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Block's chief job at present-aside from pointing up the patter of visiting entertainers-is doing the script for Yankee Doodle Doo, a radio show starring Vic Oliver, Winston Churchill's son-in-law. The program goes out to U.S. and British troops, hopefully designed to teach them each other's slang, humor, point of view...
Show the world who can slug. The professional cast of 42 boasts no big-name comedian, and the script (though written by Owen Murphy and Peter Barry, who have gagged for Joe Cook and Ed Wynn) boasts hardly a laugh. Says one spokesman: "The show's not meant to be amusing; it's very much like christening a new gun for the Navy...
...Sothern, one of the smartest comediennes in the business. In part it is due to a crisp script, which manages to lather up a good deal of apt comic comment on the lives and habits of U.S. defense workers. The film's central characters are Good Girl Maisie Revere (Miss Sothern in her sixth Maisie picture) and Bad Girl Iris (Jean Rogers). They are sidelighted by a cocky test pilot, for whom Maisie falls hard, and by a bolt & nut man-the chinny type who assures every new girl in the plant that he knows all the angles...
...David Faries, a brother team who had worked for his election in 1940, and several others-knew that his visit concerned anything more vital than studio business. He did go to the beach home of Darryl Zanuck, Fox production head, for five days of discussion devoted mainly to the script of One World. But Lem Jones, his political secretary, who had accompanied him across the country, took up a position some 15 miles east in the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles...
...every broadcast, Hope's scripters scout for atmosphere, poke into the files for gags that can be retrimmed, dream up new ones. Then they put their heads and hoards together, producing a script that Hope proceeds to tear apart-cutting, sharpening, fitting to character. Finally, before the Tuesday night broadcast (NBC -10 p.m. E.W.T.), there is a Sunday night sealed-in-the-studio tryout at which the audience acts as blue pencil and Hope runs hog-wild...