Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blazing rage. Under the spell of one of Wagner's convenient potions, Siegfried has tricked her, given her to another. A great Brünnhilde is spine-chilling when she brands the hero as a traitor, swears it by an oath on a spear and then helps plot his death. And at the end she must become a goddess again. Though high passages are long and grueling, a few rare interpreters have made them seem incidental to Brünnhilde's grief, her realization of tragedy as she majestically orders Siegfried's funeral pyre and calls...
...oldtimers another of his melodramas, dear to the author but less successful commercially than Hazel Weston. It was entitled Lucy Moore, the Prune Hater's Daughter. Leaping about the room, acting out each part and interpolating editorial comments, Artist Shinn gave his version of the plot. Excerpts...
...capable actor. As the English valet who leaves the service of an English earl, Roland Young, to become the manservant of the American, Charles Ruggles, he is convincing and often amusing. His adventures in America and the slow transition these effect upon his character and personality comprise the plot of the story. For once he is not the villain, but the hero, and is successful in the role...
...feature on the program, "Enter Madame," Elissa Landi is starred as the temperamental opera singer in a rather uninteresting plot. It's the old story of career versus love affair, in which Cary Grant, her husband, finally tires of the hysterical eccentricity of his artist wife. Everything turns out happily in the end, of course, when the wife discovers the cause of the trouble and forestalls a divorce though a change of attitude...
...fashioned puff of snuff. And by turning out the lights he tricked them into his cellar when they appeared at his manse in search of the loot he took from them. With the culprits incarcerated below stairs, His Lordship has time to disentangle a pair of lovers from the plot, send them off toward the altar before the curtain falls on this amusing dramatic puffball...