Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are no obvious weak spots in the play as a whole, but since Mid-Summer is not top-notch comedy I suppose that the plot's inadequacies are at fault. It is the story of a school-teacher turned songwriter who is looking for a quick buck. His wife, an illiterate but infinitely sweet woman, wants only the security that his return to teaching will bring. Three acts of his bright ambition struggling with her sweet conservatism end in an O. Henry twist made believable only by Geraldine Page's fine treatment of the wife's role. Her acting...
...wise father-confessor of the theater. "Of course," said Sheldon, "you have broken every law of playwriting. You've aroused no anticipation. You've prepared no suspense. You've resolved no tensions." Sheldon was right. Our Town had no scenery, and only a hint of a plot. It was really the story of all towns, in all times and places...
...City of Toledo, which wanted to enlarge an adjacent playground. Also in the bidding were the nuns of St. Ursula's Convent, who aimed to build a Roman Catholic school on the land. Finally, Rabbi Morton Goldberg's Congregation B'nai Israel wanted the plot for a new synagogue, school and library. After due reflection, Owens-Illinois suggested that the three would-be purchasers settle the problem around a table...
...takes the full first act for this sextet to become acquainted; then, one at a time, the colonels spend the next act trying to seduce the princess with the help of the demon and against the concentrated efforts of the angel. This plot is not bad. But there is a serious dearth of supporting dialogue. The Frenchman is always talking about love, the Russian continually tells the others they lack the proper dialectic approach to life, the Englishman murmurs about duty and his hunting dogs, while the American is largely concerned whether or not his psychiatrist would approve...
...fact, Above and Beyond has documentary validity. And its final sequence, pieced out with newsreel shots of the Hiroshima bombing, has the impact of epochal drama. But unfortunately, Producers-Directors-Writers Norman Panama and Melvin Frank have combined their awesome A-bomb subject with a grade B Hollywood plot. Marital misunderstandings keep cropping up between Colonel Tibbets and his wife (Eleanor Parker) because of his dedication to his job and the secrecy attached...