Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should like to know if it would be possible to secure a copy of the script used in the broadcast...
...Angeles' two performances and one of New York City's three were in Yiddish. In Seattle the play was presented by a Negro cast. Two versions in Italian were scheduled for Newark and San Francisco. Despite Mr. Lewis' original edict that not a line of his script must be changed, Denver was permitted to transfer the Vermont locale to Colorado and in Detroit the action was laid in a factory district. In Tampa, the play was given in Spanish with the action in Cuba. A fat advance sale in most cities indicated that...
...dead, is now the wife of the governor. Father and son square off, and Tom shoots down the dirty dog. Tom allows himself to be led to the gallows, refusing to tell the truth about his quarrel with the gangster lest his mother be disgraced. Fate, or rather the script, intervenes just in time, and Tom and Francis fall into each others arms...
...whole, however, the skill of his characterization is minimized to a great extent by the adaptation of the play. Apparently unwilling to sacrifice much of the text usually cut, Mr. Schuyler Watts, who prepared the script, has run several of the scenes together, so that there are only three acts instead of Mr. Shakespeare's five. Thus the emotional stress is carried from scene to scene with scarcely a break; and the rise and fall in pitch that is so noticeable in reading is almost completely lost. Still with all this running together of the scenes much of the original...
...those guys 250 bucks apicco every week just to get gags for my radio script", Jimmy said as he wiped a wandering smear of soap from the end of his proboscis, "and do you know what they do? Why they just subcirbe to college magazines and cut out the jokes. It's colossal, that's what it is, colossal!" Although the star of Cole Porter's latest show admitted he had read lots of these he had never seen a copy of the "Lampoon", but this was explained when he said that he only read the funny ones...