Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author of the 1920's, is well known for his works, "perfect Behavior," a burlesque of Emily Post's etiquette series, and "Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad." In 1925, responding to the call of Hollywood, he left the East and moved out to a job writing scenarios for the screen, and he has remained in California a good deal of the time since then. Some of the more famous scripts on which he has worked are "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," "The Philadelphia Story," and "Without Love." At present he is residing in Cambridge, preparing a play for the legitimate...
...lecture on Thursday will consist of a discussion of the problems involved in transition from novel to the screen...
...cinema screen and I likes him." Of President Truman most Britons knew nothing. "But he must have something in him," some of them said, "or he wouldn't have satisfied Roosevelt...
...picture starts off with a bang it never betters when emery-voiced, satchel-eyed Fred Allen takes charge of the screen and gives the interminable screen credits the kicking-around they have so long been begging for: "This is Mr. Skirball's father-in-law," he explains of Director Richard Wallace, remarking also that Producer Skirball gets his name up there twice. When that is over you enter a charade-like world which is in many respects more rational than the one it ribs, and any amount more entertaining-a world in which children are hideously overeducated and essentially...
...time Floogle learns that one of the chairs contains a considerable stash of cash, he is heavily in debt and under suspicion of murdering the uncle, and the chairs are all over town. His search for them involves visits to Mrs. Pansy Nussbaum (Minerva PioUs. very cute in her screen debut), to Jack Benny, and to a gay-nineties cafe where Allen joins in expensive quartetting with Don Ameche, Rudy Vallee, and Victor Moore...