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...Camelias was snatched from her period of languishing romance, as originated by Novelist Alexandre Dumas, and flung into the milieu of. flapper costumes, clever subtitles and busy bigness that marks the careers of modern cinema shop girls. But not even by that stratagem did the weak, hackneyed scenario, though it followed artlessly enough the familiar story of the girl who finds her true love but renounces him when she develops lung trouble, gain reality to compensate for dramatic deficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...College men fill the positions offered by the first two of these branches very efficiently, but, as yet, not many have become actors. However, yearly more actors come from the various colleges, and I think this tendency will continue. The best business men of our firm and the best scenario writers, come to us from college. They are extremely efficient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "CINEMA'S FUTURE WILL FALL ON COLLEGE MEN" | 3/22/1927 | See Source »

...dynamos roaring, cogwheels whirring, it was agreed that nothing so immense, grand, complete had ever been comprehended by the eye. For a while it seemed as if one would behold an entire civilization revealed from an Olympian vantage point, would glimpse its heart palpitating beneath steel ribs. Then the scenario took hold, reduced the magnificent spectacle to the condition of a god smothered with a dishrag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 14, 1927 | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...Hughes). She gives up her $150-a-week job to try living on the hero's $60, thereby makes the plutocrat dangerous, her husband mad. It ends according to the Will Hays standard, with wealth and happiness for the virtuous. The cast is engaging in spite of the scenario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 14, 1927 | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

Love's Greatest Mistake (William Powell). Apparently it is losing faith in the Beloved, but so jumbled and incoherent is the scenario that anybody's guess will do. There is a shred about "Honey" (Josephine Dunn), a sweet maid from the country; a leering villain of the Metropolis; a proud, penniless architect. There is also Love Divine. The director displayed on the screen a facsimile of the story in Liberty Magazine on which the film is based, thus proving conclusively that the thing really has a plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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