Word: plotless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...semi-privacy of a small theatre are unostentatiously 'eating their way' beneath the mass of unworthy plays which we have to deal with. By 'unworthy' plays I mean the type commonly known as what the public wants,' but which it really does not want at all. The frivolous, plotless play has been largely brought on by the war, under the excuse of giving people something they can follow without thought or effort; but in such light productions, the mind is much more liable to stray back to its original trouble instead of being directed in another channel. A play...
...Getting Together," at the Majestic, is dramatized propaganda, and as such ranks as the best piece that has touched Boston this season. It is as plotless as the Follies and as well equipped scenically as that hardy annual, but there the comparison ceases. Ziegfeld capitalizes pulchritude and "Getting Together" does the same thing with patriotism...
...last number of the Advocate is as plotless as a modern musical comedy; from cover to cover there is no trace of a story...