Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Simeon Davison Fess last week to scent another dark plot. Said he: "Some leading Republicans are beginning to believe there is some concerted effort on foot to use the stockmarket as a method of discrediting the Administration. Every time an Administration official gives out an optimistic statement about business conditions, the market immediately drops...
...plot consists of a burning and temporarily thwarted romance between Rogers and the daughter of a socially ambitious mother. Helen ("Boop-boop-a-doop") Kane is in it and there are some handsome yacht scenes. Most interesting shot-Buddy Rogers lighting a cigaret before the camera for the first time in his career...
...plot has to do with the difficulties of one who suddenly finds himself transplanted from the present into the Eighteenth century. A charming old house in Berkley Square with its glamorous traditions of lovely ladies and powdered wigs forms the background in which the half-forgotten specters of the past are brought once more to life. Peter Standish, Leslie Howard, a man of the present with an Eighteenth century counter-part is enchanted by the historic flavor of the past with its sedan chairs and coaches, but when he finds himself immersed in the actualities that went along with this...
...power romance with oriental trappings forms the piece de resistance this week at R. K. O. Keiths. "East is West" starring Lupe Velez is a screen version of the play of the same name, which enjoyed a long and successful run. In spite of this the improbability of the plot is nearly too much of a handicap for the cast, who rescue the play from the depths of ham melodrama by skillful and intelligent acting. White slavery on the Chinese and San Francisco water fronts with the usual handsome young hero to rescue his fair maiden from the clutches...
...plot is swift, kaleidoscopic. Trapper Hero saves Dance-Hall Heroine from a fate worse than Death. Villain, a smooth little thing with a grin nothing can eradicate, admires Hero's prowess in the ensuing free-for-all, goes into partnership with him in the trapping business. Hero is brawny but brainless, is easily tricked by Villain, who runs off with Heroine to wicked Manhattan. When Hero discovers he has been bad, the forest suffers, his rage spares nothing. He sets out in pursuit. Meanwhile Villain's fortunes suffer. He encounters a penny-in-the-slot machine, tries...