Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comment on "Dance Hall" now playing at the Keith-Albee Theater must necessarily be limited by the facts that the theater was pleasantly darkened and the waking hours of the reviewer few. It is difficult to determine the exact relation of Vina Delmar, authoress of "Bad Girl" with the plot of this production. Surely there is nothing so dowdily moral as the morality of a cheap Dance Hall as portrayed upon the screen. Yet, the fact remains that the sociologist who may go to gain information on the correct dance gestures and colloquial idiom of the truly jazzy will probably...
...story glorifies the Demos with "Gee, Honey," and "Oh Yeah?" until it all comes out right in the end. The characterization is intensely realistic. Much praise is due to the cast, especially to Arthur Lake, for assuming Mormonism so successfully. The plot contains all forms of interest save the one that might make them interesting, the most virulent source of its pathos being unrequited love tenderly softened by the inevitable strains of "A Boy's Best Friend is his Mother." The only reasons for subjection to this form of entertainment are Olive Borden and the desire to refresh dimming memories...
...first two years of production, "The Rogue Song", feature picture at the University, is an excellent anodyne for the sentimental slop which has heretofore been the offering of the latest vehicle in dramatic art. "The Rogue Song" has its theme song, its choruses, lavish sets, Technicolor and melodramatic plot, as have countless other musical productions issued from the studios. The distinction is that of the artist...
...attractively nude but meaningless chorus. And in addition to this he has taken care to emphasize the most atractive points of his stars so that at the end one is given a most tremendous impression of their capabilities. But out of it all one fact remains, the plot was only fair, the characterization was caricature, the music not startling but it was Janet Gaynor and consequently an excellent movie...
...actors in the scrubwomen drama whose parts range all the way from the "heavy" in quest of the "good" to the song and dance performers, of whom there are only too few, are becoming more and more involved in the plot. Can the co-authors straighten out the parts and the cues? The audience is getting ped and in case the wrong man gets shot, is there a doctor in the house...