Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some reason the current melodrama at the Keith-Albee theatre entitled "Framed" fails to click. The plot has all the tapestries and bindings of original research; a little girl, who works in a Broadway Night-Club has a grudge against the police inspector who bears the colorful name of "Butch" McArthur. "Butch" has a son who succumbs to the lure of this revenge-harboring maiden; said maiden therefore has a splendid opportunity to send the revenge out of the harbor; nevertheless, she falls in love with the son and a happy reconciliation, consisting in putting several gangsters "on the spot...
...gamut of human emotion, from smiles and choking sobs to playing fast and loose with a whole, orchestra and the doorman thrown in for good measure. Only she, a detective, and the audience know that underneath it all she's a good girl. And despite the novelty of plot and histrionics, the picture doesn't get over...
...from the attitude of pure entertainment is the two-reel comedy "Blotto", the quintessence of which is entirely Laurel and Hardy. Under the direction of James Parrot, these slapstickers have raised the art of pie-slinging to a level surpassing everybody but, and equalling Monsieur Chaplin. The gags and plot are worse than mediocre but thanks to two exquisitely mobile faces Laurel and Hardy have their audience rolling about floors and tearing the distinctive features off armchairs...
...major new developments in Manhattan's financial district. First and most spectacular of the announcements was that Louis Adler, onetime dressmaker, now independent real estate operator and builder, had succeeded in assembling an entire square block in the Wall Street district. Although 23 minutes after the last plot had been bought Mr. Adler could have sold at a profit, he is going ahead with plans for a 105-story office building...
...other project is for a building, probably at, least 63 stories high, on the plot adjacent to Mr. Adler's. It will be built for Henry L. Doherty & Co. as the first unit of a chain of skyscrapers. Unique features will include five entrances, escalators for the first seven floors, double-decked elevators of which the upper compartments will stop at odd floors, lower compartments at even ones...