Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PUZZLE FOR PLAYERS-Patrick Quentin -Simon & Schuster ($2). Murder interrupts the rehearsals of a Broadway show. Rich plot, crackling dialogue, authentic Broadway setting...
EVEN DOCTORS DIE-Lindsay Anson-Crime Club ($2). Reporter Peter Allen sticks his neck out when he tries to solve the murders of two famed British doctors and a nurse. Provocative plot, mixing a hard-boiled American manner with stiffish Scotland Yard technique...
...story of Gunga Din, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and made into a screen play by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol, appears to be a sort of Anglo-Indian Three Musketeers. What plot there is concerns the efforts of two sergeants to persuade the third to re-enlist when his period of service expires. This entails much hand-to-hand fighting against a band of Thugs, a few barrack-room practical jokes and frequent athletic tricks of the sort popularized by Master Fairbanks' father. Funny, spectacular, and exciting, Gunga Din reaches its climax when the liveliest sergeant...
Then everybody goes back to his House and has fresh hamburg steak for dinner. It is all a plot of the University to provide the Housemen with tender meat
...idea of his own strength. Furthermore, the dialogue is lean and vivid, and the supporting parts are so created as to add an undercurrent of unavoidable tragedy. The very simplicity of the story and its treatment gives the play a certain tenderness and poignancy, and the plot moves nervously and swiftly towards the doom which hangs over these men and their dream of the life they will never...