Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time, but produces a photograph which Mac and Tommy, N. P. Farquhar '32 and S. C. Dorman '33, recognize as their big "moment". A chorus of biddies sing appropriate versions of well known songs, "Servant Girls Scrub", and "Old Charles River", were ones we remembered. The conflict in the plot takes the form of a slick-haired product of the most polished clique of society, who soon becomes engaged to the girl, J. H. Pearson '32. This occurs much to the operatic dismay of the hero, P. S. Carter '34, who deplores the situation in "Love is the Blues...
...very British in tone, and deals with the complications that follow when a country vicar's daughter reverts to Victorian crinolines in order to win a journey to London, and, ultimately, a husband, together with her twin sister's less devious route to the same goals. The plot is rather more involved than is usual on the contemporary stage. It abounds in "character" parts which require considerable adroitness from the actors, and more experience, perhaps, than undergraduates can supply. There was little wit but much humor in the dialogue, none of it conspicuously original in tone. Reminiscences...
...Amelia, the youngest of the Tweedles, shockingly sweet and innocent, was stirred by the glimpse of a strange man. She fainted then, and she fainted again at the sight of Wrigley. Around this case of love at first sight, and the woefully muddling impersonation of Smythe by Wrigley, the plot proceeds to heights of hilarious comedy, and closes with the eventual reconciliation. If all the play were as satisfying as the second act, it would be a classic. As it is, there are moments of brilliance, in a rather bumpy plot...
Suspense is retained until the end in a manner as logical as possible for so improbable a plot. We like the clever and unobtrusive employment of local color, the same condensation of a day of terrific action, and above all the work of Douglas Fairbanks...
...rather beautiful divorce-lawyer's secretary is asked in holy matrimony by a young hospital interne. She refuses to indulge in more than an extralegal mesalliance because her employer's many unhappy clients have embued her with a fear of marriage. Producers saw the novelty coincident to reversing the plot of the deserted girl. Abandoned by the honest young man, our maiden decides to play an age--old game with the none too platonic lawyer. She soon moves into an apartment of a magnificence which only movie "prop" mon can know. She fails to develop her side of the relationship...