Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News telecasts rarely get off the ground: an announcer reads from a script, with downswept eyes, pointing occasionally to a map, a cartoon or a still photograph. A few (notably the NBC Camel-Fox Movietone News and Du Mont's Tele-News) offer first-rate, up-to-the-minute newsreels. But mostly spot news pickups are only a lick & a promise. Exception: such foreseeable events as political rallies where the cameras, being set in place, catch unscheduled incidents. Television looks forward to the summer's forthcoming conventions, which will be carried by 18 stations (LIFE will cover with...
...biggest cash deal in Hollywood history was closed last week exactly as prescribed by the script. Howard Hughes gave an $8,825,690 check to Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium for its 929,020 shares of stock (24%)-and control-of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. (TIME, May 10). (Atlas still kept an interest in RKO by its ownership of warrants to buy some 300,000 shares of stock.) Despite ample warnings of the change, RKO's staff got so jittery over their new boss that RKO President Nathaniel Peter Rathvon had to pour out soothing syrup: "Mr. Hughes...
...that the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland would be sent back to England as a gift from Americans. Dr. Evans spent $50,000 to buy the manuscript at auction in New York in 1946, later got all but $5,000 back from anonymous donors who also wanted the script returned "as an expression of thanks to the British ... for holding off the enemies of freedom...
...Script, once a magazine for Hollywood intellectuals, was revived 14 months ago by bouncy Robert L. Smith, carnation-sporting general manager of the Los Angeles Daily News. As a regional monthly it grew from a circulation of 913 to 53,000, but was losing $15,000 an issue, having set its contract ad rates too low. Bob Smith signed up two new angels: Moviemaker Sam Goldwyn and Manhattan's Webb & Knapp, Inc., run by William Zeckendorf (TIME...
...movie producer when war came, and squat, shrewd George Glass, known as "an honest pressagent," took options on 30 of the late Ring Lardner's stories. They picked The Big Town for their first picture, changed the title and went looking for a star to fit the script. What comedian could handle Lardner's light touch without seeming all thumbs? Screen Plays eyed radio's Henry Morgan. After reading the story and a 100-page "treatment," Morgan said: "You're the first guys who had the brains to imagine that I might be interested in what...