Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been very seldom played and is practically never seen on the modern stage, it remains one of its author's cleverest works. Technically, it is perhaps the neatest of Shakespeare's comedies, for although it does not possess the character development of his later plays the complications of plot are worked out with rare skill...
...Monthly board, and this contribution of A. W. W.'s had slipped in as they slept. No other excuse is possible. For there is here an abundance of matter--a clever character sketch by C. M. Rogers that shows he could write a story if he only had a plot; a reminiscence of boyhood written by the editor-in-chief with vivacity and charm; a story of Gilbert V. Seldes which teases the reader unnecessarily and leaves one uncertain as to whether the author is very subtle or not quite articulate; a capital Alpine sketch by C. H. Weston...
...Deutscher Verein will give the second performance of its sixteenth annual production, "Zwel Wappen," in Brattle Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The play is by two popular German playwrights, Blumenthal and Kadelburg, and has had very successful runs both in Germany and in this country. The plot of the farce centers about two national types, the antiquated German aristocrat and the self-made American business...
...farce comedy in four acts by Blumenthal and Kadelburg, two of the most successful modern German playwrights. "Zwei Wappen" had a very popular run in Germany, where it was first presented a few years ago, and recently it was played with marked success in New York. The plot turns upon the contrast of two national types, the antiquated German aristocrat and the self-made American business man. The former type is cleverly depicted in the character of Freiher von Wettingen, a German nobleman who is stubbornly opposed to his son's attentions to the charming daughter of the latter...
...which antiquated German aristocracy and progressive American spirit are sharply contrasted. The affections of a young German nobleman for an American girl, who is the daughter of a wealthy, self-made packer, and the opposition of the nobleman's parents to this alliance form the basis of the plot...