Word: scripters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than the other conquered-nations productions, this one is essentially a serious play about individual ideological dilemmas. Those represented here are complex and not very clearly dramatized, and are apt to leave audiences dangling. For this fault, neither Writer Dudley Nichols (scripter of The Informer) nor Director Jean Renoir (Grand Illusion) is entirely to blame: they bit off more than they could chew...
...opera-singing cook) of Margaret Matzenauer-one of opera's fallen giants. For Contralto Matzenauer, who had been a diva in the days when Caruso and Toscanini were fellow Metropolitan headliners, Vickie might be a comedown. But it was made to order: Vickie's author, Hollywood Scripter Sid Herzig, got most of his ideas about opera singers at the age of eight when Contralto Matzenauer, newly arrived from Europe, lived in the Herzig family's Manhattan home. Vickie's ex-diva was written with Matzenauer in mind...
Sanford, W. G.; Salisbury, G. J.; Schneer, C. J. '44; Scripter, L. J.; Simmons, A. J.; Simon, D. L.; Smith, J. M., Jr.; Spencer, D. R.; Speyer, H. W.; Stanton, H. M.; Stern, J. E.; Stevick...
...opera program, recently resigned. Now Milton J. Cross, who likes a little spoofing, burlesques himself. The program notes written for him are rare and irreverent non sense. ("The melody then builds into a five-part harmony with the bassoon wan dering off happily in search of a short beer.") Scripter Welbourn Kelley is now with the Navy, but continues to send in the scripts. Singer Mary Small is the latest in a notable list of "divas" who began with a vocalist named Dinah Shore...
...CRIMSON THREAD-Lilian Lauferfy -Simon & Schuster ($2). A trio of deaths in the family of a rich Connecticut autocrat is cannily elucidated by a roughhewn local law officer, with considerable help from a bright girl radio scripter. Emotion sometimes clouds the plot, but the general effect is pleasing...