Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern tours de force which provide a highly entertaining, if at times puzzling, program. Both Christopher Fry's "A Phoenix Too Frequent" and Thornton Wilder's "The Long Christmas Dinner" have their messages and their morals. Fortunately, however, these are practically unintelligible when surrounded by a superbly fantastic plot in the first play, and then kaleidoscoping ninety years in less than and hour in the second...
...flight into the world of fantasy may be a disappointment to those who remember him for his more serious work, and even for the fanciful "Ring Around the Moon." For "A Phoenix Too Frequent" does not contain the well-constructed plot and incisive characterization which marked much of Fry's early work. It does, however, have a great deal of situational humor and a masterful contrast of high and low dialogue...
...something of a ruckus before reaching Broadway. Gloria Swanson, who plays the title role, snarled publicly at Gregory Ratoff's direction, sneered at the play and threatened to quit. On Broadway the play itself should cause much less stir. It can best be described as very French in plot, and not nearly French enough in manner...
Fancy Meeting You Again, at the Wilbur, is a very funny play written by a master craftsman, George S. Kaufman. Lots of laughs with a tricky plot...
...plot leads inevitably to a snarl of identity between the two cowboys, both played by Howard Keel. But the picture picks up most of its fun en route, in the desperate connivance and tart wisecracks of MacMurray and McGuire, the elaborate innocence of Callaway's double, the real Smoky's talent for caching liquor so cleverly that he stays bewilderingly plastered throughout his alcoholic cure. Hopalong, however, need not call the sheriff. Callaway bares its teeth only to grin, not to bite; and it provides parents with welcome comic relief from the hoofbeats that have invaded...