Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Majestic "Song O' My Heart". Mostly John McCormack, although there is some pretense at a plot...
...heroine's feelings are almost as difficult to follow as Mr. Eyre's labyrinthine plot. But you must remember that you are observing specimens of the loftiest social strata who may be expected to have the most delicate and complex sensibilities. Even the butler is a deposed Russian striving to stifle his sense of nobility as well as his love for the heroine. And there is always the pleasure of hearing aristocrats indulging in their little jocosities, such as. "Adenoids are meant to be heard, not seen...
...these left without at least two prizes for his employer.* Outstanding among the gardeners was Miss Marie L. Constable's able, bushy-mustached James Stuart. He it was who arranged, on a plot of approximately 600 sq. ft., Miss Constable's breathtaking Yellow Garden which won the large silver cup presented by the Royal Horticultural Society. Pale ferns, towering yellow acacias and mimosas hung over a narrow path, accented with deep orange clumps of a kind of South African flowering pineapple, professionally known as imantophyllum, more popularly Clivia...
...Strange Case of District Attorney M (German). While this was being made in Germany, a much more effective picture with exactly the same plot-Her Private Affair-was released in the U. S. In the imported version, Marie Jacobeni plays the part of the state prosecutor's wife who has murdered her blackmailing onetime lover. Miss Jacobeni, who looks a lot like Bebe Daniels, is fairly competent, but not enough of a genius to make credible or even intelligible the artificial story, jerkily presented and badly photographed. Typical shot: the murderess coming back to her box at the opera...
...spite of an ever so slight sententiousness, "Capansacchi" as played by Walter Hampden last night was a thoroughly excellent drama played with intelligence. Browning's "The Ring and the Book" which formed the plot for the production is materially preserved although considerably condensed. The essential idea of truth and the characteristic "live to make the world better" are still the motivating influences of the drama, but the discussion is confined to Canon Caponsacchi and his view of the case...