Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whim of Iron. Porter's life story has another deficiency as a movie plot. His 1919 Paris marriage to a wealthy beauty, Linda Lee Thomas, has been placid, childless, fashionable-and free of both the romantic hubbub and the folksiness that Hollywood prefers in its patterned fictions. Intimates describe the Porters as "great, devoted friends." They live on the 41st floor of Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, and from time to time share the mirrored elegance of his California summer place in Brentwood (complete with a swimming pool that lights up at night), or her luxurious house in Williamstown...
While working on a show, he keeps his music and lyrics in neat sets of looseleaf notebooks and Manila folders, and he follows a chart of the book's plot for spotting his songs. The only top-ranking Broadway composer besides Irving Berlin who writes his own lyrics, he usually begins with a song title to fit the plot situation, then finds his melody, and later fits the words to it. He begins with the last line and works backward. Close at hand is an exhaustive library of rhyming and foreign dictionaries (he speaks French, German, Spanish and Italian...
...were Communists, Zionists, Wallaceites, liberals, deserving Democrats who coveted his job, and gossip columnists-a faction as mixed as their motives. Henry Wallace was one of the earliest pacesetters, sounding the accusatory note: ex-Wall Street Financier Forrestal, onetime president of Dillon Read, was a conniver in a capitalist plot to plunge the country into war. The Communist Daily Worker joined...
...plot-essentially a fast, exciting chase with psychological overtones-gives Loretta Young a chance to play a menaced heroine, a role that she does with high skill. Will murder out? Will the beautiful professor be mangled in the coils of her own guilt-or will she be stalked down by the smart, relentless detective? Her only escape seems to be offered by a handsome young lawyer (Robert Cummings) who loves her even when he begins to doubt her innocence. But Loretta is as thoroughly fascinated by the strategy of her accuser as she is by the fond advice of counsel...
Bartok composed his one-act, two-singer Bluebeard (one of his three theater works) in 1911. It was not produced until 1918, and then it met with no success. The plot was deadly dull: nothing but Bluebeard and fourth wife Judith walking from one door of the castle's great hall to another, until all its seven doors are unlocked. But neither radio listeners nor Dallas concertgoers (who saw a concert version) had to worry about that. Bluebeard's doors gave Bartok plenty of chance for variety, e.g., a broad, majestic theme in full brass when Judith opens...