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Charlemagne, who thirsted for culture as much as for conquest,* left his personal stamp on the manuscript art. He used to complain that the prevailing script was too knotty to read; to rectify it the Emperor invited the Northumbrian monk Alcuin to teach the Franks a comparatively simple hand inherited from the days of Roman rule. The script did not stay simple: by the 13th Century, manuscript texts had become as tangled as briar patches. The gnarled letters of ladies' prayer books were twined about with ornamental thorns, and even the page borders swarmed with children and gargoyles...
...conference. In 1946 Warner Bros, made a film "biography" of Porter called Night and Day (out of which Porter got nothing he could recognize except some of his best songs and $300,000). After hopefully combing through the Porter files, one of the writers assigned to work on the script complained: "There's no struggle-all along the line...
...takes a quick look at Director Jed Harris in the process of preparing Red Gloves, starring Charles Boyer and John Dall, and riffles through some quick shots of famous playwrights who, accurately enough, look like middle-aged gentlemen as well able to cut a dividend as to pare a script...
Last week Bob Considine was ghosting another surefire script for 150 newspapers: the story of Robert E. Stripling, longtime chief investigator for the House Committee on Un-American Activities. As usual, Considine faced a deadline that would have daunted a less workmanlike writer. The first of his 28, "as told to" articles (average length: 1,800 words) would go to press next week, just a month after he took on the job. As usual, Considine's first version would be the last...
...slippery heel. He injects a good deal of humor into his acting, notably through gestures. Despite this, however, the characters of the wife and daughter are more intriguing, if less whole. Arlene Francis plays the wife with a restraint that suggests that there is more to her than the script will allow. Her part is brief and disturbing; the audience is hardly allowed to make more than a "cocktail-party analysis" of her personality...