Word: scenarist
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...scenarist, Sturges wrote a tender little tale about 24 hours in the life of Jimmy MacDonald (Dick Powell), a perennial slogan contestant who is out for Maxford House Coffee Co.'s $25,000 prize. Powell is a $22-a-week comptometer clerk with three practical-joking friends who paste together a bogus telegram notifying him he has won the contest. By dint of some improbable inefficiency in the Maxford House organization, he collects the check, spends a sizable slice of it before the hoax is bared...
Other bolters-of-the-week: Walter N. Rothschild, director of Abraham & Straus, huge Brooklyn department store; the Oregon Journal, traditionally Democratic Portland paper; Bess Streeter Aldrich, best-selling novelist and Hollywood scenarist; former Democratic Governor Charles H. Martin of Oregon, former Democratic Governor William A. Comstock of Michigan, Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland...
...edges off their heels in vain visits to song publishers. With this tissue-thin plot Director Victor Schertzinger has managed to string to gether 90 minutes of first-rate crooning by Crosby and Martin, lively trumpeting by famed one-armed Swingster Wingy Mannone, some casual, restful reading of Scenarist Dwight Taylor's smooth lines...
Married. Bryan Wallace, British scenarist, son of the late thriller-author, Edgar Wallace; and Wydoline Van Dyke Jones of Columbus, Ohio; in Rome. Because the State Department would not give her a passport to go to England, they had to go to Italy to meet and marry...
Married. Philip Dunne, 31, scenarist and son of the late great Humorist Finley Peter ("Mr. Dooley") Dunne; and Actress Amanda Duff, 25; in Virginia City...