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Between flighty Actress Byington, breathlessly restrained Actress Inescort and ingratiating Mr. Abel, the extremely professional Crothers script should be a source of pleasure to playgoers for months to come...
...Oxford neighbors know that Faulkner writes. He is considered none too well off, easygoing, fond of corn liquor. But, says he: "Ah write when the spirit moves me, and the spirit moves me every day." He writes always in longhand, with pen & ink, in incredibly small script of which one sheet makes five or six printed pages. He plays jazz records while he writes; wrote Soldier's Pay to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." As I Lay Dying he wrote in a power house, to the dynamo's whirr. He says he never reads reviews...
Harrison practices what he preaches. For an hour before the curtain goes up he sits alone in his dressing room and reviews his script to recapture the spirit of his lines. Once on stage he never gives a second-race performance, because his part has such stature that it groups him and brigs out the best talent that he possesses...
Successful with rustic Seth Parker on an NBC sustaining program, Author Lord last year wrote a script concerning "The Stebbins Boys," two elderly bachelors of Bucksport, Maine. In the same general rustic atmosphere as Seth Parker the Stebbins Boys manage their hotel and general store, act as a court of appeals for the village on all problems from political to amatory. A typical recent Stebbins dialog had to do with their beards. Suspected of being robbers at sea, they were told to take off their "disguises" by a Lieutenant McGee of the Coast Guard...
After his tour, Author Lord sold his "Country Doctor" script to Listerine, also an NBC customer. Swift & Co. protested loudly, threatened to go off the air. Pacified to some extent last week Swift & Co. prepared to hear a few of the Country Doctor's adventures, see how they competed with their own Stebbins Boys...