Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides main plot, many a great drama has at least one subplot. Main plot in the dramatic reform of the U. S. market place reached its climax when the New York Stock Exchange reorganized. Last week the subplot reached its climax as the nation's second biggest securities market, the New York Curb Exchange, finally produced a thoroughgoing plan of reorganization. This followed a behind-the-scenes fencing series much like that which occurred behind the Big Board...
...Handle", will make a lot of money. This is primarily because it duos Mr. Gable and Miss Loy, who once again give sterling performances of the devil-may-care variety. This is also because, in its own right, it is an amusing, a genuinely exciting picture. The plot, which concerns an ace newsreel cameraman who can fake the best pictures in the trade, and a round-the-world aviatrix who wishes to hunt for her lost brother in the Amazon, is a convenient frame on which to hang a series of thrilling climaxes. These thrills, which include shots of plane...
Plan E was described as "a plot on the part of those people connected with the Harvard School of Business Administration to grab the government of this city," by Thomas F. McNamara, President of the Cambridge City Council, at a Council meeting Tuesday night...
Vivid, Big Blow is also crude. Its startling picture is half-spoiled by a stale plot. Its genuine drama of the hurricane is tarnished by the regulation melodrama of the hack. For its effectiveness. Big Blow can thank its subject, not its playwright...
...plot, subordinated as always to dialogue, deals with the theft or attempted theft of a constable's helmet, a notebook containing sundry libels, a silver creamer, and Anatole, the master chef...