Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reginald Denny, with his nicely twisted gentleman's moustache is the man who somewhat naively solves "The Preview Murder Mystery." The plot hinges upon a cinema director's suspicion that his actress-wife, Gail Patrick, is in love with the hero of a film which he has just finished. Threatening notes warn the actor that he will never live through the preview, and true to form, he doesn't. Two more murders are committed before Denny, a movie publicity man, discovers the criminal. We warn you not to be too gullible in accepting obvious clues, because Paramount, Inc., is bent...
Winter sports run riot at the Fine Arts this week, restrained only by a tenuous plot and some inconsequential German dialogue. Brilliant performances of skiing, slalom (scooting downhill along sinuous paths among obstacles), ski-joring (skiing along the level with a horse doing the pulling), bob-sled racing, and skating are crammed into this virile, carefree picture called after one of the sports "Slalom...
...gentle age. Among the characters are the "conferencier a la mode", who cannot practice what he preaches; love; the countess whose strennous efforts to uphold the amenities are always failing; the pedantic and bespectacled English girl awkwardly seeking a husband; and many others of a similar comic "genre". The plot is one of clean drawing-room intrigue, arising from the misunderstanding of misplaced letters. And yet in spite of its conventional nineteenth-century machinery, the film is genuinely amusing. The lines are distinguished by their delightful penetration into the incongruities of human character; and they are spoken superbly...
...occasion last week was the 30th annual convention of the Memorial Craftsmen of America, an exposition only slightly disturbed by the fact that it occupied space in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace directly above the National Liquor Show. Besides the landscaped family plot, the girders of the building groaned beneath more than 500 tombstones, 700,000 Ib. of marble, bronze and granite. Secretary Roswell M. Austin of the Memorial Extension Commission announced that 1935 was the biggest year for the tombstone industry since Depression, that the average price of tombstones had risen from a Depression...
...Follow the Fleet" follows the flock of Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers dainties, which, in the past year, have delighted American lovers of song, dance, and whimsy. It musical score comes from Irving Berlin, and its plot is the product of the union of two Broadway successes, "Shore Leave" and "Hit the Deck...