Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midst of the 15-acre Vanderbilt plot adjoining the Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp, Staten Island, there arose almost 70 years ago a great mausoleum (see cut) in which lie 54 coffins including those of the old Commodore; his son William Henry; his grandsons Cornelius, George Washington, William Kissam; his great-grandson Reginald and his great-great-grandson William K. Jr. Last week Mrs. Vanderbilt was put away with those who, in the words read by Dr. Brooks from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, "are henceforth blessed . . . for they rest from their labors...
...bashful bank clerk Kent Taylor. He accomplishes his purpose when he discovers the balking horse he has sold Miss Venuable can trot if coaxed by singing. After persuading kent Taylor to bet on the horse, he does his share on the singing end of it. While the plot is weak. Will Rogers makes David Harum an enjoyable evening...
...plot, concerning, a lost pain who are shot down one by one, is uncomplicated, almost too simple. If there is a point, it must be the futility of war. However, we found the picture just a bill disappointing...
...plot is manifold. Its principal current centers about the life and emotions of a sensitive, but in the main, ordinary man, with the life of a sample -- an ineffectual sample -- of humanity. Subsidiary to the development of this idea are three minor threads: a choral rendition of the epic of the Argonauts, obviously designed to emphasize the ultimate continuity of the chief functions of life: a train of satirically treated episodes of everyday life, and the intermittent presentation of personifications of those influences which have played a major part in forming the character of the hero. This...
...White (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) stays well inside the stern plot of Sidney Kingsley's play which is one of this year's strong contenders for the Pulitzer Prize. Dr. George Ferguson (Clark Gable) is an able young surgeon interning at St. George's Hospital. His fiancee, Laura Hudson (Myrna Loy), feels that he pays too much attention to his job, too little to her. When she snubs him for postponing an engagement, he spends a careless night with a pretty resident nurse (Elizabeth Allan). The result of this misdemeanor is the gruesome climax of Men in White...