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...same man (and I believe he is) who had offices at 612 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, he will recall that he owes me $10. About five years ago he had me rush down to his office, sit down at his typewriter and dash off some sixteen pages of script full of glib nothings I was obliged to think up while typing, for another program he had thought up called Musical Tintypes. . . . HOWARD W. RAPPORT Chicago...
Carefully Scenarists Heinz Herold, Norman Burnside, John Huston combed their script, removed twelve references to syphilis. Nevertheless, for the first time the U. S. movie-going public will hear the word syphilis uttered in a legitimate Hollywood film...
...dispatch of several days ago: "Shaw's marriage to Lana Turner last night had all Hollywood baffled . . . They reportedly had not addressed a civil word to each other throughout the filming of their recent picture . . . Lana Turner, who has been engaged for three years to a Hollywood script writer, notified her "flance" of her marriage to Shaw by telephone . . . after the ceremony. She said, 'While on our way to a party we started discussing marriage, and decided we wanted to get married...
...uniformly excellent cast has made the best of this poor script. Franchot Tone was a treat; his acting had vigor and was convincing. A few more performances should overcome the few Hollywood histrionics left in his performances. Lee Cobb may be called the conscience of the drama. He conveys the futility and emotional vehemence of a man fighting for his ideals. Everywhere he is frustrated; at times, sad to relate, by the script itself which does not permit an adequate expression of his pent-up spleen...
Reactionary program planners have been subjected to some rather bitter attacks from critics all over this country during the last few years. Jose Rodriguez, in Script, addressed a statement to Leopold Stokowski of which a part is quoted here:" . . . If you wish, you can please the mob, and also the students and the initiated. You can give a hearing to the masters of tomorrow as well as those of yesterday; among the first, particularly those who speak of the aspirations of our time and our own country; among the second, those who have been undeservedly neglected in spite of their...