Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earns such international attention. A Pictorial reporter had been given a lift in a limousine into The Hague, and had thereby "become the confidant of a man closer to the Queen than almost anyone else." According to the reporter, the man who gave him the ride told of a plot, designed with the connivance of Prince' Bernhard's 72-year-old German mother, Princess Armgard, to force Queen Juliana off the throne. "Lies about the Queen's private life," said the man, "are being spread in a deliberate and nasty way with...
Egan said, "I don't think that I need tell all comers about the nefarious plot of the Ivy Leaguers to short-change and skin them. They know." He said further that the League "will feel the sales resistance. It should. It is the leader in the plot to shenanigan the public out of its money...
...Patterns) Serling's play Requiem for a Heavyweight was a taut, discerning glimpse into the shabby world of prizefighting. The plot dealt with an also-ran pug (Jack Palance) who is put out to pasture after in bone-bruising bouts, and finds it jarringly hard to adjust. He is a tough, disfigured blob of flesh who "could take a cannon ball in the face"; but he is also a gentle man, painfully aware of his ugliness. He is bounced around by some seedy managers and hangers-on ("Why is it," asks Trainer Ed Wynn, playing his first straight part...
...vast number of Victorian sub-intrigues and love affairs make a coherent summary of the plot impossible. The spiral staircase is in the old Warren House, run by Professor Warren (George Brent) and owned by old Mrs. Warren (Ethel Barrymore) who is dying upstairs, attended by Helen the dumb maid (Dorothy McGuire). She cannot talk. When young Dr. Parry arrives to attend to old Mrs. Warren, he falls in love with Helen. Then the professor's step-brother, Stephen Warren, turns up, and young ladies commence dying, among them Stephen's own girl friend, Blanche (Rhonda Fleming...
Laughton's production, while it makes all these ideas tangible, gives the actors a peculiar kind of challenge. They must rely on their voices and Shaw's lines to project the matter of the play, rather than on movement or color or the suspense of a tight plot. Laughton handles his role most satisfactorily. Sometimes relaxed into an engaging slouch, he yet rouses himself to an oratorical fervor of Churchillian stature that all but sweeps away his opponents, including the audience. Glynis Johns' characterization of Major Barbara is much less successful. She possesses an interesting voice--a sort of throaty...