Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cisely appropriate to his role - and by Helen Hayes, whose performance is certainly as good as her work in The Sin of Madelon Claudet which the cinema Academy last month voted best of the year. Benjamin Glazer and Oliver H. P. Garrett, two onetime reporters who wrote the scenario, had the good sense to use chunks of dialog by Hemingway wherever they fitted in. When they had to put in dialog of their own they did it so adroitly that only someone who had memorized the book would know the difference. Their changes in the story were judicious. Lieu tenant...
...health, studied art in Pans for two years, joined Fox in 1930 and made the ocean liner in Transatlantic a model for modern interiors on shipboard. Edwin Burke, son of a wholesale grocer in Albany, took up writing for the stage against his father's wishes, joined the Fox scenario staff in 1929. lately wrote dialog for Clara Bow's forthcoming picture Call Her Savage...
Scarlet Dawn (Warner). Soviet Russia interests Hollywood profoundly. Most of the major producers feel sure that there is a good scenario somewhere in the Five-Year Plan and they are trying hard to find it. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has spent $200,000 trying to do so without success; whatever Warner Brothers spent on this picture can safely be listed on the wrong side of the ledger also. This is the fault, not of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. who acts in the picture and helped Niven Busch Jr. write an intelligent adaptation from Mary McCall's novel, but of a weakness...
...Phantom of Crestwood (RKO). Before this mystery picture was released last fortnight, it was exploited in an ingenious way. Once a week for six weeks National Broadcasting Company (like RKO a subsidiary of Radio Corp. of America) broadcast chapters worked up from the scenario of the picture. The radio script did not reveal the solution to the mystery; radio listeners were invited to suggest conclusions for the story, for $6,000 in prizes. The prize contest disguised the real purpose of the broadcast: to create such suspense among the radio audience that all would rush to see the cinema. Advertisements...
...Authoress Carlisle's book. In We Begin she paints, with meticulous nicety of detail, an historical mural of extraordinary scope. Following muralist technique, she manages to make her characters striking but not too personal, her details vivid but not too bright. Only a theatrical ending tarnishes her brilliant scenario...