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...circling his two-acre property he kept a pony, a goat, 14 English sheep dogs, ducks, geese, chickens, ravens, down-&-out friends and relations, his father, his mother, his wife Sue. His profession was screenwriting, for which he received as much as $3,500 a week, $40,000 a script. He reached Hollywood from West Terre Haute, Ind. 27 years ago, with 50? in his pocket and experience as coal miner and sign painter. As extra, prop boy, sign and scenery painter, gag man, director, producer, he grew up fabulously with the fabulous movie business...
Thomas has never strayed from the aerial middle-of-the-road, has aroused few good-sized controversies in his radio career. He got into one aerial row in 1931, when, following a rule of The Literary Digest, then his sponsor, that no material already aired be included in his script, he failed to report the first broadcast of Pope Pius XI. Promptly he was swamped with messages accusing him of being anti-Catholic. Wrote a Mrs. McCaffery: "I spit on you, you Orangeman." Next day Thomas related a gentle human-interest story about how Monsignor (now Archbishop) Spellman...
...theme, casts McIvyn Douglas as the party-liner seduced by the very un-proletarian charms of Loretta Young. Catching the flavor of a Paris that is no more, the film combines the wit of the French with the crackling pace of the American movies. But indeed ironic is the script's playful treatment of a political force which contributed so much to the downfall of that Paris which it eulogizes...
Last week the American Bar Association decided that radio script writers were doing wrong by the profession. Huffily the Committee on Public Relations announced: "The committee objects to the characterization of lawyers on the radio as villains. The committee is taking up this objection with the broadcasters with a view to obtaining modification of such characterizations, at least to the extent of having villainous lawyers presented as an exception rather than as the rule...
Similarly annoyed with the script writers last week was the International Association of Chiefs of Police, holding its annual meeting in Milwaukee. Decrying aerial crime dramas as being bad for moppets, the chiefs resolved to stop supplying radio writers with factual information from their files. Chief gripe was that their material was so distorted on the air that they could not recognize it. Whether they would approve of crime stories that stuck to the facts was left unresolved...