Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot is pleasant enough: something about a vaudeville singer in love with a Shakespearean actor in Coney Island at the turn of the century. Though Wilbur Evans as the actor does not always articulate clearly during the songs, he is genial and right for the part...
...plot is simple: A condemned father tells his two children, John and Pearl, where he has hidden ten thousand stolen dollars and makes them swear they will never disclose the secret. Most of the book concerns itself with the attempts of the father's released cell mate to make the children reveal the money. It is the ten year old son that is the hero of the novel. Never quite grasping the significance of "those green pieces of paper," protecting his trusting five year old sister from the sinister hunter, he endures hardships as only a child could: "the most...
Among the musical versions of the Faust legend (including the operas of Gounod, Boito, and Busoni), Berlioz' Damnation of Faust is unique. Subtitled Dramatic Legend, it was not intended for actual stage presentation; while it has Dramatis Personae, it lacks the sequential development of plot and character that opera usually offers. Instead, it only pictures the main characters and delineates their relationships...
...Tokyo in 1697, is still performed (see pictures opposite). Its hero, like many others in rough & tumble Kabuki tales, is a typical Oriental Superman who can lop off the heads of many opponents at a blow, lift houses with one finger, crush temple gates with his bare hands. The plot: a villainous lord, who has usurped the rule of the country, orders the decapitation of some people accused of losing a precious sword. Suddenly the brave hero appears, shouting "Shibaraku!" He then exposes the true culprit, the villain's henchman, thus saves the innocents' lives...
Despite its shaky, melodramatic plot line, The Prospect Before Us' is alive with the nervous tempo of big-city sights, sounds and smells. Too often, however, Author Gold uses the camera eye and forgets the developing tank, leaving the meanings of characters and whole chapters to be puzzled over and dimly glimpsed, like murky film negatives...