Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...county-fair and side-show cinema, the cast of Carnival includes that familiar breakfast set of human oddities (midgets, bearded lady, fat woman, giant, snake-charmer) who now make a better living by impersonating freaks in pictures than they used to make by really traveling with the circus. The plot concerns the efforts of a widowed puppeteer (Tracy) and his male assistant (Jimmy Durante) to prevent welfare agencies from taking possession of his child; the efforts of his female assistant (Sally Eilers) to make him see that this can easily be accomplished by a second marriage. The inevitable riot scene...
...plot briefly concerns the newspaper career of a divorce-murder mixup in which Miss Bennett and some socialite friends of hers are involved. She is working for Mr. Gable's paper and is alternately hired and fired as his moods dictate. Finally he himself is fired for breaking a somewhat slandercus story about his girl reporter's society companions. Doing a bit of free lance journalistic detective work with the help of Stuart Erwin, he finally wrings a confession from a scoundrel of society and then completes the job by marrying Miss Bennett at four in the morning. All very...
...perhaps Messrs. Woollcott and Williams too) seemed to indicate. It is the theme of The Fatal Curiosity, by George Lillo, first acted in London in 1736. The plot is the same as in the later versions. The son returns, meaning to surprise his parents; they murder him, discovering just too late who he is; the father kills his wife, then himself. The time of the play is in the reign of James I, and the plot has been traced to a pamphlet printed in 1618. The story may probably be much older. The original title under which the play...
...plot briefly concerns the trials the family of a husband murdering mother goes through after she has been acquitted, the family be it understood being of a far more different ilk than the homicidal wife. They are far more sensitive to the infamy and whisperings which are theirs than she who has been the cause of it. The husband-killer is most ably played by Lillian Foster who succeeds admirably in making herself as thoroughly despicable and disgusting as anyone possibly could wish. There is, however, a strange contrast to her entrance into her old home for the first time...
...that it is short and quick-moving; there are no irrelevant episodes. The brevity of the book and the author's eagerness to make his point obviate the possibility of creating anything more than "type" characters. The same things account also perhaps for the melodramatic nature of the plot. It is unfortunate that melodrama should be carried over from plot to style and that much of the dialogue and some of the narrative of "Taps" should be so strongly suggestive of the worst manner of scenario writers for the early thrillers of the silent movies...