Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show, starring Ethel Merman, gaily spoofed "social climbers, wisenheimers" and informed listening Mainliners that they are "snooty snobs." Grace's sister Lizanne made her exit before the first-act curtain-"to get home to the baby-sitter." Thunderous applause burst out when one line of the script grudgingly allowed: "All the Kellys are nice people." Rainier and Grace had fortunately missed the show, preferring to stay in Maryland with friends, as the Princess's mother coolly explained their absence. When the long evening was over, Mrs. Kelly summed up her distaste for its theme: "Something so precious...
...pleaded the Fifth Amendment in 1951 in refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The studio, a small outfit, was of no mind to risk its principal ($3,200,000) for principle. Be that as it may, Wilson's too-earnest but sometimes charming script is the best thing about the picture; for Director William Wyler, who often seems a pretty citified feller in all these country doings, it will probably make the difference between a hit and a miss...
...WHRB production is not great, the main fault lies in the choice of script. The War of the Worlds is of great psychological interest, but is at best only amusing drama. But tonight is not Hallowe'en, so a large part of the rationale for the production is gone...
...some obscure reason, WHRB and Steve Aaron have combined resources and talent to make a tape recording of the broadcast, following the original script. The cast is a combination of WHRB announcers and HDC actors, the latter faring better...
Aaron's interpretation of the broadcast as having humor is correct, but the script's humor is a very subtle, Wellesian sneer. In the original, the farmer on whose field the first rocket landed was slow and countrived, but in Aaron's he is more of the village idiot...