Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Company's Coming! This very unfunny comedy has as engaging a comedienne (Frieda Inescort, late of Napi), as droll a farceur (Lynne Overman of Just Married) and as stupid a script as has been professionally presented for a long time. Ridden to death is the story of a poor young tennis player (Mr. Overman), who must pawn a cup he has not quite won for keeps. Included in the complications are a fake holdup, a real holdup, beer, neighbors, a bull pup, a baby. Also joining in the ruckus is a visitor from Atlanta whose attempt at the dialect...
...producers have not cabined themselves by letter-reverence to the script. They have gone on inventing, adding to the details of the fantasy, just as Mark Twain would have delighted in doing: the knights storming the castle of Queen Morgan Le Fay use submachine guns and ride in Austin cars; an autogiro arrives to rescue King Arthur; the tilt between Sir Boss (Will Rogers) and Sir Sagramor is an nounced in the manner of the modern prize-ring and broadcast by a whiskered radio man who begins McNamically: "Well, here we are at .Camelot. . . ." In this tilt Will Rogers...
...Silent Witness is a mystery play which mystifies. In addition, it is well-staged, its scenes revolve quickly, and during the courtroom sequence there are moments of good oldtime melodrama. Unlike most of the recent Shubert importations, The Silent Witness has a plausible script, thanks to the doctorings of Director Harry Wagstaff Gribble...
...Royal Family Of Broadway", the screen version of the play by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman, is not so much a motion picture as it is a photograph of a play. Being written for the legitimate stage, the Hollywood director has done nothing to adapt the original script to the peculiarities of the camera. The result is satisfactory in as much as it fulfills the purpose of the authors as they wrote for the stage, but all of the possibilities of a picture were not realized...
East Lynne (Fox). Mrs. Henry Wood wrote East Lynne in 1861. For 20 years after that it was regarded as a supreme creation. Now someone in the Fox script department has detected that East Lynne is more than a dramatic critic's joke. An old admirer of lovely Lady Isabel causes all her trouble when he takes her, unchaperoned, to a dance, and later goes to her bedroom to tell her of his love. East Lynne is not worth the talent that has gone into it (Clive Brook, Ann Harding, and Conrad Nagel form the triangle, and Joseph Urban...