Word: plot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...setting is convincing and not obtrusive--always a danger in writing of "far lands and strange peoples." The plot tends toward the melodramatic, with a correct and fatuous happy ending--very satisfactory from the perfectionist point of view. One perceives in the first forty pages that dirty work is afoot; the dirty work is done; it is straightened out, and if, with the aid of a map inside the cover, one untangles the maze of proper names, one can comprehend and appreciate the situations in the sugar intrigue...
...plot, however, with its complications and solutions, is really rather incidental, for the book is essentially a book of character studies, and therein lies its chief virtue. It is mainly concerned with the interplay of the emotions and desires and actions of a group of people in a given setting, complicated by the influences and forces that their foreign environment brings to bear on them. Mr. Cozzens uses Cuba much as Kipling used Simla. And as in Kipling, the writing is character portraiture, rather than development. Consequently the people are painted in rather brighter colors than strict realism allows, with...
Cock Pit, however, is really a lateral book. It deals with a cross section of society, with the relations of individuals in that cross section. Mr. Cozzens pretends that this is not so--he furnishes a plot, and a rather melodramatic plot--but it, is really unessential. The longitudinal, progressive element in the book is insignificant, and the plot loses its claim to conviction in the happy ending, when Don Miguel, the omnipotent and implacable dictator, presents the heroine with some of Queen Isabella's jewels, in admiration of the really remarkable way in which she has thwarted his best...
...calls for 11 characters, six male and five female. Monsieur Perrin will again direct the production A very modern theme runs throughout and, as the last line says, as a comedy it is a real "bolte a surpriges" The complicated matrimonial connections of the characters furnishes a rather amusing plot with an unusual and unexpected denouement...
...father did, a public which sang "Yes, We Have No Bananas," which litters the countryside with picnic debris, has taken to Marion Davies. She appeared in Manhattan last week in something about a man who, wanting to make his sweetheart jealous, employed a cardboard lover. The cinema reverses the plot of Her Cardboard Lover (Jeanne Eagels...