Word: pascal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Score: Harvard 2, Yale 1. Goals--Haines, Page, Mendel. Harvard Substitutions: Halstead, Willetts, Staber, Myeroson, Poor, Neff, Merrill, Barnes, Hanford. Yale Substitutions: MacGregor, Pascal Courses, Hopkins...
...Producer Gabriel Pascal last year astonished the cinema industry by screening the first of a series of Bernard Shaw's plays, whence all but him had fled. Last week, en route from Hollywood to London to start work on The Doctor's Dilemma, he stopped off in Manhattan long enough to announce his future plans: a repertory company to make two Shaw pictures a year and, in 1940, a film biography of Amelia Earhart, to be made with the assistance of her husband, George Palmer Putnam, and a score by Conductor Leopold Stokowski after the expiration...
...ever been frightened by radio before, demonstrating that radio can be a tremendous force in whipping up mass emotion. Playwright of the Year was Thornton Wilder, previously a precious litterateur, whose first play on Broadway, Our Town, was not only ingenious and moving, but a big hit. To Gabriel Pascal, producer of Pygmalion, first full-length picture based on the wordy dramas of George Bernard Shaw, went the title of Cineman of the Year for having discovered a rich mine of dramatic material when other famed producers had given up all hope of ever tapping it. Men of the Year...
When Playwright Shaw asked Pascal how much money he had, Pascal replied: "Fifteen shillings and sixpence-but I owe a pound." As much delighted with this effrontery as with Pascal's obvious admiration for his work, Playwright Shaw gave him a pound to pay his debts, agreed to the experiment. With Shaw's approval for his project he had little trouble getting as much as he needed. He assembled about $250,000-less than Hollywood spends on most quickies. He hired Screenwriters W. P. Lipscomb and Cecil Lewis to write a scenario, rented a studio...
...whose work pleased everyone was 26-year-old Wendy Hiller. Famed as the star of Love on the Dole, whose coauthor, Ronald Gow, she married in 1937, Wendy Hiller plays Eliza with a minimum of frills, and complete sincerity. To her, as much as to Playwright Shaw and Producer Pascal, goes the credit for making Pygmalion come to life on the screen more completely than it ever did upon the stage...