{"id":21013,"date":"2020-12-07T13:40:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T19:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=21013"},"modified":"2020-12-29T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T20:48:11","slug":"orson-welles-capital-times-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/orson-welles-capital-times-1926\/","title":{"rendered":"In 1926, The Cap Times introduced us to 10-year-old Orson Welles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In David Fincher\u2019s new Netflix film, audiences see <em>Citizen Kane<\/em> come to life. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81117189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Mank<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81117189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a>stars Oscar winner Gary Oldman as Herman J. Mankiewicz, the idiosyncratic screenwriter behind Orson Welles\u2019 1941 masterpiece. Considered by many to be the greatest ever made, <em>Citizen Kane<\/em> was the crowning achievement for Welles, who is probably Wisconsin\u2019s greatest ever filmmaker.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Citizen Kane (1941) Official Trailer #1 - Orson Welles Movie\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8dxh3lwdOFw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 30px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>Welles was born in Kenosha in 1915 and lived a nomadic childhood. He was all over during his youth, though the majority of it was spent in the Upper Midwest. He considered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/1869482748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Woodstock, Ill.<\/a> his hometown, but even so spent his fourth grade year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinlife.org\/story\/discovering-orson-welles-wisconsin-roots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here in Madison<\/a>. During that time, the <a href=\"https:\/\/isthmus.com\/screens\/movies\/uws-cinematheque-honors-kenosha-born-auteur-orson-welles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">future titan of cinema<\/a> first became known as an artist to be reckoned with. And he was only 10 years old!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21022\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OrsonWellesCT.jpg\" alt=\"Orson Welles in The Capital Times in 1926\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OrsonWellesCT.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OrsonWellesCT-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OrsonWellesCT-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OrsonWellesCT-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OrsonWellesCT-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OrsonWellesCT-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 19, 1926, <em>The Capital Times <\/em>published a story about a prepubescent \u201ccartoonist, actor and poet\u201d enrolled at the Washington School. The article refers to young Welles as \u201cattracting the attention of some of the greatest artists and literary men in the country.\u201d It doesn\u2019t mention any by name but does describe the precocious boy\u2019s earliest work, including cartoons of summer camp buddies and poems about dead aristocrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrson has a fluent command of the language,\u201d the anonymous reporter wrote, \u201cand a surprising number of large words equal to those of the average adult, which he uses in his everyday speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So while no one can ever take (future <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/madison-commercials-wmsn-1986\/\"><em>Transformers: The Movie <\/em>star<\/a>) Orson Welles\u2019 artistic achievements away from him, it doesn\u2019t change the fact that he was basically a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NU_qnd7TLbg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grown-up Martin Prince<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bart Makes Friends With Martin Prince - The Simpsons\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NU_qnd7TLbg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In David Fincher\u2019s new Netflix film, audiences see Citizen Kane come to life. Mank\u00a0stars Oscar winner Gary Oldman as Herman J. Mankiewicz, the idiosyncratic screenwriter behind Orson Welles\u2019 1941 masterpiece. 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