Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where The Maid is funny, The Conspirators is simply light-hearted. The plot is a 19th century version of the Lysistrata theme, glued together with pleasant music by Schubert. In the large cast, Timothy Cogan and Leonard Herzog are the most amusing. Jay Shuchter's stage direction makes effective use of military absurdities, and Michael Biddle has constructed an attractive set. The operas are under the fine musical supervision of Paul Sperry, who has been fortunate in getting Richard Friedberg as the accompanist. Too much studying is bad for the health...
...this "The Girl Most Likely to Thaw Out Alaska," the notorious nude in the most popular photograph ever taken? The story of Actress Monroe's life is not the maudlin tale that Hollywood loves to tell about how a star is born. It more resembles the plot of a social novel by Charles Dickens. "This girl," says one of Marilyn's friends...
...hire him back. Everywhere he meets "the look" which translates "can't take the risk." Then a chemical firm decides to take the risk and hires him. Dick discovers a new process for making nitric dust and seems to be usefully rehabilitated until Author Wagner's boobytrapped plot explodes under...
This detailed plot resumee is given only to show just how pointless all the philosophical utterances really are, since they deal with a question that, the way the authors have slanted it, can have only one answer. And Lew Ayres' acting does not reveal any hidden relevance. He is quite competent, but when he gets through with them, the dull lines are still dull. Supprisingly enough, much the same is true for Martyn Green, who pays one of the monks. The star of many Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, Green has demonstrated in the past that...
...captured by the Chinese Nationalists in 1954) were trotted out before U.S. newsmen to read a long, mimeographed statement. Principal point: the Russians never wanted to stay in the U.S., but were so bulldozed and threatened into accepting "the so-called free way of life" that they had to plot their escape with cunning care. Back in Washington Zarubin apparently believed the Moscow version, for he suddenly demanded to see four of the redefectors' comrades, who happened to be in town for a "routine hearing" at the U.S. Immigration Service. "He wanted to influence our sentiments," one of these...