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Konrad Bercovici, who had charged Charles Chaplin with copping the idea for The Great Dictator from him, didn't get the $6,450,000 he sued for, but he did all right. After nine days in court (during which Bercovici displayed a Bercovici script about dictators and Chaplin said he had never seen it), the novelist and the comic settled things by agreeing that 1) The Great Dictator was Chaplin's idea, and Chaplin had all rights to it; 2) Chaplin could have the movie rights to two Bercovici stories; and 3) Bercovici could have...
Saturdays, with the help of Robert Paul, an old Penn crony who sometimes acts as his Seeing Eye at sports events, Bob mulls over the week's sport pages. Then he talks to local athletes over the telephone. Paul copies out the studio script on a typewriter while Allman punches out his own script on a Braille slate, a gadget that resembles a cribbage board...
...reads his script rapidly and casually with his fingertips, ad-libs with the evening's guest. When Paul taps him three times on the shoulder, he knows he has three minutes to go ; two taps mean two minutes, one tap the windup...
Excerpts from the script were carried in the Moscow News, only English language daily newspaper in the Soviet Union. The play, written by Nikolai Virta, has not yet appeared on any screen
MOSCOW, May 11--The forthcoming moving picture "The Battle of Stalingrad" has Prime Minister Stalin accusing his wartime allies of wanting Russia to be "blod white" so that Britain and the United States could dictate the terms of peace, it is disclosed in excerpts from the script published today...