Word: scenarioed
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...gags, for example, are built about a broken-down illiterate cowboy star's being baited by two mad pranksters, who would seem to be the only two brains in Holly-wood. Roy Roberts, in the role of one of these, probably carries off the acting honors. He represents a scenario writer who would much rather be back in Vermont writing a book of the soil, and who consequently treats his associates, especially the cowboy and the preposterously pedantic boss, with highly amused condescension. His greatest coup is the bringing to prominence of Happy and Happy's mother. Mario Brown...
...Author. The life of Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette reads like a scenario for one of her novels. She was born 63 years ago in Burgundy, the daughter of a Captain in the Zouaves who was an unsuccessful politician and a student of military affairs. A star pupil in school, she read constantly, wrote compositions "as easily as one would fry an egg," did not realize the character of her talent until later. At 20 she married a 34-year-old author of popular romances who had hoped she would help him socially, found that she was too outspoken...
...although James Bunting was free to enjoy the sacraments outside Chichester, that young man professed to believe he was just as much excommunicated as if the Church had consigned him to Satan with a Fiat, fiat, fiat!* From a seaside resort Bunting, who said he had been a scenario writer in Hollywood, announced he was retaining counsel, would try to prove the Bishop wrong. Admitting he had his parents' money, he said: "In the past it may be I was a naughty boy, but there are lots of sons who have been naughty boys...
...Yeats was still on good terms with Moore he became concerned over an accusation of plagiarism against one of Moore's books, wanted him to defend himself. Moore calmly admitted he had lifted ten pages without acknowledgment. The quarrel that finally broke up their friendship was over a scenario on which they had collaborated for a proposed play. Moore wired Yeats that he had written a novel on the subject, threatened an injunction if Yeats tried to use it. Furious, Yeats got together with Lady Gregory and another friend, ground out the play in a fortnight, published...
...COULD WORK MIRACLES-H. G. Wells-Macmillan ($1.35). Scenario version of an earlier short story, intended as companion piece to the cinema Things to Come (TIME, April...