Word: script
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hays Office has definitely begun to unbend, gentlemen, and it is high time someone broke forth with a few congratulatory huzzahs. "Honeymoon in Bali," the latest case in point, has Madeleine Carroll; it has faint glimmers of Bali; and it has a script that sometimes scintillates. Of course, it does have Fred MacMurray, too; and it is burdened with a plot; but such things seem to be inevitable. Only when the Message becomes too obvious does the pace sag; Miss Carroll, it seems, has planned her whole life with the mathematical precision of an M. I. T. graduate, and must...
...League of Decency, the Hays office, the State boards of censorship. Censors in Virginia, she finds, are most concerned about sex; in New York with political corruption; in Kansas with drinking, nose thumbing. She admires the versatility with which censors safeguard U. S. morals. Sample: when the script for Zaza called for a female character to shout at an admirer, "Pig! Pig! Pig!" the vigilant Hays office ordered: "Delete two pigs...
...spell out the letters of HARVARD, playing a different tune with each letter. "Our Director," "Soldiers Field," "Gridiron King," "10,000 Men," "Onward to the Goal," and "Score," a tun written especially for Yale games, will be played in that order. The band will then spell out ELI in script, and form an II facing the Harvard stands...
Headquarter of the Workshop, where weekly script conferences are held by the students, is in Holyoke House 46. It is planned to equip the rooms with amplifying equipment for auditions and rehearsals and eventually for recording and broadcasting. For the present the students are utilizing the equipment and studios of the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation...
...addition to the American history programs, the Radio Workshop is preparing special experimental broadcasts, one of them a script of the poetic drama "Inquest" by Theodore Spencer, visiting lecturer in English. Several members of the Workshop are working on individual script projects. Last spring the group produced and recorded a version of Sophocles' "Antigone" in collaboration with the World Wide Broadcasting experts...