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...Forty-Second Street succeeds, it will not be because of its plot, which is the old one about a pretty chorus girl getting her chance to star and making good at the opening performance. The formula works out badly in this case because it is handled with cumbersome efforts to achieve atmosphere and because it delays almost indefinitely the best part of the picture, the show-within-a-show which the producers were ingenious enough to call, not Forty-Second Street, but Pretty Lady. The dance routines by Busby Berkeley are a good deal like the ones...
Information has not been divulged as to the exact nature of the plot, but it is generally known that part of the play takes place on the ocean, and that the authors of the creation have been busy on the lyrics and music on and off for about a year...
Papen-Hitler Plot. First sign that the von Schleicher Cabinet might be cracked by the same, sort of intrigue that made it, came when Hitler & von Papen, both smarting in eclipse, met at Cologne for a night conference (TIME, Jan. 16). Soon afterward they were joined by "The Hearst of Germany," small, cyclonic Nationalist Party Leader Dr. Alfred Hugenberg and, reputedly, by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, famed during his six years as president of the Reichsbank...
...faintly autobiographical plot: Sally was a débutante, but she "wanted to know people who do things, do things myself." She fell in love with Tom, who was dangerous and did nothing, but "money gave him power and power is becoming to a man." Tom was gentle with her, kissed her a few times, then went away. Sally was heartbroken, tried taking a hot bath in her nightgown and sitting beside an open window, hoping to get pneumonia and die. She did not die, but a truck hit her one day and when she woke up she wanted...
...plot is utterly stupid. It carries Nasa Springer, a wild little Texas ranch girl, from flirtation with a handsome half-breed in a sylvan glen to fortune and notoriety in the big city, and then back again to the sylvan glen and the knowledge that she loves the half-breed after all. In the course of her adventures she runs the gamut of engagement, marriage, separation, motherhood, prostitution for her baby's sake, divorce, and gigolo-hiring, before she at last finds true love in the arms of good old Moonglow, the Indian. Not content with this, the scenario writers...