Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playwright Krasna's pennyworth of wit and plot is about as much help to the proceedings as a sliver of ice to a long summer drink. And Kind Sir seems hardly more wicked than it is witty. Moreover, the production-instead of obeying the rule for froth, and moving as fast and lightly as possible-is all in regal slow-motion, like a Coronation rehearsal. Actress Martin cannot fail to be personally engaging, but her portentous pauses and rather statuesque poses are a mistake. Boyer's role allows an excellent actor no chance...
...plot, a musical within a musical, with its noisily surreptitious shifts from onstage to off, appears just too heavy and elaborate a vehicle for the camera to prod along. Even so. if other performers had spread the wings of song as grandly as Howard Keel (Petruchio), the picture might have been better...
Most movies--and indeed, most plays and novels--which treat such basic conflicts manage to kick away the dramatic possibilities by reducing them to Cowboy and Indian, Cop and Robber puppet shows in which both the outcome and characterizations are as automatic as a pinball machine. The plot may get bounced around a good deal, but it always ends up in the same place. The audience unconsciously knows that everything will turn out all right in the end, and thus its attention is never fully concentrated on the screen...
Competition for scripts for "Drumbeats and Song," Radcliffe's all-college production for the benefit of the Grant-In-Aid Fund, will close Nov. 20. Entrants must give the committee "a fairly definite ideas of the plot and several songs," according to Jane Flanders '55, chairman of the show...
...plot should deal with a well-known Harvard and Radcliffe situation, and should be designed for a large cast. Script auditions will begin the first week in December, as the performance is scheduled for March...