Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Berlin: The Symphony of a Big City- German film with no plot, no subtitles, no stars. Eye-worthy...
King George II (deposed) of Greece figured in the ballyhoo. The Floranada Club had offered to him a house with "cool rooms overlooking tropical gardens," if he would buy a plot of ground in the community. Among the questions asked Promoter Cromwell by the bankruptcy lawyers was: "Had you ever considered that the King might turn the place into a Greek restaurant...
...that the Mayor of New York City, James John Walker, was one of the required ingredients of any Manhattan musical show. Usually, as impersonated by one of his many imitators, the Mayor would appear in the last act, a deus ex machina, to solve the transitory problems of the plot. When he attended the show there would be a bridling invitation from the management and the dignitary would clamber readily from his seat in the front row to be himself upon the stage. The producers of Say When had more ambitious plans for the chief municipal executive. Reflecting that...
...Magnificent Flirt. Laid in Paris, it leaves much to the imagination and runs along pleasantly and silkenly. The plot concerns a count (Albert Conti) who appreciates the attractions of a demimondaine (Florence Vidor); but he does not want her daughter to marry his young nephew. A tourist from the U. S. (Ned Sparks) also figures divertingly. Good acting, filmed with originality...
FOREIGN INVASION CARMEN (Spanish, Raquel Meller), DAWN (English, Sybil Thorndike), BERLIN: THE SYMPHONY OF A BIG CITY (German, no plot, no subtitles, no stars), THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG (Russian, the Soviet triumphant...