Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year at Yale studying under Professor Baker, and this year at Harvard, working under Professor Murray. He has directed college musical productions in England and wrote the book, music and lyrics of a revue given recently at Cambridge. He has had connections in Hollywood, particularly in helping with the scenario for Mr. Chaplin's next picture. Mr. Cooke directed "Ever the Twain," the fall production of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...Your Leave, as in Three Cornered Moon which they produced last year, they showed good casting sense. Dorothy Gish looks younger than she is (36). Howard Lindsay, who dramatized the season's successful comedy, She Loves Me Not, has not acted since he played the scenario writer in Dulcy (1921). Kenneth MacKenna, who is currently being divorced by Kay Francis, sounds Scotch and specializes in Scottish roles, but his real name is Leo Mielziner Jr. His brother Jo designed the set of a spacious country living room that helps to make By Your Leave a comfortably familiar knickknack...
There has been a tendency among certain authors to produce plays and novels with a particular view toward their ultimate adoption as material for motion picture production. Mr. Gilkyson's novel unquestionably has the situation and characters most suitable for use in scenario form. The Freemonts are the people concerned. Martin Freemont is a successful young lawer about to begin a political career which is to see him chosen as the Republican candidate for Congress. His wife is the daughter, oddly enough, of a woman whose selection by the Democratic party as candidate to oppose Martin Freemont complicates the novelist...
Once upon a time a very brilliant young men or woman wrote a scenario on the life of human beings who were cooped up in a very interesting sort of existence, i.e. backstage momentum. Tap dancers, squawky voices, the show must go on; songs and pasty-faced adolescents, the show must go on; it must...
Were it not for the clever direction of Lowell Sherman and professional acting by the cast, I should throw up my hands and shout at the scenario writers in Hollywood and ask you to help show the overconfident, overstuffed producers that you are nauseated with their slop by staying away from "Broadway Through A Keyhole." But hysterical ranting is ineffective, and we should be thankful that the rank reality of pedicular dialogue is obviated by some delightful touches by Mr. Sherman...