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...bald-headed president. Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken-an experienced amateur actor, who entertains his students with burlesque speeches on Founder's Day and two years ago performed as Theseus in Euripides' Hippolytns. Professor Sterlsky played the part of a Cossack. Fear has two main plot themes: 1) Ivan Borodin's efforts to deal with his political superiors, who appoint incompetents to assist him and interfere with his scientific researches; 2) the sad case of Amalya, a withered female aristocrat. Borodin makes Amalya his housekeeper while officials appoint her ignorant daughter-in-law his assistant. This coincidence brings...
Moulin Rouge (20th Century) is a sketchy compendium of familiar musicom edy patterns. Like Dancing Lady it is a backstage romance. Its show-within-a-show suggests Forty-Second Street. For plot, Moulin Rouge performs the remarkable feat of superimposing two of the dustiest of formulas. Constance Bennett, as a singer who gets a chance to star, surprises one & all by being good. Likewise she completely deceives everyone by assuming the flimsiest sort of disguise. She wishes to impress her songwriting husband (Franchot Tone) and a producer (Tullio Carminati) but does not succeed until she changes places with a Parisian...
What distinguishes Sons of the Desert from other Laurel & Hardy comedies is less its plot than the presence in the cast of Charley Chase, a lanky, glib comedian with a mouse-paw mustache and a moron's chuckle. Appearing at the Chicago convention as a Son of the Desert from Texas, Charley Chase greets Laurel & Hardy when they arrive from California by whacking them with a paddle. He invites them to his table and puts in a long distance call for his sister in Los Angeles. who turns out to be Hardy's wife. Stupid Charley Chase does...
This is exactly the case with Mr. A. E. Thomas play "No More Ladies." At first sight it is impressive, but in retrospect it is seen to be riddled with faults. The plot is hackneyed, for it is the ancient story of what a wife does when she learns that her husband has been unfaithful to her. The lines possess a certain surface cleverness and brilliancy, but an unevenly mixed Coward-Barry-Lonsdale ancestry is painfully evident. In welcome relief to these mediocre features is the character portrayal; with the exception of the acidulous old lady who astounds the younger...
...Criminal-At-Large," which is appearing this week at the Tremont falls into this last category. The plot is hackneyed enough and all the time-honored stage tricks are used; yet in spite of this -- or perhaps because of it -- the play gets across and a fairly enjoyable evening is provided. Of course, if one gets no pleasure at all out of the conventional mystery claptrap, it will be a very dull evening indeed. But if one likes sudden shots in the dark, hands reaching out of walls, hidden panels, and so on, what Mr. Wallace has to offer...