Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this remarkable scenario (the chapter headings) very little needs to be added...
...Aint it the truth, Mr. Finkleburg? Yes. And so why not the ankles in a feature play (for public consumption with beauty comic, huh? So a scenario with ankles for the public, Miss Apfel, you will get and perhaps maybe some slap stick to assist the ankles with a hotel for impression, what? No! Don't esk? If gentlemen patrons won't look at faces on Broadway or perhaps cross town why should they in moving picture art, so ankles it is with high skirts of Paris, Miss Apfel. Dictation...
...many other respects, the film is typical of De Mille's technique as a director. His scene is Russia in 1917, his theme the strife between the blue-blooded aristocrats and the Russian Reds. It is a film showing all of DeMille's excellences and all his defects. The scenario was written by a Rumanian, Konrad Bercovici, and its original motive is the song of the same name, made famous in this country by the Chauve Souris. Incidently the song is better than the movie, but at that the film...
...Giara, "choreographic comedy" in one act, by Alfredo Casella; scenario based on a plot by Luigi Pirandello, famed Italian playwright...
Little, however, as I frequent the palace of the tabloid drama, I have been strongly impressed by one thing: in every picture that I can remember having seen, the writer of the scenario seems to have been constrained to include a banker of an invariably constant type. There is a je ne sais quoi about the moving picture financier which never fails to irritate me. I have tried to find a reason for this badge of the banker, but have failed. So this morning at 9 o'clock, any one who so desires may see me enter the portal...