Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a meeting set for tomorrow night to elect new officers and plot a course of action for the next twelve months, the Instrumental Clubs are facing two problems that have cast shadows of doubt over their future. For a group that was once the very button on Fortune's cap has sunk low indeed in her favors, falling prey to the twin troubles of changing musical tastes and of lethargy on the part of their members, and unless oxygen is quickly applied, the flame of life may go out entirely. Yet the Instrumental Clubs need only a few readjustments...
There are eleven Freeports in the U. S.*, but last week the U. S. got its first free port-a small, ugly plot at Stapleton, Staten Island, in New York Harbor's Narrows...
After so much Hollywood hubbub it was logical to suppose that The Good Earth would turn out as chaotic as its preparation and as superficial as the novel was deep. Instead, it emerged as a real cinema epic, faithful in spirit, plot and acting to its forebear, sure to rank as one of the great pictures of all time...
...Avenue (Twentieth Century-Fox), like most musicals, has for a plot a clothesline upon which the producers can hang whatever suits their fancy. This time the line is pretty raveled, the appendages superb. Gary Blake (Dick Powell) is starring in his own extravaganza. One act is a burlesque of Mimi Caraway (Madelein'e Carroll), world's richest girl. Furious Mimi slaps Gary's face, then falls in love with him. He changes the offensive skit, but Mona Merrick (Alice Faye), his jealous leading lady, ad libs to make it worse than ever. Mimi then sets...
...party to lynch both Dr. Jones and Miss Stevens. With masterful courtroom technique, Lawyer Abbott saves the day. A minor investigation of the same mob violence which made Fury one of last year's outstanding pictures, Outcast fails to achieve equal merit because of a top-heavy plot which takes an interminable while to get going...