Word: dialog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parlor game of '"Consequences," unlikely characters are confronted with each other; their cross-purposed dialog and action are sometimes funny. As a serious literary trick, Plato used the same device; so did Walter Savage Landor, British Novelist Keith Winter's latest book is based on this "consequential"' scheme. Suppose that D. H. Lawrence, surrounded by sycophants, went to Mallorca to die. Suppose Noel Coward, vacationing, became his neighbor. What would happen? On this lively supposition Author Winter has written a tale that is blurbed as another South Wind but is more like Somerset Maugham's spiteful...
Also last week, Publisher Hearst ordered Hearstpapers to throw out all advertisements and news of Mae West's new cinema Klondike Annie (see p. 44), start an editorial campaign against it. Editorial excerpts: "It is an IMMORAL and INDECENT film. . . . The story, scenes and dialog are basically libidinous and sensual. . . . Decent people will protest against . . . showing a white woman in the role, even inferred, of consort to a Chinese vice lord...
...their teacher and blurted low-calibre puns. To Stuyvesant High School, on the other hand, went 3-A, a divertissement called Parisian Nights. Intended for military consumption, this program included a scene between a bare-legged young woman, a master of ceremonies and an importunate young man. Sample dialog...
...central character of a philosophical football player, a young millionaire who sickens and fades because his moral standards cannot be reconciled with the world's madness, is too extreme and implausible to be trusted. Such criticisms the author answers in an epilog, employing the old device of a dialog between the author and one of the characters who objects to his role in the book. A naturalist in philosophy, George Santayana is no naturalistic novelist, concerns himself little with realistic details. Instead, he has attempted to express the "poetic truth," rather than the literal truth about his people...
With this fine controversial foreword WGN (Chicago Tribune), an independent station, put four Republican skits on the air. The Press printed the dialog next day in snatches, in chunks, in toto. The "March of Time" told the story on the air next evening, broadcasting most of one skit over the same Columbia network which had rejected it as a paying customer. Columnists and editorial writers loudly discussed the "suppression...