Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Police found on one suspect a copy of what Scotland Yard officials called the '"S-Plot" or secret instruction issued by the I. R. A. Main points: Sabotage Britain's industrial life, join Britain's civilian defense corps to "look respectable," gain access to wartime supply depots, raise hell...
...dear to British children of all ages. Produced by the left wing Unity Theatre Club, Inc., Babes in the Wood keeps out of the Lord Chamberlain's censorship clutches by being privately performed before "club members" who pay, not admission, but two shillings extra dues. Partly using the plot of the old fairy tale, Babes in the Wood introduces Chamberlain-umbrella and all -as "The Wicked Uncle," Hitler and Mussolini as "The Robbers." A Cabinet meeting at No. 10 Downing Street takes place in a privy with No. 10 painted on the door. Another scene shows the Cliveden...
...authors' fond hope, in portraying such girlish fun, "to capture the spirit of New York's glittering and legendary years." To their idyllic plot they have added an atmosphere as romantic as a pair of handcuffs, a sty's-the-limit vulgarity. To those who were not of theatre age in 1900, / Must Love Someone gives the impression that the Florodora Sextet included such glamor girls of the past as Red Light Annie, Chicago May and Lizzie Borden...
...mistress is a Fascist spy. Though he is warned by his son and a mysterious detective, he tolerantly overlooks their youthful extremism. By the time he catches on, the Fascist armies are rolling in and the Professor is in prison, marked for execution "while attempting to escape." In plot, The Professor might be called downright hackneyed, but no anti-fascist novel has contained more skilful individual scenes-the Professor looking over a display of stylish gas masks, listening to soap-boxers in the park, his encounter with an old classmate turned Fascist, his dreams following a narrow escape from assassination...
...movie cast has little substance upon which to build their characterizations. Burgess Mcredith's radical Quillery suffers especially from this limitation; Edward Arnold as the munition manufacturer is a bestial villain--which was certainly not Sherwood's intention in writing the play. Even the essential structure of the plot itself has been changed to suit movie audiences;--the pathetic attempt to tack a happy ending on a basically tragic plot detracts greatly from the dramatic force of the play...