Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whispering Gallery. Those who frighten easily and enjoy it will probably find this mystery play more interesting than the recent average. It is frankly of the "I-wouldn't-spend-another-night-in- this-house-for-a-million-dollars" school, but it has its moments. The plot revolves around a house-party at a "haunted" country seat. Better acted, it would be more diverting, for it has comedy touches that might cover the holes in the construction if played with more subtlety. A. P. Kaye as a detective and Charles Warburton as the inevitable butler give thoroughgoing performances...
...ensemble spend their off hours in Long Island homes fending off businessmen who are anything but tired. On the road the piece was called Undressed Kid and it contained an unusual amount of bedroom material, especially underpanties. As if vulgarity were not enough, the playwright sought to disentangle the plot with a series of dull and tiresome explanations. It lasted four days. Then a patrol wagon called for Mr. Grew and his assistants. Actress Alice Weaver, chief of the innocents, collapsed, screamed for her mother...
...Flying Fleet (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A lieutenant-commander (retired) in the U. S. Navy, one Frank Wead, wrote this script showing how naval aviators are made-Annapolis, then round-the-world cruise, then training school at Pensacola. Anita Page falls from an aquaplane into the plot. This air-photography is good, but Wings was better. The final sequence, in which one pilot dives at another on the field and afterwards rescues him when his plane falls into the Pacific, is about as true to life as a recruiting poster. The sallow aviator is Ramon Novarro...
Result: the plot, written out, had proved to be so neat intellectually that the music, when he came to write it, got lost emotionally...
...native opera No. 11 on the shelf and begun over again. He had heard of a plot "in a novel" and was working on that, with its author. No. he wouldn't say what novel, which novelist, but the time and setting were "here and now" and the novelist is not well known. But, added Native Taylor, "He will...