Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week neither Damrosch's music nor Guiterman's libretto could make their two-act opera entirely successful. Ignoring the possibilities of a rip-snorting plot, the score abounded in old turns and phrases, was at its best when it borrowed obviously from Wagner. Set songs were brought off skilfully but they often sounded banal. The text was happy, fitted the music better than most U. S. operas permit. Since opera needs a soprano, Authors Damrosch & Guiterman interpolated a new character, Mary Rutledge, as Nolan's sweetheart. When Philip is tried by a military tribunal, she nervously...
...Waikiki Wedding" is pleasant to behold if you like Bing's voice, semi-Hawalian music, and genuine pictures of a schooner under sail; tiresome if you think Martha Haye's mouth is to big for her face. The string itself is a not too substantial plot of how the champion pineapple salesman sells himself while trying to sell his product. But the show is not to be condemned for being unsubstantial, because that is just what it tries not to be. Rather this is something aimed directly to please the not too demanding sense...
Shall We Dance? (RKO). Since any picture concerning Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers is largely an excuse for them to dance together, one gauge of such a picture's merit is the speed with which this excuse is forthcoming. The plot of Shall We Dance? is so involved that the picture is almost half over before they dance together. Once it starts, Astaire & Rogers are well up to their par and most cinemaddicts will doubtless consider it well worth waiting...
Three generations later Annabelle appears as the descendant of the gypsy princess and proceeds to enliven the plot with her own liaisons with the Irish family. Henry Fonda, owner and trainer of Destiny Bay, candidate for the Derby, co-stars with Annabelle who also possesses a promising horse. Wings of the Morning. From this point the story itself is partially lost amid these attractions of Annabelle's personality and the beauties of the Irish countryside which are set off to great advantage in technicolor...
Peter Lorre also shares the honors as a friendly but sinister adventurer who discovers McLaglen's secret and proceeds to capitalize on it. The plot of the films is excellent and well handled by a competent cast...