Word: scriptful
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...growth in "Years Ago." For a season or two flop after flop made its development seem stunted. But the word finally went out that it isn't enough for a show's action to take place around the turn of the century; it's got to have a good script, too. And that's what Ruth Gordon's autobiographical play features for most of two acts, while the faults late in the play should be easy to iron out early...
...radio listeners did not hear this version. Reason: after rehearsal NBC censors slashed Allen's script. Deleted by the thin-skinned network: all mention of hucksters, jerks, "old P.U.," etc. At the last minute, Allen had to write out some of his best lines to make his lyrics rhyme...
...Bright Day is a disenchanted view of 1946-style life, and a lament for the good old days when life struck a harmonious balance between work and play. Hero Gregory Dawson is a successful movie-script writer of about Priestley's own age (55); he divides his time between feverishly churning out a perfumed movie story and feverishly recalling the days when rich Yorkshire wool merchants went home to play Schubert of an evening. By the time he has written finis to his tawdry script, Dawson has also decided to write finis to his tawdry career. Henceforth, with trade...
...theatre has not yet been selected to house the production, as Sanders is inadequate for several effects required by the script. Brattle Hall or even a house in Boston may be the play's ultimate home...
...thoughtful Nürnberger suggested that it might be a kind of joke, wrote six pages of tight Gothic script on the philosophy of humor...