Word: plot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this were not bad enough, the Senator's plot will deal a vicious blow to the chipmunks, who are already struggling to the limits of their tiny, furry little paws against snakes, hawks, foxes, and, worst of all, weasels. The cunning craft of the Senator stands stark before us when we recall that he posed, but a few short months ago, as the friend of the White House squirrels who used to frolic carefree before the lawn became the thirteenth green...
...Portland, so-called Spinster City of the West, the Oregon Journal last week handled the year's hottest story with spinsterish restraint. While witness after witness testified, before a U.S. Senate committee that Teamsters' Union bosses had plotted with city officials to monopolize Portland's rackets, the Journal (circ. 181,489) primly avoided editorial comment. Though the Journal gave wire-service reports of the hearings heavy play in its news columns, it-made no attempt to report local evidence of Teamster-racketeer relations. Reason: since its opposition daily, S.I. Newhouse's Oregonian (circ. 230,850), first...
...When the plot of a musical comedy is skimpy, when the acting is spotty, and the music questionable, the show should be a real stinker. But such minor quibbles have never bothered Drumbeats and Song in previous productions, and certainly had little effect if any on this year's --Miss Informed...
Clara Mae's main competition for the Miss Informed title are Ivy (Marguerite Tarrant) and the house mother, Miss Havisham (Helen Bee) who gives the girls the benefit of the knowledge gained from her old house in Atlantic City. The rest of the plot comes with the romance of bashful bohemian Fred (John Baker) and his less-shaggy but more-shrewd soul force Priscilla (Sallie Wolfe). Baker's voice is shaky, but he was a solidly insecure bohemian. Miss Wolfe's singing voice is pleasant, but her acting was wooden. As Fred's intellectual playmate, Alice Oberg's red hair...
...second act the plot, the actors, and to some extent the music warmed up. Herbert Parsons as a proper professor was a charming satirist as he sang of the professor's duty to learn, not teach. As his lonely man, Duane Murner gave one of the few professional performances of the evening with "Section Man's Lament...