Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week moved temporarily 90 mi. southwest. The Philadelphia Theatre Association produced Aristophanes' The Lysistrata in a manner which, as the news spread, drew pilgrims and pundits from miles around. The news said that Norman Bel Geddes had designed the set; that Gilbert Vivian Seldes had adapted the script; that Fay Bainter and Ernest Truex were in the cast; that nothing so racy, so robust, so surprising had happened for years, nor often since The Lysistrata had its premiere in Athens, 2,341 years...
...Power's script,?wound, bobbin-bound, refined?...
When Chicago politicians capitulated to Silas Hardy Strawn's "Citizens' Rescue Committee" and appealed for $74,000,000 to tide the city over until delayed taxes come due July i, big taxpayers were at first reluctant to buy the city's script. Such temporizing Melvin Alvah Traylor, president of Chicago's First National...
...reporters "cover" the Senate for the Congressional Record. They work in 15 minute shifts, generally sitting in empty Senate seats, sometimes at a table directly under the rostrum. Across special short-hand paper their fine-pointed pens fly in a script all their own. In the thick of argument, with half a dozen Senators darting in and out of the fray, they have no need to glance up but identify each Senator by the sound of his voice. Appalling to some is the mere thought of the number of Senatorial voices, otherwise forgotten, which Reporter Shuey may recollect...
...Private Affair is not new. It is the familiar society murder story now arranged around Ann Harding as a Viennese woman who killed in a just cause, and whose husband is the presiding judge when an innocent suspect is tried for the case. In spite of a script containing a scene of two people struggling for a revolver and full of lines like "You wouldn't do this to me," Stein has used smart craftsmanship. He avoids telling the story in flashbacks from the trial of the woman herself, shows instead her reactions to the trial of someone else...