File:Orson-Welles-Danton's-Death-Rehearsal-1938.jpg

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English: Photograph of Orson Welles on stage at the Mercury Theatre during the rehearsal of Danton's Death, after the CBS Radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds".

"Hours later, instead of arresting us, they let us out a back way and we scurried down to the theatre like hunted animals to their hole. It was surprising to see life going on as usual in the midnight streets, cars stopping for traffic, people walking. At the Mercury the company was still rehearsing Danton's Death … Welles went up on stage, where photographers, laying in wait, caught him with his eyes raised to heaven, his arms outstretched in an attitude of crucifixion. Thus he appeared in a tabloid the next morning over the caption, 'I Didn't Know What I Was Doing!'"
— John Houseman, Run-Through (1972), pp. 404–405
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Source Library of Congress
Author New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress), "by Associated Press"
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Public domain This work is from the New York World-Telegram and Sun collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
This photograph is a work for hire created prior to 1968 by a staff photographer at New York World-Telegram & Sun. It is part of a collection donated to the Library of Congress and per the instrument of gift it is in the public domain.

Photographs in this collection other than those identified by such stamps as "World-Telegram photo" or "World-Telegram photo by Ed Palumbo" might not be in the public domain. Works within the collection may be attributed to other news services that retain copyright, works of the U.S. government that are in the public domain in the US, or works with no attribution for which copyright cannot be determined.

Noted by the Library of Congress as being likely, no copyright registration has been found for this photograph "by Associated Press", which appeared on page one of The New York Daily News October 31, 1938:

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