Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Daggers flash in the dim light of Chinese opium dens, doors roll back at the touch of the villain's finger and the spectator is led through an amazing labyrinth of underground passages which lead to the apartments of the opium king of the Chinese underworld. The scenario is highly improbable throughout and in places is not even connected...
Caste. Cosmo Hamilton, brother of famed Journalist-Novelist Sir Philip Gibbs and of Novelist A. Hamilton Gibbs, also writes books and plays over which the giddy serving maid may smack her lips. His are Michael Arlen's people done in the more obvious, juicy manner of a movie scenario. Even when he has a problem which presumably he feels to be formidable, he must deal with it in cream phrases. His problem is intermarriage between an estimable Jew and a female of the higher social register. Her family are aghast in the grand manner, and the scenes are laid...
...English explorer who takes her rapidly away to India. Here Takla is not a success. Her social value becomes so low that the sister of the explorer, hearing that he intends to marry his discovery, has her kidnapped by an immoral blackman. Only the extraordinary resourcefulness of the scenario writer makes it possible for Takla to evade both the unpleasant death being prepared for her in the lama monastery and the imminent misconduct of her kidnapper. A glad conclusion becomes, thus, inevitable and the picture stops. Famed Gilda Gray, whose name has always been a synonym for that improper motion...
There is only one detail upon which Oxford still lacks reassurance. Disillusioning though it be, Oxford must find out before it is too late who wrote the scenario. The idea of Cambridge stooping to such subterfuge is almost absurd; still, Caesar had his Brutus, Harvard its Donald Ogden Stewart, and Oxford may profit by their example...
After a year of graduate work, in which he studied under Dean Le Barron Russell Briggs '75, Vorhaus went to California, where he entered the scenario field of the moving picture industry, and in collaboration with Jessie Burns, he met with remarkable success...