Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward Sheldon's old play in which Doris Keane starred for so long on the stage, an adaptation arranged in flashbacks, directed by Clarence Brown, with Lewis Stone as the middle-aged lover to whom Garbo returns after an interlude with a clergyman. For some reason the script makes her an Italian soprano. This detail, superficial, but salient in the plot, is the only thing in the picture that is silly. The simple expedient of altering the tag of the opera-singer to "Swedish Contralto" would have removed the skepticism which must afflict audiences through their realization that...
What improvements and simplifications Innovator Gregg has made in the stenographer's task are attributable to: 1) all characters being written with the same intensity; 2) characters based on longhand script rather than applications of geometric figures (Pitman system); 3) incorporation of vowels into the word-figure. But so individualized is all but professional shorthand writing that few stenographers can read one another's script...
...captured Peking, preferably several times. Absolutely nothing was known last week of the strength or nature of the forces with which Comet Wu suddenly appeared on the Yangtsze River in central China. As usual the "Scholar War Lord" heralded his approach with an exquisitely worded manifesto in purest classic script which his mysterious agents distributed to diplomatic representatives of the Great Powers in China...
...cajoled into allowing this picture to be shown in an intelligible state. Rare as the case may be, the result is a sort of problem drama with as little of the usual attending motion picture sugar coating that could be hoped for. Good acting, good directing and a good script by pure geometrical reason go together to make a good picture...
...friends and the village girls- who is really the desperate Arizona Kid, and who is discovered and chased in the last reel and gets away with his sweetheart down the canyon side. Instead of rushing, it is lethargic, ornate; when no dialog or songs are possible in the script, members of the cast, apparently a cabal to slow up the action at any cost, talk or sing to themselves or to their horses, guns, donkeys, reflections in mirrors. Best shot: a high-springed, six-horse stage coach, loaded with mail pouches, coming down a mountain road...