Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rivals as Erie Stanley Gardner, John Dickson Carr, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler: she lures them into accepting dope-soaked birdseed held out to them by her trained canary, Galli-Curci. The soprano gets in trouble when one of her less celebrated victims unexpectedly dies. Despite its over-cute plot and slapdash style, the tale could count on plenty of readers, since its author was a Met soprano herself, strapping Wagnerian Star Helen Traubel...
...plot is poetically simple. Thomas Mendip, a soldier returned from the wars in Flanders, comes to Cool Clary and finds a witch hunt in progress. Sick of man's inhumanity to man, and without the slightest notion who the witch is, he creates a diversion for her benefit. He describes himself as the murderer of two village characters and demands that he be hanged forthwith. Then the witch turns out to be beautiful. That the beautiful Jennet Jourdemayne and Soldier Thomas fall in love, and that their love laughs at faggots and hangmen, are matters that Poet Fry makes...
...Bizarre Sisters offers up popular fiction's oldest standby: the lowly Cinderella who suffers endlessly at the hands of cruel relatives until in the last pages her pumpkin changes to a coach and the prince proposes. The Authors Walz play it for plot, and their plot ripples its muscles admirably. Yet to be convinced that the Randolphs really lived, readers will need more than a note that "except for one supernumerary, no character in this book is imaginary." All blacks and whites, Sisters moves along like a lively shadow play in which no grey shadings ever intrude to slow...
...tale of Manrico, the troubador, and his misfortunes, is a gloomy and distressing one--especially distressing to the person who tries to untangle a plot full of bloody revenge, gypsy law, witch-burning and baby-switching. Carmine Gallone, director of this first screen version of "II Trovatore," has tried hard to make the plot understandable and has succeeded, by using English narration and subtitles. Gallone has also kept the singing on a high level. In the final account, however, this filming of "II Trovatore" cannot boast of much more than a clear plot and good voices...
...film is of the cloak-twirling variety that has been the plague of grand opera for many, many years. All the principals are completely versed in this type of playing. Apparently Gallone had no choice but to fall back on sword-shaking, considering the basic absurdity of the plot...