Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...converse ran much on the exotic customs of his native country, Burmah. Mrs. Chan Toon was a childhood friend of the poet, and one day, having neglected to acknowledge a book she had sent him, he despatched to her, not a novel laid in Burmah, but this masque or scenario for a "fairy play." Mrs. Toon guarded the manuscript. For Love of the King was not published until 1922 in England, not until...
Mannequin. Some time ago $50,000 was posted by Famous Players for a prize scenario, the same to be serialized in Liberty, and Fannie Hurst came first. This is the picture. It does not seem to be a desperately original invention, dealing as it does with a girl (Dolores Costello) stolen in babyhood and brought up as a model in a dress shop. She kills someone, and the matter of the death penalty for women is discussed in detail. The picture is exceedingly well directed by James Cruze, and played so well by Alice Joyce (the mother) as to eliminate...
Perhaps the next move of the Griffiths and Foxes and Zukors will be to produce a masterpiece called "Indifference," intending to chronicle the daily life of Harvard students. There would be no difficulty in finding all the ingredients of a good scenario...
...confined to this college. It is the shameful shadow that is being cast by the entire American educational system of today. Jazzed up oultures. Dollars and cents. Dollars and cents. To the dust blink with literature and the arts unless they can be turned to the profitable channels of scenario writing or short story work. Are you willing to be students of the name? Thinkers that do not fainter beneath the condemnation of the sleepy, mind-covered heard that grunts and ambles its way down the ruts to oblivion?" Mlcatgan State "Green Onion...
...Freshman. The advent of Harold Lloyd is always a major matter in the movies. His latest scenario goes back to the ever reliable college campus, and attempts to make merry with the ever reliable boob who becomes the college hero. Possibly Mr. Lloyd was too well aware of the reliability of his material. He did not seem to strive as usual for novelty. It would be madness to say that The Freshman is not funny. Mr. Lloyd could be funny playing an undisturbed mummy. Simply this: The Freshman is not so funny as earlier of the comedian's adventures...