Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First scene is laid in the counting house of Gideon Bloodgood (hiss!), a merciless moneychanger who is about to succumb to the panic of 1837. Although not one line of the old script has been changed, Manhattan spectators, aware of last year's Bank of U. S. failure (TIME, Dec. 22, et seq.), will believe that a modern interpolation must have been made when the collapse of the "United States Bank"? an institution of President Van Buren's time?is spoken...
...stood the acid test of Broadway for many months. It needs only half an eye to discover the causes for whatever success has accrued to the play. The Boston presentation is characterized by imaginative and intelligent treatment at the hands of both director and cast, every opportunity that the script offered for straight drama and light comedy being seized and exploited...
...Given a script written by Donald Ogden Stewart, and a cast composed of prominent Paramountites, and entertainment is in the nature of a foregone conclusion. "Rebound" has the cheery banter, the rapid repartee, the nonsensical chit-chat that is peculiar to Mr. Stewart's humor. And yet the picture has a high specific gravity, gathering body as it goes, until a climax of seriousness and deep dramatic interest is attained. "Rebound" is the story of a woman who marries the man of her love after he has been jilted by another. Follows a period of short-lived happiness, until...
...snap at vacancies. The School Board owes the teachers $10,695,973, has no funds in sight. Taxes are due next month, but it is doubtful how much can be collected. It might be two years before the whole sum is raised. Destitute, desperate, many teachers have accepted "script." an I. O. U. from the city, cashable for much less than its face value. First day of registration, high school enrolment was 18,000 greater than last year. A factor: more grammar school graduates were going to high school rather than hunt for jobs...
...news came too late. Already Federal Water's three brother units in Tri-Utilities had come upon bad times in the light and gas businesses. One after another American Natural Gas Corp., Southern Natural Gas Corp. and Peoples Light & Power Corp. paid their preferred dividends in later-maturing script or not at all. As early as May there were rumors of difficulties in Tri-Utilities financing. Added troubles were the legal efforts of Governor William Henry ("Cocklebur Bill") Murray to drive the corporation's subsidiaries out of Oklahoma, confiscate their properties on charges that they sought to make...