Word: plot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...plot of "Gringoire", the most serious of the plays to be presented by the Cercle Francais in December, gives an opportunity for the bringing out of the pathetic as well as the comic. The action takes place in the time of Louis XI. At the opening of the play, the king is sitting at table with Olivier-Le-Daim, his barber and favorite, when a great commotion is heard in the street, and Gringoire, the vagabond poet, is seen without. Gringoire has incurred the enmity of Olivier, who summons him into the mansion and compels him to sing a ballad...
...Greene '07, can claim as its only merit the sympathetic character drawing of the spinsters. This, however, is a quality rare in undergraduate writing, and very pleasant to find. The complete lack of it in "The Two Shippers" by H. V. Morgan '10, combined with an impossible plot, puts the story in the class of the unintentional burlesque. One is glad that the two college types suggested in the number are at least unobtrusive, if indeed they exist at all. The "Non-Conformer" in the third paper of Varied Outlooks by A. Davis 1L., in his self-sufficiency...
...costumes and spirited music. Throughout there is a certain dash and innocent deviltry which prevents for a moment lagging interest. The musical selections through which peep occasionaly strains of well known tunes, are, however, delightfully refreshing, and well adapted to the general trend of the plot--in which are combined the ingredients of youth, life, variety, humor and sentiment. Structurally the play is somewhat over convential. Although the scenes are full of spirit and often dramatic force, many of the incidents are exasperating if not improbable. The plot is by no means confusing, yet sufficiently interwoven to possess numerous comic...
Bookman--"The American Dramatic School," by A. deV. Tassin '92; "The Novelty of Plot and Some Recent Books," by F. T. Cooper...
...plot deals with the fortunes of Pepe, a poor and ambitious young painter, who, after finishing a painting, goes out to sell it. Both Pepito, his ease-loving friend, and Consuelo, his wife, are confident that he will find a purchaser. On the other hand, Dona Paz, the traditional mother-in-law, scoffs at it, and praises, instead, the daubing of Pepito, whom she has secret hopes of marrying. Her disdain is more than offset by the enthusiasm of Pepe's father, a comical, loving old gentleman with an unmanageable tongue. Pepe returns with the picture unsold. Soon after this...