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Newman's reason was "to find out things never noticed before"; his reaction, "truly incredible boredom." The most trying period was "the latter half of the first 25 performances. Then I got my second wind." Newman learned to sleep open-eyed, but the slightest deviation from the script would wake him up "with a jerk." Slight differences in intonation or timing came to be "minor events." When Newman occasionally slipped out for a breath of air, "the actors who resented my continuous presence most . . . objected to my temporary absence even more." The acting, Newman found, was highly intermittent...
...Cockney hero, Ernie Mott. It got a propitious leg-up when young Producer David Hempstead called in Clifford Odets to do the screen play. It got itself and Hollywood a new and gifted director when Odets took on that job, too. For still more luster, Producer Hempstead-and the script-enticed Ethel Barrymore back into pictures...
...full of surprises. Surprise No. 1 is that the slow opening scene never comes to an end; surprise No. 2 is that the second scene reaches truly hilarious proportions; and surprise No. 3 that the end result is a very pleasant bit of fantasy with an occasionally inept script but a winning idea and the excellent Josephine Hull and Frank Fay in the leading roles...
Lupe Velez, tamale-tempered cinemactress, breezed into Manhattan all set to star in a forthcoming Broadway musical, Glad to See You, promptly saw that "the script did not suit my personality." New York Post. Columnist Earl Wilson, thought it might be her temperament, got told off by volcanic Miss Velez : "Tamparamant ! I hate people with Tamparamant...
...Mille script read: "8:30, completion of speech. Two minutes of cheering, led by young Republicans; 8:32, band plays until 8:45." But the cheering lasted less than a minute, and the radio program was quickly switched...