Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Briefly, the plot is most convincing but there appears some unevenness in the way the authors have written it. But the stars do star...
...plot itself, much remains doubtful. Most doubtful of all, is our feeling at the very end, when the Hungarian dancer wins the consent of a New England trained nurse to be his bride. Will they, can they conceivably live happily ever after, and if so, how long...
Three pieces of fiction are offered: "The Practicality of Joshua Wilkes," by Bruce Carpenter, a really constructive story with a clear outlining of the characters; "The Second Hungarian Rhapsody," by Douglas C. Wendell, well written but thin in plot; and "A Fable of Death," in which L. K. Garrison '19 attempts a form full of pit-falls, into most of which he stumbles. The Advocate used to do better in fiction. W. A. Norris '18 and Robert Cutler '16 contribute the verse. Mr. Norris's two sonnets have some fine sonorous phrases, in the making of which he is sometimes...
...Cercle Francais on December 18 and 20. In the rehearsals the cast is being coached Edouard D'Armand, of the Conservator Nationale de Paris, who also directed the production of the three plays which the Cercle presented last year. "L'Aventurier" is a sympathetic character-study an adventurer. The plot turns on the story of a world-traveller who comeback to France and redeems himself after a wandering and somewhat disreputable existence in Africa...
...play was read last night in Phillips Brooks House by P. F. Reniers '16, before a large audience. It is a four-act play dealing with politics and purity, and fairly bristling with dramatic atmosphere. A brief sketch of the plot follows...