Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time's nick Igniter Fawkes was apprehended and the historic "Gunpowder Plot" failed; but every year thereafter Royal guards have searched the Parliamentary cellars just before the King was scheduled to open Parliament...
...weighty prose of a Bulwer-Lytton historical drama-is spoken in an unconvincing approximation of what the playwright imagines to be Elizabethan speech. The play can have little suspense, for bright theatregoers are aware of the facts in the story, and few startling liberties are taken with the traditional plot to add spectator-interest. The background is supplied by the stuffed figures of Raleigh, Cecil, Bacon. Although the season's first appearance of the Theatre Guild's famed Lunt & Fontanne is a perennial signal for critical hosannas, Elizabeth The Queen remains the sort of thing worst done...
...plot is the usual comedy of an inefficient shoe salesman who accidentally rises in social standing for an evening, finds himself a gentleman stow-away on the "Malolo" going from Honolulu to San Francisco in company with the head of his firm and his boss's pretty secretary of whom our hero is enamoured. He makes his escape two jumps ahead of the Captain in a mail sack on board an airplane in a ship-to-shore service, only to be landed in Los Angeles on a painter's platform on the side of a skyscraper. At that point...
...five minutes after it was made not to mention the theatre, she expounded her theory of what the American theatre has to offer in the way of development. Miss Kennedy is a firm believer in the use of dress, settings, and a minimum of makeup to accentuate development of plot or character when the lines are not nearly sufficient. She used illustrations profusely from "Michael and Mary" to prove her points. Miss Kennedy emphasized the fact that all the latest hits of New York were decidedly the other extreme from the realism so popular a few seasons age. "Green Pastures...
...plot of "La Grande Duchesse et le Garcon d'Etage," is laid in modern France and centers around an attractive young girl, Xenia, who, with her uncle, the pompous Grand Duke Paul, and her cousin the Grand Duke Pierre, has been exiled by the Russian revolution...