Word: plotting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Base plot of And So-Victoria revolves around the attempts of the Duke of Cumberland to prevent Queen Victoria from coming to the English throne. Supporting villains are the whole House of Hanover, blacker than the ink that tells about them. Hero of the story, an Anthony Adverse type of character, is Christopher Harnish, whose sinister connection with Hanoverian royalty is first dangled before the reader on page 112, when it is discovered that his mother, a sister of George IV, secretly married her brother's illegitimate...
...mildly ironic, long-winded, pleasant phantasy called King John of Jingalo, which he wrote 25 years ago. Long out of print, it is now offered to U. S. readers because of a supposed similarity to the case of Edward VIII. A closer similarity is the one between its plot and that of Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart...
...race in England. She is the daughter of a Russian official. He is. a young traveler at home on vacation. They do not meet. By the time they encounter each other for the first time it is 1917. A. J., long imprisoned in Siberia for complicity in a Red plot, is now a member of the Red Army and Countess Alexandra is waiting to be shot...
...rear for a garden. Designed by Architects Philip L. Goodwin & Edward D. Stone, the new museum will be a block of concrete, white marble, dark stone, glass brick and plate glass, the first "functional" museum building in the U. S. Taking advantage of its $1,000,000, block-deep plot, almost the entire ground floor of the new museum will be walled with glass, so that pedestrians on 53rd Street will be able to see temporary exhibitions as in a gigantic showcase. Upper floors will be rearranged with movable screens to suit whatever type of exhibition is on the calendar...
With a topnotcher like "Shall We Dance" it is a pleasant surprise to find the second show "Once A Doctor" also surpassing entertainment. This is due primarily to the absence of hospital dramatics customary in medical films, a new plot, and suitable acting by the lead, Donald Woods, with assistance from Gordon Oliver, as the weakling antagonist, and Joan Muir, for romance...