Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shaw, the author of "Bury the Dead," "The Assassins," and the movie script of "The Arch of Triumph," has not given up hope for "his baby," as he calls the play. When approached by RDC President Robert E. Miller '48 in New York Sunday, Shaw offered his assistance on the production and expressed the hope that HDC might be able to bring the play back to public attention...
...Irwin Shaw performed an auto-autopsy on his play, The Survivors, which folded after eight performances on Broadway. Following his own advice to drama critics (TIME, March 25, 1946), Critic Shaw was all sympathy: "Somewhere in the middle of rehearsals [the authors†] discovered they wished to rewrite the script almost entirely." But "the theater today has . . . the quality of a conveyor belt [which] moves in an inexorable rhythm toward the set moment at which the finished product must be taken off the line and sold. This may be all very well for an automobile...
...Woman's Vengeance (Universal-International), an original screenplay by Aldous Huxley, ran into more than the customary flurry of title trouble. Huxley worked the script up out of his short story, The Gioconda Smile. The studio, advising him that this title was "too obtuse," asked him to try again. Huxley cheerfully suggested another he has used successfully: Mortal Coils. After a good deal of considering, U-I rejected that one on the grounds that people might mistake it for Brooklynese for "curls" or "girls" (doubtless a goil named Moitle...
...meet as often as possible until a solution was reached. Then they went to lunch. Next day, Pakistan's crescent-bearded Foreign Minister, Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, replied to the Indian. For 3¼ hours (breaking Andrei Vishinsky's U.N. record of two hours), he spoke without script, working only from notes passed up on an assembly-line basis by his advisers. On the third day, Sir Mohammed spoke 2½ hours more. His gist: India was lying, was itself guilty of racial war against Pakistan or-in U.N.'s own word for it -of "genocide." Cried...
...worked exceedingly hard to become an Englishman (he studied a recording of an Anthony Eden speech), he remains unmistakably American in appearance and bearing. A tremendously cagey and accomplished actor might conceivably have made a convincing character out of this attorney, in spite of the inadequacies of the script. Peck is not yet cagey or accomplished enough. He carries his trial scenes with considerable style; and he comes close to some first-rate acting in his difficult crack-up scene. But his lawyer is never one of the most brilliant in England, as the story claims; the role...