Word: plot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part cost Spain all her colonies in America," he pointed out. He said that when the Spanish Republic was established in 1933, President Azana tried to reform the army and to cut down expenditures which were three times as much as those devoted to education. The army began to plot against the Republic, and this culminated in the Civil...
...Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced conclusion of a reciprocal trade agreement with Venezuela (eleventh with a Latin-American nation, 22nd in all), "progress" on new agreements with Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins had his experts meet with Latin-American tourist-bureau chiefs to plot travel increases...
Last week a new author took over the old plot, streamlined it, added exciting new characters, put a punch in every scene. Author of this revised version was a bulky, mustached Yale professor, a Don but no Quixote, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold. Since the construction industry protractedly has proved it cannot cure its own ills, Mr. Arnold sees only one alternative-action under the antitrust laws (which he enforces...
Kaufman's own reason for constantly collaborating is simply that he needs collaborators, that he doesn't think his plays would be very good if he worked alone. Every collaboration is an evenly shared two-man job, with long preliminary stretches for working out every detail of plot, until suddenly "a bell rings" and the collaborators start their "star-chamber sessions" of writing. Every line of dialogue is written together. From start to finish, a play takes anything from five weeks (You Can't Take It With You) to seven months (The Royal Family), depending...
...from Clarence Day's work by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse; produced by Oscar Serlin). No easy job was it to transfer to the stage the late Clarence Day's saga of his own family during Manhattan's horsecar era. Day's own chronicle has no plot, no love interest, no mighty triumphs, no major catastrophes-only crusty, rambunctious Father, who lost almost every set-to; helpless, fluttering Mother, who won; and four redheaded boys. But Playwrights Lindsay & Grouse have turned the whole thing into a spirited, likable stage comedy. They have taken the sting...