Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaves him and starts to ascend alone. Abjuring all her rich admirers in the moment of glittering triumph, she returns to her husband, who promises never to do it again. The film was made in Manhattan, enriched with authentic local color from the footlight district, blessed with an intelligent scenario...
...dark, velvety skin" of her black African eunuch, Cinnabar, with her bear foot. Cleopatra drinking herself under the table at a Roman revel repeatedly gives one the impression that it is not a queen of Egypt writing of her experiences in Rome, but a first person description of a scenario. There is an abundance of tinsel, clap-trap, and blowing of tin horns. Cleopatra becomes a burlesque queen without a vestige of her Nilotic lure and intellectuality...
...Camelias was snatched from her period of languishing romance, as originated by Novelist Alexandre Dumas, and flung into the milieu of. flapper costumes, clever subtitles and busy bigness that marks the careers of modern cinema shop girls. But not even by that stratagem did the weak, hackneyed scenario, though it followed artlessly enough the familiar story of the girl who finds her true love but renounces him when she develops lung trouble, gain reality to compensate for dramatic deficiency...
...College men fill the positions offered by the first two of these branches very efficiently, but, as yet, not many have become actors. However, yearly more actors come from the various colleges, and I think this tendency will continue. The best business men of our firm and the best scenario writers, come to us from college. They are extremely efficient...
...Hughes). She gives up her $150-a-week job to try living on the hero's $60, thereby makes the plutocrat dangerous, her husband mad. It ends according to the Will Hays standard, with wealth and happiness for the virtuous. The cast is engaging in spite of the scenario...