Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult transition from boards to celluloid has left O'Neill's "Emperor Jones" undamaged. The script of the short drama is used without change, with only a little prefatory matter added as a sop to Moronia. Since the additions are in the style of the original tragedy, since O'Neill's play as it stood opened too directly in medias res, and since the emendations take advantage of the wider possibilities of the camera, the changes are an improvement on the legitimate play. Photography and direction, and excellent suporting cast and good music aid Paul Robeson's magnificent interpretation...
...Lionel Barrymore, slightly juvenile for his years, is the grand old man Storer, who saves from rapacious peasant "in-law" the land which rightfully belongs to his granddaughter, the last of the Storers, played by an over-tense and under-trained Miriam Hopkins. The photography is above average, script below par. Barrymore same as ever. Good entertainment...
...truck which carries all the property as well as most of the actors and actresses will serve as the stage and will be draped to resemble, a bedroom or a garden as the script demands. In the play, Bernard Shaw invokes all his dry humor against the fanfare of war mock bravery, and the gold buttons. In case of rain the performance will be held indoors in Sanders Theatre. Two years ago when the Jitney Players almost 500 spectators, summer school students and public attended...
When they come to balance the books on the college careers to which Finis has been written in official decorative script, the Class of 1933 may well conclude that the expenditure of four years according to the dictates of custom has not been a totally profitable venture. It is a pitiful criticism of the academic routine that one successful graduate of the Class of 1908 attributes his success to luck, and returns to Cambridge with no other memories than those which prompt him to a giddy round of those pleasures from which anw uneducated man could derive full gustatory delight...
...simple ideas for Mickey Mouse. In the complicated translation to cinema form, 175 understudies do most of the drawing far better than Disney could. In his $150,000 Hollywood studio, the preparation of a Mickey Mouse short is much the same as for any solemn Hollywood picture. When the script is finished, "animators" draw Mickey's attitudes as at the beginning and end of each action. "Inbetweeners" draw the graduated poses between. "Inkers" place a transparent square of celluloid on the drawing and outline it boldly in ink on the celluloid. The first square is superimposed on a painted...