Orson Welles Welles had not been drafted. "The Mercury Wonder Show" ran August 3 – September 9, 1943, in an 80-by-120-foot tent located at 9000 Cahuenga Boulevard, in the heart of Hollywood. At intermission September 7, 1943, KMPC radio interviewed audience and cast members of "The Mercury Wonder Show"—including Welles and Rita Hayworth, who were married earlier that day. Welles remarked that "The Mercury Wonder Show" had been performed for approximately 48,000 members of the U.S. armed forces. The idea of doing a radio variety show occurred to Welles after his success as substitute host of four consecutive episodes (March 14 –
Rhinoceros (Orson Welles production) a lot of money out of that production, and the critics liked it." In 1999, Austin Pendleton (who had worked as an actor with Welles on the 1969 film "Catch-22"), wrote the play "Orson's Shadow" about the 1960 production of "Rhinoceros", focussing on the rival egos of Olivier and Welles. The play premiered in Chicago in January 2000, and has subsequently had numerous revivals in Britain and America, most notably in an off-Broadway production directed by David Cromer in 2005 which ran to 349 performances. Rhinoceros (Orson Welles production) Rhinoceros was a 1960 production of Eugène Ionesco's surrealist play of