Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless, one-good plot deserves another, and now we'll tell...
...psychological reactions of a child whose parents are divorced and remarried give "Wednesday's Child" a plot which might make an excellent picture. If the leading characters had been chosen with care, this might have happened, but as it is, the story misses fire...
Rudy Vallee, of grape-fruit fame, appears at the Met this week on the screen in a musical show entitled "Sweet Music." For those who enjoy his singing the picture will prove entertaining, for he bursts into song about every ten minutes. The plot is unexciting, but thoroughly innocuous. The stage show is good and features Mitzi Green, who given several excellent imitations of screen stars. The chorus presents some good dance routines and the stage show is livened up by some really funny comedians...
Meaningless, except perhaps as an ideal to be emulated by real countries, the picture is none the less amusing, Jannings shows considerable talent as a light comedian, and the other players do their bits adequately. The British have successfully imitated the unique German style in photography and plot treatment. In short, "The Merry Monarch" is a restful evening's diversion...
Investigation disclosed that three doctors connived in cunning Benayendra Pandey's plot and got him the germs from the All-India Institute of Health and the Bombay Municipal Hospital (TIME, Aug. 6). Last week at Calcutta the trial of the quartet for murder came to its end. The prosecutor called the case ' unparalleled in the annals of crime in India in its enormity and well-planned scientific design . . . diabolical ingenuity.' Benayendra Pandey and Dr. Taranath Bayttachra were found guilty. The jury recommended mercy. Barked the judge: "The murder is too heinous to warrant clemency...