Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once in a great while a picture is photographed with exciting originality. Subordinating plot and characterization, it unrolls before an untiring andionce, which never ceases to admire the ingenious technique, artistic angles, and gradations in color of black and white film...
...with him? His money was explanation enough in "Dear Old Daddy", but his love for Tennyson sounds a little weak in the current piece. But the charms of Mr. Cohan's personality, such as they have been indicated to be, are enough to compensate for the crudities of the plot, the flatness of the dialogue, and the general sameness of the whole series of his vehicles...
...young married woman who had met a "boyfriend" and made a "mistake." The resulting baby was disclaimed both by the woman's husband and by her acquaintance. Another woman convulsed Good Will Court listeners by wanting to cancel her husband's interest in a joint cemetery plot because he was serving a life term in prison...
...Hungarian woman, onetime secretary in the Hungarian Embassy in Egypt, with this clever, smooth novel written from a thoroughly international point of view. Chief distinction of The Street of the Fishing Cat is the ingenuity with which representatives of most of the European nations are drawn into its plot, the blistering irony with which social, political and national issues are satirized in its sentimental story...
...Primo de Rivera is in power in Spain they are joined by a gentle anarchist named Alvarez; when Rivera falls, Alvarez disappears, replaced by the courtly Spanish Prince Maura. When Mussolini takes power in Italy a cultivated minister of finance appears with his beautiful daughter. At first the refugees plot and conspire, then gradually make friends until political lions and lambs are reconciled by loneliness...