Word: plot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racket she faked death to desert. Force assisting: Ray Milland, once of the late George V's palace guards, as Jimmy Dawson, a reporter so infatuated that he was in the habit of leaving bouquets on the supposed grave of Miss Lang inscribed "in memory of glamour." Plot development consists mostly of the pastime, so popular at Paramount this year, of passing stolen jewelry around (Big Brown Eyes, Desire, Florida Special). It is mounted with atmospheric travel shots, big blue & white sundecks, the usual competent Michael performance. Sample line, by Sir Guy Standing: "I have reached...
...light to reach astronomers on Earth. Astronomers cannot even locate the galaxy in respect to Earth at the time the light began its journey, since all heavenly bodies dart continuously through space, and Earth's position aeons ago is unknown. Above all, Philosopher Hawkesworth calls it absurd to plot relative positions of the galaxies, since observers can only note where they were at vastly differing times. Coming down to earth himself, he offers a simple illustration of his point. "A man in a Chevrolet motor car was driving eastward from 18th to 17th Streets along Pennsylvania Avenue [Washington...
...TIME MURDERS-Charles G. Givens -Bobbs-Merrill ($2). Racy dialog, seething atmosphere, sound plot combine to make palatable to the mystery-addict a chronicle of three kinds of slaughter on a flooded Tennessee estate...
...Manhattan, bankrupt Travel Institute of Bible Research, in part settlement of a $26,142 loan, assigned to Bernard Schaefer a plot of 830 square metres on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives, a motorboat on the Sea of Galilee...
...cinema vehicle for Baritone Nelson Eddy, whose concert audiences have been clamoring ever since for Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. Hollywood had barely tapped the Herbert catalog before. It used The Fortune Teller as a Spanish short to display the negligible talents of Enrico Caruso Jr. The Red Mitt plot served Marion Davies once in the days of silent pictures. A distorted version of Mademoiselle Modiste called Kiss Me Again passed by practically unnoticed when it was produced in 1931. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer experimented with Babes in Toyland (1934), kept only three of the original Herbert tunes, rearranged the plot...