Word: plot
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...year on the road; oldtimers can remember it for at least 38. Part revue, part musicomedy, part minstrel show, it tells, season after season, of the adventures of two Negroes, short, coal-black Silas Green and tall, tannish Lilas Bean. For years the show never bothered to change its plot. When the public finally started to yawn, Silas and Lilas found they had better vary their mishaps each season...
Part of an old hobo legend, the Heavenly Express makes a pleasant theatre fantasy, but Playwright Bein leans on it too heavily as a plot device. He has also treated his fantasy far too coyly. The Overland Kid (John Garfield) dances all over the stage, cavorts on chairs and tables, makes pixie faces and Puckish gestures, behaves like someone who is more at home on a tricycle than in freight cars...
...blurbs promise a musical feast, but what is actually offered are the more hackneyed numbers from the Verdi repertoire, indifferently performed and badly integrated with such plot as there is. Gaby Morlay's sensitive acting provides the only stable note in this flabby drama, which amounts, at best, to a tolerably exact biography...
Organizer of Ukrainian labor on railroad construction in Canadian Rockies. Anarchist in Spain at time of plot against life of Alfonso XIII. Student in Paris of Marx, statistics, literature, the Mass Mind...
Since the ionosphere reflects radio waves back to earth, the measurements will be carried out in roughly the same way that depth soundings are made to plot the ocean bottom: by sending up radio signals in the form of dots one ten-thousandth of a second long and recording the time it takes them to be coheed back to earth...