Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theater Guild's production of "Porgy" returns to the Hollis, after a year, with no loss in its striking effectiveness. It is a folk play, but without the easy movement of plot which that expression might imply; local color, to be sure, is there, but woven with skill into the fabric of a tremendously swiftmoving drama; and, moreover, the folk atmosphere is not mere adornment, but has a vital part in the development of the plot. A red-coated orphanage band leading the inhabitants of Catfish Row on a picnic; a quack lawyer in a top hat, selling Porgy...
...Bauer's* Seat." This was neither a scoop for the Telegram-News nor an omission of ignorance. The omitted candidate was Lynn M. Ranger, president of the Lynn City Council. In 1927, when Mayor Curley jailed him, Publisher Enwright received a letter from Mr. Ranger alleging an Enwright "plot to defeat decent government." Result: Mr. Ranger's name is never printed in Mr. Enwright's newspaper...
...Hard to Get" opens at the Central Square this week with Dorothy Mackaill and wise-cracking Jack Oakie in the leading roles. This new product of the sound studio does not rise to great heights as far as originality or plot is concerned, but it does show Miss Mackaill that the title of the theme song. "The Things We Want Most Are Hard To Get" contains truth. Jack Oakie contributes his usual share of laughs at the expense of his manikin sister who longs for Park Avenue and has no objection to being picked up if the driver...
...group of excited Frenchmen called at the office of the French Administrator of Tangier. Loudest was the owner of Tangier's only French cinema. He was the victim of a political plot, he cried. Spanish citizens of Tangier were planning an anti-French boycott...
...pudding, it should seem at times almost literary. Both of these facts are principally due to George Arliss, who has played Disraeli so often on the stage that if set back 60 years he could probably double for him in the House of Commons. He gets across the complicated plot, making you believe in the crafty little minister who loved peacocks, gardening, and Queen Victoria, and whose servants were all Russian spies. Best shot: Arliss making the Governor of the Bank of England sign the check that bought the Suez Canal...