Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene is laid in Oklahoma Territory at the turn of the century. The plot: Curly (Franchot Tone of Hotel Universe and Pagan Lady), a happy broncobuster, woos and wins Laurey (June Walker), who mortally fears & hates a psychopathic farm hand (Richard Hale) in her employ. During the wedding party Mr. Hale ignites a hayrick, falls on his own knife in a scuffle with Mr. Tone. Mr. Tone is held for questioning but escapes to his new wife. There the play ends, with the cowboys singing "Green Grow the Lilacs" offstage...
...reading public, aware of Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh's reaction to lurid publicity, may easily have guessed what his mental processes were when he saw advertised in last week's newspapers: "HOW LINDBERGH SMASHED THE CONSTANCE MORROW DEATH PLOT! . . . revealed ... in every true detail [in] True Detective Mysteries...
...trapped.) Colonel Lindbergh flew Anne. Elisabeth. Constance and their mother to the Morrow summer home in Maine for a secluded visit, thence back to their Englewood, N. J. home where the newshawk army, unaware of all that had occurred, laid siege for news of the impending wedding. But the "plot" had by no means been "smashed...
...Life as his class of person finds it today, a scrutiny that is very telling, sure of itself, well-expressed. The book is less a novel than a collection of notes and lectures on love, life, death, marriage, divorce, and as such has much to commend it. The plot and characters do not stand up under the pressure of expressing so much weighty thought...
...took Ared White three hundred pages to develop the intricacies of the plot so it can not possibly be done here, and anyway it would spoil the fun of the thing. Roughly the story deals with a brave young American who unravels the devious threads of a great Boche plan to sterm Paris. The sex interest is supplied by a Spanish vixen and a handsome, undecipherable German girl. The former has sold herself to the Vaterland. Her chief job is to lure innocent American spys into the tolls of the German intelligence office through her unlimited supply of passion...