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Equally deft is Paramount's political touch & go. The rumors started as far back as the spring of 1941 that outside forces were tampering with the script and even with the production. Paramount's denials were prompt. So were everybody else...
...active members of his parish. Some who do attend: Bryant Washburn, Jonathan Hale, Monte Blue, Marjorie Gateson. Dodd likes movie people, feels he has some influence on their lives just by working with them. And they think he is tops. Wrote Beverly Hills' late Editor Rob Wagner (Script): "Without doubt Father Dodd is the best-loved character in movieland. ... He has never 'preached' nor pointed the finger of superior virtue at his erring sheep...
Blind Date's unrehearsed dialogue is pure, offhand Americanese, unslicked by script writers. Studio audiences, who can see and hear everything, have a howling time following the young contestants. Most of the winning servicemen have viewed the girls and the whole affair as a G.I. dream come true. The girls, who are radio actresses chosen from A.F.R.A.'s enrollment, have offered no complaints. They are cautioned beforehand to be "perfect ladies," given a few stock questions to ask. The boys are provided with an opening salutation, reminded to watch what they say-parents, sisters, sweethearts may be listening...
...contrary, there was Dennetts. Dennetts originated the dairy lunch with the legend "Surpassing Coffe e" in white script on the windows, the marble-topped tables that could be swabbed off with a damp cloth, sweeping the crumbs into the customers' laps. Dennett also had his quirks and crotchets. He was excessively pious, hung framed Bible texts on the walls of his restaurants and required every employe to attend 15 minutes of morning prayers-on his time, not theirs. It was in Dennetts that those heavy coffee cakes known as "sinkers" were first served. The first of these rapid-transit...
...news analyst should broadcast without editorial supervision of his script. . . . The analyst's function is to help the listener to understand, to weigh and to judge, but not to do the judging for him. . . . The public interest cannot be served in radio by giving selected news analysts ... a preferred and one-sided position in the realm of public controversy...