Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot, more unusual because of its interpretation than its content, concerns itself with a young architect (Franchot Tone) who reclaims from drunken oblivion a once great actress (Bette Davis). Though already engaged Tone finds himself falling in love with Miss Davis and breaks his engagement. The issue however, is complicated by the presence of Miss Davis' former husband. A very unusual conclusion defies the custom of happy endings: seeming to be dictated by a sense of justice and duty, more real than Hollywood fantasy. We especially recommend this picture and Miss Davis' interpretation of a drunken derelict in particular...
Representative Wright Patman, puffy-cheeked, bespectacled leader of the House Inflationists, had his own explanation for last week's gold shipments: It was all a plot by the "big bankers" to scare Congressional Inflationists, since issuance of printing press money would cause the bankers to lose "some prestige." But, cried the chubby Texan, "Any shell game does not go with...
...Hillier and his banker backers consider Sacker's private army a menace, now that it has served its purpose, and plan to disband it. Sacker, who cannot believe that his adored friend Hillier would double-cross him, thinks he would be unofficially glad to have his hand forced, plots a dangerous coup. Because he lets the wrong people in on his secret the plot is nipped in the bud. Sacker's arrest and execution is the signal for a general blood purge. Before it is over and England shudders into regimented quiet, Liberal Andrew is glad to make...
...coiffure has been strangely mutilated, but her charms are not completely stifled thereby. If one's mood is unusually bland, he might possibly be amused by the antics of Frank McHugh. And the dance accompanying 'Collegiana," the main song, is weirder than truckin' and divertingly original. But the plot, adapted from a story by George Ade, is weaker than most in which Miss Ellis has appeared, and nobody in the show, least of all Miss Ellis, knows the rudiments of acting. Our parting advice is not to worry about missing "Freshman Love...
When college rules demand signatures, and that natural feeling of imperfection that resides in youth demands official consultation on important academic problems, the student is confronted with the insuperable barrier that the vaunted inaccessibility of such men presents. It is only natural that men concerned with administrative problems must plot their time judiciously and can allow only small amounts of it to the students, but faculty members whose primary duties are teaching have no excuse for hiding. If the personal popularity of our young instructors is so overwhelming that they have no privacy, they might resort to eating onions...