Word: plot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus ran the story which J. P. McEvoy energized with Broadway chatter in his novel Show Girl (1928). And thus runs the plot of the musical show which Producer Ziegfeld, as Writer McEvoy had planned, has energized with girls, Gershwin tunes, and spillings from the largest cornucopia of talent in the girl-show business...
...Fellows is a farce which might be enjoyed in remote farming sections where boredom sometimes inspires families to exchange husbands and wives. That is the plot of Bed-Fellows. The switch is legally accomplished, but the play's title is, of course, never realized. Such things may happen but you cannot stage them. After much raucous effort at humor and suspense, Bed-Fellows ends where it began, without a single inventive fillip to distinguish it from a score of other mediocrities...
...Actress O'Neill's dismay, Chief Constable Wensley had announced his resignation just before her loss was discovered. The coincidence suggested a new plot to detective-story authors, but to her it just seemed jolly bad luck. Able though his assistants and successors might be, it would have been a lark to have one's jewels found, one's would-be poisoner apprehended, by the greatest Sherlock of them...
Schipa's Show. In Rome last week opened a musical comedy called Principessa Liana, with a love plot about a princess and a troubadour. The author-composer: Tenor Tito Schipa of the Chicago Opera Company. Success: immediate...
...come together at Mrs. Rodney's dinner-party at 7:45 p. m. Another author might have attended the party, woven a plot. But Author Rea stops her character-sketching at precisely 7:35 p. m. leaving her six Mrs. Greenes- all products of English homes, schools, marriages, incomes, social sets-just as she found them, separate beings related to one another only by name and background. Author Rea writes wisely but not well...