Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alan Harriman, only son of Joseph Wright Harriman, was killed in an automobile crash in 1928. For his burial, the elder Harriman bought a plot of 2,531 sq. ft. in a cemetery at Locust Valley, N. Y. for $8,246. Five years later, escaping from a Manhattan sanatorium where he was held pending trial for the Harriman National Bank failure, Joseph W. Harriman spent a night and a day at his son's grave, later tried weakly to kill himself when discovered at a nearby inn (TIME...
...Joseph W. Harriman, who is now in a Federal penitentiary for misapplication of his bank's funds, William R. Willcox, trustee in bankruptcy for the personal Harriman properties, last week asked a court's permission to disinter the body of Alan Harriman, auction off the cemetery plot. Permission was refused...
...melodramatics of the plot are handled with restraint and taste: exceptionally well done is the scene in which Julie's (Helen Morgan) husband discovers that she has negro blood, following her exposure by the malicious Pete. One of the best shots occurs when Ravenal sings "Only Make Believe" to his small daughter as he is about to desert her and Magnolia. This movie should not be missed...
...starring Joe E. Brown, shows what fun the Great War really was. It was all just a grand round of Y. M. C. A. entertainments, lovely French girls, and lots of wine, with a little fighting thrown in to keep everyone in trim. Mr. Brown clowns through this inane plot in a pleasant, fairly amusing way, assisted by Joan Blondell. The stage show, headed by M. Tito Guizar, is incredibly poor. It's hard to tell whether Guizar is trying to be Mexican, Spanish or Italian, but it doesn't matter much. The revue is billed as "especially produced...
...picture. If the Cab and his band had had more of a part the whole thing might have been worth seeing. As it is he appears only a few short times and you live in hopes he'll come back, despising Al Jolson and the petty machinations of the plot sequence for keeping him away...