Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovered that Field, quietly divorced from his second wife some time ago, had quietly married, in Nevada last July, Anita Cohen Boyer, divorced wife of Dr. Raymond Boyer. Dr. Boyer is serving out a two-year sentence (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947) for complicity in Russia's wartime espionage plot against Canada...
...displayed, for all its years, surprising bounce and some still unwrinkled humor. The story of a young man who is led to mistake a private house for an inn and a gentleman's daughter for a barmaid, it is not least a classic for possessing a classic farce plot. At times less play than horseplay, She Stoops is happily without meaning and forever on the move...
Young Blaise de Lallière ("There's promise in him . . . Like France") never cold-shoulders a villain's challenge, never flinches in his dedicated task: foiling a 16th Century Bourbon plot against the Valois crown. He rides up & down the countryside, carrying messages and giving chase to enemy agents, almost loses his life when he falls for a comely English wench over from London to spy on King Francis (her eyes "expressed a contradiction of emotion: gaiety and daring, with an undercurrent of sadness"). But when the rebel trap is sprung, Blaise bares his steel and redeems...
...main trouble with Bob Hope's latest starring vehicle is the plot. Not that the plot is a particularly bad one; there is just too much of it and it hampers the Hope style...
...hear the latest from the sub-artistic world of two line jokes. Unfortunately in "The Great Lover" the unwilling aficionados are subjected to long sequences in which Roland. Young polishes off a recent Yale graduate with the napkin from a champagne bottle, and a half dozen small children plot together, trying to act grown-up. In addition Hope is forced to portray a character out of North Zanesville, Ohio. He is therefore not nearly so funny as when he is portraying Bob Hope...