Word: scriptful
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...make good radio fare. At the, time, Myrtle was finding billings hard to come by, and she didn't quite know how to support herself and her 19-year-old daughter Donna, who had done a bit of hoofing before things got tough. So she whipped together a script called Myrt & Marge, recounting the adventures of a mother & daughter intent upon making a theatrical splash. It was promptly sponsored by William Wrigley Jr., later taken over by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. One of the most popular and durable of the day time serials, its estimated audience...
...prepare for Donna's convalescence, she had been written out of the script for the next three weeks. Device used was to have Marge's radio husband, a low-lifer, foully murdered, have her suspect Mother Myrt of the crime and run away to think things over. Last week as Donna lay in a Manhattan funeral parlor, a wake of Myrt & Marge fans like Valentino's seemed in the making. Meanwhile oldtime Trouper Myrtle Vail was determined that the show would go on. Just how was a problem that baffled not only her but the collective brains...
...Brothers spoke from Hollywood and their usual lavish feast of superbly baked ham was mixed with reasonably straight brotherly sentiment. Lionel wanted to tell Ethel over the radio: "We brought a big red apple for you, but John drank it." The line was cut from the script. So with many heavy Lionelesque gasps and wheezes he told how Ethel had helped him into his first big part when "I burst like a chrysalis on Broadway and knocked them for a row of Chinese pagodas. . . . I've never been so good since.'' With a melancholy, boot-reaching sigh...
...Boston Abolitionists with superb artistry. And, as is usual with any experienced actor, Mr. Massey pilfers the picture from such amiable hams as Errol Flynn and Ronald Regan. Of course, John Brown is the villain of the piece and yet Abolition is a Good Thing. The gyrations that the script goes through to prove that it does not advocate slavery are acrobatic to say the least. Everything turns out all right in the end, though, with everybody getting married except Brown. He gets hung,--but after all, his soul goes...
Cinemactors Cregar and Muni are inspired Frenchmen who finally overcome all difficulties (except the script) in their effort to barter furs. Typical Muni walk: "through dense woods, along fast-flowing streams, across the myriad lakes of Canada, pushing farther north than any white man had ever gone before." Typical Muni talk: "Le bon Dieu. . . . This place for look-not talk...