Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many a Manhattan playgoer was reminded by the Bischoff girl's suicide of the plot of Five Star Final, the year's newspaper melodrama on Broadway. In that play, written in anger and bitterness by Louis Weitzenkorn (onetime managing editor of Macfadden's Evening Graphic), the managing editor of a New York tabloid undertakes to find out what has become of a famed courtesan of 20 years back, who had been acquitted of murder. The newshawks find her respectably married. Their screeching story breaks on the wedding day of the woman's daughter. Grief-stricken...
...London theatrical season last year. The title itself is taken from a code signal used by the British Navy during the recent war, meaning "Prepare for battle". The play has been likened to a "Journey's End" on the sea, but its scope is less restrictive, and the plot carries over into the present day in timely fashion. While many all-male-cast plays have tended to show the effect of war on men. "B.J.One" tends rather to show the effect...
...plot is chiefly concerned with the machinations of young Mrs. Chalfont to procure the Governorship of the Island of Ardor for her husband, who is obviously the man for the job, but who is by nature too modest and retiring to fight...
...suggests the balancing of a hippopotamus by a giraffe or another architectural nightmare like the balancing of the Indoor Athletic Building by the Lowell House Tower. (I would suggest that Memorial Hall by torn down and the Chapel erected in its place until the next war comes along. The plot of ground between Broadway and Kirkland Street might well be consecrated to a succession of memorials...
...requires a much higher degree of skill to produce a happy ending, which seems convincing, than a tragic one. Here the plot and characters are convincing enough, but as in so many last acts, there seems to be a faltering and as labored effect to tie together all the loose ends. The action there goes on in retrospect in the mind of Bruce, and as I read this stream of memories I felt that the author was perhaps groping for something that he had not quite found. Also, at the very end the shifting of emphasis to the part fate...