Word: plotless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through having to exclude the long-ago, the whole gradual development of Apley from a human bus into a human tram, that the play falls short of the book-in irony, humanity, completeness. But greatly enlivening the plotless story and largely static portraiture are a continuing comedy of Back Bay manners, the incidental commotion of Cousin Hattie's tombstone and the best of the rather too recurrent laughs about Harvard or New York. Despite the laughs, the Apleys in the play show traces of New York blood in their veins-just enough, while slightly clouding the tone, to quicken...
...Conspirators (Warner), fairly bristling with plot, compounds intrigue and counter-intrigue to the point where it shows a Nazi posing as an Ally posing as a Nazi. Readers of Frederic Prokosch's moody, almost plotless novel will scarcely recognize the adaptation...
...other-worldly beauty of the silent cinema (Peter Ibbetson, with Wallace Reid), first starred on Broadway in 1909, was set for a Manhattan comeback 13 years after she had retired. She will play a wandering house guest in Beyond the Farthest Star, a play Author Rose Franken describes as plotless. Miss Ferguson...