Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening in the theatre with William Saroyan is likely to be a confusing experience. In most of his plays, the California writer laughingly throws away plot, character development, time, and even the idea that the footlight mark a rigid line which separates the actors from the audience. In the end, all that is left behind is Saroyan, glibly tossing out an idea and then circling around to laugh...
When the curtain rises on the second play, however, most of the faults of the earlier sketch are soon forgotten. Not that this second play, Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning, is perfect. Set in a New York restaurant, it too has no discernible plot and merely states some fairly vague ideas on the nature of reality. But the skill of the actors makes a play which might well have been tedious into amusing and sometimes though-provoking entertainment...
...drama suffers from the weakness common to many melodramas--a highly illogical plot. Set in Prague during the winter of 1948, it relates the adventures of a team of music hall mind readers caught in the power struggle between the tottering democratic government and the new Communist regime. This situation, of course, gives Lindsay and Crouse a chance to create not only one villain, but a whole party of them. The mass-produced horde of party members, however, is such a blustering, inefficient and dull lot that their success in taking over Czechoslovakia seems more the result of chance than...
...held great interest. But, in the end, the Lunts too lose out to mediocre writing. The backstage life of vaudeville performers has so often been the subject of comedies that music hall actors are almost as stereotyped as movie cowboys by now. Involving the mind readers in a melodramatic plot fails to make them seem original...
Next to Heusinger, with the title chief of armed forces, will be Lieut. General Hans Speidel, 58, also an arrested suspect in the Hitler bomb plot. A round-faced man with spare hair and glasses, Speidel served in France, Russia and Italy in World War 11, became Rommel's chief of staff on the Western front. He was teaching history at Tubingen University in 1950 when Adenauer asked him to come to Bonn as an adviser, later sent him to Paris as West German observer to EDC and NATO...