Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that her husband, Jules W. ("Nicky") Arnstein, was serving sentence at the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth. Now, in her first picture, she sings "My Man" again and also her other famous songs, "I'm an Indian" and "Second Hand Rose"; she recites "Mrs. Cohen at the Beach." The plot is what it has to be to give her a chance to do her stuff. As a sewing-machine girl in a costume factory, she sings for the other girls at lunch, sings at the annual picnic, sings for the famed theatrical producer when he sends for her. Her singing...
Though Wings Over Europe, by virtue of its lack of sex-appeal and the Wells-Vernian circumstances of its conversational plot, is a freak play, it is also of the kind called "profound." This means that its excitements are cerebral and that spectators, leaving the theatre in their cabs, will be aroused to the point of shouting each other down with explanations of its meanings and with speculations as to what each one would have done, had he or she been the luckless Lightfoot...
Briefly, the plot of this latest Theatre Guild production concerns itself with a prominent Viennese attorney who in the midst of one of those episodes known as "affairs" is confronted with a 17 year old son as evidence of an earlier one. The mother of this lad wants his father to take him under his wing, and the play revolves about the point of whether or not the father shall do this. If he does shall the mother stay with him too? Hardly, thinks the present provider of his bliss. The son, who until this time has led a cloistered...
...these enterprises are connected with Wall Street. Biddle, along with social register companions, was accused only a fortnight ago of sharing with Mayor Walker a plot to convert the dismal restaurant which now sits like a spider, webbed with paths, at the centre of Central Park, into a civic banquet hall, thus encouraging patronage and improving the circumstances of the waiters who are employed there by the present lessee, Theatrical Zitell...
...woman, grist to the Arlenesque mill. This crafty villainess bewitches the carthorse into cad, and breaks Lily Christine's heart. Not the least of the heroine's anguish is over a respectable middle-class boyfriend whom she has unwittingly involved in the scandal. And just as the plot is thickening pleasantly, Lily Christine's creator pitches her under the wheels of a motor-lorry...