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Word: scripting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them have radios. Their insurance policies are generally Greek to them. But what comes over the radio is easy to understand. Recently, over WMCA and several other Manhattan and New England stations, the radio has been bringing to many homes in the East disturbing theories about insurance policies. Sample script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Insurance Aired | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Hollywood. Seven years ago he teamed up with Graham Baker, a long-faced ex-producer who once fired him. The two rented a dingy $15-a-month office formerly tenanted by a masseur, bought a Rolls-Royce from a well-known producer down on his luck, painted TOWNE-BAKER SCRIPT DELIVERY CAR on its sides, hired an indigent dentist to drive it to the studios for which they cracked out an unrivaled list of successes. Towne & Baker like to work in hats and no shirts (see cut), Towne building up ideas and Baker tearing them down. Their mutual devotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Play's The Thing | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...just Deanna Durbin, the kind of a girl you would like to have a little later on. But just the same, if you haven't absorbed too much ultra sophistication from the ancient halls of Harvard, you will enjoy "Three Smart Girls Grow Up." There is a script that is always bright and sometimes scintillates. There are some delightful scenes in the parlor where Deanna tries to straighten out her sisters' love affairs. There is some superlative humor contributed by the absent minded Charles Winninger. There is some simple, tuneful music, and there isn't much sentimentality. Above all there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

...striped pyjamas, and above all, Harvard as the Cloudcuckootown! Backing up the cast was an original musical score and masks, costumes, backdrops, done with skill and rare humor. Congratulations should also go to a gentleman named Aristophanes who constructed such an up-to-date plot. Histories say that the script clicked some 2500 years ago. It clicks today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

...Cheat An Honest Man," a flat script gives Charlie McCarthy's petrified personality very little chance to stir the audience from its boredom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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