Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Organization and origin of last week's raid read like an early cinema scenario. In the latter part of 1936, a Narcotics Bureau agent-whom Major Williams refused to name last week on the grounds that it might cause reprisals-arrested a Chinese on a minor charge in Seattle. The culprit talked freely about a much more interesting compatriot named Chin Joo Hip in Butte, Mont. Chin Joo Hip, a wrinkled, cadaverous tongman with drooping white mustaches, received a call from the agent, who pretended to be the nephew of a rich Pacific Coast gangster. Presently they were fast...
...during these festivities, Franklin and his bride will slip away to board ship for a honeymoon in Europe. Back home this autumn, they will settle down in a five-room cottage at Charlottesville, Va., where Franklin will go to the University of Virginia Law School. If the light-hearted scenario continues as it has begun, they should live happily ever afterward...
...more Beethoven. From time to time grown-ups and children will chatter in a very unintelligible language which is probably Russian. If plot or foreign photography interests you, open an eye every now and then to get the continuity, for there are a few more complications to this scenario than most European classical productions boast...
...Lost Horizon" we have a thought vividly presented, artistically developed, and--like all pithy ideas--dropped ingloriously at the completion of a circle in impressive, but essentially trite conclusion. The circle is the story in James Hilton's novel or, in this case, the scenario of Frank Capra's production. The conclusion is a toast to the truth of the author's though by his characters...
...Golem (the "Strong") which, if Prague's Jews ever needed aid, would come to life and provide it. In 1920 this legend provided the material for one of the most horrifying pictures ever made. Produced by UFA (see p. 52), directed by Paul Wegener. who also wrote the scenario and played the title role, it showed the Golem on an expressionistic rampage (see cut). Last year. Production Manager Frank Kassler of A-B (for nothing) Films, which makes most of Czechoslovakia's annual program of about 30 feature pictures at $30,000 each, decided to make another Golem...