Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ready fashion. One prisoner secretes a pair of wire clippers under her pillow. The heroine (Sylvia Sidney) helps her snip at a fence which separates the prison yard from a bay. The jailbreak fails, but since Sylvia Sidney is unjustly imprisoned she gets out before the picture ends. The plot framework which surrounds the prison scenes is diverting and well constructed, but basically improbable. It has to do with a gangster who pays attention to Miss Sidney, gets rid of his old girl by sending her to jail, vengefully shoots a detective because Miss Sidney marries someone else...
...enemy ship's searchlight flashing on the wall of the stateroom in which the lady is sequestered?but it is otherwise slim pickings. Aided by Walter Huston, in a mustache, as the captain, and Warren William, as an admirer, Lil Dagover is distressed by circumstances of plot and dialog like those which have hampered other recent debuts of imported stars. She tries hard but all her part gives her a chance to show is a strong facial resemblance to Lynn Fontanne and a willingness to do better next time...
Donna Juanita, like Boccaccio, is the sort of operetta people enjoyed 50 years ago. It has a cluttered plot in which a French cadet (Jeritza) disguises himself as a woman, foils the British enemy and emerges a lieutenant. There are the usual marches, waltz tunes, love duets and. as in the remodeled Boccaccio, asides in colloquial English. Boccaccio was good for eight performances because the production was brisk, because earnest German singers looked funny cavorting about the stage, because light opera becomes the Viennese Jeritza. Donna Juanita should prosper briefly for the same reasons. The production is even faster, more...
Following with naive exactitude the plot of Marlene Dietrich's "Dishonored", "Mata Hari" tells the story of the fascinating secret agent of the Central Powers who is employed to extract priceless secrets from allied officers but eventually sacrifices honor and country for love. Afterwards comes the scene in the sombre prison. As in "Dishonored", the heroine in one sequence seats herself at the piano, plays stirring tunes while her lover watches. Ramon Navarro is the young officer who falls victim...
...McMillan is a creditable heroine. Notably missing from this year's production is blond, birdlike, ballet-dancing Harry Dunham of last year's show?much to the relief of those graduates who were beginning to wonder if Princeton's female impersonators were not getting too good. The somewhat garbled plot of Spanish Blades is extracted from Carmen, The Barber of Seville, Don Quixote...