Word: plot
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...ghosts of the Beacon Hill mansion who will speak only to legitimate descendants, the "not perceptibly running" Cambridge cars, and the undergraduate who likewise was "not perceptibly" attending Professor Winthrop's course--these hits will not soon be forgotten. When in addition it can be truly said that the plot,--in even the best of comedies of manners likely to be weak,--is sufficiently plausible and decidedly interesting; it is obvious that Miss Stanwood fully deserves the great applause which she received...
...Romanesques" is one of Rostand's best works and is considered superior to "I'Aigion" by some crities. The following is a short synopsis of the plot...
...scenes of the play, laid in England at the present time, are at the London house and country seat of Herr Marshland, one of the leading characters. The romance which runs through the plot gives a happy setting to the farcical situations, which serve to bring out the eccentricities of the "Bibliothekar...
...familiar figures of Mutt and Jeff, who, though they have nothing particularly funny to say, are admirably made up, and go through some amusing contortions. The greater part of the dialogue, consisting mostly of trite jokes on Boston dances, falls flat; and the total lack of plot spoils any chance for comedy situations...
...plot of the play is as follows: The young Prince Karl finds in the free student life at Heidelberg an undreamptof relief from the petty binding formalities of court life. Here he falls in love with Kathie, the pretty waitress at Rueder's Inn. But finally he goes back to his kingdom, since "he may not as unvalued persons do, carve for himself." Two years later he returns to Heidelberg on a visit only to part from Kathie forever...