Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With the script of Hard Pan in his pocket, Dress Manufacturer Polisuk next approached Producer Sam H. Harris who was persuaded to split production costs with him. Producer Harris called in George Kaufman to doctor Hard Pan and George Kaufman, the Great Collaborator, called in Laurence Stallings (collaborator of What Price Glory?) to help. Hard Pan was rewritten three times and renamed Eldorado. It was opened in 1931 with a split week in New Haven and Hartford, Conn. It then limped into Newark and folded up. Messrs. Kaufman & Stallings, who were to have received one-third of the profits...
Slight and scholarly looking, Mr. Nimmanahaeminda expressed surprise that no one in the whole University had a name longer than he. "Why, that's nothing--look at this" he said, holding up a whole page of Siamese script for the interviewer to puruse. "That's the name and titles of King Prajahdipok, former ruler of Siam. A whole page--and mine is a more 15 letters...
...Federal Theatre gives a comedy called "Help Yourself", by John Coman, at the Copley Theatre this week. The play is a broad adaptation of a script by the Viennese Paul Vulpius, and is staged here by Arthur Ritchie. Its boisterous title indicates the whole tone of the play, for it is a farce-comedy of bluff characters, headlong plot and broad burlesque. Even the heart interest is handled in this way: first the here doesn't want to kiss the heroine, and then he does...
...cinema at all can be construed as a tribute to the open-mindedness of Universal's Production Chief Charles R. Rogers. That the cinema involved should qualify as first-rate entertainment is a tribute to the finesse with which Director Henry Koster handled Adele Comandini's script and to the acting of an expert and experienced supporting cast. That the heroine, instead of seeming an obnoxious little prig more terrifying than Boris Karloff in a fright-wig, possesses instead the appeal of a talented and attractive child is due principally to the actress who has now replaced Karloff...
Robert Gessner was working in Hollywood, preparing the script of his Indian story, Massacre, when Hitler came into power in Germany. A broad-shouldered, heavy youth, author of a book of poems and holder of a pilot's license, Robert Gessner, born in Escanaba, Mich, in 1907, had not thought much about being a Jew before that time. There had been a few painful instances of hostility in his boyhood, more when he got to college, but before Hitler "race hatred and the Jews were interesting subjects, but not pressing." Now he found that even in Hollywood Jewish actors...