Word: scene
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...floor before the Cambridge Fire Department succeeded in getting the blaze in hand. Flames were first discovered by the watchman, who turned in a first alarm at 3.27 o'clock. This failed to work and it was not until the whole roof was ablaze that engines arrived on the scene. Three-quarters of an hour was spent before the flames were controlled, and in that time the roof had completely gone, together with most of the furnishings in the upper floor...
...Lieutenant Morize to the Fresh Pond Sector in order to renovate the trenches, which are in bad shape after the winter months. The platoons will assemble in line, under arms, on the east side of University Hall facing the building, at 2.30 o'clock. Upon their arrival at the scene of action, the men will be divided into eight sections and assigned to different parts of the line for duty...
There is a trifling sub-plot of love running through the piece, beginning with the eternal triangle and ending with mutual forgiveness by husband and wife; but it is obvious that the love interest was created only to hitch the acts together. In no other way might the scene painter introduce his sets for a Manhattan drawing room, a first-line trench and a battered village of France. Besides, the plot matters little...
...greatest thriller of the season is a brief scene in the front-line trench when companies of American and British soldiers climb over the top and fall in behind a wicked-looking tank that sweeps out across No Man's Land. It looks, sounds and smells like the real thing, and, as they say of circus features, is alone worth the price of admission...
...triteness of the plot did not spoil this play, the unplausibility surely would. The American girl, in a moderately daring boudoir scene, causes the German colonel's death. The next minute the American officer--a captive in the chateau--enshrouds the German lieutenant-colonel in his khaki coat and has the firing squad mistakenly shoot him dead. Then the American contingent goes and nails the German general for good measure. Being fed up on such glorious killings, the auditor might expect to see Von Hindenburg shot through the heart for the final curtain, but the authors have not got that...