Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York, in Washington, in San Juan, Government agents began a high-pressure investigation of the weird assassination plot. Government agents roused by teletype combed Manhattan's Spanish Harlem; they picked up a covey of Puerto Rican Nationalists, arrested the wives of the two gunmen. Both women were dry-eyed and defiant. Cried Rosa Collazo to her three daughters: "Hold up your heads. Don't be ashamed...
...convincing as a human being. A very vain man, Shaw was a connoisseur of vanities and his collection is not wounding or disheartening-as it is, say, in smaller writers like Maugham-largely because Shaw is warmed by the fire of a natural affinity. Only a clumsiness of plot-Shaw was not a natural plot-maker, but a reckless piler on of the grotesque for satirical reasons-distorts the focus in which character is seen. The clear failures are his Cockneys; they are a Dubliner's caricatures of a character too subtle...
...20th Century-Fox) proves that age can mellow a song while simply mildewing a musicomedy plot. The picture is agreeable enough as a reprise of a dozen tunes that were popular ten years ago, but its account of the professional and romantic ups & downs of two struggling song publishers is a story that has grown old gracelessly...
...France, in 1912. Frederic, who has all the humanity that his brother Hugo lacks, is in love with a beautiful young heiress, but the heiress loves Hugo. Hugo brings a poor young ballerina to a ball to distract his twin from the heiress, and her presence there gives the plot much of the flavor of Shaw's "Pygmalion." Neva Patterson is not only gorgeous as the heiress, but she plays the part with splendid clairty and effectiveness. Stella Andrews makes the ballrina a gentle, sympathetic personality...
...script which is about as suspenseful as "Little Red Riding Hood." The Victorian setting provides the necessaries for melodrama: a heavily-draped living room, flickering candles, and a swinging chandelier. There are other timeless devices, such as nighttime storm and strange offstage noises which supplement the generally trite plot. Bail Langton's direction would be better appreciated if the play were a strong one. It is correctly slow-paced and would emphasize the tension that must be written in as really good melodrama...