \|Source =''The Evening Sun'', Hanover, Pennsylvania (page 9)...