Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rehearsals for "Destination Quad," this year's Drumbeats and song production, began this week with the final selection of principals. "Destination Quad" is the story of the events following the landing of a space ship from Mars in the Radcliffe quadrangle. The plot is further complicated by the presence of a power-mad dorm president who tries to persuade the Martian visitors to help her conquer the world...
...ambitiously tries to dig into the theme of human greed, but it is neither a Greed nor a Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Nonetheless, Director Anthony (Bend of the River) Mann has richly fleshed out the picture with the red meat of action. Shot in the Colorado wastelands, the plot is unfolded almost entirely with the camera rather than with words. A striking exercise in violence, it is a western with real form, rhythm and authentic style. Best sequence: a three-way shooting match between Ryan, Stewart and Meeker up & down a cliff jutting over a raging, impassable river...
...Gestapo officer was discovered, and the White Rabbit was again condemned to death. He was sent to Buchenwald with 36 other Resistance workers, for execution. For some reason, sentence was delayed. Yeo-Thomas tried to bully and bribe two of the camp's Gestapo officers into a plot to save the 21 who were still alive, but they refused to save more than three-one of the three to be Yeo-Thomas, who was to tell British Intelligence who had delivered...
...evening clothes and a massive beard, Williams recreates a dignified and genteel era. His copy of Block House is on the red velvet reading stand only for the sake of appearance, since Williams recites unfalteringly his adaptation of the bulky novel. Rearranging and shortening the stands of the initiate plot. Williams presents a version of Bleak House which the listener can follow with case and pleasure...
Thanks to Victor Moore, the play now at the Wilbur will be remembered as one of the brightest spots in the 1952-53 Boston theatre season. Although there is a plot and a supporting cast of some eleven actors and actresses, On Borrowed Time is essentially a one man show, a vehicle for a man who must be one of the finest character actors on the stage today. It is, to put it in his own vernacular "one helluva time...