Word: plot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soft and mellow style which is perfectly suited to his subject, Stark Young has again portrayed the aristocracy of the old South and its inability to adjust itself to the new commercial expansion. The plot of the novel, what little of it there is, is centered around a conflict of two strong wills, the father Major Hugh Dandridge, the last of the old southern aristocracy in the district of Le Flore, and his son John, a Princeton graduate...
Despite unwieldy complications, the plot is not a bad one for a melodrama. One has to understand (and stand for) certain conventions in the best of bloody melodramas. The locale is a little town in England, in the dusty shadows of the cathedral close. It is a good stage for a mystery, though one might accuse Mr. Reeve of overdoing the underground passage and hidden chapels a bit for his effect. The story moves swiftly enough, although it might have been better-handled...
...road to romance for his glorious adventure, the nation's watchful press jumped on the job. Reporters from one of the great American journals got word of the matter. And it did not take long for these mighty and powerful servants of the public to find a nefarious British plot back of the entire excursion--subsidiary of the undergraduate press...
Shubert-Apollo--"Her Friend the King", William Faversham handicapped by weak plot and lines...
...plot of the O'Neill play is no more far-fetched than that of 'Hamlet'," he replied. "And as for the suggestion that it deals with a theme which could better be handled by an abnormal psychologist,--well, the characters of most of us would furnish interesting material for anyone...