Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...part was the enthusiastic reception of last year's Lysistrata due to the setting executed by Norman Bel Geddes. In Manhattan last week he turned his attention to staging and directing another revival, Shakespeare's Hamlet. The Geddes production lops a good-sized chunk off the original script, a move which will offend none but the most iconoclastic purist. Director Geddes has also provided an adequate cast. Raymond Massey, a cadaverous young man who brings from London fame as an actor-director-manager (The Man in Possession, Topaze, Grand Hotel) simultaneously makes his U. S. and Shakespearean debut...
...stage, Helen Hayes's greatest success was Coquette. The run of that play was terminated by a celebrated act of God?the birth of Helen Hayes's daughter?over which there was an Actors Equity suit. Her husband. Playwright Charles MacArthur (see The Unholy Garden) worked up the script of Madelon Claudet (from the stage play The Lulla-by). A jolly, practical jokester, he once wrote a speech abusing drama critics, gave it to his wife to read over the radio when it was too late for her to change. Helen Hayes is two years younger than the 20th Century...