Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Papen-Hitler Plot. First sign that the von Schleicher Cabinet might be cracked by the same, sort of intrigue that made it, came when Hitler & von Papen, both smarting in eclipse, met at Cologne for a night conference (TIME, Jan. 16). Soon afterward they were joined by "The Hearst of Germany," small, cyclonic Nationalist Party Leader Dr. Alfred Hugenberg and, reputedly, by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, famed during his six years as president of the Reichsbank...
...faintly autobiographical plot: Sally was a débutante, but she "wanted to know people who do things, do things myself." She fell in love with Tom, who was dangerous and did nothing, but "money gave him power and power is becoming to a man." Tom was gentle with her, kissed her a few times, then went away. Sally was heartbroken, tried taking a hot bath in her nightgown and sitting beside an open window, hoping to get pneumonia and die. She did not die, but a truck hit her one day and when she woke up she wanted...
...uncommonly good judgment in casting Clara Bow. She has had scenarios written for her which called for an alternation of negligee and evening clothes in swift succession, allowing Clara to display her own particular charms in her own inimitable manner; the situation has not been clouded with acting and plot and all that. However, in "Call Her Savage," now at the University, Hollywood has gypped the customers. Not that Clara doesn't get plenty of chances to display those well-known charms; she does, much. But there is so much unadulterated tripe in the way of scenaric pathos and bathos...
...plot is utterly stupid. It carries Nasa Springer, a wild little Texas ranch girl, from flirtation with a handsome half-breed in a sylvan glen to fortune and notoriety in the big city, and then back again to the sylvan glen and the knowledge that she loves the half-breed after all. In the course of her adventures she runs the gamut of engagement, marriage, separation, motherhood, prostitution for her baby's sake, divorce, and gigolo-hiring, before she at last finds true love in the arms of good old Moonglow, the Indian. Not content with this, the scenario writers...
Cohan). Found on a park bench chatting familiarly with the pigeons, the bum has told the tycoon a story of his life. The tycoon, astounded by a renegade with elements of greatness, offers Parker hospitality, grudgingly refused. A neat plot, promising an idea play, skitters at that point into Pirandello-echoing lunacy...