Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sexiness is in quite a spot. Even if the latter brings on George Brent and the former are the sort who can jitterbug at the age of ten, the maternal instinct makes the conflict near to insoluble. In fact, if it weren't for the ingenuity of the script writer, Barbara Stanwyck might have lost her boys, her reputation, and her mind, as well as her heart...
Harry S. Truman & family traded backslaps with the folks. Radio Fan Truman was moved to send a congratulatory wire to a couple of radio comics who had involved him in the plot of a script: so George Burns & Gracie Allen had the Presidential endorsement: "We all enjoyed the show immensely. . . ." Bess Truman and Daughter Margaret won applause from the Chenango Street Methodist Church of Binghamton, N.Y., which paid happy tribute to "the courage that you . . . showed [at a Manhattan banquet] when you ordered orange juice instead of cocktails...
...York City's Youth Consultation Service (founder: Bishop William T. Manning) decided to go ahead with its benefit. The Service, dedicated to saving adolescents from waywardness and to caring for unwed mothers, had contracted for a benefit performance of a current Broadway hit. No one had read the script, none knew that the play dealt lightheartedly with adultery. The play: "O Mistress Mine (Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne). Said a Youth Consultant: "The story isn't exactly what we might have chosen, but it's so beautifully done...
...Kelly is no glib, ad-libbing Little Flower. Hewing to a prepared script, he skittered carefully, successfully through a dull speech on crime, written by an assistant. If his staffmen can hold him rigidly to a script in future broadcasts, they may be able to keep Boss Ed's foot out of his mouth...
...both too hackneyed and too broad, and it never was much as a play. Careening through it, or pausing to leer, gag and gurgle his soup, Bobby gives it some high moments of low comedy. But most of the time he is held in chains by the script, or is in a sweat from wriggling out of them...