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By DUNCAN UNDERBILL
M This is a picture of a young man out on a Hollywood limb. Not content with outdaring the brash young bucko on the flying trapeze, Orson Welles is so exhilarated by the challenge of his limb-walking stint that he has asked for a longer and whippier limb. This is known in the movies as sportsmanship, or suicidal mania.
To milk the metaphor, Orson is voluntarily subjecting himself to a trial by ordeal, balancing his matronly figure on the swaying branch of a sapling. Spread below him are the assembled cannibal tribes of Hollywood, ready to rend him with claw and fang if he makes a misstep.
On the other hand, if he succeeds in pulling off his stunt, the denizens of the Hollywood jungle will hail him. as a demi-god and tremble at his frown.
And Orson, like a true sportsman, is giving the natives a run for their money. He not only strides along his willowy perch with all the assurance of Nelson pacing his quarter-deck but to add a fillip to the perilous proceedings, breaks out now and again with a fast Charleston, a handstand and a somersault. Young Mr. Welles is a readily recognizable figure in the national scrapbook. Lisping infants instantly
Boy Wonder
Orson Welles is only twenty-four years old, but already he has made a tremendous suecess as a stage producer, and as an actor. His vivid description of Martian hordes landing in New Jersey was the cause of panic in the east. Now he is astounding Hollywood 14