Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producer Calvin Kuhl used the Faulkner play to signalize the switch of the Video Theater from Mondays to Thursdays. He is enthusiastic about Faulkner as a new TV writer, and paid him for his script one of the highest prices (undisclosed) in the three-year history of Lux Video Theater. Kuhl first met Faulkner last fall, when the novelist came to Manhattan on a visit and said he was interested in television. They talked for half an hour: "Most of the time, Faulkner just asked questions about sets, time lapses, costume changes, camera techniques. He was more concerned about...
Kuhl handed Faulkner a page and a half of Lux-inspired suggestions for tidying up the characters and the plot. In four days Faulkner was back with a script. Says Kuhl: "There were some wonderful lines in it, but they would have offended." After two more tries, Faulkner turned m a script that could be certified pure enough for TV. Kuhl is eager to do more Faulkner stories and even hopes the novelist can be tempted to write some originals. How did Faulkner himself like the TV version of The Brooch? Says Kuhl: "I talked to him right after...
...Irving Yoskowitz and John Bowman is in good style (in spite of an occasional clash like "yearn to earn"). These gentlemen are also chiefly responsible for the attractive staging and fast pace of the production. The emphasis is on slapstick comedy and this generally succeeds in keeping the ridiculous script from falling flat. The orchestra under Edward Troupin is excellent; this is one of the few student productions that I have ever heard where the orchestra did not overbalance the vocalists...
Lasky is the co-author, with Ralph de Toledano, of "Seeds of Treason," a study of the Hiss case, and wrote the script for "The Hoaxsters," a film short exposing Communist techniques...
...parodies the mannerisms of Julie Harris, his performance is a long dull thud from beginning to end. In fact, with Mr. Cooper tossing off his lines with the delicacy of a shot-putter, his soliloquies offer the most painful moments in the current theatre. Since John Van Druten's script has Isherwood on the stage almost every second of the play, the result is pretty appalling...