Word: plot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harnasie are wild mountaineers in the Carpathians. Szymanowski lived with them for long periods, decided to write a ballet-pantomime full of their folk dances, a wedding, a drinking song. All these he strung together on a slender thread of plot about a mountain chief who abducts a girl. In Carnegie Hall the work was not pantomime, but the rich singing of the Art of Musical Russia chorus made it splendidly dramatic...
...King Alfred proceeds from his customary breakfast of brandy direct to the Folies Bergere, where ennui induced by watching the can-can restores him to a stupor. On the advice of the ex-King's doctor, his ex-Chancellor and ex-lady-in-waiting (Mary Nash) hatch a plot to give him a new interest in life. This consists of persuading a chorus girl who momentarily attracts his attention to alter the monotony of his unvarying success with women by not falling in love with him. The plan has the desired effect upon the King but the chorus girl...
...Norman Krasna of The King and the Chorus Girl, may to some extent account for the picture's utterly amoral and pleasantly lucid lunacy. So may the fine comedy sense of Director Mervyn Le Roy, making his debut as a producer. Any added fillip given the story by plot resemblances to recent developments in European affairs can, since it went into production last October, be considered a happy accident, as can the facial resemblance of Actor Fernand Gravet to the Duke of Windsor when the Duke was a young and dashing Prince of Wales...
There is, as suggested, a semblance of a plot, but there are many digressions from it. These are justified by some of the vocal and choreographical effects contained in them, but the means of introducing them is annoyingly callow...
Despite the popularity and readability of Miss Borden's previous novels, the future of "Action For Slander" does not seem bright. It lacks a plot of sufficient body to support the characterization which is, by and large, well-conceived. Her new effort makes fairly amusing reading, but little more can be said...