Word: plot
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week Mr. Hoover had a whiz of a plot. Its characters were mostly people in the swarming ruck of New York City: an elevator mechanic, a telegraph office clerk, a baker, a telephone linesman, a chauffeur, a power company clerk, a tailor, a correspondence school salesman. Some belonged to the Army and Navy reserves or the National Guard; one was a captain. The props included twelve Springfield rifles, 3,500 rounds of ammunition reportedly stolen from National Guard armories, one long sword, 18 cans of cordite powder, a collection of soup and beer cans with accessories for turning them...
Terrific was the plot: a scheme to sweep aside New York City's 18,000 police, bomb a Jewish newspaper office and the Communist Daily Worker, wipe out all the Jews, seize U. S. Government gold in Manhattan, sabotage and then commandeer public utilities, set up a U. S. dictatorship. For practicing their plot, the 18 central characters had a rifle range. For the national affiliations necessary to their plan, they had connections with one of the several anti-Semitic "Christian Fronts" which infest the U. S. and particularly New York City (TIME...
Only trouble with this plot was that few pulp editors would offend their read ers with such horrendous fantasy. Mr. Hoover's answer to that one: it was no fantasy at all. Last weekend he and his G-Men rounded up the 18, jailed them in Manhattan, charged them with conspiracy against the U. S. Government. Chief among their prisoners were two active Christian Fronters, John F. Cassidy and William Gerald Bishop (whom Belgium and Great Britain had previously de ported). Their affiliations greatly embarrassed Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin, who is forever calling for "a Christian...
...Male Animal serves up its bit of plot successively as roast turkey, creamed turkey, turkey hash, scraps, soup, and bones for the dog. Fortunately, Play wright Thurber's insane, melancholy slant on life fills the play with fresh and free-flowing laughter. Frustration is leavened into nonsense, indignation is alkalized by good nature. Admirably cast and directed by Producer Shumlin, The Male Animal is a gay evening in the theatre in spite of being no play...
...late because so many of them have been second rate fillers. But "The Cat and the Canary" currently on view at the University should help out the cause of the thrillers considerably. It is fast moving and capably directed with horror and humor mixed in about equal portions. The plot is not overwhelmingly original, but the end is good; it is all about the trials and tribulations of a young lady (Paulette Goddard) who becomes the heiress to the estate of an eccentric relation and the number one candidate for extinction at the same time. There are murderers and monsters...