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...Immigration Service. Interested was many a Justice bigwig in having Valtin whoop it up for democracy. Since he lacked the citizenship necessary to appear on Miss Donnell's Government-sponsored I'm An American show, she persuaded him to go on for WOL, wrote a script for the occasion. Neither WOL nor MBS, its network, gave any publicity to the Valtin program. But long-nosed Manhattan Columnist Leonard Lyons sniffed out the news. Forthwith Washington began to stir.But reporters did not spot Valtin before the show and they did not find him afterward. While they waited outside Manager...
Last February soap-operaddicts were stunned to hear that Donna Damerel Fick, the "Marge" of Myrt & Marge, had died in childbirth (TIME, Feb. 24). To many it seemed that Donna's mother, Myrtle Vail, the "Myrt" of the script, would not be able to carry on. But carry on she did, while Marge presumably was hiding in the hills because of a mix-up about a murder. Last week Marge reappeared...
...somehow a Mack Sennett disciple, perhaps Buster Keaton, was given the job of re-writing the script for the screen. The resultant story had the old name and the old characters, but a somewhat newer approach to the problems of the tenant farmer. Slim Summerville ended up in one of the key dramatic parts; the Three Stooges and Mickey Rooney were unfortunately unavailable, so the Esquire hillbilly roles written for them were given to lesser-known great actors. Will Hays found nothing to censor, and the Governor of Georgia's sole complaint was that the state's fine peaches weren...
Work has already begun on the proposed new program in an effort to educate both candidates and members of the Workshop further in the art of script writing, according to Arthur B. Gnaidinger '41, program director of the Workshop. On last Monday Charles A. Siepmann, for 11 years director of Program Planning with the British Broadcasting Corporation, gave the first lecture. His subject was "American Radio Drama...
...star, veddy veddy British and the perfect personification of the rest of the world's picture of a Harvard man, succeeds in making a fantastic plot seem real. A bit bogged down at the start by a desultory script, Harrison in his final scenes, where he outraces a time-bombed munitions train, had even hard-boiled reviewers from the Hub dailies perched on the edge of their seats. Different, well-acted and exciting tonight's "sneak peecture" may well, like its predecssor, become one of the hit movies of the year...