Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...popular pantomime. "A Daughter of the Gods," now playing at the Majestic Theatre, is evidently a production trying to equal the record set by D. W. Griffith, but William Fox, despite the amount of money expended and the miraculous care of detail shown, will have to seek a better plot around which to spend his efforts before we can take the palm from "The Birth of the Nation" and present it to this new thing for Boston...
...only story in the number is "A Literary Love Affair," by Mr. Rollins, who has dashed off eight full pages of love and adventure--or rather, a lapse of love and misadventure--absorbing all but three pages of the number. The plot is good and moves along well, but the style is not workmanlike. The piece is too long for its substance; it impresses one as being "padded," as though the writer had incorporated unimportant incidents merely to please his fancy or give his descriptive powers a fling. The ending is a trifle unintelligible, being either so obvious...
...encores from an audience whose applause was induced rather by a spontaneous appreciation of the score than by any duty as descendants of Erin's Isle--which element does not characterize Boston audiences (?)--to commend the spirit of the songs. Perhaps Mr. Blossom has not constructed so definite a plot as is his custom, but his book, which deals with the adventures of Berry O'Day in an attempt to place Ireland on an equality basis with all nations of the world, provides a romantic theme par excellence...
...roundabout method. Those who go to such a play desire neither the delicacy of an English comedy, nor what we often have in a French one, a hinting at things not said. They want and they get a typical American force, a Kaleidoscopic series of incidents (the plot foreseen from the first) built around the ability of the leading character to be funny...
...Jinks" were somewhat disappointed in the production of "You're in Love" last evening. Yet it is unquestionably a good musical comedy--fully as good as the average we have had in Boston this season. The dialogue is unusually clever and witty, and then is a semblance of a plot. The most out standing feature of the production is the excellent and attractive chorus. In this Hammerstein has shown some originality and considerable skill. The staging of the play could hardly be improves upon and the scenery shows real talent and appreciation of theatric effect. But here we stop...