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Delicate problems faced National Broadcasting Co. last week. Swift & Co. fumed at something Listerine was about to do, insisted on doing. June 20 Listerine was to start a new program called "The Country Doctor." Author of the script is Phillips Haynes Lord, famed to radio listeners as "Seth Parker of Jonesport, Maine...
...Changed His Name (by Edgar Wallace; Frank Conroy, producer) This tragi-comic study of a pair of guilty consciences is said to have been prolific Playwright Wallace's favorite script chiefly because it is one of his few opera which presents not a single corpse. Not long before the playwright's death his friend Actor-Manager Conroy acquired the producing rights to the play and it is largely due to his nimbly raised eyebrows and innocently malicious innuendoes that The Man Who Changed His Name contains two plausibly amusing acts, the first and second...
...Somehow, Slitter's Gold was dropped and it was decided that I should do Broken Lullaby. But they said, 'You mustn't shoot any dead bodies in the picture.' Then I tackled-Dreiser's An American Tragedy. . . . The script I made for it had Dreiser's approval. . . . Hollywood wanted just a police story, so I said, 'Why the hell pay Dreiser? Just get some clippings...
Expert In Hammond, Ind., presenting a melodrama from radio station WAE, Roland G. Palmer, sound expert, made noises like galloping horses, howling wind, pattering rain. When the script called for a pistol shot, Sound Man Palmer picked up a pistol, shot off two of his fingers...
...Lost Squadron is the first picture manufactured by RKO since young David Selznick became production head of RKO-Radio and RKO-Pathe. It will be to the advantage of all concerned if the picture is typical of forthcoming RKO products. Good shot: a group of assistant directors, script writers, prop boys and cameramen waiting to start work, with Von Stroheim standing above them, on a pedestal beside the camera, bawling orders...