Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kept dangling for years in a state of miserable uncertainty. Her niece, who is a flapper, spills a bottle of ink on the Bokhara embroidery. Then, and not until then, does the heroine realize that she is in love with the young man. Not much of a plot, as you can see; but the story is cleverly (if in places somewhat affectedly) written, and is full of keen description...
...sketch of the plot, a re-reading of the title, "The Return of Peter Grimm" will almost suffice. Peter Grimm is an eccentric, rich flower gardener who boasts of his old Dutch ancestry. In his household are his ward. Catherine, a nephew and a secretary. For the life of each Peter Grimm has a set plan, made without consulting the persons most concerned in its fulfilment. He dies suddenly, returns as a ghost to his house, and sees the ill-conceived plans changed as he himself would have had them, had he been enlightened as to their consequences...
...Wynn is the center of his Carnival. In him, his self-styled "entertainment" has a "Perfect Fool" with spontaniety, cleverness and humor. In explaining the coming scenes, Mr. Wynn gives his ideas to the audience very well but surprises them by following with scenes entirely extraneous to the outlined plot...
...uncovers nothing essentially new to its field, yet is replete with little details of originality that make it well worth seeing. The end of the first act drags somewhat, but the second starts with a rush that is well maintained from then on. There is also no little plot, flitting unblushingly from a New York fashion shop to a Persian harem...
...unique sort of prologue serves to introduce the characters, and then follows a bewildering melange of scenes and episodes that make no pretense of concealing a plot and have nothing whatsoever to do with one another, but which serve as a sort of continuous vaudeville that keeps the spectators highly amused. Besides the Messrs. Rock and Van, a large share of the entertainment must be credited to the huge, amiable figure of James J. Corbett; also Marie Walsh, Irving Edwards, Helen Eby, and Jay M. Regan. Two most captivating sisters, Irene and Bernice Hart, scored a decided hit with their...