Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot of public ground reeks of history like the Cambridge Common. On the very turf where couples romp in the spring, where amateur baseballers and skaters amuse themselves, George Washington took command of the first American army in 1775. But for a few rusty cannon, two monuments, and a plaque, however, the Common is hardly a symbol of patriotism. Yet scholars have tried to build these memorial remains into a glorious tradition which ignores the pageantry of blood and rum spilled on the Common's scraggy swade...
Unfortunately The School For Scandal is, structurally speaking, one of the most complex of Sheridan's plays. There is a constant interweaving of characters, and even in its original staging the plot would be sufficiently hard to follow. With all the stylistic frills that the Brattle has appended for its own mystical purposes, it becomes practically impossible to unravel the play's intrigues...
...other stories, The Flying Buffalo by Eric Wentworth and The Play's the Thing by Osborne, are not outstanding. Osborne's opus is particularly disappointing. It starts off in promising style with a good plot and snappy dialogue. Just about the middle of the story, however, Osborne's dialogue becomes clammy and his plot starts sliding down to a pulpish ending...
...play's plot concerns the death of an underprivileged girl. Each member of the family has something to do with the death, and the Inspector calls to impress upon them the graveness of their deeds...
Although M.G.M. employs all the conventional Western gimmicks--Indians, saloons, chases, coincidence, two men and one girl, and some historical background--Lone Star survives the ordeal very well. Because its set in Austin, Texas, in the stormy months prior to Tyler's 1844 annexation of Texas, the stock Western plot receives some borrowed luster...