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...Monsignor Turquetil learned to fish, shoot, trap, cook. He became an able air pilot, carpenter, blacksmith, mechanic. He mastered the Eskimo language, invented a typewriter upon which he typed hymnbooks, prayer-books, catechisms in Eskimo script. With other missionaries at Chesterfield Inlet he built a radio transmitter so that Eskimos may grunt at each other over the frigid air. Monsignor Turquetil, bearded nobly and baldheaded, is an able philologist. But chiefly he can gain converts by telling them how best to fish. Says he: "Taking fish out of the net is no easy job. If you take your hands...
Today at 9 Professor Rollins will talk in Emerson F upon the "Latter Day Pamphlets" of Carlyle bits of script which, quite frankly have escaped the Vagabond's attention...
...amuses him self by roaring at the leading lady. He gaily chose to address Jeanette MacDonald by abbreviating her last name, until she replied in kind. More Teutonic than his humor is the Lubitsch urge for order and completion. Before making a picture he spends three months preparing the script with his writers, telling them exactly what he wants. When the script ? essentially a stenographic record of a Lubitsch idea ? is finished, he seldom sees it, for he knows it all by heart. In staff conferences, he is charmed to argue over details, pleased when a costumer asks...
...momentarily doubled that the players fail to grasp the opportunities afforded by the script. The characterizations were on the whole indicative of able direction, diligent work, plus a manner of treatment which would not be mis-placed on the most cosmopolitan of stages. Rosemary McHugh and Harry Hutchinson convinced in difficult pats, while John F. Joyce, as Charles Lamb, breathed vital breath into his historical model...
First the Theatre Guild got the script of Brief Moment, asked Mr. Woollcott to play the easygoing, quipful part of the helpful intermediary. He refused. Then Katharine Cornell bought it, made the same request. Somewhat puzzled, Mr. Woollcott read the play, soon discovered why his services were in such demand. Playwright Behrman's stage direction for the part was: "He should look like Alex ander Woollcott as much as is physically possible." Showered with congratulatory telegrams and flowers, attired in green silk dressing gown and blue silk pajamas, Actor Woollcott found himself an instantaneous success the morning after...