Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of a man's rise from a $35-a-week job at a stockyard to the position of king of bootleggers and his subsequent descent from this lofty position to the death house forms the plot of this picture. Few if any of the underworld's methods of self-advancement could have been left out in the telling of this tale. Crossing and double-crossing are apparently part of the daily business of the gunman. Of course, and enterprising reporter is also woven, into the story and, as usual, is "put on the spot" when he "learns too much...
...which the gangsters who were going to take Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney for a ride are themselves taken for a ride. The story is made valid by such details and is no less properly in the Hugo tradition if several of its episodes are entirely incredible, the plot tenuous. When the action makes orderly headway it is concerned with the difficulties that oppose the happiness of Miss Sidney and Gary Cooper, who works in a shooting gallery but later becomes a beer runner. Typical shot: Guy Kibbee murdering a friend while he shakes hands with...
...School of St. John's College, Brooklyn. He is still shy, scholarly and a Dickens enthusiast but he does not take himself so seriously as he did at 13. The Tale of Two Cities, he decided not long ago, might make a good operetta if the plot were juggled around a bit. Charles Darnay might become a conventional villain, Sidney Carton could escape and go back to Lucy, sedate Miss Pross could become a comedienne called Prossie. . . . He proceeded haltingly to pick out tunes on the piano...
Thoroughgoing, Wilson also explained how the French plot was foiled, though every Moscovite already knows. It was foiled, the people of Russia are told to believe, by the Ogpu (Soviet Secret Police) who exposed during the "propaganda trials" at Moscow last year the invasion prepared at Paris. During those trials there was no mention of President Hoover or Mr. Legge; but astute Wilson has now supplied them as the missing links...
Cracked Nuts (Radio). This is a nonsense comedy of which the humor, if any, depends on seeing Edna May Oliver, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey go through their routines on the same set. The plot is a contest between Wheeler and Woolsey for the mythical kingdom of Eldorania which Woolsey believes he owns because he won it in a crap game with a former ruler, and which Wheeler claims because he bought an Eldoranian revolution for $100,000. Unfortunately such gags as the long dialog in which the word "well," used as an interjection, is dragged through every possible shade...