Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fred Astaire plays the part of a misunderstood and much abused bachelor whom the decorative Ginger Rogers mistakes for the husband of a friend. However the plot, such as it is, is unimportant, except as it provides opportunity for clever farcical dialogue and terpsichorean wooing by Fred Astaire...
...many feminine hearts into unbelievable flip-flops will subside in the fadeout of "Two For To-Night" at the Met this evening, only to begin again tomorrow with the opening scene of "The Big Broadcast of 1936." In a story which hangs together all too precariously for the plot lover, a group of seasoned and superior troupers manage to present a satisfying evening's entertainment...
...Iowan; the livestock is not all Iowan. But the people who go to the Fair are Iowa itself, in all its friendliness, power, vulgarity and genius. And the place to see them best is in the Tent City, a unique colony pitched in a rolling, wooded 100-acre plot adjoining the Fair Grounds. These visitors, 10,000 strong, appear at the Fair year after year, are its backbone. They bring their own tents and by some informal right of domain have title to their permanent tent platforms. Oldest of the oldsters form the elite along Grand Avenue. Newcomers live back...
...plot Bright Lights revives the old standby about the burlesque comedian who makes a hit in a Broadway show and falls in love with a fickle society heiress while his faithful wife and partner goes back to "burleycue." Before Comedian Brown is brought to see the error of his ways he is given opportunity not only to sing and dance but turn a back somersault, take innumerable falls, chase madly hither & yon, utter his famed maniacal yell on numerous occasions and tell in baby talk an interminable story about a " 'little bitsy mousie." To show his dramatic ability...
...long (380 pages), slow-moving tale, Honey in the Horn is distinguished for its easy humor, for its wealth of authentic local color wrapped around a slight and artificial plot. Clay Calvert, Oregon orphan, was herding sheep for Uncle Preston Shiveley when Wade Shiveley, one of Uncle Preston's worthless sons, was jailed for having murdered and robbed a gambler. Uncle Preston did not want to be bothered any longer with an offspring who had caused him only misery, persuaded Clay to slip Wade a defective pistol, on the assumption that Wade would try to escape with...