Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public could view it. Later a simple service would be held at All Souls' Unitarian Church on 16th Street where Mr. Taft regularly worshipped. The sons left the White House to motor across the Potomac with Col. Hodges to Arlington National Cemetery. There they selected an interment plot on a wooded slope over-looking Washington, a few hundred feet from the grave of Abraham Lincoln's son Robert Todd...
...picture progresses. Miss Chatterton has the role of a young German girl who, as a vaudeville actress, marries her worthless partner. In a fit of anger, he runs off with their baby son. The picture traces Sarah's rise from vaudeville to grand opera, as a sort of sub-plot to her struggles to regain her boy from the family in whose custody her husband had left it. There is a minor love-story which does not obtrude upon the main theme. The story covers a period of some fifteen years, and for once the clothing of the characters...
This week's bill at the Keith Albee, however, is an exception to that rule, for both the picture and the vaudeville is of the highest type. "Wedding Bells" featuring Lois Wilson and H. B. Warner is an unusually good movie, with its plot of an entirely different type from the average run of pictures...
...been divorced by her husband. She goes to work as a dancer in a roof garden show and after a while becomes the mistress of the resort's richest habitue. All daring stuff when Miss Griffith made Lilies of the Field as a silent picture, the little plot seems mild enough now, and its denouement, in which the girl marries her lover, can be foreseen by the end of the first reel. Corinne Griffith's charm is the only thing that gets it over, but it is obvious at times that she is uneasy too, especially...
...result is far better than one might have hoped. "The Street of Chance" is the story of a king among professional gamblers who in the end sacrifices his life in an effort to keep his younger brother from following the life that he himself has led. The plot is well knit together and is surprisingly convincing thanks primarily to the almost perfect casting and to the ability of the director to keep up a sustained interest...