Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will hold casting early next term. The script calls for 13 to 14 chiefly major parts and a chorus for which the group plans to use women speaking separately, Kilty said...
...wordy script is often highly entertaining; yet some of the sharpest stuff is purely visual. (Most wicked shot: the union hall, dominated by a gigantic photograph of The Leader, beneath which the platform officials, wearing their hats, recall the hardest of the old gangster pictures.) The Senator is a collaboration by a trio of expert funmakers: Producer Nunnally Johnson, Director George Kaufman and Scripter Charles MacArthur. There is also an unusually sassy musical score by Daniele Amfitheatrof...
...Communists last week decided to test their muscles. For the experiment they chose Rome itself. The action consisted of a taut parade of 30,000 Communist partisans, followed by a general strike-all painstakingly stage-set as a pageant of Communist power. But the action drifted away from the script; toward the end there were touches of Mardi gras and, finally, Italian Communism's worst humiliation...
...years, with their burlesque dance antics, the Hartmans have been bright spots in various night spots. But it has taken a full evening's workout, in Angel, to reveal their full stature as clowns. When the script is on their side, as in a lampoon of one of those Mr.-&-Mrs.-at-Breakfast radio programs, the Hartmans can be extremely funny. Grace's flat voice and frozen facial muscles are a perfect foil for her husband's oafish ardors and accomplished gaucherie...
...Hollywood investigation: "I am not a Communist . . . I am not sympathetic . . . I see now that my trip was illadvised, foolish and impetuous . . . I acted impetuously and foolishly on the spur of the moment, like I am sure many other American citizens do at many times." Then he put the script down and explained: "We went in green. They beat our brains...