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...learned all Geddes could teach him in eight months, appeared on Broadway at 18 announcing that he was "God's gift to the Theatre." Twice thrown out of Producer William Harris Jr.'s office in a day, he returned a third time. To squelch him, Harris gave him the script of The Criminal Code, told him to come back next morning with complete sketches and blue prints for the stage design. Prodigy Johnson bent to this mighty task, appeared next morning with the work. He had subordinated detail to mass and form, and his designs not only were accepted...
Able to understand neither the language in which Shakespeare wrote the play nor that in which his Italian mummers were to perform it, Producer Reinhardt drilled his cast from a German script. For a stage, instead of the Piazza San Marco, where most Venetian festivals are held, he chose an obscure and humble piazza called Campo San Trovaso, bounded by a church, two 16th Century tenement houses and a small canal. Shylock's miserly squawkings came from a bridge still decorated by the arms of the Venetian Republic. Gratiano cruised about the canal in a medieval gondola. A garden...
...breach of promise suit in 1931. The luckless love affair of Amos and Ruby Taylor, begun in 1928, has not yet reached a conclusion. For six years the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. has puttered in and out of the story. In all. 166 characters have appeared in the script, all of them conceived and impersonated by Gosden and Correll...
...picture. Guests at the party (Charles Butterworth, Laurel & Hardy, Polly Moran, Frances Williams, Jack Pearl's neanderthal assistants) break eggs on one another's heads, sing, insult one another, bid for a pair of the explorer's lions, watch a Mickey Mouse cartoon. Produced from a script by Arthur Kober and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's smart Publicity Chief Howard Dietz, who has written Manhattan musical shows for the past five years, Hollywood Party should have been one of the funniest pictures of the season. That most of its antics turn out to be curiously dreary...
...book, Now I'll Tell, published last fortnight after it had been used by Director Edwin Burke as a script for this picture, Widow Rothstein gave an enlightening portrait of her husband. She records his first private words to her after their wedding at Saratoga during the races: "Sweet, I had a bad day today and I'll need your jewelry for a few days." She could tell when he was losing because although his face did not change, his voice grew flat. She told how he did not bother to watch the finish of a horse-race...