The Orson Welles Show (radio series) debut of "The Hitch-Hiker", an original radio play by Lucille Fletcher (wife of Bernard Herrmann) that has become a classic of suspense. On the broadcast of December 29, 1941, Rita Hayworth was the guest player; this was the first meeting between Welles and Hayworth, who were married in September 1943. Welles concluded the final broadcast of "The Orson Welles Show" February 2, 1942, with a statement: "Tomorrow night the Mercury Theatre starts for South America. The reason, put more or less officially, is that I've been asked by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs to do a motion
Orson S. Head hair and beard, sturdy physique and forceful personality, Head was elected prosecutor for Kenosha County three times. In 1851 he served one year in the Wisconsin State Senate, filling a vacancy. Head was the great-grandfather and namesake of famed actor and filmmaker Orson Welles. Orson S. Head was married to Mary Jane Treadwell in 1846, and they had seven children. His eldest surviving child, Mary Blanche Head, married Richard Jones Wells; their son, Richard Hodgdon Head Welles, was the father of Orson Welles. Head died of pneumonia February 19, 1875, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Orson S. Head Orson Sherman Head (October