Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lucky spendthrift who loses both his money and girl at one time. He is deceived by Arthur Cadman, her fiancee, who also is doing a dubious business with Darcy's money. By a little detective work, Stanton follows the Darcy family to Palm Beach, where he discloses the plot of Valera Valador, played by Miss Francesco Rotoli,--who attempts to involve Stanton in former shady connections with her, although Cadman had really been the deceiver. When Cadman's evil ways are disclosed, Darcy consents to the breaking off of his daughter's engagement with him, and is glad to have...
...censorship lie. The requirements differ from state to state; one can "get by" with more in New York than in Massachusetts. The picture as seen in the one place will differ materially from that which is shown in the other. What further contortions the already highly elastic plot is doomed to undergo! Therein lies the fallacy of trying to censor the play after it is finished. Particularly objectionable parts are, indeed, removed and the piece rewritten and patched up; but the scissors cannot eliminate that much more subtle and deadly, influence of "atmosphere". Yet unhealthy atmosphere". Yet unhealthy atmosphere, such...
Philip Barry, Yale '19 and a graduate student at the University in 1919-20 is the author of "A Punch for Judy", a American comedy in three acts. The plot opens in a small up-state town of New York, to which "Jim Storey", J. W. D. Seymour '17, returns to find that has fiancée "Judy", Miss Dorothy Sans, Radcliffe '24, has shifted her affections to a poet of romantic tendencies. Story then sues Judy for breach of promise and has her tried before a mock count of his own choosing, which awards him $100,000. Later...
...Clouds", a musical play in two acts, was tried out on Boston theatregoers last Monday night, and proved to be still another of the many pieces which have held forth upon the Wilbur stage this season. In plot, in music and in cast, however, the show may be distinguished from its predecessors: in the first, through a rather vaudevillian mingling of Capital and Labor concord, patriotic tableaux, and half-humorous idealism; in the second, through two or three tunes which actually survive the evening as such; and in the third, through a list of characters none of whom has ever...
...through the filming of a soul-stirring, star-spangled-bannered photoplay called "The Birth of America". It is fortunate indeed that the authors have treated this subject in a semi-jocular mood, for handled seriously it would be "100 percent Americanism" carried to impossible limits. As it is, the plot pretends at no more than do the plots of countless other pieces which seek chiefly to divert through situations, humor and music. It affords the usual opportunity for the hero to fall in love with the heroine at first sight,, to love her through several acts and scenes...