Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brick-&-concrete structures on a 50-acre plot have been placed a collection of specially designed radio instruments. Dials and switches are strung along on racks as in a power station. Headphone connections are scattered on tables. Three Diesel engines run 50-kilowatt generators. Upstairs are sleeping quarters with a kitchen, so operators may live through a Nebraska blizzard. Outside on poles are miles and miles of antenna wire. One great loop is suspended 60 ft. above the flat ground. New York is brought into range with a Beveridge directional antenna. Other loops are pointed at London, Porto Alegre Brazil...
...Virtuous Sin (Paramount). A strange effort toward sophistication in the manner of Sardou, The Virtuous Sin falls between burlesque and melodrama. The plot, one of the silliest of dramatic stencils, concerns a Russian lady who saves her husband from a firing squad by making herself attractive to the General who has ordered his court-martial, only to find that she has fallen in love with the General. The General, acted as well as possible by Walter Huston, is known as "Iron Face." These are the sins of The Virtuous Sin; its single virtue is that it provides the first important...
...funny with his characteristic and workmanlike kind of comedy. He is an ambitious salesman in a Honolulu shoe store who falls in love with a girl whom he takes for an heiress but who is really a private secretary. Fortunately, not much attention is paid to the plot, except as a framework for gags. Such a gag is the sequence in which he makes some light social remarks about a titled Englishwoman whose name happens to be the same as that of a racehorse with which he is familiar. There is a gag with fishcakes...
...bread ever baked. A burglar willy-nilly witnesses a death scene, is converted by it, comes forward to explain, is arrested. An old man knows he is a burden, takes care that his suicide shall give as little trouble as possible. Zona Gale has seen through the salability of plot to the necessity of a story. Her prosy people are simplified into poetics...
...Players, A. A. Milne's "Michael and Mary", has the elements of what is generally thought of as a charming English comedy. By no means the best of Mr. Milne's plays, Miss Kennedy and an able cast succeed in presenting it in a thoroughly entertaining manner. The disjointed plot that jumps from 1905 to 1930 without much continuity is not exactly exciting, but the author's gentle wit saves the play from becoming dull...