Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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History records few deaths more agonizing, few martyrdoms more prolonged. In all the slow weeks there was no evidence of weakening, no abatement of the first resolve. Now that it is all ended and he lies with former comrades in the "Republican Plot," the world may well stand in spirit as those British soldiers stood...
...swiftly moving plot"--thus does the publicity writer characterize Miss Hartley's novel. He shows in his choice of words a restraint quite unnatural to publicity writers. We finished the volume some hours ago, but it is no exaggeration to say that it has taken us since then to arrive, after a breathless pursuit of Anne through her illogical adventures, at the point at which the authoress leaves...
...annual visit to Boston on Monday night. And with a few exceptions, the 1920 edition contains the same manner of entertainment as its 13 predecessors; the general standard has been maintained in most of the elements of the piece. Of course there is no pretense at a plot, but then one does not attend the Follies with the expectation of finding one. The principal thing is the chorus, and the chorus is "there" in more ways than...
...featured act at Keith's this week is a vaudeville version of the famous musical comedy "Going Up" The plot is condensed to a brief synopsis of the play, which was originally based on Geo M Cohan's "The Aviator," and deals with a young man who is induced to enter an airplane race to win the love of a girl. He does the stunt and proves himself a hero...
Cinderella wanders in and out of the plot at will, but her presence is hardly necessary to the elaborate revue, which, after all, resembles chiefly a high-class vaudeville on a huge scale. A total of 22 scenes takes the spectator everywhere from the League of Nations Meeting at Versailles to a lavishly-decorated Top of the World, and each separate number is a pleasingly varied form of dance, song or humor. The Purcella brothers do some clever dance specialties, Vivien Oakland sings well, and John T. Murray keeps the audience in laughter during a short act of miscellaneous small...