[Moving picture scenario] © 24Apr24, A796059.

[Footnote 1: Sardou wrote careful and detailed scenarios, Dumas fils held it a waste of time to do so.

"I shall read the scenario of the third act to Miss Harper to-morrow, the gods and the lady permitting.

Balzac was to contribute the scenario, Gautier the dialogue.

It pleased me greatly to draw out a detailed scenario, working up duly to a situation at the end of each act; and, once made, that scenario was like a cast-iron mould into which the dialogue had simply to be poured.

In the case of a new play, or rather a new theme, the choregus or manager would call the company together, read out the plot, sketch the scenario, explain all business, and leave the dialogue to the humour and smartness of the individual performer.

My dear mother, taking into consideration my tender years, and perhaps influenced in somewise by her own love of picking up odd bits of Sheraton or Chippendale furniture in the storehouses of the less ambitious second-hand dealers of those simpler days, offered me the following scenario for a domestic story.

And confident that he had grasped the scenario and that everything might now be expected to proceed through the proper channels, I picked up the feet and hastened back to the house.

As Jimmie had arranged his scenario, it was Picard who was to deal him his death sentence.

So ran the scenario: but I fancy my juvenile pen hardly held on to the climax.

I have no absolute knowledge of his method; but if he schemed out any scenario for Getting Married or Misalliance, he has sedulously concealed the factto the detriment of the plays.