Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bride plot is as comfortable and commodious as an old shoe. Spring usually embarks on some do-gooding project, e.g., saving the marriage of a wrestler and his wife. Within ten minutes, the project is a total mess, causing either financial or personal embarrassment to her son-in-law. After assorted hilarity, the straggling plot lines are swiftly tied into a lover's knot in time for the conclusion. A recurring staple is a budding romance for Spring who, so far, has been vainly courted by Lyle Talbot, Regis Toomey and Paul Cavanaugh. Says Writer-Producer Levy: "The show...
...nineteenth century. Gertrude Stein did not try to build a drama around the life of the suffragette but presents her fight through a series of conversations with many of the eminent and some of the obscure people of her era. If such a treatment lacks the tension of a plot, it still gave the writer an opportunity to display her talent for humor, and permitted stage director Roger Graef to fill the huge Sanders Theatre platform with crowds of colorful people...
After Korn resigned, his entire slate of officers as well as the rest of the minority walked out of the meeting in protest against what Korn called "a plot" to defeat the "independence of the group...
...good luck the demure Miss Johns knocks out a passer-by named Giacomo the Jester, who is in reality a secret agent. Dressed up in Giacomo the Jester's outfit, Danny Kaye goes to the castle to get the key to the secret passageway "for the cause." Here the plot wanders into a labyrinth of evil subjects...
...Maxwell projects an innocence that is both amusing and ironical. His girl friend, Georgia Boyko, tries for much the same spirit in her role and achieves a reasonably coherent characterization. But the best job of acting is that of Sharon Gans, as the knowing old lady who sets the plot in motion. Although the actress is young, the character fully bears the burden of old age and its tedium...