Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hardy in its stilted stage directions ("Had there not been something peculiarly ingratiating about this man, I should have maintained my custom of refusing these highway requests at all times. As it was, I stopped to argue with him,") which are inconsistent with the general style and plot. But the piece breaks into splendid originality in two speeches of Tom Gowan, the lovelorn murderer, and in the conclusion, which is far better than either the sentimentalism of the one or the fatalism of the other of the two authors whom Mr. Gowdy is consciously or unconsciously imitating. Again, many...
...otherwise impressive scenes. Why in a play so impressionistic as this, a play where the attention is focused not upon the scenery, but on the players, should this attention of ours be diverted by a wavering tree trunk, grotesque lillies jutting out from a still more grotesque grass plot, and other little details too numerous to be mentioned. Yet this is only a mild form of censure, the entire performance as a whole is more than satisfying...
...Hampden, characterizing John Rawson, a wealthy Western mine owner, gains in effectiveness as the action progresses, and despite the quite improbable plot in which the author has placed him, makes very creditable account of himself. But light roles do not seem to fit him as well as those more serious ones which he has heretofore taken...
...Dartmouth Dramatic Association will present "Naughty Nero," a musical comedy, for the first time next Saturday night. The plot of the play deals with the age when Nero was at the height of his power. The old emperor, through his numerous extra vangances, has gone deeply into debt, and is unable to meet his obligations. Cinema Filmus, a moving picture man from Athens, relieves the embarrassing situation when he requests permission to purchase the moving picture rights for the burning of Rome. Nero, impressed by the magnitude of the offer, readily agrees to the purpose and the destruction of Rome...
...managers of this play have boasted of its possession of a real plot, and we will not argue with them on this point. There is a plot, which is often in evidence, but it has been made elastic enough to introduce all sorts of nonsense so necessary to the T. B. M. This plot is eclipsed by the general production, for while the settings which represent Califoria as well as paint can, are not extraordinary; the costumers have undoubtedly been given carte-blanche, and the harmony of color which they have obtained is truly a miracle. The styles are much...