Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood, which has everybody in the country looking over its shoulder, from the U.S. Congress to small-town ladies' clubs, sometimes feels pretty sorry for itself. Last week The Screen Writer ran a want...
...Established writer would like a good up-to-date idea for a motion picture which avoids politics, sex, religion, divorce, double beds, drugs, disease, poverty, liquor, Senators, bankers, cigarettes, wealth, Congress, race, economics, art, death, crime, childbirth and accidents (whether by airplane or public carrier); also the villain must not be an American, European, South American, African, Asiatic, Australian, New Zealander, or Eskimo ... No dogs allowed. Apply...
This oldtime, gosh-all-Friday comedy-drama is served up by people who obviously admire Writer-Director Preston Sturges and his cynical gift for playing both ends of a cliche against the audience's middle. Nothing is too stale or too simpleminded: a sheriff (William Demarest) trying to be heroic with one leg in a low-comedy plaster cast; a brat tormenting the neighborhood with trombone practice. But most of it is quite funny, and besides his feeling for slapstick and travesty, Director William Russell knows how to shade in some sharp authenticity. The most redolent blend of realism...
Undergraduate editors and writers can enter a brief competition this week for the position of writer of "The Undergraduate," a regular Alumni Bulletin feature. Competition calls for submission of manuscripts covering the news of the month from April 15 through May 15, and the winning article will appear in the issue...
Undergraduate editors and writers can enter a brief competition this week for the position of writer of "The Undergraduate," a regular Alumni Bulletin feature. Competition calls for submission of manuscripts covering the news of the month from April 15 through May 15, and the winning article will appear in the issue...