Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...story of the 'naughty' child and the timid child, told by themselves," was published the same day as Will You Marry Me? A newer cooperator is Robert Haven Schauffler, author of a standard life of Beethoven. The cooperative offers courses in art, literature, creative writing, radio-script writing, Indian crafts, life saving. Through Children's Eyes and Will You Marry Me? are its first publishing venture...
...Jell-O script is turned out by a 33-year-old wag named Bill Morrow, whose salary is $1,500 a week, and his assistant, Eddie Beloin, who makes $560 less. Although the gags are theirs. Benny has a lot to do with shaping up the pro gram. Each Monday he gets together with his writers either in the bedroom of his 15-room French-Colonial mansion in Beverly Hills or in his Paramount dressing room to talk over his coming show. With Benny's secretary Harry Baldwin furiously taking notes, the show is roughed out on Monday, worked...
Last year CBS Script Director Max Wylie decided to do for radio programs what Burns Mantle does annually for the U. S. theatre. After wading through bales of material, he produced a 576-page tome entitled Best Broadcasts of 1938-39 (Whittlesey; $3). This week once again Max Wylie dredged up a few nuggets from the U. S. aerial dross, released his selections for the 368-page Best Broadcasts...
...Elsie, were grafted onto Louisa May Alcott's actionless story about a country school. The result is a slow-moving film chiefly notable for a few scenes of clever Oakie slapstick and a bovine romance, between Elsic and the bellowing bull down the road. Hopelessly bogged down by poor script and a bustle, Kay Francis gives a mediocre performance...
...Dramatic Club has received three or four scripts but nothing worth the $1,000 which Vinton Freedley's experiment of last year cost. The Radio Workshop has little to count on outside its veteran script men. Perhaps, new talent will begin to crop up now that the Network has actually begun to put plays on the air. But a far greater stimulus would seem to be needed...