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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acts like a sucking turtledove...
Critics applauded the composer for leaving pithy dialogue to be spoken instead of sung, for his generally apt orchestration and unobtrusive transitions. Like Poet Benet's verses, the music is homespun to a turn. Far less spontaneous and intense than The Cradle Will Rock (TIME June 28,1937), No. 1 operatic experiment with topical U. S. material, The Devil and Daniel Webster is well staged and occasionally rises above self-conscious Americanism...
Most good playwrights get a break, but screenwriters are under a big bushel. Most screenwriters with big names made them elsewhere, like Ben Hecht, Robert Sherwood, Dorothy Parker. Some, like Grover Jones and Frances Marion, have big names in Hollywood that mean little to outsiders. Others, like Wesley Ruggles' Claude Binyon or Frank Capra's Robert Riskin, won fame as co-members of celebrated director-writer teams. Still others, like Darryl Zanuck and Alfred Hitchcock, got their glory in bigger jobs. As compensation for their comparative obscurity, screen authors work more steadily than playwrights and generally make more...
...formerly tenanted by a masseur, bought a Rolls-Royce from a well-known producer down on his luck, painted TOWNE-BAKER SCRIPT DELIVERY CAR on its sides, hired an indigent dentist to drive it to the studios for which they cracked out an unrivaled list of successes. Towne & Baker like to work in hats and no shirts (see cut), Towne building up ideas and Baker tearing them down. Their mutual devotion is celebrated in a popular Hollywood story that when Baker was dying of pneumonia last year, Towne climbed into his oxygen tent and revived his partner by threatening...
...distant relative of the striped bass is the copper-colored channel bass, a surf fish whose sportiness is confined to acting like a Japanese tumbler. Last week, around Cape Hatteras, No. 1 locale for channel bass, surfcasters were hopefully trying to beach one bigger than the world's record 74-pounder taken off Virginia...