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...Many a Manhattan playgoer was reminded by the Bischoff girl's suicide of the plot of Five Star Final, the year's newspaper melodrama on Broadway. In that play, written in anger and bitterness by Louis Weitzenkorn (onetime managing editor of Macfadden's Evening Graphic), the managing editor of a New York tabloid undertakes to find out what has become of a famed courtesan of 20 years back, who had been acquitted of murder. The newshawks find her respectably married. Their screeching story breaks on the wedding day of the woman's daughter. Grief-stricken...
Wozzeck's plot is surprisingly old to be the perfect counterpart of Berg's ultra-modern score. It was written nearly 100 years ago by Georg Büchner, a German poet-scientist who had ideas far ahead of his time. Büchner died at 23 in Zurich where he earned a doctorate with a treatise on the nervous system of fish. He left three plays: Leonce and Lena, written while authorities were hunting him for his revolutionary sympathies; Danton's Tod, given in the U. S. a few seasons ago by Max Reinhardt...
...system has weaknesses, and Ten Cents a Dance suffers from the fact that Monroe Owsley happens now to be Cinema's outstanding cad. His chin is in favor for its weakness, his eye for its shiftiness. The common knowledge that Monroe Owsley is a cad gives away the plot. Last week he was a cad in Honor Among Lovers and, sure enough, Ten Cents a Dance has an identical story about two men in love with a girl, the rich young man decent and the poor young man (Owsley) dishonest and weak. The only difference between Honor Among Lovers...
...London theatrical season last year. The title itself is taken from a code signal used by the British Navy during the recent war, meaning "Prepare for battle". The play has been likened to a "Journey's End" on the sea, but its scope is less restrictive, and the plot carries over into the present day in timely fashion. While many all-male-cast plays have tended to show the effect of war on men. "B.J.One" tends rather to show the effect...
...plot is chiefly concerned with the machinations of young Mrs. Chalfont to procure the Governorship of the Island of Ardor for her husband, who is obviously the man for the job, but who is by nature too modest and retiring to fight...