Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theatre Guild has collected seven pretty girls, a gang of cowboys, some border ballads, and a good many dirty jokes, which it has woven into a play that is called, for want of anything better, "Green Grow The Lilacs." When all this was done a plot involving a swash-buckling cowhand, a shy young maiden, and a villian whose hands dripped with the blood of past crimes, was added for the sake of convention. The result is supposed to represent the Indian Territory...
...pretty shoddy production. The ponderous vulgarity of Lynn Riggs is unrelieved by any really good acting, and the dialogue is drab and interminable. Anyone who goes to the movies knows the plot. After a painfully long time the villian lies dead by his own uncalculating hands and the hero and heroine are safe in a bedroom. Something of the same idea has been used before...
Breaking away from the fraternity's tradition of presenting revivals of Elizabethan Drama such as Jonson's "Alchemist" and Dekker's "Shoemaker's Holiday". "The Dumb Boy of Manchester" deals with the melodramatic plot of a dumb hero accused of murder which he cannot explain. His sister, the virtuous heroine and wife of the villain, finally reveals the fact that her husband committed the murder, and he kills himself...
...only one respect could Professor Ramzin's confession be called defective. He admitted that on his trips to London and Paris he never actually talked face to face with the men he named as the brains and backers of the plot: Oilman Sir Henri Deterding, Raymond Poincare who during some of the visits was Prime Minister of France, Lord Churchill* and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand...
...Governor is convinced that the condemned brother is innocent, that another Sing Sing inmate (fortunately present, serving a stretch for forgery) is really the man who murdered the sister's betrayer, the crime which the innocent boy came within an ace of expiating. The script is abominable, the plot rather well designed...