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Newspapermen knew that Grofé had been persuaded to write Tabloid by his friend George Clarke, restless, hard-driving city editor of the New York Daily Mirror. Grofé visited the Mirror offices, devised a scenario which called for typewriters to click out hectically the routine news of the day, for a harp to represent the society editor calling for a copyboy, for a big bass horn to bellow like the managing editor. A sob sister had her maudlin, banal bit. Piccolos and traps described the comic-strip antics of Mickey Mouse. Revolver shots expressed murder headlines. Drums drummed...
...breed after all. In the course of her adventures she runs the gamut of engagement, marriage, separation, motherhood, prostitution for her baby's sake, divorce, and gigolo-hiring, before she at last finds true love in the arms of good old Moonglow, the Indian. Not content with this, the scenario writers estranged her father, burned up her baby, and put her mother on a most touching death-bed, all to give little Nasa the chance to ask overwhelming questions about Life and the Why Of It All. There are, of course, no answers...
...custom for children confirmed at St. Stephen's Cathedral to be taken afterwards for a drive through the Prater, then to a pastry-shop where they are allowed to eat their fill of schlagobers (whipped cream). Decade ago schlagobers inspired homey Frau Richard Strauss to write a ballet scenario. Herr Richard lathered it with music prodigiously orchestrated, conducted it at the Vienna Staatsoper to celebrate his 60th birthday. In the ballet, pralines, marzipans and gingerbread men dance in a pastry-shop kitchen. Whipped-cream ballerinas waltz out of a giant bowl. An over-stuffed little boy has a nightmare...
...cisely appropriate to his role - and by Helen Hayes, whose performance is certainly as good as her work in The Sin of Madelon Claudet which the cinema Academy last month voted best of the year. Benjamin Glazer and Oliver H. P. Garrett, two onetime reporters who wrote the scenario, had the good sense to use chunks of dialog by Hemingway wherever they fitted in. When they had to put in dialog of their own they did it so adroitly that only someone who had memorized the book would know the difference. Their changes in the story were judicious. Lieu tenant...
...health, studied art in Pans for two years, joined Fox in 1930 and made the ocean liner in Transatlantic a model for modern interiors on shipboard. Edwin Burke, son of a wholesale grocer in Albany, took up writing for the stage against his father's wishes, joined the Fox scenario staff in 1929. lately wrote dialog for Clara Bow's forthcoming picture Call Her Savage...