Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter requesting that Harvard grant the City of Cambridge a certain piece of land near the Observatory and build a library to go with it, was sent to President Conant yesterday afternoon. The plot in question is now occupied by a portable garage...
Constance Bennett is most decidedly "after office hours" in this picture. Indeed only once is she to be found in office hours and then in the act of being fired from a newspaper. Tired of being merely sophisticated she graduates in "Verfalchung". Nevertheless the picture has a good plot. Clark Gable is the editorial detective and is even willing to allow murderer Bannister to knock him down in order to find out who killed cock-robin. No great discernment is required to discover the "murderee" who is obligingly killed in a convenient boat house. Stuart Irwin indulges in recitation...
...likely to be the case with cinema stories which are genuinely suited to their medium, no recapitulation of the plot of The Whole Town's Talking can begin to convey its superlative qualities as entertainment. Equipped with material which they could have used as the basis for uproarious comedy or stark horror, Scenarists Jo Swerling and Robert Riskin and Director John Ford contrived to do both without giving their work at any point the appearance of a tour de force. A network of subsidiary plots-the sad misadventure of Jones's maiden aunt when she meets Killer Mannion...
...plot of Lowe-McLaglen cinema varies more than its essential pattern: an amiable numbskull outwitted by a smug sophisticate. Cinemaddicts who enjoy listening to the kind of vituperation between Lowe and McLaglen which has remained marketable at the box-office for the past eight years will probably overlook the fact that as detective fiction The Great Hotel Murder is strictly routine...
Pitcairn Islanders are Seventh Day Adventists and only a few backsliders eat meat. Every family head owns his own plot of ground, contributes a tithe of his produce to the community and seven days' labor a year to public works. Equal suffrage was instituted long before any European nation had it. School attendance is compulsory. Each family has a brand with which it marks all its possessions, animate and inanimate. The local government consists of a council of seven headed by a magistrate. There is no such thing as money, and only occasional mail from the outside world...