Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reserved in advance. Crowds pressed against the windows, gaped in as waiters moved among the customers, arms bobbing, chorusing "Heil Hitler." Peeved with the good German burghers who pestered him with questions about Brother Adolf, Alois next day called in a sign painter, had him plaster in German script across one wall; "Sup di duhn und fret didick und holl din mul von politik." ("Drink a lot and eat a lot but don't talk politics...
...Robert Taylor widow's peak, practices voice culture with, "The Dyuke blyew on his hunting horn and loffed, ha, ha, ha, when the hounds came running." Baffled by pear- shaped vowels, he escapes to the set where the old Cagney reasserts itself in two brawls, one in the script, the other extemporaneous...
...palace to live in filth. Threatened by the police, Vassilissa attempts to force her pretty little sister Natacha (Junie Astor) to marry a pudgy, petty official. In a resulting brawl old Kostylev is killed and Pepel goes to jail. A new ending, wildly out of key, but approved in script form by Gorki before his death in 1936, has Pepel mysteriously out of prison walking hand in hand with Natacha down a country road, silhouetted as radiantly as any triumphant Hollywood couple...
...role. On the set he does not laugh or tell stories or play mumblety-peg, as other actors do to while away the intervals of their work. He sits apart brooding. Before taking a role he studies all the research which the writers used in preparing the script. Once he went to a Warner Brothers producer and complained: "I don't understand this role." "I thought we went over it pretty carefully," said the producer. "I know," replied Muni, "I understand the character all right. But I have no idea about his ancestors...
Cinema-Arts' editor is Paul Husserl, onetime script editor for the cine-MARCH OF TIME. Following the current vogue, Editor Husserl packed his first issue with many more pictures than paragraphs, hired four artists, most notably Jaro Fabry, to illuminate what interstices were left between photographs and text. Best shots: a full page of Henry Armetta titled "Portrait of Expostulation " and "Double Feature," a photograph of a Manhattan theatre marquee advertising Romeo & Juliet and Mama Steps...