Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plot of "The White Elephant" deals with the efforts of three circus men from the United States to capture the sacred elephant of Siam. An American missionary, his wife and a frenzied "soul-mate" introduce complications into the plot. The whole idea is based on the old Siamese custom of setting aside an annual day on which women may select their own husbands...
...last-named play was the first choice of the three judges of the play competition: Walter Pritchard Eaton '00, Louis Evan Shipman, and Professor G. P. Baker '87. It was written by Rachel Butler, a Radcliffe graduate, and is a fantasy, light in plot, and with the dreamy characters of a fairy story. The chief character is a French pastry cook who delights in being an expert matchmaker. "America Passes By," by K. L. Andrews 1G., the judges' second choice, deals with the problems that affianced couples face today. The two engaged couples in the play sensibly decide that they...
...plot deals with the adventures of Tom Stewert, who for the sake of his friend, Dick Lockhart, plays the part of a long lost son. The developments are at all times obvious. Tom falls in love with a charming seamstress of good family, is besieged by a scheming adventuress, dashes heroically off on his horse to divert the officers of the law who are in pursuit of Dick, and returns to win his "heart o' th' heather...
Throughout the play and interwoven with the plot are several Scottish ballads which Mr. MacFarlane sings in a most admirable way. His voice is pleasantly mellow in tone; one almost wishes he would sing some more...
...touch of the melodramatic in its treatment of Harvard existence which discourages those of us who have been brought up in the tradition that college men should write college stories. There are so few Flandraus! Mr. Crane chooses a graduate of "L--" College for hero, and though his plot is highly imaginative he succeeds in presenting a very much more convincing picture of the normal undergraduate state of mind. Mr. Courtney is sensational: he breaks away from his cherished George Ade tradition and gives us "A Romance of the Reel" that would need more than the usual expository interpolations...