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"They'd come late
in the afternoon" he said.
:20:03
"'You've got one more setup to do.
Get the hell out of here!"'
:20:06
One of the biggest cost savings
was Stage 28,
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where the original opera-house interior
had been built for the 1925 film.
:20:14
As a standing set it had serviced
scores of pictures for Universal
:20:18
and as an outside rental over the years.
:20:20
"All it needed" said Lubin "was painting,
new drapes, a new front curtain
:20:24
and a new backstage."
:20:29
At the same time that John Jacoby was
writing his treatments in the fall of 1941,
:20:33
Eric Taylor was put to work preparing
a new treatment and a first-draft script.
:20:38
Taylor also uses the idea of Claudin's
symphony built on a provincial lullaby -
:20:43
ideas that we have to presume emerged
from the Henry Koster story conferences,
:20:48
as they're common to both
the Taylor and the Jacoby work.
:20:52
In Taylor's, Christine's boyfriend, Raoul,
was an inventor of phonograph records,
:20:57
supplying the opera with "noises off"
via acoustical discs.
:21:01
Unlike Jacoby, who had
Claudin slashed with a knife,
:21:05
Taylor's Claudin was disfigured
when acid is tossed in his face.
:21:10
Taylor also expanded
Koster's idea of a family.
:21:13
Claudin's pursuit of music
would be "like a drug to him",
:21:16
and lead him to abandon his wife
and child to starve in a Paris garret,
:21:20
causing the wife to die of a broken heart.
:21:23
Her sister, having told the child that
both parents were dead, raises Christine.
:21:28
When Raoul learns this, he vows Christine
will never learn of the family's secret.
:21:33
In an odd plot twist,
:21:35
Claudin plans to flee to America
with Christine to further her career.
:21:39
As the police close in on the catacombs,
:21:41
Raoul gives Claudin
a pistol to commit suicide with.
:21:45
"He was right about America"
Raoul tells Christine.
:21:49
"For you, there is the New York Opera."
:21:50
"And for me, there is a man named
Edison I might work for."
:21:55
Taylor was a specialist in mysteries,
writing scores of Dick Tracy,
:21:58
Crime Doctor and Ellery Queen pictures.