Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convincing evidence that the Soviet Embassy in Paris was assisting French Communists to prepare a coup d'etat which was to have seized the Government on November 16, and laid this evidence before famed General Marie Gustave Gamelin, chief of the French General Staff, in time for the plot to be nipped...
...besides this, they have taken Miss MacDonald away from Mr. Eddy and, instead, have given him Eleanor Powell, who shows a complete inability to add anything. Miss Powell dances down a lot of drums in a pair of black stockings in another of those sickening extravaganzas. Add an assinine plot and you have the almost complete story...
Shoemakers' plots are mightily involved even though the play has been cut to about half its length. One thread of plot entangles Rowland Lacy (Joseph Gotten) who, instead of going to war in France, disguises himself as a journeyman in order to woo his lady. Other plotters are Vincent Price and Edith Barrett, whose contributions to the high cockalorum are good, but occasionally strained. The real heroes are the shoemakers themselves, and the best of these jackanapes in droopy drawers and flapping codpieces is Hiram Sherman. His finegrained playing of low comedy won him a first-night ovation...
...advertising photography." Furthermore, there were things he wanted to do. First off, he was going to Yucatan to see if he could find out anything about the origins of Indian corn. Corn now seems to him the basis of North American civilization. Before he dies he wants to plot out and at least partially complete a vast photographic mural of America, beginning with astronomical photographs of the heavens, indented lower down with mountain ranges, cities, factories, then breaking up into smaller scenes of streets, homes, offices, hospitals, with a winding decoration composed of the tasseled. growing corn...
...three different women,--as a Spanish marquesa, an Indian princess, and a petite French blonde (which part seems most natural); it is more disturbing to have her moved from Paris to Monte Carlo to the yacht "Seagull" to Pringle's-by-the-Thames in one plot...