Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land, the area of which is 4129 square feet, with the buildings thereon is situated at and now numbered 107 Plympton Street and 11 Riverview Avenue. Riverview Avenue is the short street running parallel to Memorial Drive and separated from it by a grass plot in front of McKinlock and Gore Halls. At present a portion of the University's newly acquired land is used for a residence: the remainder is devoted to a parking place used by residents of Lowell and Winthrop Houses...
...plot is worthless burlesque, & hopeless melange of the worst features of the worst detective "thrillers" that the cinema has produced. Professor Moriarty is there, but dull, asthmatic, licking his stupid Bapsburg chops Swearing revenge, the renovated Professor escapes from prison. One is not sure of the method, but there is a tumult of sirens, of whistles, of confused turnkeys slithering over smooth cement floors, of dead ones breathing heartily, hanging stiffly on steel staircases, & splendid tumult to make audiences forgive and forget. The rest is too much. There is a conglomeration of leers pineapples, cockney, forgeries, subway tunnels into bank...
...plot of the production hinges about a poor shopkeeper's family, which has risen to great wealth through a lucky number in a lottery. After tasting the pleasures acquired by its riches, the family returns to its former mode of life, which it considers far more enjoyable. Andre Lefaur, who created the original role of Topaze, in the recent play of the same name, which was produced in Franco before coming to this country, has the lead...
...which no one save the maid, Abby (Pauline Lord), has ever cherished. For a while it looks as if Mrs. Haggett had burned the pictures, that the only thing to do is swindle Abby out of her own portrait. Then the pictures.are found-and Abby blows the whole greedy plot to bits with an astonishing revelation. Shy, shrinking Actress Lord's last two parts (one before: The Truth About Blayds) have required her quietly to maintain a fierce loyalty to a dead genius. She does it excellently. Walter Connolly also has a typical role of frustration, performs capably...
...planter, returning home, is first informed that his dog Towser has died. By a slow process of revelation he subsequently learns that his stables, house and mother-in-law have been burned up, his wife run away with a drummer. Author Priestley's play presents the most complicated plot in town. A loves B who loves C who loves D, who has been found dead. Little by little, each member of the cast is forced to reveal what he or she knows of the death. On the surface, as the curtain rises, the Priestley puzzle-pieces are good companions...