Word: scenarioizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scenario writers whose task is to portray the activities of the various gangs of racketeers, who shoot up the screen in many motion picture houses now must have exhausted their imaginations before the plot for "The Squealer" now current at the Keith Albee theatre, was concoted...
...Garrett Graham-Vanguard ($2). Theodore Anthony White is a picaresque rascal, a newspaperman. He lands in Los Angeles about as broke as usual, gets a job on a morning paper, is taken drunk, loses his job, wakes up next morning entangled in Hollywood. Successively, never too successfully, he is scenario writer, press agent, blackmailer, entertainer in a bawdy house. To a friend who asks him if he likes the last job better than being in a studio, Hero White replies: "Well, you work with a better class of people...
...vaudeville turn four times a day on seven successive days with an added appearance on Saturday and Sunday. She was, of course, Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink who for four years past has been saying farewell to her public. Her vaudeville debut last week accompanied the showing of Mamba, scenario of which was written by her son Ferdinand. Her recipe for endurance : "I know how to sing now. I don't shout as I did when I was young." Mme Schumann-Heink's 69th birthday speech: "Some day, of course, I shall die. Out on the stage I would...
Captain of the Guard (Universal). The fall of the French Empire is tucked into this scenario to give spice to the ardors and difficulties of 18th Century love. A little effort has been made and a good deal of money spent to present a moving picture in the manner of the historical stories that David Wark Griffith directed so successfully many years ago. But everything is stupidly done: the people are schoolbook figurines, the lovers absurd, and even the well-photographed scenes, such as the Paris mob singing the "Marseillaise," the carpenters working on the scaffold, the march...
...stage musical comedy in parody of modern sound pictures, Let's Go Places might be funny. In its present form it is an in credibly naive account of a young man's rise to Hollywood success. Its suspense is based on mistaken identity. Apparently its wandering scenario, on which an excellent cast is wasted, was designed principally as an introduction to ballet numbers which, though some of them are ingenious, do not show up in black and white on the small screen. Typical shot: a Holly wood party at which the male and female guests dance like a trained chorus...