Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief pleasure at the University this week was in thinking of the good time we will doubtless have next Saturday at "Barbary Coast." For both pictures on the Square this time are pretty bad. We have plot G-63, served up with slight variations; plus comedy situation. Series X-12, in "Hands Across the Table," with Carole Lombard (who is getting old and looks it) and Fred Mac Murray, who is the one and only bright spot. Plot 48-R (the crusty old dame who turns out to have a heart of gold) bobs up again under the title "Three...
...Dawson-Scott supplied the ghoulish plot in a novel named The Haunting. Scene is a village in Cornwall where Gale and his young sailor brother Pascoe quarrel over a hoard of gold hidden in an ancient chest. The beginning is gay with folk tunes. Villagers dance in the market place. Thereafter gloom prevails. Gale, for whom Leginska named her opera, murders his brother, hides the body in a cave near the sea, never succeeds in escaping its ghost...
Director Geiger thrilled the city by suggesting a mass murder plot. Likeliest suspect was a Chicago chef who in 1912, at a banquet for Cardinal Mundelein, put arsenic in the soup of 1,000 guests, killed several, sickened hundreds. Indicted for murder, the chef escaped, has since been accused of two other mass poisonings by arsenic. A New York chemist made San Francisco's mystery more exciting by reporting that he had found similar mixtures of arsenic and fluoride in baking soda two years ago. Director Geiger set out to investigate the cases of 30 San Franciscans...
...Last Days of Pompeii" have everything. But even they, after we had sat through at least an hour and a quarter of father love and one thing and another, had to be interrupted by pleadings, recognitions, revelations, and deaths, all bringing to a laborious conclusion a far more laborious plot...
...With plot as yet untitled but well on the way to completion, the ninetieth annual Hasty Pudding Club show has already passed into its first stages of preparation under the guidance of Arnett McKennan '37 and his committee in charge...