Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yeats was still on good terms with Moore he became concerned over an accusation of plagiarism against one of Moore's books, wanted him to defend himself. Moore calmly admitted he had lifted ten pages without acknowledgment. The quarrel that finally broke up their friendship was over a scenario on which they had collaborated for a proposed play. Moore wired Yeats that he had written a novel on the subject, threatened an injunction if Yeats tried to use it. Furious, Yeats got together with Lady Gregory and another friend, ground out the play in a fortnight, published...
...COULD WORK MIRACLES-H. G. Wells-Macmillan ($1.35). Scenario version of an earlier short story, intended as companion piece to the cinema Things to Come (TIME, April...
...Mask & Wig show rather than the fact that during exam weeks he ordinarily lost ten pounds and annexed a few grey hairs. It is the same with college grads in a studio conference. Confessing no serious intent, they strive to put as much entertaining frivolity as possible in the scenario-dramatizing college life never was meant to be a sad task...
...supporting players comport themselves as expertly as usual. As an item of entertainment, however, the value of Captain January depends entirely upon the fact that Shirley Temple appears in almost every sequence, grinning, sobbing, dancing, singing, wriggling, pattering down stairs or spitting on her pinafore, as the scenario requires...
...disappointed but mostly because Train has spoiled both a fine essay on criminal methods and an entertaining story for the Post. The combination, a priori is impossible because of the limitations in length imposed by the murder story form. The author has written with a detail fitting for a scenario but as neither essay nor fiction, the book is disappointingly valueless...