Slideshow theme 'classic' is broken: 'scale photos to fit screen'

In Photos, the slideshow theme 'classic' offers as a 'duration setting' the box-check option 'scale photos to fit screen'.
This fit-to-screen option worked fine in iPhotos.  But in Photos it no longer works -- instead slides are surrounded *on all four sides* by a thickmargin of wasted black pixels (50+ pixels thick) ... even when the 'scale photos to fit screen' *is* checked.
QUESTION 1:  Is there any Photos theme that offers a working 'scale photos to fit screen'?
QUESTION 2:  Is there any likelihood that Photos will be fixed and/or upgraded to restore the lost fit-to-screen capability?
QUESTION 3:  Meanwhile, is there any workaround?
The world wonders!

CChange the size of the 960x540 image very slightly. 960x540 is an anamorphic video format so the application interprets it that way and stretches the image. A couple of pixels difference in sync should do it.

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