Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complications of the cluttered plot were sometimes sufficient to halt the action of the play. Yet by virtue of its clear-eyed perception as well as its naivete, the play was convincing and funny. Moreover it was well acted, especially by Charles Eaton who played the mop-eared little brother to the heroine...
Berlin: The Symphony of a Big City. Here is a film without plot, without subtitles. A pool of limpid water is transformed into a mechanistic ripple like the swift succession of a hundred thousand railroad ties. A train shoots out of the country and into BERLIN in hard, square letters. It is 5 a. m. A sheet of newspaper flutters in the gutter of an empty street. A cat creeps across the sidewalk. On another street a man tacks up a sign. Four revelers waddle home, one of them dragging a balloon. Shutters go up. A factory gate rolls open...
Using a rather old idea, that of two twins getting mixed up in a highly involved plot, the author has sustained the interest of the reader admirably through the greater part of the volume. This interest is one which is centered entirely on the unraveling of the mysterious situation into which the reader and the hero, Roderick Hazzard, are thrown together. Without the plot, the work would have no content whatever. All the characters are over idealized and show no real development or subtlety throughout the three hundred odd pages of rapidly moving action...
...South Wind" there was no plot to be sure, but there were many extremely interesting characters. There was something definite to tie yourself to. In Mr. Douglas' most recent work, there is no plot, and very, very little that is tangible...
WELCOME HOME-Alice Duer Miller-Dodd Mead ($2). To compete with the fictional vogue for neuroses, stream-of-thought, documentary realism, Alice Duer Miller has done two novelettes, each with an actual plot: introduction, climax, denouement, elements as gratifying as they are oldfashioned...