Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companion picture this week "The Plot Thickens" features Zazu Pitts and Jimmy Gleason" in a rather stereotype mystery-farce. The culpit, oddly enough, proved to be not the most innocent appearing of the suspects, yet not the one most implicated...
...first of the double bill at Keith Memorial Victor Moore and Helen Broderick give their usual clever performance to hold together a weak and long-drawn adaptation of "Ladies of the Jury." The plot, for all those who are not acquainted with it, is another development of the old woman's-intuition-to-decide-a-woman's-fate attitude taken by American juries, and makes use of the usual Moore antics to prove that the jury decided a cause upon anything except the evidence. Unfortunately for the logic of the burlesque, the jury decides right, the true murderer is discovered...
Henry Baur, who played Jean Valjean in the French version of "Les Mserables" has an important part in the feature film, while Robert Lynen, the French Freddie Bartholomew, plays Poil de Carotte, the small boy around whom the plot revolves. Catherine Fonteney, of the Comedie Francaise, has the leading feminine role...
...picture whose unobtrusively adulterous plot is saved from complete unoriginality only by an unhappy ending, the German film "Liebelie" is surprisingly work seeing. With no attempt at novelty or sensation, it is the completely natural sort of thing that seems to be a monopoly with the German producers...
Horatio Alger might have used Mr. Hurley's life as a plot for one of his success-novels. South Boston bore and reared him until he was old enough to go on the stage. His first break was the sickness of the regular quartet at the old Bowdoin Square Theatre. The substitute singers included Hurley as bass, and catching the eye of scouts, they moved down to the big money in New York. Under Charles Frohman for three years, A. H. Woods for three, and Arthur Hopkins from 1918 - 1924, he was combination actor and director of plays with...