Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future range from its complete lapse into barbarism presented by John Collier in Full Circle to the monotonously sanitary and inhuman order satirized by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. Last week Herbert George Wells offered yet another conceivable fate for mankind with Things to Come, a scenario which London Films's Alexander Korda is now transmuting into a cinema. In his previous guesses (The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine), Mr. Wells has pictured the world depopulated by interplanetary warfare, dominated by a monstrous chicken, consumed by bugs, perishing in foul air. In Things to Come mankind...
Students in that paragon of English composition courses, English 22, will be treated to a guest lecturer today when Miss Dorothy Speare, the author of the cinema "One Night of Love," will speak to the members assembled in Sever 11 at 2 o'clock on her experiences as a scenario writer in Hollywood. All students who are interested in the literary side of Hollywood life are invited to attend...
Please accept the thanks of 20th Century Pictures, Inc. for bringing to our attention, through the columns of TIME [Feb. 4] the story of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd. We are at present preparing a scenario based on the career of Dr. Mudd, which will be produced this summer...
...same things account also perhaps for the melodramatic nature of the plot. It is unfortunate that melodrama should be carried over from plot to style and that much of the dialogue and some of the narrative of "Taps" should be so strongly suggestive of the worst manner of scenario writers for the early thrillers of the silent movies...
...Quixote (Nelson Film, Ltd., Vandor Film). The wild mountain land above the French Riviera and Paris and London studios more than two years ago began to spawn rumors about this picture. French Novelist Paul Morand had written its scenario from the Cervantes classic. The producers had thrown out the musical jello which Composer Jules Massenet provided in his opera Don Quichotte, had commissioned new tunes from Jacques Ibert, able pupil of Maurice Ravel. George Wilhelm Pabst, exiled German Jew famed for his Kameradschaft, The Beggar's Opera and White Hell of Pitz Palu, was directing two versions...