Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Princeton University has bought an 500-acre plot three miles from Princeton for $1,500,000. University president Harold W. Dodds announced Tuesday. The land, formerly owned by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, will be used for an aeronautical research center to be named for the late James V. Forrestal...
...tottering about . . . with a walking stick." There are other problems. The sharpest drama in the play-Lear's division of his kingdom-comes at the very outset, making the play itself all aftermath. There is not only an elaborate subplot about Gloucester and his sons, but plot and subplot are two tales with but a single theme...
King Solomon's Mines. Darkest Africa in brightest Technicolor reduces the hokum of H. Rider Haggard's plot to a minor hardship; with Deborah Kerr. and Stewart Granger (TIME...
...plot concerns Herr Professor Emanuel Rath, a teacher in the local high school, who finds that Lola Lola is distracting his students. He goes to the "Blue Angel" cabaret to catch the truants, but instead falls in love with Lola Lola. He marries her and joins the troupe of actors. Soon he is reduced to playing stooge for the magician. In one horrifying scene he is made to crow like a rooster on the stage while he watches his wife flirt with the strong man in the wings. He finally goes mad and, after an attempt to kill Lola Lola...
Although the plot is at times melodramatic, the acting, especially that of Emil Jannings as the professor, is excellent. He carefully portrays the disintegration of a cultured mind in the cabaret atmosphere. The acting is aided by photography remarkably advanced for its time in the use of camera angles and unusual lighting...