Word: scenarists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Waltz King (German). A formless, well-acted, full-length silent biographical film tells how Johann Strauss became a composer in spite of his father's opposition. It is hard to believe that young Strauss's life was as fantastic as this but the important facts are authentic and the scenarist's guesses about the detail are as,; good as anyone's. You lose interest in Strauss but do not give him up for good until he is playing his own tunes at the wedding of his sweetheart to another fellow. Silliest sequence: Strauss jilting the pastry cook's daughter...
...your eyes." The cast, especially Gilbert Emery as one of those film detectives who combine social welfare work with their profession, and Lois Moran, act and talk competently and at times with distinction. Somehow they subdue the silliness of their material enough to make it distantly credible. The scenarist has retained continuity in spite of the propensity which the villain shares with the hero of traveling amazing distances for very little reason. Silliest shot: love among the camels...
...Marriage Bed-Ernest Pascal, novelist, Ernest Pascal, film scenarist, becomes Ernest Pascal, playwright. While preparing dramas for the cinema he wrote a play, last week produced in Los Angeles with considerable California éclat and a good smattering of sound Manhattan theatre. It was an able play, staged with excellent ability by Robert Milton, famed Broadway director.* The principal performers were Alice Joyce and Owen Moore, cinemactors...
...Crowd. Director King Vidor and Scenarist John V. A. Weaver tell here honestly, finely, the story of an American Everyman, the man in the street, born to run with the pack. They put Eleanor Boardman, wife of Director Vidor, into the role of the wife, where she played with disconcerting beauty. They put James Murray, virile boy, into the part of John Sims, average child, average man. They seated him at a desk, one of a thousand clerks, high in a skyscraper. They sent him, fermenting with spring, to Coney Island with his girl, had him kiss...
...else, it has emphasized for two decades that war is hard on ladies. Herein, for instance, an Italian grande dame finds her villa invaded by roaring Austrians. To save her good husband's life, she must surrender to the Austrian general her ___. But she does not. Director and scenarist have contrived an honorable solution, a terrible picture...