Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memoir in the form of a novel." That is enough of a disclaimer to protect it from the accusation that it is not a novel at all but a profound and beautiful question-mark. It transcends, certainly, any pat classification into which you might try to slip it. The plot, except as a mere framework or skeleton on which the study of character hangs, is completely inconsequential. It could have developed a dozen different ways in a dozen different places without affecting the story's main interest, and this is its weakness as the plot of a novel. Incidents have...
...even where melodrama and co-incidence reach their height one's very solid feeling of satisfaction with the book is not diminished. Any plot, good or bad, would fade into nothing beside the consummate skill of Santayana's character-delineation and the grandeur of his expression...
...Actually, a lot of people beside Cole Porter had a hand in this screen version of last year's No. 1 Broadway musicomedy, but somehow it all adds up to a Cole Porter lyric cast in celluloid, with involved metaphors and polysyllabic rhymes translated into comedy antics and plot convolutions, and set to impudent, lighthearted music. Some of it is music worn thin by 1935's dancing slippers, but some good new ones have been added: Sailor Beware, Moonburn, My Heart...
...Collegiate, Playboy Joe Craig (Jack Oakie), his press-agent (Ned Sparks) and his right-hand man (Lynne Overman) are dismayed when Craig's aunt wills him a young ladies' seminary. The plot takes its expected course when Craig, after hitchhiking to the school, turns it into a combined singing & dancing academy, with the aid of Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, who wrote the songs they play in the picture, Frances Langford, as a secretary who falls in love with Craig, and an enticing quorum of Paramount chorus girls. All this is pleasantly written and brightly played, but whether...
Directed by Pierre Maudru, the plot is derived from Agaths Christie's mystery story, "Black Coffee". The stars are Rene Alexandre and Maxime Deajardins, both of the Comedic-Francaise. Students may obtain tickets at Exhibition Hall on presentation of their bursar's cards...