Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doctor and the Devils, by Dylan Thomas. An outstanding film script inspired by the notorious case of the 19th century Edinburgh body snatchers, Burke and Hare (TIME...
...slave girls paraded "for sale or for rent," and a number of jokes like, "CAll me in the harom; I'll be lying down there," Kismet is often indistringuishable from Harem Nights at the Old Howard. Further debits are abominable lyrics ("We'll coo adien without undue ado"), a script short on humor of any kind, and except for a rather striking bridal procession, elementary and often drab settings by Lemuel Ayers...
...indeed. In Otis Skinner's old role of the resourceful beggar who marries off his daughter to the Caliph, drake is even more personable than he was in Kiss Me Kate. Drake is onstage almost continuously,a nd his jaunty gusto as he revels in the foolishness of the script sets the tone and pace of the whole production. With a sturdy baritone and superb diction, Drake gives his songs far better treatment than they deserve, projecting all to clearly some atrocities in the lyries, but making a number like "Gesticulate" seem quite imaginative...
Slipping down for a minute into the second-rate, Mary Martin and Charles Boyer are dazzing audiences with smiles alone, since Norman Krasna's script is no help at all. Micizner and Main Bocher to add to the flashy effect, however. At the Alvin...
...Solid Gold Cadillac" isn't quite the vehicle Josephine Hull deserves. But it gets her back on the stage and that's quite good enough. George S. Kaufman and Howard Telchmann must take the blame for a script that bows too often to farce and bypasses satire...