Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trace of either pity or affection, "was Turassof. Of course eventually I intend to do concert work. For the present, however I shall continue in musical comedy with my partner Mlle. Lezandre, who also dances in this show. Although Mlle. Lezandre and I have little in common in the plot of the present performance, we are the best of friends, and intend to work together in the future...
...involved and somewhat ridiculous plot which serves as a skeleton for this lively and beautiful comedy is taken from the admirable inventions of the late great Tobias George Smollett (1721-71) in his novel The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. Likewise the strange eloquence of the Commodore who prefaces his simplest statements with "Hear the news," whose expression of habitual astonishment is "d'you say?" and who addresses his nephew, with deep affection, as a "human mistake...
...subtly acted, well photographed, superbly directed. U. S. audiences, familiar with the works of Armenian mot-maker Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian) will find no traces of that young man's simpering suavity in this sombre, compact story. You see how the bridegroom's mother and sister plot to get rid of the girl, first by such witchcrafts as burying a crow in the garden, later by murder. Best shot: Barbara Matatian's realization, as she comes into her husband's house for the last time, that something dangerous, terrible, something she cannot see, is waiting...
...Last of Mrs. Cheyney (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Frederick Lonsdale's comedy of the woman who gets into society so that her criminal associates can steal pearls depends less on plot and more on dialog than most plays of its type. It is satirical, sentimental, witty. It set, in its season, a new fashion in drawing-room drama. It is as effective as a talking picture as it was on the legitimate stage. Although the manuscript has been followed so closely that if you look sharp you can catch in the picture the momentary pauses that marked the play...
...dream begins with a dreamlike name, "Le Palais de France." Its solid basis is a trapezoidal piece of Manhattan Island, 200 feet in shortest dimension, 498 feet in longest, just north of Columbus Circle, comprising the entire block in which the Century Theatre now stands. On this plot the dream will rise, garnished in every one of its 65 stories with the glories of modern French art and architecture. There is even a whisper that its walls may be of glass...