Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performance are qualified only by the occasional drawbacks of the play itself. Certain lines--especially in the first act--come too fast for even the most hardened crack cracker; the story, containing one case of mixed identity, virulent satirizing of Henry Luce and the "Fortune" outfit, and a complex love relation, verges on the obscure. But individual scenes, such as Miss Hepburn's "interview" of "Destiny's" reporters in the first act and the love scene between Van Heflen and Miss Hepburn in the second, show real brilliance, and give to the play an underlying significance. With his great understanding...
...soon had a monopoly on Manhattan transit. Meanwhile Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. attained a similar monopoly across the river in Brooklyn, though it had no subway then. This cozy set-up has foliated through the years until today New York's rapid transit lines are a complex tangle with only three clear-cut divisions...
...authentic Russian Zvon from Moscow. And with the Zvon came Saradjeff, the official Zvonar from the Soviet Government, commissioned to ring the Zvon and impart his knowledge to the barbarians of Harvard. All would have been well if Saradjeff bad not had a sensitive Russian Soul, unaccustomed to the complex chaos of America. To this chaos was added the horrible fact that few Americans spoke Russian and Saradjeff spoke no English...
Inventor Farnsworth had still to prove that his ideas worked. For twelve years he labored in San Francisco and Philadelphia laboratories-watched over by his pretty wife, Pern, who saw to it that he did not forget to eat while building his complex equipment. By 1930 the world of science admitted his theories on television were practical...
Susan, a scatterbrained convert bubbling over with the Message, begins in the first act to meddle with the complex and questionable lives of her ultimately succeeding in running three of them. Convinced, after someone has made a joking confession, that she has the knack of conversion, Susan also sets about to rescue her estranged husband (Paul McGrath) from drink and to win the love of her daughter (Nancy Coleman,) The trio, without the aid of God, finally work out their problems and unite around a happy hearth. For the plausibility of this ending Miss Coleman, replacing, Nancy Kelly...