Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With such a motley array of characters there is material for many involved situations and a complicated plot. Starting in the first act with amusing repartee and witticisms by Lady Wyngate, one is left expectantly awaiting a light comedy. The second act, (in which the characters discuss socialism, Hitlerism, race prejudice, values in life,) gets further away from comedy and closes with a climax that is exceedingly melodramatic. The third act carries on the same theme, but the ending is disappointing and leaves one with a feeling that all the talk that has gone before has been futile and unnecessary...
...planned to marry on Thanksgiving Day. But last week Otto Van Derck spent what was to have been his wedding day in jail. He had confessed to aiding and abetting two of his B customers in a $54,000 swindle. His confession cracked in time's nick a dazzling plot to gut a life insurance company with $70,000,000 of policies in force...
When the Baiata gang stepped into Lincoln Life the biggest stockholder was Harmey B (for nothing) Hill, who stayed on as board chairman. Supposedly ignorant of the plot, he was nevertheless ousted by the authorities along with the Baiata regime. Last week newshawks found him still at his office, a quid in his cheek, a book on his desk called Why Worry? What did he have to say? "I'll have plenty to say?when the time comes...
...waiter are very amusing, and the songs. "Let's Knock Knees." "Needle in a Raystack." "The Continental," and Cole Porter's now classic "Night and Day" are effective. Miss Rogers' gorgeous lumbs are hidden beneath graceful gowns, which is too bad for Miss Rogers and Miss Rogers' fans. The plot is well, we'll skip the plots if you like plots you're wasting your time...
Beginning Thursday, December 6, the Paramount and Fenway Theaters will present "Gentlemen Are Born," a picture which should be of interest to every college student. Dealing frankly with the difficulties which beset newly-graduated college men, the plot is both thought-provoking and enlightening. Prominent among the members of the cast are Franchot Tone, Jean Muir, Margaret Lindsay, and Ann Dvorak. The companion feature will be "Hell in the Heavens," starring Richard Barthlemess...