Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About ten dogs, all scotties except for one Sealyham, are called for in the script. Francis H. Hart, Jr. '27, author and director of "Straight Scotch," has tentatively selected the dogs used. He hopes that Flintfield Gayseal, a son of Champions, of the High Acre kennels of Newton Center, will be available for the play...
Roland Young is horribly miscast as the Sultan of Bagdad, and Louise Hovick as the villainess is unconvincing if not actually pathetic in her portrayal, but then the script did not give either of the two much in the way of material. June Lang does a perfect job providing a more or less platonic love interest with Tony Martin...
Last week the first of the broadcasts, employing music (by WPA Musician Rudolph Schramm) and a blood & thunder script (by Broadway Playwright Bernard Schoenfeld). told of the departure from Santo Domingo of three conquistadors, Pizarro, Cortes and Balboa, to search for gold on the mainland. Its dramatic climax: his following reduced by fever and cowardice to twelve men, Pizarro faces toward Peru on the sands south of Panama, shouts: "We are 13 against the jungle! . . . Thirteen against the heathen...
...Service was a washed-up play property when unknown Playwrights John Murray & Allen Boretz brought it to Abbott. Sam Harris had tried it out in Philadelphia two years earlier with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer money. It was a $23,000 flop; When the Harris option lapsed, Abbott looked at the script, felt warmly toward it because it was about Broadway, suggested a few changes. The authors condensed three scenes into one, picked a tag for it out of the second act, Abbott sent it on to wild acclaim. In similar warmhearted fashion he undertook Brother Rat because it was a play...
...Awful Truth (Columbia). Resourceful, humorous Director Leo McCarey (Ruggles of Red Gap, The Milky Way, Make Way For Tomorrow) takes a couple of derby hats, an ingratiating wire-haired fox terrier and three players without any special reputations as comedians, and spins a brightly-written Vina Delmar script into the gayest screen comedy the season has seen. In the process he establishes Irene Dunne as one of the top comediennes of current cinema, keeps Columbia's reputation for mature comedy (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Theodora Goes Wild) at its brightest. He also...