Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naughty Baby (First National). It would have taken an actress to make convincing this scenario about a check-girl who pretends to be a debutante from Boston to win the love of a young man who pretends to be a millionaire. Alice White is not an actress. Alice White is a size-fourteen girl who looks like Clara Bow, but cuter; all eyes and no chin. She loses her bathing suit; she rides a horse for the first time; the rest is pretty stupid...
...scenario with an average plot is aided very little by the directing. It is very noticeable that certain of the casting was done with an eye to the person's voice with the result that in certain minor roles an inexperience is shown which was not so obvious in the declasse pantomime pictures...
...identified himself by showing a passport and an old account book with entries of royalties from his play Anna Christie.* Said he: "My plays are public, but my life should be private." He hinted that his next destination would be Rapallo, Italy, where he plans to finish a cinema scenario...
...premiere in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall with Walter Damrosch and his New York Symphony. The third came last week. This time the orchestra was the Philharmonic-Symphony, the composition An American in Paris. It was a picture with sound effects. Deems Taylor, Gershwin's friend, summarized the scenario...
Notable only in that it furnishes another good reason for the concluding of the Clara Bow era in Boston. "Three Week Ends", the film now at the Metro-politan parades the scenario art of Elinor Glyn, and a lot of weird action at a pace that is fortunately fast. The director of the production deserves all the credit he can get for having brought this about...