Word: plot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mainstay. Now Willie Bioff hobnobs with a Hollywood plutocrat. His dealings with Producer Joe Schenck were the subject of a court investigation last May, are under scrutiny of the U. S. Department of Justice. Said Mr. Schenck last week, replying to Willie Bioff's talk about a plot: "In the case of William Bioff, the producers . . . are not responsible directly or indirectly . . . for his present personal predicament. . . . They resent the imputation that they would resort to any such methods...
Chapter 4: Swiss Tryst. Hanging around in Switzerland, meanwhile, waiting to greet the Tool of the Plot, was a 42-year-old man, fatter now than he was in the days when he was one of Adolf Hitler's stanchest standbys, a man so severely wounded in 1914-18 that he must still lead an ascetic life-Dr. Otto Strasser, head of the Black Front, sworn to demolish Hitler. He had obviously planned the bombing...
Last week Chief of German Police Heinrich Himmler was proud as a pouter pigeon. Having proved strangely inept as a cop, he redeemed himself as a superb detective-story author. Serially, from day to day, he released his mystery thriller, The Bürgerbräu Plot...
Chapter 2: The Dastardly Plot. On the night of November 8, at 9:21 p.m., just eleven minutes after Adolf Hitler left the Bürgerbräu Keller in Munich, a bomb exploded, killing eight, injuring 62, just missing the little man who wasn't there...
Bill Powell is back after a year's illness with his quizzical eyebrows, scotch and sodas, and gift for repartee quite intact. Unhappily, Dashfell Hammett's plot gives Mr. Powell somewhat less support than his hospital bed and consequently the film fails to live up to the previous Thin Man standard. However, Myrna Loy and Asta are around too Lot to mention Nick Charles, Jr. and they combine their talents with a capable cast to create a better than average photoplay...