Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Political and social intrigues figure prominently in the development of the plot. Besides the governor and his wife, Don Baldomero, a wealthy land-owner, and Manolo, the governor's private secretary, who is amorously inclined toward the governor's wife, are important characters in the story...
...desire, so long as constitutional methods are followed. Every American has a perfect right to agitate for Socialism, Communism, or anything else he pleases, if he proposes to reach his goal through lawfully prescribed legislative action. But when a few thousand radical extremists, most of them non-citizens, plot to overthrow the government and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat through murder and direct action, they will find against them 99 percent of the American people, solidified by a common will for law and order...
...Satni" follows the new rule of the leading musical comedies on the stage today of dispensing with all but the bare outlines of a plot--a beautiful daughter, lost in Egypt when a child, is sought by her parents. She is found by her brother, who recognizes her song at a cabaret--and that's all there is to it. Mrs. Nevil lard has an opportunity in the part of Helea, the daughter, to do some excellent singing, and her voice is well above the standard of musical comedy heroines. Probably the best acting is done by Miss Helen Bennett...
...comedy has a real plot, which is unusual in plays of this character, and the semi-historical background adds a touch of reality. There is a strong tendency in modern romantic plays to overdo the sentimental element, but Arthur Richman has overcome this by introducing a spicy antidote of humor at any point where the romantic is a little too saccharine...
...addition to "Dere Mable," two musical extravaganzas opened at Boston play-houses this week. At the Majestic is "The Magic Melody," a romantic musical play, with a plot which brings back memories of "Maytime" The Music is good, but the specialty acts by Bertie Beaumonte, Tom McNaughton, Emma Haig, and John Waldron are what carry the main burden of the show...