Word: mise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mise-en-scene of the picture lends point to later developments which, in another environment, would have been improbably eccentric. Mary Evans marries a polo player named Lonny Borden (Neil Hamilton). This makes Maximilian Carey so unhappy that he takes to drink in earnest. He becomes incompetent to go on directing pictures in which Mary Evans is the star, eventually shoots him self in Mary Evans' home. The unjust scandal of this episode forces her to run away to France, where her husband, bring ing her a new contract, finds...
...pageants which survive every changing fashion took place this week in Manhattan. No preliminary folderol or new mise en scene was needed to insure its success. The order of events was essentially unchanged: a tense, gibbering line of folk waiting for admission, a battery of flashlight photographers ready to waylay bejeweled dowagers, a corps of bustling society reporters jotting down the names of people who bowed and scraped to others not really noticed since the pageant of the year before. So, as it has 46 times before, the Metropolitan Opera began a new season...
...them, the heroine (Genevieve Tobin), proves to be innocent. The other (Betty Compson) is trapped by a handsome Rumanian officer (Ivan Lebedeff). The fact that Ivan Lebedeff speaks very poor English has been disguised by setting the action in Rumania which, with Bohemia, is usually selected as the mise en scene for cinemas in which the actors are linguistically deficient...
...from the original cast, photographed the play as directly as possible. Inevitable comparison between the play and the cinema reflects no discredit on the latter. It loses a little by necessary abridgments in dialog and by the limitations of the camera when confronted by the peculiar problems of the mise-en-scene, but these are trivial defects. In the large, the cinema achieves the same effect as the play: a neat melodrama given an illusion of depth by the perspectives of its setting...
Cinema audiences stopped believing that all college students were morons several years ago and Confessions of a Co-ed will therefore seem implausible as well as dull. Its dialog, anonymously contributed, is comparable to Mother Goose without rhymes and its campus mise-en-scene suggests the cloisters of a day nursery for retarded adolescents. If anyone can take any interest at all in Confessions of a Coed, it will be because Sylvia Sidney almost manages to make real emotions out of fake situations. One of the many young actresses who have effected a successful transfer from the stage to talkies...