Word: interplay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marie Galante (Fox). One of the most exciting ways to tell a big story is to set in motion a little one which, as it develops, opens one window of the theme after another until from its narrow confines one sees the interplay of mighty offstage forces. This is the adventurous and highly successful technique Author Reginald Berkley and Director Henry King have used in presenting the adventures of Marie Galante (Ketti Gallian), a French girl shanghaied by the captain of a tramp steamer to whom she was delivering a telegram. Reaching Panama, she is filled with only one idea...
...back to find weeks of work virtually undone. The other delegates were at each other's throats. It took him three days to restore harmony. On three other occasions the conference was actually declared dead-but he revived it. For besides the stupendous detail and the baffling interplay of economic facts and factors, he had to cope with his foreign colleagues' temperaments. This called for rigid self-discipline of another, subtler kind. When Germany's bristling Herr Schacht came to get his ear privately after a day's sessions he had to convince himself and Herr...