Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who are bored with the inexorable succession of extravaganzas emerging from Hollywood, the French picture "Mayerling," currently showing Danielle Darrieux, as the Austrian Baroness Marie, is refreshingly free from California glamour, and Charles Boyer, as the Archduke Rudolph, is straightforward and masculine. The plot, which concerns their tragic love, is simple and direct, leading to a forceful climax and concluding forthwith. There is no insipid anti-climax...
...usually able to cover a multitude of sins, and succeeds in doing so again in Hassard Short's musical extravaganza, "The Three Waltzes," now playing at the Boston Opera House. Beautiful scenery and a pleasing ballet also add their bit and help to compensate for a weak, melodramatic plot, which drags badly in places and has trouble in coming to a conclusion. The show has as many climaxes as a circus, and it is a pity it is so long, for some of the most beautiful dances come at the end, when many of the spectators have been fooled into...
...like most musical dramas, the plot is only an excuse for putting across the music and dancing, and in this case is not hard to accept when accompanied by the show's well-drilled ballet and the voices of Margaret Bannermann and Michael Bartlett. Miss Bannermann has an ideal voice for interpreting the lyric Straus melodies, and Michael Bartlett boasts a pleasing velvet tenor as well as a profile of the best vaudeville tradition. Their most beautiful number probably is the duet, "To Live Is to Love," written by Johann Straus...
...come on. Give me a break. . . . We all get pushed around.") goes suddenly opalescent. (". . . A part of me that is still hard and stiff is broken and everything comes flowing in light and warm. See what I mean?'') Characters, sharply delineated at first, develop inconsistencies. The plot at times becomes foggy. Most readers will end the book a little baffled-feeling as if they had been shown a brisk bit of action, but forced to view it through pink-tinted ground glass...
Certain to be welcomed by readers of Mutiny on the Bounty, which it resembles in its melodramatic plot and realistic detail, it will as certainly annoy those who feel that Magellan was the equal of Columbus, Marco Polo and Henry the Navigator. Author Ford melodramatizes the tiny, lame, yellow-skinned Portuguese explorer as a cold-blooded sadist whose only real genius lay in the grandiose scope of his malevolence...