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...listening to the echoes of long-dead applause, hoping "their public" will call them back to the boards. Not very attractive material, but the French don't seem to worry about the superficial aesthetics of their pictures. They just brush up some sure-fire actors, plaster them with depressing make-up, and let the cameras grind. In the really good French films, they create an aesthetic standard all their own. This standard, grim and gory, vaguely reminiscent of some wind-swept parts of Wagner, is like a bucketful of cold water when it hits an American audience bottle...
...collaborators start their "star-chamber sessions" of writing. Every line of dialogue is written together. From start to finish, a play takes anything from five weeks (You Can't Take It With You) to seven months (The Royal Family), depending on the trouble it causes and the make-up of Kaufman's collaborator. Kaufman & Hart usually work much faster than Kaufman & Ferber...
Consequently it has adopted all the good features of the Harvard plan. It boosts a man up the ladder at an early enough age so that he still has some elements of unconventionality in his make-up. Likewise it frees a man young enough to enable him to get a good job elsewhere...
...undoubtedly know, your make-up editor employed the device of deleting part of a sentence sent to you. It is true I did oil up my rifle, but for the purpose of shooting a buck. I killed a 96-lb. buck and regaled my men's club with it. Since my honorable discharge as chaplain in the last war, I have preached in season and out of season against the sheer folly...
Future tycoons of finance will find a solid foundation in CRIMSON Business Board work. The make-up of the paper, dealings with advertisers, copy-writing, and salesmanship are all within the province of the Business candidate, while at the same time valuable experience in selling oneself is part of the game...