Word: scenarioed
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Amazed friends who had believed Miss Claire engaged to Scenario-writer Gene Markey, and who had taken seriously Mr. Gilbert's avowals against further matrimony, accepted the announced wedding at face value...
...Peace Conference only toward the end, for the discussion of Soviet Russia, his opinion of the whole fiasco is nonetheless violent. He spits fire upon Wilson Biographer Ray Stannard Baker's smugness: "Mr. Baker detracts from the vindication of his hero by the absurd scenario picture which he has chosen to paint. Wilson's share in the Peace Conference, his hopes, his mistakes, his achievements, his compromises and his disasters are worthy of something better than the Hollywood setting with which we are provided. The President is represented as a stainless Sir Galahad championing the superior ideals...
...seems highly unfortunate that the culmination of 20 years of experience and work in photography, lighting, acting, and all the other component parts of good moving pictures, should have to be subordinated to poor directing and a worse scenario as they are in "Stark Mad", the current attraction at the Metropolitan, in order that we may hear as well...
Naughty Baby (First National). It would have taken an actress to make convincing this scenario about a check-girl who pretends to be a debutante from Boston to win the love of a young man who pretends to be a millionaire. Alice White is not an actress. Alice White is a size-fourteen girl who looks like Clara Bow, but cuter; all eyes and no chin. She loses her bathing suit; she rides a horse for the first time; the rest is pretty stupid...
...scenario with an average plot is aided very little by the directing. It is very noticeable that certain of the casting was done with an eye to the person's voice with the result that in certain minor roles an inexperience is shown which was not so obvious in the declasse pantomime pictures...