Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handsomely mounted by William and Jean Eckart, the play is directed by its author with the same smooth competence shown in his script. Using a series of set pieces rather than a plot, Chodorov seldom penetrates very deeply into the causes of the war between the sexes, but he does illuminate, with good will as well as good humor, one of the minor skirmishes along that worldwide front line...
...Prescott Proposals (by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse) has a highly topical setting, one that is far more modern than its plot. Treating of the U.N.-and of Katharine Cornell as a U.S. delegate with proposals for enlarging "areas of agreement" between nations-the play fitfully eyes a serious theme. But it is oftener a mere yarn that suspends seriousness in favor of suspense. The U.N.'s Czech delegate, who in happier days had been Delegate Cornell's lover, calls, out of confused personal emotions, at her house and promptly dies of a heart attack. Were the fact...
...Studio One, sponsor Westinghouse has brilliantly faced up to some difficult situations. One script was turned down at the last minute when a sure-eyed adman found that its plot revolved about a leaky refrigerator. And, to protect the tender sensibilities of Westinghouse's lamp department, Studio One obligingly switched the title of Rudyard Kipling's The Light That Failed to The Gathering Night...
Easy to Love (M-G-M), starring Esther Williams and Van Johnson, is not to be confused with an earlier picture of almost the same name, Easy to Wed, and another of almost the same plot, The Duchess of Idaho. In the first case, the difference between love and marriage should help in telling the pictures apart; in the second, the only real difference is that Idaho was shot in Sun Valley and Love in Florida's Cypress Gardens. All that matters, anyway, is that Mermaid Williams again wears a lockerful of sensational new bathing suits, and any moviegoer...
...With a plot that requires virtually the entire population of Bagdad, including Omar Khayyam, Kismet casts Actor Drake as a resourceful poet who is, at different times, not only rich man, poor man, beggar man and thief, but also magician, prisoner, emir, and father of a beauteous maiden (Doretta Morrow) who wins the love of the caliph. Seldom has the path of true love run with so many detours, or so many halts to let caravans go by. Nor is the score notably helpful. Some eerie things have happened to Russian Composer Borodin's brilliantly eerie music, and though...