Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while there arrives a motion picture that forces one to admit that Twentieth-Century society has developed a magnificent artistic medium, worthy of comparison to Elizabethan drama or Russian fiction of the last century. Perhaps symbolically for our age, its finest examples are not attributable to one man, author, script-writer, producer, director, or the actors. If any of these fail, the movie cannot be first-rate, and that is very likely the most important reason why the percentage of excellent films is so small. "Great Expectations" is a great picture. No one factor made it so. The novel...
...Freedman was writing radio scripts for Fanny, and she kept trying to talk him into doing a "Babykins." Finally sold, he wrote the first Baby Snooks script so named. In other words, Snooks is strictly a Fanny Brice creation, says she, and the Library of Congress can go climb a tree...
...burlesque on one of the child stars of the period. Fanny kept this character in mind for 15 years. About 1930 she suggested it to Moss Hart, who wrote a skit for Sweet & Low about an infant known simply as "Babykins." This was, in effect, the first Snooks script. Billy Rose may well have helped Hart, says Fanny...
...marks on soldiers and occupation personnel in Germany. For all goods and services supplied by Germans, such as telephones, railroad tickets, furniture, etc., the Army paid them from its hoard of marks. But for the use of these services, the Army charged soldiers and occupation personnel in occupation script, a strictly controlled U.S. currency. In effect, the Army was getting dollars for the marks it was giving the Germans. Even charitable funds sent to Germany were converted into marks before being paid out. Soldiers and Army civilians griped that "German reparations payments were being paid out of our pockets...
...football fever swept Cambridge early and stayed late right up to that final, windy afternoon in November when 57,000 fans jammed into the Stadium to watch a once-beaten Crimson eleven smash across two quick, first-period touchdowns and then knuckle under to superior Eli power, as the script had specified. There was always next year, of course, and with seven of the Varsity regulars returning, it was fairly easy to start looking ahead...