Word: plot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plot concerns a $30,000 wager that the leading character can elude the police for one year. A phrase "Believe Me, Xantippe," habitually used by the fugitive reveals his identity, and he is arrested, but ultimately wins the wager on a technicality. The play is suitably adapted for amateur production and for college performances...
...Stranger" is written by Miss Leonora Loveman, a former student in Professor Baker's course in dramatic composition. In three acts, the plot centers about the clash of Hungarian customs with American ideals, the former represented in the hero and the latter in the American heroine. Miss Loveman is a native of Hungary, and she is accordingly well acquainted with the traditions of the Hungarian people...
...Workshop has postponed its production of "The Stranger," the three-act play that was scheduled for performance this week until Thursday and Saturday, May 3 and 5. "The Stranger" is written by Miss Leonora Loveman, a former student in Professor Baker's English 47. Its plot concerns the clash of Hungarian customs with American ideals, the former represented in the hero, and the latter in the American heroine. A native of Hungary, Miss Loveman is well acquainted with the traditions of the Hungarian people, and her local color comes at first hand...
...Theatre in Boston, and with John Barrymore and Mary Young taking the leading roles, made a record run on Broadway. The play has since toured the country and has proved itself particularly adaptable to amateur and especially college productions, as it abounds in witty lines and amusing situations. The plot revolves around a $30,000 wager that the leading character can elude the police for one year. A phrase "Believe Me, Xantippe," habitually used by the fugitive reveals his identity, and he is arrested but wins the wager on a technicality...
...With plot-ingredients enough to make a brilliant little one-act farce, the producers of "His Bridal Night," now playing at Ye Wilbur Theatre, have spread the material at hand through three acts of more or less questionable uproariousness. Success of farce is due largely to the rapidity with which the thing moves, and certainly two or three big scenes, no matter how ludicrous, are not sufficient to keep a laugh-hungry audience busy for a full evening. This deficiency has evidently been noticed by the sponsors of the play, so they have sought to hide it under a copiousness...