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...cinema at all can be construed as a tribute to the open-mindedness of Universal's Production Chief Charles R. Rogers. That the cinema involved should qualify as first-rate entertainment is a tribute to the finesse with which Director Henry Koster handled Adele Comandini's script and to the acting of an expert and experienced supporting cast. That the heroine, instead of seeming an obnoxious little prig more terrifying than Boris Karloff in a fright-wig, possesses instead the appeal of a talented and attractive child is due principally to the actress who has now replaced Karloff...
Robert Gessner was working in Hollywood, preparing the script of his Indian story, Massacre, when Hitler came into power in Germany. A broad-shouldered, heavy youth, author of a book of poems and holder of a pilot's license, Robert Gessner, born in Escanaba, Mich, in 1907, had not thought much about being a Jew before that time. There had been a few painful instances of hostility in his boyhood, more when he got to college, but before Hitler "race hatred and the Jews were interesting subjects, but not pressing." Now he found that even in Hollywood Jewish actors...
Last week it was revived again, in a scintillating, frolicsome production by Gilbert Miller. This time the cutting was done for the sake of compactness, the bowdierizaions being restricted to two or three of the Droadest Anglo-Saxon monosyllables. Libidinous high point of this show is not in the script at all; it is the direction of Lady Fidget's glance when a rakehell named Horner assures her that he is not, after all, a eunuch...
...average Freshman this year, who is slightly below his predecessors in ability, is able to get through a two-minute script reading fairly easily, although the Bostonians can be distinguished by their characteristic treatment of the words "roof" and "aunt," and there is a surprisingly large number of variants in the pronunciation of "crude...
...Business School graduates, was the subject of Eddie's speech. The star said that radio is still in its infancy, and that its opportunities are untold for the well-trained man. Though he stressed advertising as the most probable field for the business student, he said that good script writers are becoming more important every day. Pointing to the ace radio announcer, Jimmy Wallington, who had introduced him, as an example, he affirmed that no radio announcer could ever be important without a college education...