Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contrary, there was Dennetts. Dennetts originated the dairy lunch with the legend "Surpassing Coffe e" in white script on the windows, the marble-topped tables that could be swabbed off with a damp cloth, sweeping the crumbs into the customers' laps. Dennett also had his quirks and crotchets. He was excessively pious, hung framed Bible texts on the walls of his restaurants and required every employe to attend 15 minutes of morning prayers-on his time, not theirs. It was in Dennetts that those heavy coffee cakes known as "sinkers" were first served. The first of these rapid-transit...
...news analyst should broadcast without editorial supervision of his script. . . . The analyst's function is to help the listener to understand, to weigh and to judge, but not to do the judging for him. . . . The public interest cannot be served in radio by giving selected news analysts ... a preferred and one-sided position in the realm of public controversy...
...declares : "Your true New York mug doesn't say toity-toid or erl. He's about halfway between oyster and erster." Gardner's in dignities are delivered with a kazoo-voiced good nature which keeps everybody happy, including his victims. Three writers turn out the original script, but the final version is practically all Gardner ("The boys do a rough draft and I tear it down"). The result is grade-A American foolery...
...Revised Script Successful...
Leatrice Joy Gilbert, 18-year-old daughter of John ("Great Lover") Gilbert, leafed through her first movie script with her mother, onetime Cinemactress Leatrice Joy. Tall, brunette Leatrice (Mrs. Francis Carney since her freshman year at Stanford) said she would go on with her poetry: "It'll give me something to fall back on if acting peters...