Bust—(Meaningless, misleading.) See CLOSE-VIEW.
Caption—The interpretive reading line preceding a Scene, or Sequence, that explains, excites interest and indicates passage of time.
Close-Up—(Unliterary; confusing because of both verbal and adverbal use.) See CLOSE-VIEW.
Climax—The supreme moment in the play; the end toward which all elements tend in the Plot.
Cut-Back—(Really instruction in manufacturing to cut film and go back; misleading to playwright who goes only forward.) See RETURN.
Censor—Person employed by National or Local Board of Censorship to criticize plays with a view to their moral influence.
Chase—An inartistic device in which many scenes are consumed in showing the pursuit of one or more characters by others, and their perilous or ludicrous difficulties.
Close-View—The isolated, microscopic or magnified close view of some important fragment of action or essential piece of evidence or reading matter.
Co-Incidence—A chance incident, meeting or discovery that conveniently helps out the plot and is obviously unconvincing to the audience.
Crisis—The instant that follows the “planting” of a Situation and precedes the Solution; the turning-point when something must happen.