Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Plot Centres About Boishevik Prince...
...plot of the comedy is developed around the rise and fall of a Bolshevik prince, who usurps the throne of the Kingdom of Ptomainia, only to lose his insecure seat later, because of his tyranical mismanagement of the affairs of that worthy empire. The action is divided into three acts and five scenes, entitled respectively, "The Day Before Yesterday," "Yesterday," "Today," "Tomorrow," and "The Day After Tomorrow...
...represent a faithful picture of Tommy Atkins as made famous through Captain Bairns-father's cartoons. Therefore its chief characteristic naturally is humor, which, blended with some of the softer feelings which find such remarkable expression in the private soldier, is sustained throughout the entire play. A perfectly impossible plot gives the series of seven "splinters" and a "short gas attack" a slight backbone. The story centres about Old Bill's discovery of a German plot, his blowing up of the strategic bridge, and his subsequent court martial and award of the V. C. But all this is of little...
There is a trifling sub-plot of love running through the piece, beginning with the eternal triangle and ending with mutual forgiveness by husband and wife; but it is obvious that the love interest was created only to hitch the acts together. In no other way might the scene painter introduce his sets for a Manhattan drawing room, a first-line trench and a battered village of France. Besides, the plot matters little...
...triteness of the plot did not spoil this play, the unplausibility surely would. The American girl, in a moderately daring boudoir scene, causes the German colonel's death. The next minute the American officer--a captive in the chateau--enshrouds the German lieutenant-colonel in his khaki coat and has the firing squad mistakenly shoot him dead. Then the American contingent goes and nails the German general for good measure. Being fed up on such glorious killings, the auditor might expect to see Von Hindenburg shot through the heart for the final curtain, but the authors have not got that...