Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nature, the stage has seen a variety of mystical pieces which have delved more or less deeply into this rather intangible subject. Edward Knoblock's latest offering, "One," now playing at the Tremont Theatre, proceeds a step further than any similar play, however, and by reason of its audacious plot is apt to go over the heads of the average audience. At any rate, it provides a dual role for Frances Starr in which she has plenty of opportunity to prove that she is still the very able emotional actress of "Marie-Odile" and "Tiger! Tiger...
...passed the more difficult period of youth and has reached the age where real romance may be his. Clarence is a discharged soldier hero, who in the course of four amusing acts falls in love with and finally marries a pretty governess. But without the element of adolescence the plot would be too commonplace for mention, so the action revolves chiefly on the sentimental affairs of the 17-year-old Bobble Wheeler and his sister Cora, who has just attained the flapper age of sweet sixteen. The play is a comedy of incidents in the life of the Wheeler family...
...plot is a triangle but it is isosceles. At the apex is the charming, magnetic feature of Mme. Morelli, who has followed a thorny path to operatic success. Richard Northcote, artist, half-paralyzed, bereft of inspiration by his separation from Mme. Morelli, and his wife Elsie (married in an absent-minded moment), complete the eternal problem...
...Fanny Lear," although written by Meilhac and Halevy more than fifty years ago, has a plot which is so typically modern that it appeals to the present day audience. The complications that arise are all due to the plotting of the English actress and adventuress for whom the play is named. She marries the Marquls de Norlolis in the hope of securing a high social position through the marriage of his niece to a wealthy Paris noble. Inasmuch as this niece, Genevieve, wishes to marry a young man, Callieres, who lacks the necessary social prestige, Fanny Lear finds that...
...excuse for a plot is conceived in a novel manner. In a sort of prologue, Professor Fakir introduces his class of six budding playwrights, who announce in turn the subject of their first dramatic efforts. The scenes that follow offer the amateur composers an opportunity to enact their creations, and thus we have six miniature playlets within the play, interspersed at varying intervals with the inevitable dance and song divertissements which are essential to all true musical reviews. The first incident,--"The Hat Bazaar,"--immediately puts the spectators in good humor, a humor which is constantly enhanced as the show...