Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story starts slowly. The reader is more than halfway through before he realizes he is entangled in a plot. Fernanda Milbank gushes with the women while attracting an admiring group of their men. Casting about recklessly, she gets a strike from Jack Crawford, reduces him to her terms. The two plan an elopement. Jack postpones the fateful day, leaves for the city on business...
Candles in the Storm, despite its bloody climax, is a quiet tale of people who go to a summer colony to work. Its value does not depend upon its plot which holds its fragments together, but upon occasional flashes of insight into character...
Meanwhile Manchukuan troops under Japanese officers swooped out along the lines of C. E. R., arresting 46 station agents and engineers. They were taken to Harbin and jailed on the pretext that a plot had been discovered to assassinate hollow-eyed Emperor Kang Teh. According to the Japanese, bandit raids on C. E. R. have been financed by Soviet agents from the Red Army base at Khabarovsk. Finally last week the Imperial Japanese Army propaganda bureau in Tokyo issued what Russians interpreted as a threat that Japan means eventually to seize C. E. R. without paying Moscow so much...
...Clarence Budington Kelland had finished only the first chapter, offered suggestions to make the part more to his taste. When the story was finished Producer Lloyd was amazed to find that none of the antics which his private staff of "gagmen" usually arrange for him seemed to fit the plot. He finally accepted the advice of his director, Sam Taylor, to make the picture without his customary comedy inventions. Less dependent on its star than previous Lloyd products but almost equally hilarious. The Cat's Paw should win the plaudits of the Legion of Decency without boring its opponents...
...this mood, tall, gangling Governor Black went back to his beloved Atlanta, back to his $25,000 job, to his rambling house on a five-acre plot on fashionable Peachtree Street, to his place as the city's favorite after-dinner speaker. There with solemn face he will tell innumerable stories, never repeating himself, about how he is held down by his wife "Gussie,"?daughter of the late great Editor Henry Woodfin Grady of the Atlanta Constitution, burier of the bloody shirt, prophet of the "New South." There his friends will again remind him that he looks like Andy...