Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reference to the letter and review [of The No-Nation Girl in TIME, Aug. 11, may I call your attention to two mistakes made in stating the plot? Allow me to quote from the first paragraph of chapter 5. "Cliff Dale could not have been called a northerner." He was purposely created a composite. His mother a "luxury loving daughter of a plantation owner of the traditional grand style." His father was from Pennsylvania. Cliff spent about half of his time in the south with his uncle, thus he was both by inheritance and environment about half and half...
...long on the stage, an adaptation arranged in flashbacks, directed by Clarence Brown, with Lewis Stone as the middle-aged lover to whom Garbo returns after an interlude with a clergyman. For some reason the script makes her an Italian soprano. This detail, superficial, but salient in the plot, is the only thing in the picture that is silly. The simple expedient of altering the tag of the opera-singer to "Swedish Contralto" would have removed the skepticism which must afflict audiences through their realization that the bell-like head-tones heard issuing from a ballroom could not possibly...
Sheriff Cahoon, mysterious, refused to divulge his evidence, hinted at a plot "to get control of gambling and booze on the east coast." Publisher Eberhardt complained he had been harassed for a year, charged his arrest was a "political plot." Governor Carlton was "not surprised" to hear of the alleged conspiracy against...
...Turkish Foreign Office has started an official investigation and has promised to provide documentary evidence of the complicity of at least one European power in the conflict . . . a plot centering around the organization of an independent Kurd republic which could grant oil concessions to European financiers...
Queen High (Paramount). Although this was a successful Broadway musical show four years ago even such talented entertainers as Charles Ruggles and Frank Morgan can hardly make a fair program picture out of it in its present form. The trouble is that the plot has been padded with pointless routine fooling and the old songs replaced with poorer though newer ones, badly sung. It still, however, contains that fine scene in which two partners in a tottering garter business draw a poker hand to decide which shall serve as the other's butler for a year...