Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Have Old Vic Script...
...Just like a Hymarx," mused Veterans Theater Workshop official Mendy Weisgal when he heard that England's famed "Old Vic" had agreed to send the local group its own prompt script of Henry...
...console the millions who could not see the show, radio's perennial wonder boy, Norman Corwin, turned a rosy spotlight on the proceedings with a new script entitled The Time Is Now! "What has the General Assembly in its two years done [about disarmament]?" shouted a voice of disembodied skepticism over the nation's loudspeakers. "What will it do?" The reply came in tones of ringing triumph: "The answer is-it is on the agenda...
British radio, like a British weekend, is casual, slow-paced and elastic. If the script calls for a minute of silence or three hours of steady bagpiping, the BBC's Third Program* (TIME, Nov. 4) is only too happy to oblige. British broadcasters and British listeners have no horror of dead air or of overtime. In the U.S., such dawdling is unthinkable: a production is adaptable to radio only if it can be hustled through on an hour, a half-hour or a 15-minute schedule, with carefully timed pauses for the sponsor's plugs...
Quite aside from Mr. Bogart's high-skilled labor, The Dark Passage has the benefit of an unusually good script and direction by Delmer Daves, who also wrote and directed another unconventional thriller, The Red House (TIME, Feb. 17). Daves's first-person-singular manipulation of the camera profits by Robert Montgomery's good pioneering in Lady in the Lake (TIME, Jan. 27). Director Daves also has a sensitive hand with atmosphere and mood: there is a beautiful outdoor scene, for instance, in which the exhausted, bandaged Bogart, like a figure in a nightmare, staggers through...