Word: plot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stories, "Tom Morley, Waiter," by Arthur Holden Gilbert, is written in an offhand vein well suited to the subject. The point might have been reached as well in fewer words. Though the plot of "A Spool of Thread" by Forbes Watson, seems a bit trivial, the story is well told, with good detail and imagination. The best part of "The Sea," by A. P. Wadsworth, is the straightforward style in which it is told. A clean setting is made in the fewest possible words and the story is free from interruptions...
...Schluck und Jau," the play which the Deutscher Verein will present next winter, is one of the latest works of Gerhart Hauptmann. It appeared only last winter and was enthusiastically received in Berlin. It has not yet been presented in this country. The plot is as follows...
...spirit and movement. The burlesque, though clever, will need cutting down; the act indeed would not lose by the omission of the quintette. The surprising and unexpected situations which abound in the play carry it along and give it great interest. In itself the play has but little plot and the book is of slight worth, but few Pudding plays have had such good music. The words too of the songs are wonderfully good. Undoubtedly the best figure of the play is W. Edmunds '00. He is convulsively funny, and compares very favorably with J. C. McCall in last year...
...uncle, who declares that the girl is much too foolish and found of dancing. Eduard submits to his uncle's decision, at the same time extorting a promise from the old man that if he is ever caught dancing he will give his consent to the marriage. The plot now hinges on the efforts of Eduard, assisted by Emma and Franz, the servants, to make Hauptmann Droll dance. Their object is secured partly by accident. The old man falls into a violent passion, one evening, and soon after eats a large supper and becomes very ill. Franz is sent...
...preliminary stage-setting of "Two's Company" by J.G. Forbes is unjustified and over-elaborate; the plot, too, is slight; but the keen criticism of life running through the story keeps up the interest...