Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to please. Characters are dripping in over doses of local color this time its the corn tassels of Iowa with a fair share of effete Eastern gawdiness. The singing by Miss Gaynor and Mr. Farrell is every way similar to their efforts in "Sunny Side Up" while the plot is just another version of Cinderella reversed or the Perfume Counter dream. But the point is that this is not Ibsen but Janet Gaynor assisted by Charles Farrell...
Last week Senator Norris, perceiving a plot, moved to discharge the Shortridge Committee from further consideration of his measure. In parliamentary practice such a motion is the next thing to an insult to a committee's chairman, because, by its adoption, the chairman is rudely thrust aside and the measure buried in his committee may be yanked from beneath him to the Senate floor...
...wedding in Manhattan. The complications, song cues and jokes are mainly occasioned by her unique naivete, in contrast with the worldly wisdom of a fat man and an actress whom she meets on the trip and re-encounters in her baffled adventures at a bachelor's apartment. The plot is furthered by a gunshot on a Pullman car, causing the fat comic to poke crude fun at a little girl who is traveling with her mother...
...form. This evening, as a part of its "Review Week" program, the University Theater offers a last opportunity to see the loving brother triumphant, the noble innocent acquitted, and the guilty confounded in one dramatic toss of the knife. The popularity of the screen version lies in an ingenious plot, ably unravelled by Norma Shearer and the competent Lewis Stone. Its difficulties lie in its adaptation from the original play. The lack of variety in scene and the preponderance of long speeches, compensated on the legitimate stage by the direct contact with audience, avoids monotony by a small margin...
...Candle Light" which is now playing at the Wilbur is another of the sophisticated Viennese comedies with all of the leading characters parading under a title, real or assumed. The plot is not particularly unusual, but it offers considerable opportunity for appropriate cleverness, which, if not realized to its fullest extent, is still well enough done to make a thoroughly amusing play...