Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week it was revived again, in a scintillating, frolicsome production by Gilbert Miller. This time the cutting was done for the sake of compactness, the bowdierizaions being restricted to two or three of the Droadest Anglo-Saxon monosyllables. Libidinous high point of this show is not in the script at all; it is the direction of Lady Fidget's glance when a rakehell named Horner assures her that he is not, after all, a eunuch...
...average Freshman this year, who is slightly below his predecessors in ability, is able to get through a two-minute script reading fairly easily, although the Bostonians can be distinguished by their characteristic treatment of the words "roof" and "aunt," and there is a surprisingly large number of variants in the pronunciation of "crude...
...Business School graduates, was the subject of Eddie's speech. The star said that radio is still in its infancy, and that its opportunities are untold for the well-trained man. Though he stressed advertising as the most probable field for the business student, he said that good script writers are becoming more important every day. Pointing to the ace radio announcer, Jimmy Wallington, who had introduced him, as an example, he affirmed that no radio announcer could ever be important without a college education...
...Faces", the new review at the Shubert, is, notwithstanding its Broadway run of "seven hilarious months", just another review. A group of new and fairly talented performers, including the Duncan sisters, lift a lifeless script into the regions of just passable entertainment, although the first night audience was liberal enough with its applause...
Actor Howard's blond charm and gentle British passivity have on occasion seemed to endow plays like The Petrified Forest with a brooding, thoughtful quality not indicated in the script. But, as those who saw his film Romeo last spring might have guessed, the nation's No. 1 matinee idol does not have so easy a time with William Shakespeare as with Robert Sherwood Shocked and disappointed at Actor Howard's failure in the most ambitious and demanding male role on the English-speak ing stage, critics found the Howard Hamlet enervated, thoughtless, unilluminating...