Word: plot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...director of "Love, Live and Laugh", the present offering at the Keith-Albee, is one whose work we should like to see more often. In a movie whose plot depends upon the now rather shopworn world war, he has built up a suspense altogether foreign to most movies of today and managed with rare ability to sustain interest to the end. So far have the age-old strictures of producers been disregarded that the picture is actually allowed to close with the hero thwarted in his attempt to win the woman he loves. The rest of the plot has features...
...terse orders to Secretary of the Navy Adams. Quickly out of Hampton Roads sailed the U. S. S. Wright bearing a detachment of 500 Marines to supplement the force of 700 already in Haiti. From Guantanamo Bay steamed away the cruiser Galveston, bound for Jacmel where an arms smuggling plot was supposed to have been uncovered...
...plot of "Her Private Affair" involves the murder of a man who had caught the heroine (Miss Harding, of course) in an indiscreet moment. Miss Harding is the charming murderess, and her subsequent trials and tribulations as she tries to work out her life, with all its complications of her con- science, as well as of relations with her husband, friends, and an innocent man suspected of the murder, form the basis of the story. Of course, the problems are solved happily in the end, but nevertheless suspense is extraordinarily well maintained...
...plot of the piece concerns the momentary romantic lapse of a British Cabinet Minister, Mr. Maddock, who has so closely applied himself to his career that he has forgotten how to dream. His own marriage and his elder daughter's were arranged solely for his political advantage...
Wall Street (Columbia). Spectators who wonder whether the timeliness of this film's background?a stockmarket panic?is the result of extraordinary financial foresight or extraordinary speed in production should be informed that it is simply luck. In plot and characters Wall Street is less lucky. It presents the fundamentally interesting but familiar and clumsily treated situation of an iron-sinewed, low-born trader who is in love with a beautiful, cultured woman. Ralph Ince and Aileen Pringle do as well as they can in these parts. Silliest shot: a ruined speculator committing suicide by jumping through an office window...