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...Death in the Woods," plotless, atmospheric, describes the memory of finding an old woman frozen to death in the snow. '"The Return" tells how a man came back to his home town years later, and how he was glad to run away from it the same night. In "The Fight" two respectable, middle-aged cousins who have never liked each other finally have the fistfight they should have got out of their systems when they were boys. Having given and received a black eye, a bloody nose, they part in silent enmity. "John thought his cousin Alfred never...
...Brown of Culver (Universal) has nothing to do with the famed English story of school life, Tom Brown's School Days, by Thomas Hughes. Tom Brown of Culver is named for Boy Actor Tom Brown. It is a relatively plotless, episodic picture of life at Culver Military Academy in Indiana...
...Says Arnold Bennett, booster of books, preferably British: "Her Privates We will be remembered when All Quiet on the Western Front . . . is forgotten." Like the German novel, Her Privates We is a record of personal experiences in the trenches, as the plain soldier knew them. It too is plotless, simple narrative, un-propagandist, unrhetorical. Its author has preferred to remain anonymous. Says "Private 19022": "The events described actually happened; the characters are fictitious." He tells of the fighting on the Somme and Ancre fronts during the last part of 1916; his characters are a company of an English regiment...
...shades of Shakespeare and Dumas may rattle in their shrouds, or whatever it is that shades do, for the plotless young author now has themes about which to spin his tales. But to be a real best seller Venus must now pursue her young Adonis through the gashouse district of New York ringing police boxes, while in order to feature in the brilliant pages of "Worthwhile Stories", the modern D'Artagan must, before starting out to crown cardinals, drop a note on the sergeant's desk, 8th Precinct, City of Boston...
...Showers", which opened at the Wilbur this week, is just one more of those plotless musical comedies which lay their hopes on their comedian and their dancing. This one, however, is brought out of mediocrity by Harry Delf, who tries to be funny--and succeeds. Just when the patient playgoer has begun to become bored, Harry Delf comes on the stage and laughter is restored once more. Slapstick and vaudeville humor it is, for the most part, but done in a very appealing...