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...yarns with the greatest relish. He enjoys the working out of detail; but he enjoys most of all the underlying grip which any good story must possess. No amount of artistry can make a story if it has not an emotional basis. There is a good vulgar word which describes the quality of which I am speaking. Wallace Irwin has it in his writing, so too have Harold Bell Wright, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens? and the word is guts! You may not like it?but I can think of no other word which so completely expresses what I mean...
...drama? Abe and Mawruss-toned down to the flat black-and-whiteness of the screen? It sounds as mournful as a sixth class French funeral, doesn't it? But, strangely enough, it isn't. Even shorn of actual speech Abe and Mawruss remain uproariously funny - the same vulgar, unctuous incredible immortals they were when they first sprang twin-Minervas of the cloak-and-suit trade from the brain of Montague Glass. The plot more or less follows the outline of the first Potash and Perlmutter play. Rosie is there-and Feldman the unscrupulous lawyer-and Irma Potash...
Arthur Hammerstein, producer: " Generalizing about modern musical comedy, I said: ' We are getting back to the plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, set to present-day words and music. ... No more the bawling, syncopated soubrette, whose only acquisition was a reputation in the divorce courts and a vulgar method of kicking. The plot ... is the thing...
...producer to jobber and from broker to consumer, each solemnly shaking his head and pointing to his neighbor. The last man in line with some consternation raises his eyes in significant reverence to an economic law. New committees set out on the quest every day with no success. In vulgar circles this game goes by the name of "passing the buck...
...alley.' I consider a newspaper to be the retained attorney for the public, and I believe a newspaper which is faithless to that trust is as much of a traitor as an attorney who betrays the interests of the client who employs him." Against the common charges of vulgar sensationalism, of pandering to the evil in men's minds, of propagating and feeding prejudices and class-hatred, Mr. Hearst made no defense. Among those present at the dinner were Mrs. Hearst, Arthur Brisbane, Daniel Willard, several local bank presidents, an Episcopal bishop and most of the State...