Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marx Brothers (The Coconuts, Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera), Groucho was on & off radio for ten years before anyone found him particularly funny on the air. Then Producer John Guedel saw him ad lib for ten minutes on a network show when Bob Hope accidentally dropped his script. Shortly thereafter Guedel put Groucho into You Bet Your Life. He still has some qualms: "Having Groucho as emcee of a quiz show is like using a Cadillac to haul coal...
...just as well. Judging from the remainder of John Whedon and Sam Moore's script, it seems doubtful that they are capable of the kind of light-handed satire required for the Luce spoofing; particularly since they ride so clumsily down two already well-worn musical comedy ruts--Texas and Southern politics...
Players read directly from script without benefit of scenery or costumes. Readers worked in some action and facial expressions into their presentation...
Fortnight ago, Sir Laurence Olivier's production of the play, starring his wife Vivien Leigh, opened in the West End and was greeted by all-night queues a block long. The critics sang the praises of Actress Leigh and Director Olivier, but gave Williams' script a mixed chorus of grudging praise and abuse. Samples: "I feel as if I had crawled through a garbage heap" . . . "Blatant, crude...
Nikolai Gogol's satire. "The Inspector General," will be presented by the Dramatic Club's Reading Theater this afternoon at 2 p.m. in the Fogg Large Room. The players will read directly from script without benefit of scenery or costuming...