Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Settings for any production of Peter Pan are an especial challenge since the script calls for seven different scene changes. However, William D. Roberts has provided some sparkling and highly imaginative ones for Group 20, complete with toadstool benches and a foldaway bed. Perhaps such a complicated show technically is a bit ambitious for a stage without a curtain. All set changes must be made by hand, and are, therefore, unduly long...
...Reason Why. Having planted the notion of free and peaceful interchange in at least a few Siberian minds, Nixon, tired but still eager, flew back to Moscow to deliver his farewell speech on radio and TV. While Nixon .was busy writing hi's script, Nikita Khrushchev, just back himself from a trip to the Ukraine, showed up unexpectedly at Moscow Airport to inspect the two Boeing 707 jets waiting to take the Nixon party on to Warsaw. Though dissatisfied with the highball proffered him-"You Americans spoil whisky. There's more ice than whisky in this"-Khrushchev...
...nine, eight are printed in Urdu, the other in English. Seven are strictly one-man shows in which the proprietor hustles ads and copy, cribs items from the old newspapers arriving by train, cuts by hand the pothook stencils of the Urdu script. Then he makes the rounds of Quetta's three print shops, pursuing the lowest print rate of the week. Advertisers are rare, since Quettan merchants prefer to do all their pitching over a hookah at the bazaar, so the publisher must seek revenue from other sources. From Baluchistan's maliks (tribal chieftains), the shrewd editor...
...wonderfully vivacious and satirical script was written twenty years ago, if you need to be told, by George S. Kaufman in collaboration with Moss Hart. Indulging their favorite practice of portraying well-known persons of their day, the dramatists wrote the play around the notorious, corpulent Alexander Woollcott, alias Mr. Sheridan Whiteside, a "critic, lecturer, wit, radio orator, intimate friend of the great and near great...
...script is neither profound nor off-beat, as most of the Tufts repertoire traditionally is. It is actually little more than a reminder from a couple of real pros that the old adage "there's no business like show business" has some foundation. But it is amazing how much more sophisticated, well-constructed, and entertaining this thirty-year-old piece is than the comparable Broadway material of today...