Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end Station WMCA explained its unprecedented slap at a sponsor, said station officials had found errors of fact in a script submitted to them three days in advance, had told Father Coughlin where he could find documents to disprove his statements, were assured that the script would be corrected before delivery. When it was not. Station WMCA made the announcement instead of cutting Father Coughlin...
...play contest sponsored by the Allied Authors of New York went a script written by Convict No. 59727 of San Quentin Prison. Though burdened with four different titles, it was minus part of Act I. Cause: prison censorship. Author's explanation of cause: "It was a love scene and may have been considered rough...
Meanwhile, a few blocks away in Boston's Hotel Ritz-Carlton, Authors Bella & Sam Spewack, shuddering at the thought of Broadway critics, were slashing the script of Leave It to Me, rushing off to hammer typewriters. While the audience was holding its sides over Act II, Act II was going, bit by bit, into the Spewack wastebasket. While the audience was filing out after the show, behind the curtain the cast was flopping down on the stage before being handed practically new parts and rehearsing them far into the night...
Born. To Ernst Lubitsch, 46, famed cinema director (Bluebeard's Eighth Wife); and his second wife, onetime Cinemactress and Script Writer Vivian Gave: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood...
Writing in a minute, almost unreadable script, which he explained made it difficult for people to detect his errors in spelling, Steffens jotted down a few paragraphs of his letters every morning, sometimes forgot to mail them. With their air of being written for himself rather than for the people who received them, they are unique in published correspondence-as if Steffens had kept a diary, but found life too interesting to hide its record away, tearing off a few pages from time to time and sending them to his friends...