Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long and the interlude is to some extent extraneous to the action. Director Jerome Kilty was wise, however, to include it, for not only does it make the play a whole, but it also includes some of the best of Shaw's didactic dialogue. For those who may prefer plot to opinions on the artist-man and the mother-woman, combined with discussion of the relative merits of Heaven and Hell, there is the consolation of some very excellent special effects. The Hell scene is opened with an eerie concert of Devil's helpers, and characters appear with great explosions...
Although the plot is not so cryptic as a summary might indicate, Ashton has collected a menage of rather dissonant symbols and attempted to bring them together in a harmonious structure that only partly succeeds. Ashton must be seen in reaction to 19th century "realism," in whose place he would substitute a reconciliation of the Romantic with the Epic. He attempts to involve the audience emotionally (Romantically) and then to shock them intellectually (Epically...
...players are following up their good production of a bad play with a sparkling production of a better play. This is not to say that The Would-be Gentleman is a dramatic masterpiece; it is certainly not that. When you come right down to it, there is hardly any plot at all; and such tenuous plot as there is does not even begin until three quarters of an hour have passed--the first 45 minutes constitute one long extended joke, but what a wonderful joke...
...going to get a gun." Ray had won a marksmanship medal at summer camp in 1955-Would he help out? Sure. Young Daniels borrowed a .30-30 Marlin hunting rifle and one cartridge, also picked up a second recruit-Albert Strolis, 15, who agreed to join in the plot because he felt sorry for Marty. The plot was simple: the trio would drive to St. Peter's church cemetery, just opposite the Daniels apartment, and hide behind the wall; when Daniels Sr. turned up, Marty would shoot him dead...
...Fire (MGM) smolders intermittently, which is in itself surprising because the plot could set soap opera back at least ten years. Bing Crosby might have cheered everybody by husking a tune or two, but instead he is up to his tonsils in a sticky broken-home situation that would challenge the sweet wisdom of Dorothy Dix. He just cannot forgive his ex-wife (Mary Fickett) for letting herself be seduced, then married by that smooth talker from the State Department (Richard Eastham). The brink is attained when Mary shows up to play tug of war with Bing for custody...