Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot deals with the adventures of the Princess Nuala, upon whom a course, that she will be devoured by a dragon, has been placed, and who, to escape this curse, must get married before a year expires. She is beset by suitors, all of whom prove unworthy except one. Manus, who is disguised as a cook but is really the King of Sorcha. Manus, who has won the love of Nuala, is reported to have killed the dragon, and to have died in the encounter. Nuala dies upon hearing this news. Finally Manus, who it develops, was falsely reported dead...
...their last. Miss Francesca Braggiotti takes the part of the daughter of the old Marquis. She wins the audience by her graceful acting and attractive appearance on the stage. Miss Berthe Braggiotti as Marie de Frondeville is the hostess at the chateau but is also sufficiently involved in the plot to show great ability in acting in delicate situations...
...business outlook. Every day reveals more scandals involving both government officials and labor leaders as well as business men, from the building trades in New York City to the Emergency Fleet Corporation transactions which cover the entire country. Labor cries out against unemployment as a result of a capitalistic plot, while capital begs for some stabilization in the labor situation. To glance at a front page of a newspaper one would think that the business world had collapsed into chaos. Pessimists are easy to find, as well as ready listeners for them; the few optimists talk to deaf ears...
Twenty million dollars as a starter that is what the American Federation of Labor proposes to spend in its fight against what it considers a capitalistic plot to further the "open shop." If its only opponents were the capitalists and employers this sum might be sufficient, but unless the Federation changes its beliefs it is likely that public opinion will be lined up with its opponents; and no amount of money can change that. Mr. Bohm, who is the secretary of the Central Federated Union, sees in the widespread unemployment the direct result of a conspiracy to force labor...
...material of the plot is only too familiar; it is too laboriously and unconvincingly developed to send that creepy sensation up the collective spines of the audience. The play takes a prologue and one uninteresting act to get under way; but the last two acts have at least the virtue of holding fast one's attention. The action depends on the villainous Frank Devereaux's efforts to seduce innocent women and the resultant triangle of false suspicion, threats, and "evidence." In a struggle for his revolver, Devereaux is shot by "Lafe" Regan, whose wife is in the next room...