Word: plot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boys from Syracuse (book by George Abbott; music & lyrics by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; produced by George Abbott) beans the niggerbaby, hits the bull's eye, rings the bell. Far & away the best musical show in many a year, it pilfers from Shakespeare the plot of his Comedy of Errors. Otherwise Shakespeare is not smart enough to stay in the combine of George Abbott, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, who set themselves a dizzy pace and cross the tape a little ahead of time...
...great asset is Shakespeare's hoary plot about twin sets of masters and slaves, one set married, the other not, one set from Ephesus, the other from Syracuse, who get hold of the wrong latchkeys, land in the wrong boudoirs, mix everybody up, finally mix up themselves. But the plot is daffy enough to start the fun rolling. Once started, nothing can stop...
...Certain Age" was taken from a song Ann Rutherford sang in "Love Finds Andy Hardy." This newest vehicle for Miss Durbin is much after the Hardy Family tradition; it has the delightful humor of teen age romance; it has the homely and appealing simplicity of a down-to-earth plot; and it has the skillful directing which makes for smooth, leisurely exposition. More important than all this, however, it has that great, single asset of any picture: Deanna Durbin's voice. Better than ever before, especially in the higher ranges, it renders both opera and "A Bicycle Built...
...Agriculture} gave a ready explanation for the delay: the "enemies of the people" formerly in charge of the Commissariat made a hit-or-miss job out of allotting land to the collective farms. There was no survey, with the result that "deeds of eternal possession" to the same plot of land were often handed to two or three different farms. The peasants then quarreled over who was the right possessor, while the land often remained completely idle. Sometimes an individual peasant's farm was divided among collective farms miles away. This state of affairs, the newspaper argued, creates...
...movie, "Drums," at Keith Memorial this week, shows how far excellent color and exciting surroundings will go to make up a satisfactory melodrama. There is nothing but action and suspense throughout, and Sabu the Hindu boy fits excellently into the life of a Himalayan tribe, yet the plot as a whole runs in too much of a groove to make the picture topnotch. Raymond Massey sneers well as the fanatic tribesman, and Desmond Tester is a very good cockney drummer...