Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though Dancing Lady conforms to the rule that all cinemusicals have the same plot and the same characters, it is not a carbon copy. It is Forty-Second Street in sables. All dance directors in the cinema are serious and frenetic artists but Clark Gable is more morbidly devoted to his routines than Warner Baxter in Warner Brothers musicals. Franchot Tone takes his burlesque girl to his country home with more snobbish head-wagglings than those used for similar purposes by Buddy Rogers in Take a Chance. In her serious characterization of Janie Barlow as an inspired, warm-hearted runaway...
...dancers, stocky little Bill Robinson, slaps his soles against the floor with classic virtuosity. Plump Edith Wilson, scrawny Kathryn Perry sing ably, gaily. The stage crawls with conventional Negro comedians, making fun of Negroes for white entertainment. Eddie Hunter explains to two friends the Eugene O'Neill plot of what he calls the Emperor Bones. It leads into an Emperor Jones jungle bacchanal, feathered, furred and plumed, gaudy and impressive...
...more incredible hocus-pocus is put forth by Edward Robinson in a piece called "Musical Slaughter-House"; with remarkably little solid evidence to support him, he advances the thesis that the appeal made to the people last spring to support the Metropolitan Opera by monetary contributions was really a plot of the directors to retain their control and block any efforts to move into a new theatre...
Author Anderson's plot makes more sense than history: Mary and Bothwell fall in love at once. Mary marries Darnley for mistaken policy, sends Bothwell away. Darnley wrecks himself and Mary by playing in with the Lords, knifes Mary's secretary Rizzio on suspicion of adultery, thus unwittingly giving a spurious confirmation to the lie Elizabeth has spread about her kinswoman. The Lords then murder Darnley, shift the blame to Bothwell when he marries Mary. They defeat Mary and Bothwell in battle. Mary escapes from their jail into Elizabeth's jail and her tragedy waits only...
...plot is farcically fantastic. A Philadelphia nightclub dancer (Polly Walters) reaches Princeton, almost naked in her flight from the scene of a murder. She baby-talks four undergraduates who occupy one dormitory entry into hiding her in their rooms until the police hunt blows over. One of the boys tells his father, a cinema executive, about her. The father and his assistant (Charles D. Brown) decide to exploit the girl and her romantic situation preparatory to signing her for a cinema. In the course of so doing, the dean gets knocked out, the senior (John Beal) who hit him, loses...