Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...churches, convention halls go elderly, placid people, some blind, some lame or halt, who might not have gone out since the last Chautauqua or travelog in the church basement. They see "Seth Parker and his Jonesport Neighbors" performed with no "props" save a fireplace, chairs and the melodeon. Of plot the entertainment has little; to get the actors off stage for intermission it is necessary to pretend they are all going out for supper. The acting is unpretentious, the comedy naive, such as when Seth gets his foot tangled in a carpet while beating time to music...
...stencilled plot of The Champ might not have tempted many of Hollywood's directors, but it was rich to the taste of Director King Vidor. Far from being ashamed of such an unblushing tearjerker, he laid on pathos with a steam-shovel. Big, ugly, shambling Beery did likewise and little Cooper, whose salary for such undertakings is $1,500 a week, gave a thoroughgoing performance in the same key. Utterly false and thoroughly convincing, The Champ is a monument to the cinema's skill in achieving second-rate perfection. Good shots: Beery dressing when he has a horrible...
...part that made her a cinema star, as she had been a stage star 25 years before,* came later-a bit in Anna Christie. Said Cinemactress Dressier: "They make you a star and then you starve. All I want is a small part to come in and upset the plot...
...Cambridge fire station, to be erected on the plot of land between Memorial Hall and the Yard, will be of Colonial Georgian architecture, to conform with the Harvard buildings, according to information received yesterday. A preliminary appropriation has been made by the city council, and an architect will be appointed shortly, Mayor R. M. Russell '14 also stated. Work on the demolition of the Rogers Building, which now occupies this land, will begin as soon as plans are completed and construction of the station will be started during the present academic year...
...plot of land which will be the site of the new station was in the possession of the University until a few years ago when it was exchanged with the city of Cambridge for other land that was considered to be of more value in the expansion of the college. This was the first time in the history of the University that a piece of land had been allowed to fall into the hands of an outsider...