Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...police last week, of one Manuel Trejo y Morales, who gave Toral the pistol wherewith he slew Obregon, was widely rumored to open up a possibility that the Assassin will be retried in an effort to show that he and Trejo were the instruments of a general Roman Catholic plot against the life of General Obregon...
...Broadway, were heard round the world, this picture begins with a good idea: two reporters go to a dance-hall hostess who has the dope about the innocent boy's love affair with a little cabaret girl (Olive Borden). What she tells one of the reporters, constitutes the plot of a well-acted, fairly exciting picture proving principally that Olive Borden is a better actress than most people have believed. Best shot: New Year's day in San Francisco's Chinatown...
...Outcast", the movie, is nothing extra except that the close-ups reveal an incipient double chin on Miss Griffith's. The plot brings a young lady of easy virtue into the marital complexities of San Francisco's haute monde. She emerges with honor and Edmund Lowe...
Tonight at 12. Practice, it is apparently the conviction of Author Owen Davis, makes the playwright perfect. Nor is the conviction betrayed in this, the latest of more than 250 Davis dramas, wherein a comparatively improbable situation and an unlikely plot are made to seem funny and exciting by turns, owing to smart dialog and skillful construction...
...position as First Citizen. Alcibiades took terrible revenge on his city, instigating and leading a Spartan attack-until Athens was forced to recall him. But his restoration was short-lived. Again he was exiled, and again his only companion was the Egyptian princess employed by Persia to plot against him, but compelled by devotion to succor and protect him. The story of their love is vivid against a background of Bacchanalian orgies, momentous gatherings in the Pnyx, subtle intrigues in Persian tents, sea-fights, trireme grappled to trireme...