Word: plot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well, "Schuyler" gets the legacy but he falls in love with the girl who is supposed to be his sister (Wanda Hendrix). At this point the plot becomes confusing and I will leave it alone. The audience was laughing so hard I couldn't hear much anyway...
Toughest of all were the backwoods villages, where farmers suspected a gringo plot to poison their animals, and priests preached against interference with God's will. There the Apostles used any methods they could think of, giving more movie shows, bringing friends of local farmers from other villages to argue for them. In the village of Tula, Jalisco, when all else failed, the Apostles hauled in a load of pulque and set up free drinks. Next morning the villagers awoke with roaring hangovers, found that all their cattle had been vaccinated...
When My Baby Smiles at Me (20th Century-Fox) is a watered-down version of the durable stage hit Burlesque.* The old plot is still there, but the characters have been tidied up. The play treated burlesque as a pretty tough part of show business. In the movie, it is just more of the same old backstage life where actors occasionally misplace a pronoun...
Goldovsky has completely reworked the plot, made a minor character into the operetta's protagonist, and used production devices more familiar in Hollywood than on an opera stage. The music has been orchestrated, but other than that left pretty much alone. The result of these manipulations is an operetta not only delightful to hear, but excellent theater as well...
After MIT splashed straight across the pool to score in the opening minute, the girls put their heads together and formulated what the Techs termed "a typically feminine plot." Two Annex players plastered themselves against the scoring zone, making it impossible for the boys to hit it with the ball without first dragging the girls from their position to the depths of the pool...