Word: scriptful
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...second-generation ease with his materials which has enabled him to perpetrate many a monkish jest in solemn designs. The first work he ever submitted to Architect Cram showed a young, red-haired craftsman offering a sample window to a stern king with Cram's features. In classical script appeared the legend: Non tam bona quam quaedam fortasse mon tam mala quam quaedam alia certe.* Cram looked it over, asked: "What is that little devil doing whispering in my ear?" Said Willet: "Oh, that's C. J. [Connick] telling you the window is no good." In a recent...
...national honor. Producer Hopkins, who has had scant success for nearly a decade, perennially mourns the death of the theatre, blames the critics and the cinema, but returns to the stage with admirable perseverance. Along with scores of producing colleagues, he has recently seemed to suffer from script-trouble. In the opinion of most observers, Blow Ye Winds is another symptom...
...reserved in advance. Crowds pressed against the windows, gaped in as waiters moved among the customers, arms bobbing, chorusing "Heil Hitler." Peeved with the good German burghers who pestered him with questions about Brother Adolf, Alois next day called in a sign painter, had him plaster in German script across one wall; "Sup di duhn und fret didick und holl din mul von politik." ("Drink a lot and eat a lot but don't talk politics...
...Robert Taylor widow's peak, practices voice culture with, "The Dyuke blyew on his hunting horn and loffed, ha, ha, ha, when the hounds came running." Baffled by pear- shaped vowels, he escapes to the set where the old Cagney reasserts itself in two brawls, one in the script, the other extemporaneous...
...palace to live in filth. Threatened by the police, Vassilissa attempts to force her pretty little sister Natacha (Junie Astor) to marry a pudgy, petty official. In a resulting brawl old Kostylev is killed and Pepel goes to jail. A new ending, wildly out of key, but approved in script form by Gorki before his death in 1936, has Pepel mysteriously out of prison walking hand in hand with Natacha down a country road, silhouetted as radiantly as any triumphant Hollywood couple...