Word: plot
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last night Pi Eta presented the preview of its seventieth annual show in the form of "Say The Word," a musical comedy. The plot centers about, the efforts of a public relations counsel to gain publicity for a wealthy young lady who returns to America after three years abroad. The theme concerns itself with the ubiquitous love triangle: the heiress in love with the publicity man, and the publicity man in love with his secretary...
According to a letter which the club has sent to its alumni, the plot includes "more legs, more laughter and more love than ever before." The theme itself is one of divorce, fortune-hunting, spite and thwarting, about which weaves a pattern of dances and ballets...
...Roach has had a brainstorm. In a fit of temporary insanity he conceived a movie combining Disney fantasy, Runyon plot, West-Lamarr sex, and Laurel and Hardy slapstick. The chaotic and riotous result is "The Housekeeper's Daughter." Rarely on the screen has there been a set of characters doing more incongruous things. Rarely has the screen seen a funnier comedy...
...picture itself. The story revolves about the eternal "eternal triangle" which is not handled with enough verve to justify its lack of originality. The lady is in love, is jilted, marries on the rebound, and unfortunately finds herself still in love with the wrong man. The trite plot is not helped much by the dialogue. There are frequent scenes in which one seriously suspects that Miss Lamarr will, at any moment, be tied to the railroad tracks, but fortunately there are others (not so frequent) which reminds one of Clare Booth at her nastiest best. Spencer Tracy is definitely...
...Fields, of the red face and ad-libbing tongue, steals the show this week at Keith's Memorial. As Guthbert J. Twillie, he teams up with oomphy Mae West in what amounts to a series of bedroom vaudeville acts. There is no plot--which is to be expected in a Fields picture--and the supporting cast of Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Donald Meek, and Anne Nagel are left to shifts for themselves. But there is no lack of action. Mae West, as the siren Flower Belle of Last Gasp Saloon, stages a fake marriage with Guthbert J. Twillie, in order...