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Putting the Lux Radio Theatre on the air is a complicated business. Clearing rights to a script often takes weeks, and signing up stars is an uncertain enterprise. To make sure that cinema studios won't interrupt Lux plans by whisking actors away to distant locations, the Radio Theatre has established an elaborate understudy system. Rehearsals begin on Thursday, continue until air time Monday night. Part of the ritual of every rehearsal is a spot of tea, a custom introduced by Hollywood's British contingent. Seldom on hand until Saturday. De Mille, who receives $2,000 a week...
...master of ceremonies for Lux Radio Theatre, De Mille is sometimes absentminded. Near season's end last year, he announced that the next Lux bill would be "Sidewalks of New York," his offhand reading of the script's Sidewalks of London. He rarely misses a performance. Once when he was ill he had himself conveyed to the theatre in an ambulance, did his bit from a stretcher with a hospital intern and nurse looking...
...five years, in a script so microscopic that it has to be read through a magnifying glass, Eugene O'Neill has been writing the dramatic history of an American family from 1775 to 1932. O'Neill explained that he was working on scenarios for nine plays, each one complete, but all part of a cycle. The first two would be called Greed of the Meek and And Give Me Death. Last week the Theatre Guild announced that the cycle would be called A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, that the titles of the other seven plays would...
...have heard that it began as a filming of Vincent Sheean's Personal History. Producer Walter Wanger paid Sheean $10,000 for his thoughtful book, set two writers to adapting it, dropped the result in his wastebasket. Then he hired John Howard Lawson to write a new script on the adventures of a U. S. newspaperman in Spain and Germany, engaged Warner's star director, William Dieterle (Pasteur, Zola). Before the picture got into production, the Spanish War was over. Wanger paid Dieterle $50,000, started over again with two MARCH OF TIME radio scripters to tell...
Love, Klieg-lighted and aromatic, came to television last week. In Los Angeles, over the Don Lee video network, 26-year-old William Vincent Hazen took Marian Padelford, 19, to be his lawful wedded wife. A dental technician, Bridegroom Hazen planned to celebrate his marriage vows with a script of his own devising. It included such dialogue as "My future plans are of educating the public in the immense perennial humanitarian program that the dental profession has mapped out for those who will but come to its portals. All of which bounteously builds up to better dentistry for better living...