Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Ada Louise Comstock,* president of Radcliffe College, read the script of A Bride for the Unicorn, spring production of the Harvard Dramatic Club, she decided the play "unsuitable for young college girls," ordered eleven Radcliffe students to quit the cast during rehearsal...
...Ripley, 1897) and bred, William Faulkner still lives there (at Oxford), with his wife, two stepchildren. Though the Sound and the Fury (1929) made him one of the coming young men, he is a lion whom Manhattan hostesses have fret to capture. He fills big pages with his tiny script, likes, to write to the accompaniment of jazz records. He indulges in solitary golf, shaves irregularly and appears easy-going but, says he: "Ah write when the spirit moves me, and the spirit moves me every...
...little Julie Rothschild, Loretta Young manages to be gay without appearing to have stepped into pro-Victorian England out of a Ziegfeld chorus. C. Aubrey Smith is excellent as Wellington. As old Mrs. Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who gets the wittiest lines Nunnally Johnson was able to pack into his script, Helen Westley is superb. Called upon to explain why she has lived so long, she answers, with a muddled sense of finance, by saying: "Why should God take me at 88 when He can get me at 100?" George Arliss has been playing another Jew. Disraeli, for so long...
...Neill, Anderson or Barry, Playwright Howard is not above working in Hollywood, where he has never written a failure. His adaptation of Bulldog Drummond for Producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1929 made Ronald Colman an important star. His adaptation of Arrowsmith won the Cinema Academy prize in 1932. His script of his favorite novel, The Brothers Karamazov (which was never produced because Producer Goldwyn lost a copyright battle with UFA), was considered even better...
...have accepted this long-standing assumption. Robert Saudek, London graphologist, set out to uncover exceptions.* In the March issue of Duke University's Character and Personality ("An International Quarterly for Psychodiagnostics and Allied Studies'') published this week, he reproduces twelve lines of bold, graceful, rapidly written script, with this comment: "It is out of the question that ten years ago any expert would have admitted the possibility . . . that parts of this specimen could have been written by different persons...