Word: plot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plot concerns the discovery of an unknown who has written a lampoon against the emperor of Austria. The minister of police suspects a certain Armand, but can obtain no evidence because Armand has destroyed all extant examples of his handwriting. Armand loves the ladies, so the minister sets a score of them to cajole him into writing a letter, but all their wiles are in vain, till suddenly the minister's niece appears. She agrees to try the task, but is not told why, hence she innocently lures him to his social ruin. In the last act he is enlightened...
...Truth's husband in order to quiet his suspicions of the innkeeper. Whereupon Scottish Law declared Truth married to both men. But Truth really loved a third party, whose identity it would be a shame to divulge before you actually get to the fourth act, for the plot is the only interesting thing about the play. The actors, with the exception of Mr. Kemble, certainly do not make the characters vivid...
Nowadays the plot of a musical comedy is hard beset by two perils: it is either spun out from one idea, which gets rather frayed toward the end, or is pared down to the quick from the story of the original. This latter is evidently the case with "The Man from Cook's." But though the piece does fall rather weakly into the position of a showcase for gems of song, its framework is given as high a polish as it can stand in the elaborate production of Messrs. Klaw and Erlanger, and it is refreshingly sweet and clean after...
...remains of what may once have been a plot centre about a law student in Paris who has not yet met the girl; the girl herself; a Mama with suffragette leanings, yet clothed in most ladylike attire; a Papa who made money in Omaha, Neb., transferred it to his wife. and now will drink cocktails on the sly in spite of her; an English lord wanted by Mama for Marjorie; a mock-English lord to do the confusion-of-identity stunt;--all these and more are tangled up in Cook's Office in Paris with the Opera standing bravely...
This particular wedding trip takes one through a singularly level and uninteresting country. There are a few merry moments--as when a hazy suggestion of genuinely funny plot is seen in the distance, or when an occasional haunting tune is heard afar off. But most of the trip is much less enjoyable than we expected with an escort like Mr. De Koven...