Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film lacks the pace and style of a good Broadway show (or of MGM's own On the Town). Its songs & dances serve merely as interludes in the kind of plot that cinemagoers know too well. But within these tired limits, the movie offers some amusing comedy, expert staging of individual numbers, bright lyrics by Alan Jay (Brigadoon) Lerner and, best of all, Fred Astaire who, at 51, has never danced with greater skill or ingenuity...
Ironically, Royal Wedding's plot seems no less a banal fiction for patterning itself loosely on the true story of how the famed dance team of Adele & Fred Astaire broke up. The movie's Astaire and his sister-partner (Jane Powell) are musicomedy favorites who dabble in an occasional romance, but shun matrimony on the theory that they owe themselves exclusively to their joint career. When they go to London to do a show, romance pairs Jane with a young peer (Peter Lawford) and Fred with a chorus girl (competently played by Winston Churchill's daughter, Sarah...
...Novelist Hilton's hands, this plot goes from ham to Spam. Had he shown but a spark of Carey's fondness for drama, Morning Journey might have turned into as much of a grassfire as Mr. Chips and Lost Horizon. As it is, readers can only look on with morbid fascination while Novelist Hilton earnestly lights the fires of one dramatic episode after another and then, swiftly dropping his matches and snatching up a fire bucket, pours suffocating streams of cold water over the struggling flames...
...Ashenhurst has expressed an interest in developing the theme which he handled so well. Such songs as "My Little Radcliffe Girl," "I Know What Little Girls Are Made Of," and "Bluestocking Blues" could well serve as the basis for a new production, but development of the plot would be required. Miss Davis' chorus line, the "Miss Demeanors," should definitely remain, for although Miss Davis admits that she has only seen one chorus line perform, the group danced with night-club precision...
...potpourri view is applied to the arts, the results are amazing. In the article "Social Significance Catches Up," we learn that "artists have been, at least since the Renaissance, almost professional rebels and malcontents." The same author also suggests that modern art is due to a deeply laid Communist plot to accelerate the corruption of the "decadent capitalist system." In a later issue, a Freeman writer reveals that "Art is a colossal swindle anyhow, the poet says one thing and like as not he means another...