Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Injuries still dominated the scene on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon as the teams ran through signal drills in preparation for a not-too-tough game with Davidson on Saturday...
...from the successes only in not having jobs. Gradually it dawns on Atterbury that Colossal is being ruined by 1) its ace director (Alan Mowbray), a Russian who wants to send to Switzerland for edelweiss for his Alpine shots, although the edelweiss will not be visible in the blizzard scene for which it is wanted; 2) Cheri (Maria Shelton), a fading actress whose contract makes it worth a cutter's job to take out one of her closeups; 3) Quintain (Humphrey Bogart), a smart, dog-loving producer, driven to drink by his passion for Cheri; 4) Nassau (C. Henry...
...besprinkled, over the de Jongs, Zwart Pietes, van der Bergs, van Reenens who make up its confusing cast of characters. But once these obstacles are hurdled, the surviving reader can settle down to a solidly written, if a little protracted, account of pioneer hardship and leather-breeched love, its scene one of the great mass migrations of modern history...
...novelist, in Imperial City Elmer Rice has presumably found a satisfying outlet for everything that Broadway did not like. He has also included a lot that it did like. The novel runs to approximately 250,000 words, gives speaking parts to more than 100 characters, covers a range of scenes that would wear the shoes off a dozen reporters. Attempting to do for all New York City what his Street Scene did for one of its blocks, the novel is a sort of tabloid morality play, about on a literary level with Felix Reisenberg's East Side, West Side...
...just such situations as this that afford editors of the CRIMSON some of their most interesting experiences as well as furnishing a challenge to their ingenuity and imagination. Six nights in very week the CRIMSON Building becomes the scene of a persis- tant and unabated race against time, of the ceaseless struggle of the night editor to plan the composition of his paper, to supervise the writing of copy and head-lines, and to fit the type in the chases before the deadline is reached...