Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back in circulation, more beautiful and versatile than ever. The picture which brings her back. "International Settlement," is trivial enough; it is a by-product of the excess footage news-reel crews brought back from China, and in noted for its phenomenal lack of anything resembling a plot. But it stars Miss Del Rio and it is a good picture...
...That he wrote a letter in 1924 to the Immanuel Church, Bellows Falls, Vt., asking for his left leg, which had been amputated when he was 21, and which his mother, Hetty Green, had buried in the family plot; and that he received...
Journeyman, even though he helped direct it, will become no such theatrical Oldest Inhabitant. The story of Semon Dye (Will Geer), a rambunctious, fleshly mountebank of a traveling preacher who turns Rocky Comfort, Ga. on its ear, Journeyman'-:, gallimaufry of humors lacks bounce, its madness lacks method, its plot lacks plot. Most of the time Dye struts lungingly across the stage bellowing who he is?a helpful move for latecomers who can't read their programs in the dark, but rather trying on those who are punctual. The play slowly creeps to its big scene?a revival meeting where Rocky...
...JUDAS WINDOW-Carter Dickson -Morrow ($2). The murder of an elderly gentleman, found stabbed with an arrow in an apparently sealed room, with Sir Henry Merrivale defending a suspect caught with the corpse and a good deal of bright dialogue compensating for weaknesses in the plot. Good...
...SIMPLE WAY OF POISON-Leslie Ford-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Two deaths in suburban Washington, D. C., with the first victim found poisoned in his study, his wife, daughter and their] admirers suspected of the crime and an assorted group of sleuths unraveling a plausible plot. First-rate...