Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says Producer John Huston: "On my recommendation, an offer was made to Traven some years ago to collaborate with me on the script of Treasure and Traven accepted. [But he insisted] that he would have to come northward to Hollywood in stages, acclimatizing himself latitude by latitude, and that that would take months, so negotiations were abandoned...
Humphrey Bogart and especially Walter Huston have done herculean jobs of acting, but most of the honors belong to Walter's son, John, who wrote the script, and produced and directed the film. "The Treasure" is completely realistic at all times, yet every scene is somehow wonderful and strange...
After Czechoslovakia, Finns thought their turn had come. Last week, Finland's aging (77) President Juho Kusti Paasikivi received a handwritten letter in the scrawling script of Stalin. It was a polite but imperative summons which Finns construed as the end of their uneasy, nominal independence...
Eagerly, the cast studied their parts. Ezzio Caffari, the bootmaker, kept his eyes on the script as he worked, glanced only now & then at the nails he drove into the boots. "If some of them stick out it may hurt a bit," he said, "but they'll know it's for the cause." After only four days of preparation, the show was set to open. The whole village turned...
...Globetrotters weaved nearer & nearer the basket. Just before the gun ended the game, the ball was flipped to dead-eye Ermer Robinson, who was in the clear. Ermer didn't miss. Score: Globetrotters 61, Minneapolis 59. Had they tried, the Trotters couldn't have written the script better...