Word: counterplots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT IN CENTRAL EUROPE-M. W. Fodor-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Marcel Fodor, 47-year-old Hungarian, for many years Central European correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, the New York Evening Post, takes a correspondent's-eye-view of the Danube and Balkan countries, pounces on numerous unknown and little-known facts...
...cast seemed to get completely inside his assigned characterization. The sardonic comedy of Evelyn Varden, as mistress of the villa, helps, but Author Hecht failed to pencil in much of a part for Sylvia Sidney, six years absent from the Manhattan stage, with the result that the whole counterplot love story seems a device to accent the general indecisiveness of Hero Sterns...