Word: scriptful
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...this reviewer, the bowdlerizing of the script seemed no great loss, except that it brought the exceeding weakness of the dramatic construction out from behind the screen of "life in the raw" or whatever it was that the censor didn't like. For in this case the play certainly is not the thing. Two acts of half-baked comedy are capped by one of equally misshapen tragedy, with the whole thing ineffectually sprinkled over by the note of abject poverty and misery...
...which he feels himself an integral part, is superb. There is a certain gallantry in his self-willed squalor that remains as one of the abiding impressions of the play. His supporting cast is excellent, and as a team, they manage to pull the very best possible from the script. On the whole, the result is interesting and amusing, hardly sensational...
...critics outside Sacramento the efforts involved in getting Sutter's Gold on the screen seemed last week as misdirected as the celebration over its opening was unjustified. Hampered by a script that characterized its hero variously as paragon and scoundrel, pinchpenny and profligate, altruist and profiteer, without ever making him a human being, the best Producer Edmund Grainger, Director James Cruze and Actors Arnold, Lee Tracy and Binnie Barnes could offer the public was 85 minutes of dignified boredom, which suggested that the producers of Sutter's Gold had wearied of the performance before it began...
...clear from the opening scenes that Miss Bergner is going to have adventures. But it soon develops that she has already had a baby, somewhat obscurely identified. That is the handicap imposed upon her by the script. Furthermore, she is not very handsome. Thus for both artificial and natural reasons, Miss Bergner has great obstacles between herself and convincing her public that she can win and hold securely the affection of an immoral English musician. But she succeeds eminently, and explains clearly how she won an Academy award last year for this performance...
...chorus boys and girls deserve a special word. Closing Act I, probably the most acrobatic dance ever seen this side of the Mississippi River is called for in the script. Although everyone feared the worst, only one chorine's costume became disengaged...