Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scenario writers whose task is to portray the activities of the various gangs of racketeers, who shoot up the screen in many motion picture houses now must have exhausted their imaginations before the plot for "The Squealer" now current at the Keith Albee theatre, was concoted...
...built around a laugh-clown-laugh sequence in which a young Spanish singer, his heart broken when his sweetheart is taken away from him, outdoes himself as Canio in Pagliacci. Yet so skillful are detail, dialog, direction that the spectator is never concerned with the values of the plot as realism. Modern sound technique has transformed the old romantic design into a highly successful and credible operetta. Novarro sings Spanish folk songs, English foxtrots, Italian opera. He has one of those brilliantly cultivated concert tenors which are far more effective than operatic voices for the microphone. Little Dorothy Jordan plays...
...rate musicomedies.? Oldtime theatregoers who remember that lush melodrama The Bird of Paradise?in which Lenore Ulric, Laurette Taylor, Lewis Stone, Guy Bates Post once took part?did not find Arthur Hammerstein's florid musical adaptation, Luana, as successful entertainment as its progenitor. Tediously faithful to the original plot in which a princess of the Sandwich Islands marries a young U. S. doctor, only to lose him and destroy herself in a volcano as a sacrifice to her people, Producer Hammerstein has given his show an exceedingly dull and majestic pace...
...durbar of a past season called Rio Rita. There were a number of handsome U. S. citizens transplanted to a South American scene. They apparently had been having difficulty in locating a gold mine in the Andes which had once been worked to a profit by the Incas. The plot grows more Incandescent when it develops that Jack Haines (Guy Robertson) has fallen in love with a lady (Ethelind Terry) who has been despoiled of her father's gold claims. More or less abetting a scheme to ruin the U. S. prospectors and to snatch Miss Terry from Mr. Robertson...
...other elements, casting and plot, are well above average. Audiences go to melodramas expecting to be fooled, thrilled, and amused, and if this is what they expect to find at the Hollis, they will not be disappointed...