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...Neill, Anderson or Barry, Playwright Howard is not above working in Hollywood, where he has never written a failure. His adaptation of Bulldog Drummond for Producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1929 made Ronald Colman an important star. His adaptation of Arrowsmith won the Cinema Academy prize in 1932. His script of his favorite novel, The Brothers Karamazov (which was never produced because Producer Goldwyn lost a copyright battle with UFA), was considered even better...
...have accepted this long-standing assumption. Robert Saudek, London graphologist, set out to uncover exceptions.* In the March issue of Duke University's Character and Personality ("An International Quarterly for Psychodiagnostics and Allied Studies'') published this week, he reproduces twelve lines of bold, graceful, rapidly written script, with this comment: "It is out of the question that ten years ago any expert would have admitted the possibility . . . that parts of this specimen could have been written by different persons...
...gave them "stones" (made of cork), ordered them to stone Nazi heroes. Overzealous, the Storm Troops pressed into service an especially hook-nosed rabbi. He turned out to be a citizen of Poland, thus creating a diplomatic incident. In a night club scene, according to the Horst Wessel script, "proud Jews behave overbearingly." A greedy Jew was made to wolf a fat goose in a restaurant scene, while at the next table a lean Nazi couple divided a herring. These features of the original film caused cool heads in the Nazi hierarchy to fear that, if released throughout Germany...
...Carroll's masterpiece of nonsense and deliver it to U. S. cinema audiences for Christmas. As a prize package for the holidays the picture presented great problems to match great possibilities. To begin with, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass had to be telescoped into one script. A cast of Big Names had to be assembled for publicity purposes and yet a Nobody had to play Alice. Artist John Tenniel's familiar characters had to be imitated if not exactly copied. And finally the screen production had to stand comparison with Eva Le Gallienne...
...slinks through the part of Yvonne, and hard-working Brian Donlevy has been baking himself under sun-ray lamps for weeks to make his performance as the rutting Charles more effective. The audience left with two mysteries still unsolved: why normally acute William Harris Jr. should have found the script worthy of production; what the mysterious blonde who appeared briefly during the first act and was never mentioned by the cast, had to do with...